The 2024 Arts in the Park! season is closed. Thanks to the artists and community who supported these programs and joined us in the park. Stay tuned for our 2025 season!
Featuring Concert Master Adrienne Harmon at the Amphitheater in Downing Park.
Bring a a blanket or chair and come relax on the park lawn while listening to classical music by Newburgh’s own!
A series of African dance classes with live drumming at Downing Park June 15-July 6 tailored to all ages and abilities. Come to one or come to all!
Imagine That! is a participatory art project by artist and designer Chat Travieso that invites participants to create shapes representing their visions for the city and place them on a shared board. Join us outdoors at Shelter House in Downing Park for hands on activities with artist/designer Chat Travieso.
A series of African dance classes with live drumming at Downing Park June 15-July 6 tailored to all ages and abilities. Come to one or come to all!
A delightful performance of dances from the different regions of Mexico at the Amphitheater in Downing Park.
A series of African dance classes with live drumming at Downing Park June 15-July 6 tailored to all ages and abilities. Come to one or come to all!
A unique participatory writing exploration with Newburgh artist and place keeper, Anusha Mehar.
A series of African dance classes with live drumming at Downing Park June 15-July 6 tailored to all ages and abilities. Come to one or come to all!
Grab a sketch pad & pencil and join us for this single day plein air sketching workshop with artist Mary Jane Ward.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Please join us at the Shelter House for a night of local talents. All are welcome.
FREE
Hudson Valley based, mixed media artist David Lionheart uses his keen sense of depth and spatial awareness to create abstract painted works, enhanced by color and texture.
Come experience the live creation of a large-scale composition in the middle of Newburgh's Downing Park. Bring a blanket & refreshment and watch as David demonstrates his unique approach of movement over a canvas.
This is a FREE family-friendly event. Drawing supplies & coloring sheets will be provided for those who desire to color.
Photo by Brian Wolfe
Join us on the Shelter House patio for an afternoon of live jazz music by The Trio SuWaSa
This summer, Assane Badji of Melody Africa (New Paltz, NY) brings African dance class and live drumming to Newburgh's Downing Park.
Class will take place at the North Field in the grass. Shoes are optional.
This class is FREE and open to all ages & abilities.
Come move and feel good!
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Please join us at the Shelter House for a night of local talents. All are welcome.
FREE
Grab a sketch pad & pencil and join us for this single day drawing workshop with draftswoman and painter Mary Jane Ward.
This workshop will focus on subjects such as leaves, branches, flowers, trees, and making sketches of the park surroundings with one on one feedback from Mary Jane.
All levels of experience are welcome. This workshop is FREE.
Participants should bring a pencil, eraser, paper and drawing board or sketchbook. If you have no supplies, that’s fine! Some basic drawing supplies will be provided.
Meet at Shelter House at 9AM
Sign up in advance is suggested, walk ups welcome!
email: chapmansteamerarts@gmail.com
This summer, Assane Badji of Melody Africa (New Paltz, NY) brings African dance class and live drumming to Newburgh's Downing Park.
Class will take place at the North Field in the grass. Shoes are optional.
This class is FREE and open to all ages & abilities.
Come move and feel good!
The Words We Wear is a site-specific poetic-ritual performance & activation of Downing Park initiated by poet Anusha Mehar. Enter the park on these days and paint your words onto our collective poem.
Join us Sunday, June 26th at 4:30pm in Downing Park, for ceremonial chai, poetic movement, and conversation about the words that we wear- the stories, experiences, griefs & joys that live in our bodies.
FREE
Artist & musician, Amery Kessler brings The Shade Sail, a moving sculpture to various locations in Downing Park.
People are invited to actively participate with/through the artwork or to contemplate the physical and visual forms as a document of previous actions/interactions.
FREE
Unconventional Dances is a multi site-specific dance performance by Nattie + Hollis.
This live performance explores dance in relationship to setting. Placing performance outside of traditional theatrical venues invites a questioning of the context of dance and opens up our notions of performance. Nattie and Hollis are interested in places and structures that highlight larger themes like late stage capitalism, climate change, and decaying infrastructure.
FREE
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Please join us at the Shelter House for a night of local talents. All are welcome. Sign up here if you’d like to perform!
FREE
Enjoy music from local musicians outdoors at Shelter House
2:15-3:00pm Mario Careccia, meditative melodic drumming
3:15-4:00pm Christopher Dean Sullivan, bass
4:15-5:00pm Sean Condron, anarchic grumblings and sonic leprosy (on guitar)
FREE
Coffee compliments of Blacc Vanilla Cafe.
Arios Espresso mobile espresso bar on site for purchase.
Photo by Brian Wolfe
