Rockaway! Free Public Arts Festival
2014 - 2021
Rockaway, NY
The Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy first sponsored the Rockaway! free public arts festival from June 29 to September 1, 2014 to celebrate the reopening of historic Fort Tilden and recognize the ongoing recovery of the Rockaway peninsula. The festival was a huge success attracting more than 12,000 people during its two-month run.
Organized by MoMA PS1 and the Rockaway Artists Alliance, Rockaway! featured solo projects by Patti Smith (2014), Janet Cardiff (2014), Adrián Villar Rojas (2014), Katharina Grosse (2016-2017) and Yayoi Kusama (2018) at Fort Tilden, an augmented reality project by Nancy Baker Cahill (2020-2021), and an international group show with the Honolulu Biennial at the Rockaway Beach Surf Club in 2014.
Nancy Baker Cahill: Liberty Bell
2020–2021
Katharina Grosse: Rockaway Colors
2016-2017
Adrián Villar Rojas:
From the series Brick Farm
2014
Honolulu Biennial
2014
Yayoi Kusama
2018
Janet Cardiff
2014
Patti Smith: Resilience of the Dreamer
2014
Rockaway! was made possible through the generous support of Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Rockefeller Foundation and The Secunda Family Foundation with additional support provided by the Moore Charitable Foundation, National Grid and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Special thanks to Volkswagen of America for their past and current support.