PUBLIC ART
Our parklands are sites for public art installations, creativity, and enjoyment!
2026 Floyd Bennett Field! Public Art Festival
OCTOBER 3, 2026
Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn
On Saturday, October 3, 2026, Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy will partner with the National Park Service for the second biennial Floyd Bennett Field! Public Arts Festival.
The 2026 Festival will showcase newly-commissioned artworks projection-mapped onto the monumental brick-and-glass façade of historic Hangars 3 and 4. The evening will bring together neighbors, friends and the larger community for a playful take on “dinner and a show.” As the sun sets over the landscape, attendees will enjoy The Longest Table, a collective outdoor BYO dinner that turns dining into art and conversation into connection.
2024 Floyd Bennett Field! Public Art Festival
APRIL 19-21, 2024
Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn
Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy organized the Floyd Bennett Field! Public Arts Festival on April 19-21, 2024. The Festival will featured two evenings of site-specific digital art works projection mapped onto the monumental 11,000-square-foot façade of historic Hangars 3 & 4. Additional events throughout the weekend included live music, all-ages activities, food trucks, makers market, a silent disco and more!
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 byPatti 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
Art Prints
JBRPC works with artists to visually and artistically interpret the rich ecological, cultural, and social character of Jamaica Bay and Rockaway parks. We’re excited to share these unique and beautiful artistic expressions in gratitude for your support.
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.