Columbus Park

In addition to the many art spaces that will offer free programs at their locations throughout the day, Columbus Park will host artist booths, performances, vendors, and activities for adults and families! View the Festival Google Map here to see all active locations!

Columbus Park
44 Ryan Ave, Port Chester, NY

Schedule of events happening at Columbus Park:

All Day, 11 am - 4 pm:

Artist Booths
Live Music
Food Trucks
Vendor Booths
Live Painting
Face Painting
Info + Activity Booths by:

  • Neptune in June

  • Home Depot

  • P.C. Beautification Commission

  • P.C. Historical Society

  • Lions Club

  • USAlliance

  • The WashLine Project

Timed Events:

11am - 1 pm: You'll spot local painter Alison Nicholls set up in the park doing some plein air painting!
11am - 1pm: Music set + Live Feed from the Park by 107.1 The Peak Radio Station
1pm: Live music by City Island band
2pm: The WashLine Project - Installation Activation
2:30pm: Live performance by Ballet Folklorico de las Americas
3pm: Live music by Russ Davis Band

Details about each participant and activity below:

For Festival Info:

Neptune in June

Stop at Neptune in June’s visitor booth to pick up event maps and schedules, ask questions about the event and its partners, or make a sidewalk chalk drawing!

After activities at the park end around 4 pm, head over to Neptune in June’s large-scale exhibition at 33 New Broad st for a closing party at 6 pm!
Click here for more details about the exhibition.

Neptune in June, formerly known as Ice Cream Social art space, is an artist-run curatorial and community art project based in Port Chester. It bridges emerging artists with the national art industry while strengthening local opportunities and conversations in the arts. Neptune in June curates exhibitions locally and across the U.S., offers free interdisciplinary public events, and provides educational programs to schools and families throughout Westchester. For more information and to subscribe for updates on upcoming events, visit: www.neptuneinjune.com

Live Performances

  • 11am - 1pm: Music set + Live Feed from the Park by 107.1 The Peak Radio Station

    11am - 1pm:

    Music set + Live Feed from the Park by 107.1 The Peak Radio Station
    www.1071thepeak.com

  • city island

    1 - 2pm:

    Live music by City Island
    Bandmates Nick Pretel and Josh Anthony are lifelong friends and the creators of City Island. Since the release of their first EP, All The Love, and their first music video for Prison Walls, they continue to bring original takes on Pop-Soul, Funk, Soft Rock, and other musical histories to form a genre-bending performance. 

    City Island performs live at venues across NYC, Westchester and Southern CT. They have been featured in the Bronx Buzz, Spectrum 1 in LA, and NBC News 4 Latino.
    www.city-island.com

  • Ballet Folklorico de las Americas

    2:30 - 3pm:

    Live performance by Ballet Folklorico de las Americas
    Ballet Folklórico de las Américas (BFAMERICAS) is a vibrant Latin dance company dedicated to celebrating and preserving the rich cultural heritage of Latin America. Through captivating choreography and stunning traditional costumes, BFAMERICAS brings to life the stories, rhythms, and colors of the Americas. Each performance is a powerful expression of identity, tradition, and pride—offering audiences an unforgettable journey through the diverse landscapes of Latin culture.

    Based in Stamford, Connecticut, BFAMERICAS has proudly represented Latin American traditions across the East Coast, performing in cities such as Washington D.C., New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.

    In addition to performing, BFAMERICAS also organizes cultural events that bring the community together. Don’t miss their upcoming Colombian Carnival celebration on July 20th at the Stamford Mall—a colorful, family-friendly event full of music, dance, and tradition.
    Follow them on Instagram and Facebook at @BFAMERICAS

  • Russ Davis Band

    3 - 4pm:

    Live music by the Russ Davis Band
    The Russ Davis Band has been thrilling audiences at Concerts and Festivals and every kind of Special Event throughout the Tri-State with their irresistible crowd-pleasing mix of Current Hits, Classic Rock, Motown & Funk! The May 31 Arts Fest will feature our action-packed Trio, starring Russ Davis (Guitar & Vocals), Sue Larsen (Bass & Vocals), and Nate Brewster (Drums & Percussion).
    www.therussdavisband.com

Interactive Installation by The WashLine Project

11 am - 4 pm: Follow the “washline” through the park to the group’s installation which will grow throughout the day. Contribute your own story to the collection which will be used in a washing ceremony at 2 pm.


WASH!
is a multi-media, participatory art and social change platform that uses laundry – a universal human activity – as a grounding example and metaphor to honor the significance of women’s work in the building of connected, collaborative and caring communities.

WASH! honors the contribution women have made by emphasizing the oral histories of women the role they played down at the riverbank and in their backyards, at the communal wash houses and in their neighborhood laundromats. It is a grounding metaphor that celebrates collective consciousness of women. Since the beginning of time, women have gone down to the river bank and out to the back yard, washing their clothes, hanging their laundry, trading stories and support and sharing their wisdom. Working side by side in a stream of laughter, tears and words, mothers and daughters, sisters and friends have been coming clean, conversing about life and what it means to be human and feminine.

Wash! It is a multi-layered conversation and large-scale, participatory art project and platform for social change through which the collective contribution of our mothers and foremothers at the washline is recounted, fully experienced and amplified in order to make a difference.
www.thewashline.com

Home Depot’s Maker Station

The Home Depot Kid’s Workshops are a free hands-on learning experience that encourages skill-building and creativity in children ages 5-12. Skills such as following step-by-step instructions, working with hand tools like hammers and screwdrivers, and painting are explored. The Workshops are hosted by store associates who also serve as Workshop Captains.

Children should be accompanied by a parent or guardian to assist them with completing the workshop kit. The time for completing the kits varies, but usually takes 30 minutes. Each child can bring home a newly constructed project, a Kids Workshops apron, an achievement pin, and a certificate.
www.homedepot.com/c/kids-workshop

Face-Painting in the Park!

Stop by face-painting stations throughout the day, with mother-daughter team Trayonna Mood and Valerie Clark (Station 1) and D’COLORES (Station 2)!

Live Painting in the Park

11 am - 1 pm: You’ll spot local painter Alison Nicholls set up in the park doing some plein air painting!


Alison Nicholls is a professional artist who often sketches and paints outdoors. Before moving to Port Chester in 2002, she lived in the southern African countries of Botswana and Zimbabwe and this is where she began her artistic career, traveling and sketching southern Africa’s amazing wildlife and landscapes. After moving to the US she continued to work outdoors from life, and in 2020 started her “Painting 10573” project, where she painted one place in the 10573 zipcode, every week, for a year. Each painting was created from life in watercolor, and a large portion of the proceeds were donated to Meals on Main Street (formerly Caritas). Alison is a member of the Society of Animal Artists, Artists For Conservation, Urban Sketchers, and the Mamaroneck Artists Guild. In 2025 her work has been accepted into exhibitions by the American Impressionist Society, Society of Animal Artists, Hudson Valley Art Association and Splash 26, as well as winning 1st Prize in the Open Juried Small Works Show at the Mamaroneck Artists Guild.  She She lives in Port Chester with her husband  Nigel and her German Shepherd, Sasha, and returns to Africa annually to work with conservation organizations and lead Art Safaris for Africa Geographic.
www.ArtInspiredbyAfrica.com
IG: @alisonnicholls.art
Facebook: @AlisonNichollsArt

Lions Club

The Lions Club will have a display and activity table at Columbus Park from 11am-4pm.

Catch a student art display by The Lions Club at Neptune in June’s exhibition location (33 New Broad st) from 5-6 pm before the closing party for the festival (6-9pm).


The Larchmont Mamaroneck & Port Chester/Rye Brook Lions are part of Lions Clubs International, the world’s largest service organization of over 1.4 million members. Their mission is to support - with funding, volunteers & advocacy, local service groups by bringing community leaders together to determine needs, resources & achieve solutions. The Lions signature cause is Vision/Blindness, Hunger, the Environment, Diabetes, Childhood Cancer and the future of our Youth. In addition, affordable housing and the mental health of our youth is a local Lions priority.
www.lmlionsclub.org

The Port Chester Beautification Commission

Stop by The Beautification Commission’s table for chalk drawing and an origami & drawing crafts station. You’ll also participate in crowdsourcing ideas for a new community mural on Boston Post Road!


The Port Chester Beautification Commission engages with the community on a wide array of projects to enhance the Village’s aesthetics and resident quality of life. At the 2023 Festival, the Commission introduced the Port Chester Community Art Initiative, a framework developed by the Beautification Commission to increase public art in the Village.
www.portchesterny.gov/330/Beautification-Commission

Port Chester Historical Society

The Port Chester Historical Society has always been housed in the Bush-Lyon Homestead, a historic residence dating back to approximately 1760 and continuously lived in until the 1990s. After a period of inactivity that lasted about 25 years—during which time the Homestead fell into disrepair—the Society began its revival in 2018, thanks to the efforts of a local Girl Scout who helped spark renewed interest in both the Historical Society and the Homestead. That same year, a local Boy Scout started an inventory of the Homestead’s contents. Ever since then, we have been active and growing! Our programs and events are designed to respect the rich traditions, experiences, and heritages of our community while sharing Port Chester’s story in diverse and inclusive ways. History has frequently excluded some groups and underrepresented others; we work towards addressing all barriers to full inclusion as we find them. In recent years, we have worked to preserve and catalog our collection, hosted a variety of exciting events at the Bush-Lyon Homestead, created a digital “twin” of the Homestead for virtual tours, and built strong partnerships with local organizations and student groups. We sponsor community celebrations and discussions throughout the year, including commissioning works of art that bring our local history to life. We invite you to join us!
www.pcnyhistory.com

Vendors

Nothing Bundt Cakes

Crazy Taco-Mex

Boogiedownbeader

Kim O’Hara Designs

El Rincón de Atlixco

Mama's Creations

It Must Have Been the Bake

MagTagLove

Kat Used Charm

Jaxi & Co.

Rose’s Temptations

Veroniquet Handmade Crochet

Artist Booths

  • Michael Angelis

    Michael Angelis

    Michael Angelis is a visual artist based in Port Chester, NY. His work deals with themes of cultural ideas and constructs that are in flux, and the connection/disconnection of communication and technology through those periods of flux. His paintings and prints capture concepts that are not intended to be preserved or memorialized, and attempt to provide a lens onto images and ideas which are temporal and transitory, as a means to understand the factors that are the catalyst for change and flux. Michael has most recently exhibited works in 2024 and 2025 at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT, where he is an adjunct professor in Printmaking. He received his Masters of Art Education degree from Teachers College in 2005, and his Bachelors of Fine Arts from Purchase College in 2001. He has been teaching studio and digital art at Joel Barlow High School in Redding, CT since 2005.
    website: michaelangelis.com
    IG: @angelis.studio

  • Sandra Bobbins

    Sandra Bobbins

    Sandra Bobbins, born and raised in Port Chester, started string art about 3 years ago as a personal hobby. Self taught and experimenting with different techniques and materials, it’s quickly became “Sandra’s Crafty Bobbins, LLC”, which welcomes commission requests and custom pieces.
    IG: @crafty_bobbins

  • Douglas Chavarria

    Douglas Chavarria

    Douglas Chavarria is a Guatemalan-born, Port Chester-raised artist with a deep love for animals, folklore, and all things strange and mystical. 
    “Ever since I was a kid, I was that kid glued to animal encyclopedias from the Scholastic Book Fair, sketchpad in hand, drawing everything I saw. These days, my work blends that same childlike fascination with animals and mythology with a grown-up curiosity for the occult. I started out in pencil and pen, but once I got into color, it changed everything. My style leans heavily into expressionism and surrealism—I've always kind of done my own thing, and I love sharing little windows into my weird, vivid imagination.”

  • Steph Fiorino

    Steph Fiorino

    Steph Fiorinois an artist and educator from Rye Brook, New York. She enjoys painting animals and their various personalities and textures in portrait style. She has had work displayed at Larchmont Library, Crawford Park Mansion, Manhattanville College and Valencia Luncheria in Norwalk. Ms. Fiorino works in the Bronx in a NYC public elementary school and has been teaching visual art for over 15 years. She has had students’ work exhibited in the PS Art citywide exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of art and in the Bronx Borough arts festival at Lehman College Gallery. Stephanie is deaf with a cochlear implant and uses both English and ASL. She is open to pet portrait commissions and her work can be seen on Instagram @SFCreatureofHabit

  • Gregory Maggi

    Gregory Maggi

    Gregory Maggi is an aspiring cartoonist. Ever since grade school he would draw his favorite characters from his favorite shows and video games whenever he got the chance. His love for these characters has led him to pursue drawing comics and graduated from The School of Visual Arts in 2013. Since then, Greg has taught in the Port Chester after school program in teaching kids how to draw and show them how cool Godzilla is. Greg continues to learn more about art and telling stories.
    IG: gmaggi_art

  • Helen Marder

    Helen Marder

    Helen Marder (b. 1989, Brooklyn, NY) is a visual artist working in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. She earned her B.A. from Hunter College in 2011 and her M.F.A. in Studio Art from Brooklyn College in 2022. Her work has been exhibited at Rockwall Studios, the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, and 601 Artspace.
    Marder’s current body of work draws from her roots in the Mountain Jewish community of Azerbaijan, and research into carpetmaking, which she explores as both visual artifacts and coded vessels of diasporic identity. Reimagining these textiles through a contemporary lens, her paintings feature bold contours, flattened space, and rhythmic patterning inspired by the stylized abstraction of Middle Eastern design. She distills ornamental motifs into graphic, gestural compositions—both playful and deliberate—inviting viewers to read across shape and surface. Through layers of pattern and painterly mark-making, she builds a visual language that is both abstract and evocative of a distant, woven past.
    IG: @adipinmydaydream

  • Adrian Ochoa

    Adrian Ochoa

    Adrian Ochoa is a Mexican-American leisure artist residing in Westchester, New York. Sketching has been a lifelong passion for Adrian. Drawing early inspiration from comic books, Chicano art, and graffiti, his style is influenced by his heritage and the surrounding culture. Carrying the love for art into his professional training, Adrian studied graphic design. Today, Adrian paints primarily acrylic paint on canvas, but continues to be an avid sketch book artist. As a healthcare professional, Adrian uses his art hobby as therapy. Enjoying his art as a meditative benefit, he has described feeling happier, more relaxed, and centered while creating.
    IG: aceochoa

  • Lisa Rinaldi

    Lisa Rinaldi

    Lisa Rinaldi is a dedicated special education teacher and proud mom of two, to an adventurous 4-year-old son and a spirited 2-year-old daughter. She was born and raised in Port Chester, New York where she still resides and teaches at the local middle school. In 2025, inspired by the magic of childhood and a long-held dream, she brought her first children’s book to life: “Where Oh Where Is the Boogeyman?” With the playful input of her own kids, Lisa created a story that blends friendship, imagination and joy. Her journey as both an educator and a mother continues to fuel her passion for storytelling and connecting with young minds.

  • Salvador Sanchez

    Salvador Sanchez

    Salvador Sanchez is a Deaf multimedia artist, illustrator, animator, and graphic designer. He grew up and works in New York.  He has a remarkable gift for art and feels affection for his paintings. His graphic design work and illustrations explore visual representations of ASL signs. Salvador Sanchez Artist is a store where creativity and Deaf culture meet! We offer a wide variety of art and handmade items, designed to bring beauty and inspiration into your life through American Sign Language. Whether you're looking for a unique painting, a handmade ASL clock, or even a one-of-a-kind ASL sticker, you'll find something special here with Salvador Sanchez's unique style and brand.
    IG: salvadorsanchezartist

  • Monica Tiulescu

    Monica Tiulescu

    Monica Tiulescuis an artist and educator based in New York and Connecticut. Since 2000, she has taught architecture, design, visual art, and digital media at the high school and college levels. She is currently the visual arts department chair at Rye Country Day School.
    "I draw on abstract painted fields. My work fluctuates between disfiguration and figuration, and familiar objects oscillate between layered fields. The picture plane is amassed to create spatial amplification and zones of deletion.” 
    www.monica-tiulescu.com
    IG: @mtiulescu

  • Tammie Freccia

    Tammie Freccia

  • Lee Kulsha

    Lee Kulsha

  • Eric Zoback

    Eric Zoback

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