A Weekend of Art and Culture at Garnerville’s Garner Arts Festival

Garner Arts Festival is the rare cultural event where you can sip a craft brew beside a 19th-century smokestack while watching site-specific performance art unfold in an old printworks alley. Held across the sprawling, red-brick Garner Historic District in Garnerville, the festival features open artist studios, live music, large-scale installations, and a vintage makers’ market curated by Trade and Prosper. Food and drink flow freely (shoutout to Round Table Brewery), while a full slate of kids’ activities, hands-on workshops, and student exhibitions rounds out the weekend. Come for the art, stay for the post-industrial atmosphere—and maybe a retro bolo tie.