Harpo Foundation is pleased to support The Transformazium, an art installation and participatory community space in a once-abandoned church building in Braduck, Pennsylvania. Its purpose will be to value and activate local relationships, ideas and resources in a post-industrial town whose residents are in the process of discovering innovative solutions to the challenges of the region.

Caledonia Curry, under her artists� name, Swoon, will revive the majestic hall, physically transforming the steel-frame structure with a fusion of restoration, invention, construction, and original creation.

The Transformazium asserts the power of place-based art and a creative process that values and engages its� locality.

By turning a derelict church into a neighborhood resource center and creative laboratory, The Transformazium serves as a means for investigating sustainable ways to re-imagine and rebuild post-industrial towns and cities and symbolizes the potential in breathing new life into overlooked materials, neighborhoods and spaces. (Source: Bradduck Redux grant proposal)

For more information about the project, visit here.