A Walk in the Park
Labor Day weekend brings art, music and more to Long’s Park in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
From August 30 through September 1, Long’s Park in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, will transform into a tree-lined outdoor art gallery featuring more than 200 juried artists from across the country for the 41st annual Long’s Park Art Festival.
Among the featured categories are digital art, drawing, wearable fiber, decorative fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and wood—all of which are available for collectors to shop. Two new categories have also been introduced for the 2019 festival: “functional art” and “upcycled/creative reuse items.”
“We hope these new categories will be of interest to younger festival attendees. These artists offer work that can be held and experienced at home on a daily basis,” festival artistic director Rick Faulkner says, adding, “This is work that is not just collected, but used and enjoyed for a lifetime.”
One featured artist, Phill Singer, will display his newest surreal oil paintings as well as limited edition prints.
“The park always provides a relaxed setting to show my paintings,” he says. “Very few shows take care of the artists as well as Long’s Park Art Festival does. It should be a destination for any art lover within the area.”
In addition to celebrating art, Long’s Park Art Festival also supports it, with all proceeds from ticket sales benefitting the Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation—a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching Lancaster through art and music—and the foundation’s Summer Music Series, which features over a dozen summer concerts that are free to the public.
Other Labor Day weekend festivities at the park include live music throughout the event and craft beer, food and wine from local restaurants.