Community

These past two Sundays, in a county funded local park in the town of Sayville NY, The ART Lab has invited the community to become involved in our artistic endeavors.  From the early morning hours we were welcomed and encouraged to create our own version of an art festival or fair.  Keeping in mind what most art and music events have become, we didn't want to do what everyone else is already doing.  Instead of focusing on the entertainment as the central focus and the guests as just audiences we wanted to get eveyone involved and feeling as if this event was different and special because of their involvment. 

From kids hula hooping in the lawn to adults painting on canvas.  Musicians siging up for open mic and vendors displaying their art from trees.  BBQ available to everyone and blankets spread about the field.  Community ART Laboratory was not a structured and planned event but a natural and organic gathering of talented people creating the afternoon as it unfolds and participants involving themselves and completely appreciating the atmosphere.   A be-in or happening would be a more appropriate term for what we did the past two weekends.  Bringing back a group dynamic and community feeling from a generation past in small but potent doses. 

The Community ART Laboratory will be an on going summer series occuring June 12th, August 14th and September 18th at The Common Ground Park in Sayville NY between Candee and Gillette Ave. 

The ART Lab is a eclectic group of unique artists in varying fields who gather in public places to create and display their art for the community.