"Soho reborn in the lower Hudson Valley."

GAGA Arts Center is a not-for-profit arts organization located in the Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center, an historic textile mill built in the 1830’s, in New York’s Lower Hudson Valley. Just 45 minutes up the Hudson River from NYC, and closer still to many Westchester County, Rockland County, and New Jersey localities, GAGA is now the home to a thriving arts community for visual artists, performance artists, and artisans.

"our favorite place to get some culture..." Rockland Magazine, June 2007

GAGA Galleries

The GAGA Art Center has over 15,000 square feet of gallery space. This includes our Main Gallery, the raw Dye Works Gallery space, and the two white rooms of Gallery B for smaller scale exhibitions as well as video, film, or performance presentations.

Exhibitions of new work, by established and emerging artists are presented throughout the year. Students and developing artists are invited to submit their work for our annual student and juried membership exhibitions.

For information on upcoming exhibitions: click here

For information on past exhibitions: click here

The Garnerville Depot - A Brief History

1760 - Grist mill owned by Cornelius Osborn operates on the
--------- Minesciongo Creek waterfall.
1830 - John Glass purchases 45 acres along Railroad Avenue
---------and builds first textile mill making calico print.
1831 - Mr. Glass and 13 others killed in shipboard explosion.
1838 - Plant is purchased by the Garner brothers and expanded,
---------now employing more than 800 people.
1853 - Textile mill is making 11 million yards of cloth per year.
---------Workers homes & surrounding village named Garnerville
1860 - Civil War. Rockland Print Works manufactures uniforms
---------for the Union Army of the North.
1915 - Textile mill now producing 1.6 million yards of cloth per
----------week. Rockland Print Works literally owns the village,
---------from the streetlights to the private police force.
1929 - The Great Depression begins. The textile mill closes.
---------Buildings abandoned, machinery sold and moved.
1934 - William Larkin and 39 local businessmen purchase the
---------complex with the help of a $150,000 loan from FDR’s
---------Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
1940 - World War II. Uniforms made for American soldiers.
1950 - United Wire Goods Company is the first to start hiring
---------Puerto Rican and Dominican workers.
1980 - Textile industry gone. Artists & light industry move in.
2001 - First Garnerville Arts Festival attracts 1000 visitors.
2008 - GAGA Arts Center is born.

More about GAGA?

The Holding Company- how lives flow through brick and mortar

a film by Frank Vitale - order form click here

GREEN ENERGY at GAGA...?

With acres of open rooftops for solar panels and wind generators, and the Minesciongo Creek to drive water turbines, plus geothermal storage in the upper pond, the potential for a green energy showcase at GAGA is enormous.

Visible metering would enable visitors to monitor the creation of green energy in real time, creating an opportunity for ‘real world’ understanding with the students participating in GAGA’s Encounters with the Arts programs.

Imagine--green energy workspaces, green energy education and training, green energy employment. A green village with shops, galleries, and eateries, all promoting a sustainable global environment.

This is our dream...if you can help, please call 845-947-7108

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