Expansive Arts Experiences at Fuller Moon Arts Festival This Weekend
The lakeside festival, with art, music, dance, film and food, shows off Warwick arts endeavors at Mountain Lake Park this weekend.
The Fuller Moon Arts Festival celebrates the convergence of performance, art and nature with a two-day festival, Saturday, August 26th and Sunday, August 27th, at the lakefront setting of Mountain Lake Park, Warwick, NY, 3:00-9:00 p.m.
“You’ll see an unusual, unexpectedly sophisticated assemblage of art,” said Melissa Shaw-Smith, Wickham Works co-founder and creative director.
Suitable for all ages, the festival invites guests to experience interactive art displays set around the park, listen to live music, watch dance performances, and join artists in hands-on making in the park’s art studios. It features a curated artisan maker market, an outdoor bar, and a selection of farm-to-table food prepared by local chefs and served throughout the day.
On Saturday, as the sun goes down, visitors can sit by the lake and watch the premiere of Brigid’s Well, a site-specific piece based on Celtic mythology, performed by Warwick Dance Collective. Then they can join Brasskill, a party brass band.
On Sunday, renowned NY City-based Forces of Nature Dance Theatre will make a special appearance. As the moon rises and children catch fireflies, the festival ends with a traditional Irish music session around the campfire from Katie Linnane and friends, prominent in the trad music scene.
The Fuller Moon Arts Festival is presented by Wickham Works and the Warwick Center for the Performing Arts. The diverse range of artists and performers are selected to appeal to families, art and music lovers, and anyone looking for an entertaining day out at a lakeside setting.
Artists and Art Installations at Fuller Moon Arts Festival 2023
Karen Decher is a multimedia artist living in the Hudson Valley . One of her passions is processional art - creating large-scale puppets for parades and art events. Using paper mache, cardboard, and repurposed fabric, she worked with members of the community to build the fiery dragon puppet who leads the Fuller Moon parade. She also designed the magical entryway into the festival.
https://www.instagram.com/karendecher/
Sara Divi is a textile artist, maker, teacher and improviser, turning yesterday's cast-offs into today's art. Her immersive fiber art installation for Fuller Moon draws visitors into a fiery world inspired by the festival’s theme – the fire of inspiration. She has made giant pom poms from tulle to create a room filled with textures, colors, and movement.
https://www.instagram.com/sarahdiviart/
Heidi Lanino is a figurative abstract painter with a foundation in gestural drawing influenced by the “transformative nature of movement.” Her artistic practice includes drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, teaching, and community installations made from upcycled materials. Heidi’s installation draws on the elements and invite audience participation: Earth, Connections | Reflections cardboard sculpture installation, inviting the audience to leave messages to the earth; Water, Poetry in Motion - word poems, reflections on self, earth and the moons orbit; Air, Veils imprinted with words hung from trees – Breath, Hope, and Change; Fire – diaphanous material hung as a screen from trees with fire video projection. The installation is accompanied by Biophilia - Art Making in the Gazebo,
Adults and children will be invited to create ‘reveal art’ with crayon and watercolors inspired by the natural elements, biophilia, bugs, and mushrooms.
https://www.instagram.com/heidilanino/
Maxine Leu is an interdisciplinary artist, art educator, and environmentalist from Taiwan, living in the Hudson Valley. Her work focuses on the environment, communication, and identity. She has been promoting workshops about upcycling and recycling that have been inspired by concerns over global warming, waste production, and other environmental issues. Insects Reconstructed is part of a continuous series of assemblage “insects” started in 2014 using found objects.
https://www.instagram.com/maxineleu/
Kay Nishikawa
Zone of Life is the culmination of three film works directed and choreographed by Kay during the pandemic – 70A:Seven Octillion Atoms, Quick Shout, Weaving from the Other Side. They feature movement artists Tatyana Kot and Victoria Saretsky. The works reflect on crisis, challenge and adaptability.
https://www.k2arts.org/kay/
Jenny Torino is an experimental artist using fibre and repurposed material for her work. Living in Warwick, she also works with Wickham Works as a community-based teaching artist. Her Immersive Fungi Forest represents a whole ecosystem, consisting of large-scale models of native mushrooms, and an immersive moss and lichen tunnel created using jute rope, yarn, fabric and wool felt.
https://www.instagram.com/j.torino/
Tickets: $15 Adults, $25 2-Day Pass, $10 Children (6-18) & Seniors (65+). More information at FullerMoonArtsFest.Com
https://www.fullermoonartsfest.com/
https://www.instagram.com/fullermoonartsfestival/
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