Garner Arts Festival

For the first time since 2018, GARNER Arts Festival, the Mid-Hudson region’s premier immersive art festival with an annual draw of over 3,000 visitors returns to the historic hamlet of Garnerville, NY – just 35 miles northwest of New York City. Now in its 16th year, this weekend-long event offers world-class art exhibitions, large-scale installations, open studios, artisan demonstrations, live music, crafts, performances, craft beverages, food and more! GARNER Arts Festival will take place on Saturday, May 21st and Sunday, May 22nd from 12pm to 6pm, rain or shine.

Explore the GARNER Historic District! Visit 40 open artist studios!
Make art in a creative workshops!
Browse an eclectic craft show!

Engage with art installations and interactive performances set in historic brick alleys, cavernous former factory spaces, and along the meandering Minisceongo creek.

Live music, local food vendors, craft beverages and an artisanal coffee bar provide fuel for the experience.

Featured Art and Performances:
Big Risks: Creative Discoveries large-scale “tree sculpture” exhibition by Peter Strasser

You Are Here (aka The Maze!) interactive installation by Brooklyn-based and internationally recognized duo TROUBLE

How’s That Going to Work? by experimental composer John Morton with performances by Klang Quartet

Cover Lover Remix, an exhibition of reimagined album art and vinyl-centric activations curated by Brooklyn-based Dick Burroughs

Art Reborn: 100 Mannequins Exhibition

#iamCOLOR large-scale tapestry installation by award-winning Rockland-based artist Kris Campbell

Queen Mother of Progress exhibition by globe-travelling photographer and photo-journalist Collette Fournier

Contemporary African drum and dance ensemble Chiku Awali

The Wishing Booth, a surreal creative visualization by filmmakers Samtubia + Sagoma

Exhibition by painter Tiffany Freeman in the Industrial Arts Brewing Co. taproom

Music & interactive live art curated by performer & director Kate Valentine and more!

Family Activities:
Kids’ Creative Corner and youth art activity station. Regional Student Art Show featuring Rockland & Westchester County school art exhibitions.

Craft Artisans: Craft vendors display and sell their handcrafted wares.

Dining & Drinks @ Creekside food court:
Pizza Vitale
5 Senses food truck
Big Daddy’s Homeplate BBQ
Ice Is Nice – Oh Yes It Is!

@ GARNER bar:
Industrial Arts Brewing Company Rockland Ciderworks
Wölffer Estate wine

Also stop by Hudson’s Mill Tavern and visit Industrial Arts Brewing Company’s newly renovated taproom. Pop-up coffee bar with Stack Street coffee, will also be open.

Sponsors: GARNER Arts Festival is made possible with funds from ReStart the Arts, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governor, the New York State Legislature and the New York State Council on the Arts. GARNER Arts Center is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, Rockland County Tourism, The Village of West Haverstraw and the Town of Haverstraw. Special thanks to the Garner Historic District.

GARNER Arts Center’s Historic Complex:
GARNER Arts Center’s home, the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, is a complex of former textile mill buildings, and is the living, breathing, working home where artists create their art for a living. The public gets a chance to see the open studios and live demonstrations of a variety of artisans, while wandering the back alleys, alcoves and creekside sculpture trail of this historic, Civil War-era textile mill. In 2014, the complex was awarded a listing on the National Register of Historic Places as the Rockland Print Works Historic District, aka GARNER Historic District of New York. The New York State Deputy Commissioner for Historic Preservation, Ruth L. Pierpont, said: “Listing on the National Register recognizes the importance of [Rockland Print Works] to the history of our country.” Established by Garner & Co., which between 1837 and 1909 dominated the textile industry in the United States, the Rockland Print Works was associated with the hamlet of Garnerville’s development as a thriving factory town, and was reorganized in 1934 as one of the Nation’s first industrial cooperatives.

WHAT: GARNER Arts Festival
WHO: All ages
WHEN: May 21, 2022, 12PM-6 pm. Rain or Shine.
May 22, 2019, 12PM-6PM. Rain or Shine.

WHERE: The GARNER Historic District, located at 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY 10923

*ADMISSION: Adults $8; Seniors $6; Kids 12 & under Free. (Walk-up Only. Cash & Card Accepted)
Family Day-Pass $18/Weekend Pass (Single) $14 (Available for Presale)

HOW: Onsite parking is available in the GARNER Historic District. Off-site parking is available on Railroad Avenue and nearby Chapel Street. Nearby offsite parking locations: SW Johnson Firehouse at 37 Bridge Street & the North Rockland Central School District lot at 65 Chapel Street.

HEALTH & SAFETY: It is recommended that visitors stay home if not feeling well. GARNER Arts Center and the Garner Historic District recommends mask wearing indoors and for guests to practice distancing, especially among large groups where possible. Hand sanitizing stations will be available in indoor spaces and outdoors throughout the festival grounds.

Painting by Matt Casanovas