Garnerville, New York, a former mill community located in the lower Hudson Valley only 35 miles north of New York City in Rockland County, continues to build a reputation for attracting nationally known arts and fine craft exhibits at its annual GAGA Arts Festival, to be held on Saturday and Sunday, June 10 & 11 at the historic Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, 55 West Railroad Avenue in Garnerville.

Presented by the not-for-profit Garnerville Arts Project, Inc., GAGA Arts Festival (GAGA short for GArnerville GAllery) is the region’s most exciting and unique venue for art and fine craft.  This year’s Arts Festival features “Once a Tree”, a juried fine wood furniture and sculpture show.  And for the first time ever exhibited and shared with the outside world, ”Petroglyphs of Rapanui”, the only known comprehensive collection of petroglyph rubbings from Easter Island, the civilization that created and moved the monolithic stone statues, the Moai.  All this, including interactive children’s exhibits, artistic demonstrations and the opportunity to visit the studios of 50 artists and craftsmen who call the sprawling, renovated, early 1800’s textile mill their workplace, will be open to the public from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. on the weekend of June 10 & 11, rain or shine.  Kids under 14 accompanied by adults are free and adults are only $5 each.  Parking is free on the premises and around the complex.  Visitors from Westchester may arrive by ferry with easy shuttle service to the Festival.  Non-stop folk, blues and rock music performances may be enjoyed at the outdoor center stage and tent area where ethnic foods and refreshments are available for purchase. 

GAGA Arts Festival is located at the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, Garnerville (West Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York).  From Palisades Interstate Parkway, take Exit 13 to Route 202 East for approximately 2 miles; then left on Bridge Street. Local: Take Route 9W to West Railroad Ave. in West Haverstraw.  From Westchester, ferry and shuttle service are also available.  For further information, call: 845-947-7108.  (For more information on the ferry, visit www.ferrygoround.com.)  GAGA Arts Festival is open Saturday June 10th and Sunday June 11th from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm and will remain open Sundays from 1 PM to 4 PM through July 2, 2006.