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Warwick Arts Fest 2026

Sat., September 5th

(Labor Day weekend)
2PM - 7PM

Stanley-Deming Park, Warwick, NY

Rain date. Sunday, Sept. 6th, 2026

In conjunction with efforts around the country to celebrate and reflect on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence...

You are Here! Warwick Arts Fest 2026 celebrates Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness in a family-friendly outdoor arts festival that invites people of all ages to create, explore, and celebrate together. Through hands-on art making, interactive installations, and live performances housed in three open-air tents in Stanley Deming Park, Warwick, the festival brings these enduring ideals to life in joyful, accessible ways.

Celebrate 250

Collage of outdoor event scenes: top right shows a live band playing near a lake with trees in the background; bottom right depicts people painting on a large canvas table outdoors; bottom left features a clown and a person dressed as Little Red Riding Hood at a colorful tent with trees in the background; top left is a young child's face painted with a floral design, framed by a large blue and white bird or flower artwork that surrounds the child's head.

Become an Artist for the Day!

Set beneath a series of open-air tents in the beautiful Stanley Deming Park in the heart of Warwick, the festival transforms art into something you can touch and make together. Each tent becomes a space for discovery, offering hands-on activities, performances, and visual art that celebrate what it means to express ourselves freely and to seek joy in our lives.

Life Tent
Explore what it means to be alive—through color, movement, growth and collaboration. Add your mark, build something together, and watch the artwork evolve as the day unfolds.

LibertyTent
Express and be who you are. This tent invites you to share your voice through art, words, and performance and express what freedom means to you.

The Pursuit of Happiness
Celebrate joy, play, and reflection. Interactive installations invite you to create something that makes you smile, pause, or dream, and explore how happiness can be found in creativity, connection, and simple moments.

The festival welcomes all ages and abilities to create side by side. No prior art experience is needed. By making art in community, we celebrate not only the freedoms we inherit, but the responsibility we share to imagine a more joyful, open, and connected future with dignity for all.

SPONSOR THE WARWICK ARTS FEST Details Here
Five women outdoors behind a tent, holding painted panels with faces cutouts, featuring colorful artistic portraits of mythical or fantasy characters with underwater and nature themes.

Wickham Works Festival Partners include: The Village of Warwick, Albert Wisner Public Library, Warwick Valley Community Center, Warwick Area Farmworkers Organization.

If you would like to become a Community Partner, please reach out to us at Contact@wickhamworks.org

Colorful woven fabric or textile art hanging outdoors on a grassy area with trees in the background.
A woman standing outdoors under a colorful, abstract, woven art installation made of various knitted and crocheted pieces, on a grassy area with a partly cloudy sky in the background.

The 2026 Call for Artists has closed!

Children and adults gathered around a table outdoors at a community event, with arts and crafts supplies on the table and a fabric machine, under tents in a park setting.