PKX Festival
September 15-17, 2022
489 Main St, Poughkeepsie
Gallery Opening | Live Music | Scavenger Hunt | Open Studios | Art Making Workshops | Body Painting and Temporary Tattoos | Teens DJ Dance Party | Food Trucks | Vendors | Paint The Pavement | Public Art Unveiling | Performances.. and Much More!
The Art Effect’s youth and artist duo BoogieRez, worked together on a unique public art installation we are thrilled to unveil at this year’s PKX Festival on Saturday, September 17.
ART
PKX Festival Youth Committee members work with artist BoogieRez and Curator Alison M. Glenn to create and curate various art experiences throughout the festival including public art installation unveiling and an artfully curated exhibition of works from around the world that disrupts standard notions of reality through sensory experiences and unexpected visual mischief.
PERFORMANCE
PKX Festival features music, dance, and poetry by local artists on the main stage and in the Trolley Barn Gallery. The PKX festival youth committee reviews artist submissions and selects the performances based on variety, theme, and engagement.
WORKSHOPS
Community art-making is at the heart of the PKX Festival. Teens attend Friday night installation and clay workshops and on Saturday community partners fill the same with family-friendly art activities, face painting, paint the pavement and more!
Empowering
Poughkeepsie
PKX Festival is a building block to the development of the Youth Arts Empowerment Zone funded by the NEA Our Town Grant in the City of Poughkeepsie, NY. The Youth Arts Empowerment Zone will establish a youth-led arts district in and around the Trolley Barn Gallery with The Art Effect as the anchor arts institution.
Festival Schedule
PKX Festival Committee
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Partners
The PKX Youth Committee thanks the following awesome community partners. Please click on any of their logos to visit the website.
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The PKX Festival is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed here do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
