GAGA
Arts Festival 2009
Saturday
May 2nd -Sunday May 3rd

Platinum
Sponsor
Silver Sponsors
and Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP.
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 13th.
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
  
Andea Polli
NEW INSTALLATIONS
BY
Kris Burns
[building 3 alley]
Michael
Zansky [building 5]
OPEN
STUDIOS

MIKE CONNER's painting studio.
ERIC LAXMAN's metalworking studio....................................CHRIS
RANDOLPH's painting studio.
JAMES TYLER's sculpture studio......................WOODY's
guitar making studio.

PAUL TAPPENDEN's painting studio
FILM
- 2007
Rivertown
Film presents a new series of short films.
Rockland
Independent Film Network presents new student films.

MUSIC PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2007

Saturday, June 9:
12:00 - 12:40 p.m. Todd Giudice (Folk- Roots-Americana)
www.toddgiudice.com
12:50. - 1:30 p.m. Ritt Henn (Fun Funky Songwriter)
www.RittHenn.com
1:40 - 2:20 p.m. Kathleen Pemble (Singer - Songwriter)
www.kathleenpemble.com
2:30 - 3:10 p.m. Karen Davis (Acoustic Alternative)
www.myspace.com/bloomslang
3:20 – 4:05 p.m . Carla Rozman (Singer-Songwriter)
www.myspace.comcarlarozman
4:15 - 5:00 p.m... Joe D’Urso (Singer-Songwriter)
www.jdcaravan.com
Sunday, June 10th:
12:00 - 12:30 p.m. Brick House Girls + C39 (A Rockin’ Girls
Group!)

12:40. - 1:20 p.m. Pip Klein and Gravikord (Flute & Gravikord)
www.members.aol.com/gravikord
1:30 - 2:10 p.m. Neal Gomberg (Singer-Songwriter)
www.nealgomberg.com
2:20 - 3:05 p.m. Marianne Osiel (Heavy “Mental” Music
Songwriter)
www.marianneosiel.com
3:15 – 4:00 p.m. John Guth (Songwriter, Guitarist, Improvisor)
www.johnguthmusic.com
4:10 - 5:00 p.m. Billy Roues (Rockabilly/Country Singer/Songwriter)
Sound stage courtesy of North Rockland Sound Rehearsal Studio,
Bldg. 5, 2nd
GAGA ARTS FESTIVAL 2007Photos
by Jeffrey Fleisig
 
 
 
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