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GAGA Arts Festival 2009

Saturday May 2nd -Sunday May 3rd

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Art World Converges on Garnerville, New York

“This event is like no other art exhibition.” says GAGA President Robin Rosenberg, “Our complex of buildings is the living, breathing, working home where artists create their art for a living. The public gets a chance to see museum quality art, while wandering the back alleys and alcoves of a historic, Civil War era textile mill. There will be open studios, music, food, and live demonstrations of a variety of artisans. The GAGA Arts Festival has become a hot destination point drawing nearly 5000 visitors from the Tri State region including more and more who make the short journey up the Hudson from New York City.”

...a unique project, one that goes beyond the ordinary
photographic show. Some of the work on display rivals (I would say surpasses) the "American" large-format photos I saw recently at the Whitney Museum in NYC...

Really beautiful show! Art Gunther

On May 9, 2008, Ken Karlewicz and 30 other photographers spent one day capturing digital images along Route 59 in Rockland County, New York. The result is a remarkable photographic distillation of a single day in the life of a diverse fifteen mile stretch of America. Exhibition will include over seventy large scale photographs documenting the encounter.

For more 59x59 info: Click Here

Dye Works Bazaar
Indoor Art Fair \ Coffeehouse featuring the beautiful [and affordable] artworks of over 25 talented outsider artists, craft artists, and artisans. Plus music and seating in the GAGA Coffee Bar, all under one roof in our unique 8000 square foot Dye Works Gallery. Many of the artists will themselves be present at the fair.

CUBEHEAD Interactive Video Installation

Ed Moriarty - MIT

James Tyler - GAGA Arts Center

MIT professor Ed Moriarty and sculptor James Tyler join forces to create Cubehead at GAGA, with participating students from secondary schools in the Hudson Valley region, for display at the GAGA Arts Festival, May 2nd and 3rd, 2009.

Part one: The students will be left in the gallery with the materials needed to build a ten foot square cube of white fabric. They will be left to solve the engineering problems on their own. No instructions, no restrictions, other than the desired end result: A four sided projection screen onto which Cubehead will come to life. Student filmmakers will document the process.

Part two: A console seat with four laptop computer cameras, left, right, front, back, connected to four projectors relaying their images, actions, and voices to the screens. For the two days of the GAGA Arts Festival, Cubehead will come to life with the huge moving visages of any and all visitors brave enough to participate.

Goal: Science, engineering, and art through problem solving, group work, community building, humor, education, and technology. Cubehead is just the beginning. The techniques and skills involved include infinite possibilities: Cube Aquarium, Cube Dance, Cube Theater...Ideas will be welcome!

Cubehead at GAGA--education cubed!

Additional attractions for 2009:
- Jonathon Shorr Gallery - Exhibitions and Video Project

- GAGA Creekside - Nature Walk and Sculpture Trail. New trails, new sculptures along the Miniceongo Creek. Including Ted's Giant Head, the largest Stonehead ever made by nationally recognized 'outsider artist' Ted Ludwiczak.

- Indonesian “Monkey Chant” - Costumed Indonesian performers who engage community participation.

- Vagabond Puppets - Life-size puppetry performance.

- Student Art Show

- Youth Workshops - Musical instrument building, painting and crafts.
- Frankencorn's Execution - Installation by Mike Conner

...and the

GARNERVILLE ARTS & INDUSTRIAL CENTER

Come early! Give yourself plenty of time to wander the grounds and bask in the charm of a unique Civil War era textile mill...the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center.

For directions and Site Map: Click here

GAGA Arts Festival also thanks:

Village of West Haverstraw - Mayor John Ramundo

Town of Haverstraw - Supervisor Howard Phillips

GAGA Arts Festival 2008

This year’s exhibitions include: OUTSIDE IN -2008

This is the second year that GAGA will be featuring outsider art. Over fifteen thousand square of gallery space will be made available. "It’s just a natural fit for GAGA. People loved last year's Outside In show, so we are making it even bigger and better for 2008.”says Executive Director James Tyler.

The paintings and sculpture of fifty self-taught ‘outsiders’ and American folk artists will be on display at the GAGA Arts Center as a part of this year’s GAGA Arts Festival. Exhibition will include new works by:

Matt Sesow - Bob Justin - Ed Kirkland - Ross Brodar

Brendon Burke - Alison Silva - Carl Mullen - Rick Johnson

David Eddy - Larry Zingale - Eric Von Ploennies

Ted Ludwiczak - Patricia Stewart - Candyce Brokaw

This year GAGA is being joined by HAI of New York City.

The HAI exhibit will include works by renowned outsiders:

Everette Ball - David Blaisdell - Jim Bloom - Oscar Brown

Julius Caesar Bustamante - Donna Caesar - Carl Greenberg

William Gonzalez - Harper Deering Hair - Adam Elias Hines

David Kime - Gene Legay - Blake Lenoir - Renee Leshner

Kenny McKay - Frances “Lady Shalimar” Montague

Adeyinka Perry - Irene Phillips - Jose Rivera - Joe Simms

Laura Anne Walker - Melvin Way - George Zuniga

The OUTSIDE IN - 2008 exhibition will continue thru July 13^th.

Gallery Hours are Friday 3-7, Saturday 1-6, and Sunday 1-4

For more Information about OUTSIDE IN: CLICK HERE

Additional attractions for 2008:

- Welder's Jam- Lee Tribe, Jenny Lee, Bob Wilson, and friends will present a creative performance of welded steel and music.

- GAGA Creekside - Grand opening of GAGA's new sculpture park with Stoneheads by Ted Ludwiczak.

- Film - Outside In, a new film by Cherie Raglin. Not Like In The Movies, directed by Kevin Frech

- Dance - Random Dances Two by Marta Renzi. Frances Becker at the Brickhead

- Music - Jonathon Trotta and friends, Lisa Karrer and David Simons, and many more.

- Student Art Show.

- Farmageden - Artist Mike Conner's quirky installation about agri-business.

- Eric Laxman Studio Gallery - new group show.

- Face Painting - Andy Golub.

- Instrument Building Workshop- Lisa Karrer, David Simons.

KIDS & ADULTS ~ BUILD YOUR OWN TUBE TRUMPETS, SHAKERS & CAN DRUMS

~ LEARN PLAYING TECHNIQUES AND JOIN US IN A GROUP JAM ~

Saturday June 7 ~ Performance at 1:15 ~ Workshop 1:30 to 3:30

Lisa Karrer and David Simons are composers and performers who use Homemade Instruments, Indonesian Gamelan, Asian and estern orchestral sounds, theremin, sampler, laptop computer, voice and extended vocal techniques to create opera, new music theater, multi-arts performance, soundtracks for dance, installations, and arrangements and deconstructions of world music pieces. They have received numerous grants, commissions
and travel awards to perform their works in New York City, Hawaii, Indonesia, the Baltics
and throughout Eastern and Western Europe.

As educators Lisa and David have been teaching Homemade Instrument, music and performance skills in the New York City schools, and in residencies at venues such as the Avampato Discovery Museum in Charleston West Virginia, the Sternberg Museum in Hays Kansas, Delaware County's CROP program, elementary schools and summer programs
in Hawaii, and Polli Talu Arts Center in Estonia.

GAGA ARTS FESTIVAL 2007

Rivertown Magazine - 14 page photo essay by Jeffrey Fleisig - click here

OUTSIDE IN Outsider Art Show

Curated by James Tyler and Dean Lozow

The paintings and sculpture of twenty five self-taught ‘outsiders’ and American folk artists will be on display at the GAGA Arts Center as a part of this year’s GAGA Arts Festival.

Mike Conner

Matt Sesow.........................................Carmen C. Johnson

SUMMER LOVE

Curated by Andréa Stanislav and Macy Topp

Contemporary artwork that questions and explores the folly, work and heat of Summer, through - printmaking, photography, sculpture, sound.

Artists:David Baskin, Kathy Budd, David Helm,Tom Kotik, Pam Marchin, Vallessa Monk, Clive Murphy, Andrea Polli, Wayne Potratz, Jenny Schmid, and Andréa Stanislav

David Helm