Patchogue Arts Council Flagship Festivals

CHALLENGE

• Major municipal street festivals draw tens of thousands of visitors, creating a massive economic engine for downtown merchants and an opportunity to feature working regional creators alongside traditional fine art.

• Long Island-based visual and performing artists are frequently left out of formal municipal conversations, lacking high-density public stages and credentials to elevate their work.

•  Civic digital installations — such as site-specific projection mapping — reach their full potential when paired with live, non-traditional soundscapes that challenge public audiences and elevate the installation experience.

SOLUTION

We continued our relationship with the Patchogue Arts Council across its two largest annual events. As an official Cultural Partner at Arts on Terry (drawing 25,000+ visitors), Ballpark held a prominent showcase spot displaying 15+ curated prints from Long Island concert photographers who received official Ballpark media passes to shoot events, while curating the festival’s main-stage headline band, Spirit Gvn. As a collaborator for MoCA L.I.ghts Projection Festival, Ballpark curated a live, 60-minute fully improvised experimental set by local noise act BUNNY—utilizing found objects directly in front of Jonathan Monaghan's The Gilded Passage (MTA Arts & Design) for the festival’s ARTchitecture projection series at the Patchogue-Medford Library.