Museum offers wild brew of art, food and music
Seventh annual celebration Thursday on Ferry Street is free to the public
Local art, performers, musicians, plenty of food and an art installation described as ‘an all-m space to discombobulate the senses … a cross between a maze and an obstacle course.’
“It’s only four hours, but it doesn’t stop,” says Clark Bernat, of Thursday’s Niagara Falls Night of Art.
“It’s the most fun you’ll have on a Thursday night at a museum.”
It’s the seventh annual Night of Art, an event that typically draws 600 to 700 visitors to Niagara
Falls History Museum on Ferry Street, where Bernat is the museum’s manager, as well as the nearby farmers market and Main and Ferry streets area.
Admission is free. The familyfriendly event runs 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The show features art installations by 11 artists, including Emily Andrews, Katie Mazi, Nick Cupolo, Brainkite and Brain Farm. More than 20 other artists will be displaying and selling their art, which includes visual and avant garde creations, photography, poetry and literature.
There will also be interactive displays and performances by artists Dakota Brant, Jacquie Jacobs, Sara Lou Stuart and Taylor Peeples plus live music by The Mandevilles, Sound Sound, Jessica Wilson Band, Trio Corn Brio and Egan Henderson.
Food and beer vendors will be set up outside the museum including Brimstone Brewing Co., Tamales Mexico, Niagara Samosa Factory and the Regal Diner.
“We try, for lack of a better term, to cast the net broadly to get a good spectrum of people living in our community, for people who might not have had the opportunity to see what kind of talent we have in this great city,” said Bernat.
One highlight is a large-scale art installation being created by the artists Brainkite.
Bernat described it as “an immersive piece that people can explore and go through.”
He said “you’ll walk through, it’s a bit of a maze, you might bend down, you might crawl around.”
“We don’t know what they’re doing until they’re done.
“We have a sense, but we gave them direction to create something where you really can get into the middle of the art.”
That piece will remain on display at the museum Friday and Saturday.
For more information on the Niagara Falls Night of Art, visit the city’s website NiagaraFalls.ca.