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May 24, 2013 Page 145 WINERIES
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Mosaic Art Festival Returns to Riverhead rofessionals, novices and first-time artists will be flocking to Riverhead on Sunday, May 26, for the 17th annual Mosaic Art Festival. The festival, put on by the East End Arts (EEA) has become a perennial fun-for-the-whole-family affair since its start, attracting artists from all over the island. “The Mosaic Art Festival is the welcoming of the summer,” says Pat Snyder, the Executive Director of East End Arts, the not-for-profit organization that puts on the event as well as the founder of the Mosaic Art Festival. “It really is a day-long celebration of the arts, where everyone is out in the sun, having a great time.” The festival features street painting, an art form dating back to 16th Century Italy, called “I Madonnari,” where street painters created works of art in front of cathedrals to pay homage to the Virgin Mary. Nowadays, street painters at the Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival create images ranging from pop culture to historical figures, portraits to landscapes, comedy to tragedy. The street and the sidewalks will be filled with exhibiting artists in their pop-up tents, a Maya India body bakery boutique selling soaps and scrubs, street painters coloring in the street, a face painter’s tent, as well as the popular food trucks offering gourmet food. “We have a lot of the same, great activities that families have enjoyed the past 17 years,” says Kristina Gosline, the event coordinator this
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new director of the Community year for the festival. School of the Arts, established New this year to the festival when the Arts Council board is the Passport for Kids. The rescued the near-bankrupt passport encourages children Eastern Suffolk School of Music. to explore the many artistic The new director thought a activities offered throughout street-painting festival would the event. Children collect make a great fundraiser for stamps by visiting the different scholarships at the school. stations and participating in “It started as a simple idea,” the activities. A completed says Snyder candidly. “It’s passport will equate to a 5% amazing to witness the seed discount on one group class at Be a part of the rich mosaic. of an idea take root, sprout and the East End Arts School. The passport includes stops at several art stands, grow the way that it has.” The festival was small back in 1996, less than 1,000 the avant-garde drum circle, the Riverhead Free Library as well as an ongoing exhibit that weekend people, but today has blossomed into an event that draws a crowd of over 5,000. at the Long Island Science Center. “An idea came to fruition, expanded, flourished In addition to the street painting, face painters, art booths and tents, “The passport allows the children into something amazing. It is completely gratifying,” to try different things throughout the day,” explains adds Snyder. The Mosaic Art Festival has created family Gosline. “The Suffolk Theater is also putting on an memories for Riverhead Town Supervisor Sean after-party concert.” Although the festival is in its 17th year, it’s the first Walter, who has a picture on the backdrop of his cell time the Suffolk Theater’s doors will be open for the phone of one of his children’s chalk drawings. “It is a great day to come downtown, just enjoy festivity. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for the After-Party Concert, featuring Who Are Those Guys? The show yourself and the outside, and spend your time doing is general admission and begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are something different,” says Walter. only $10. For more information about the event, visit The festival began back in 1996 when Snyder pitched the idea to the board of directors of the eastendarts.org, or stop by the East End Arts Gallery East End Arts Council. At the time, Snyder was the located at 133 East Main Street, Riverhead. facebook.com/eastendarts
By robert sforza