GARNER Arts Festival 2025 Digital Event Guide

WELCOME TO GARNER ARTS CENTER EXPLORE – EXPERIENCE - ENJOY

Dear Friends: We warmly welcome you as we return to our tried-and-true festival format, the beloved GARNER Arts Festival! We are thrilled to present world class visual and performance artists, alongside Trade & Prosper’s Retro/Vintage/Artisan Market in the Calico Room (Building #2), a curated Affordable Art Market in the Dye Works (Building #1-2nd floor), climate-inspired workshops and exhibitions, a live music stage, activities for kids and student art and fashion, emerging artist displays and performances, and more than 20 Open Studios. STOP BY our exciting Gallery Exhibitions in Building 35. Fank Palaia’s Urban Archaeology exhibit is a 20-year retrospective of Palaia’s mixed media artwork which looks like massive archeological fragments unearthed from abandoned underground urban landfills of the future; and abstract painter Edward M. O’Hara’s Echoes of Grass, displaying new Works on Paper created in the fields of his farm in Highland NY by using the earth as a brush. We also honor and celebrate what would have been this year the 100th birthday of our beloved friend and incomparable photographer, Ned Harris, whose work and incredible story are on display in the adjacent Visitors Center. DROP BY the M&T Bank-sponsored Kids’ Art Corner in Building #1 and CHPE-sponsored Student Art & Fashion Show in Building #2-2nd floor. As you walk on Main Road and pass over the Minisceongo Creek Bridge, EXPERIENCE Minisceongo Overlay (Phase 1), a pilot sound/water installation by John Morton, sponsored by the New York Council on the Arts, which will become a semi-permanent art/sound feature on our campus in its Phase 2. Take a WALK through Brick Alley where you will see and “hear” James Tyler’s iconic Brickhead and view the many industrial sculp tures created by multiple talented sculptors. Be sure to look up – not all sculptures sit on the ground! DON’T MISS the Creekside Sculpture Trail featuring sculptural installations in a bucolic, creekside setting, including Ted’s Creekside Stonehead Project by the late artist Ted Ludwiczak, the only permanent outdoor exhibition of Ludwiczak’s carved Hudson River stoneheads in the United States. AND PARTICIPATE in Strawtown Studio’s nature-inspired art activities for kids and adults (in case of inclement weather located in Building #10). ENJOY the many other outdoor sculptures we have throughout the grounds of the GARNER Historic District! MEANDER to the Back Door of Building 4 for a Room with A View: Landscape Paintings of Environmental Transcendence and Sculp tures of Sustainable Transformation by NYC artists Susan Sabiston and Rosalie Smith, respectively. CHECK OUT building 5-2nd floor (sorry, it’s not ADA accessible) and VIEW the GARNER Incubator Group’s art, music and fashion show, the Frank Welles Gallery (with a pop-up make-your-own bouquet flower bar) and more! WATCH for roving performance artists, including the versatile, contemporary dance of Modern Dance Awareness (Saturday); KESH, a multifaceted artist blending visual art, music, fashion and performance (Sunday); Anthony Haden-Guest, presenting dramatic, witty and funny contemporary spoken word/rhyming performances (Sunday) and Jon Tsoi, blindfolded innervision art medicine (Sunday). For all you HISTORY AND ART BUFFS, ENJOY History Tours at 2pm and 4pm Saturday and Sunday; and an ART SCAVENGER HUNT (scavenger lists available throughout open buildings). LAST BUT HARDLY LEAST, DON’T MISS the Craft Beverage and Food Tent sponsored by PKF O’Connor Davies, featuring tasty Caribbean foods and BBQ, brick-oven Pizza, specialty fries and ices; brews from onsite sponsor Round Table Brewery, cider from local Red Barn Cidery; wines from Warwick Valley Winery; and custom- roasted, premium coffee available at our Coffee & Sweets Bar located in the Dye Works, sponsored by onsite coffee roaster Stack Street Coffee. PLEASE BECOME PART OF THE GARNER ARTS CENTER LEGACY! We appreciate your visit and hope you appreciate your experience at GARNER Arts Festival! GARNER Arts Center is a 501(c)(3), tax deductible organization that exists on grants and donations. Your generous, tax-deductible DONATION helps support our student and emerging artist outreach programs and enables us to initiate or complete projects in our Building #35 Gallery, including a radiant heat connection for Building #35, construction of a new ADA accessible secondary exit and completion of our Building #35 Backyard Sculpture Garden. Visit https://garnerartscenter.org/support to Donate or Visit the Info Booth at Dye Works Square. Finally, we extend our infinite gratitude to our Festival Sponsors this year: New York Council on the Arts, Rockland County Tourism, Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, PKF O’Connor Davies, M&T Bank, TD Bank, Montefiore Nyack Hospital, the Village of West Haver straw, the Town of Haverstraw, the Village of Haverstraw, the GARNER Historic District, Round Table Brewery and Stack Street Coffee. Special thanks to the North Rockland School District, our neighbors Zugibe Hardware, D&G Electric and SW Johnson Firehouse. We especially thank the Villages of West Haverstraw and Haverstraw for supporting FREE SHUTTLE service to GARNER Arts Festival this year!! For Questions and Assistance, stop by the Info Booth at Dye Works Square (near the tent). Thanks to all for joining us and supporting our mission to advance the creation and presentation of contemporary, experiential art in this incredible community of Artists and Makers at the GARNER Historic District. Please Enjoy! GARNER ARTS CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STAFF