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Art Festival

Art City

Middlesex
coLAB Arts Studios

Join coLAB Arts and 100 art vendors, activations, and installations as Art City transforms Downtown New Brunswick into an open-air celebration of art, culture, and community.

Oct 18th 11am to 6pm

Join coLAB Arts and 100 art vendors, activations, and installations from 11am-6pm on Sunday, October 18 as Art City transforms Downtown New Brunswick into an open-air celebration of art, culture, and community. Discover bold public art and immersive installations, enjoy live performances, shop art vendors, and grab a bite from food vendors along the way. With family-friendly experiences and activities around every corner, Art City invites you to be curious, explore, and celebrate Central Jersey's artists and culture. Art City is free for the public with advance registration available at www.artcitynewbrunswick.org. The festival will also feature new temporary public art works from New Jersey and New York-based artists who have been in residency through Art City at coLAB Arts’ newest facility in New Brunswick, coLAB Arts Studios which includes a rotating gallery exhibition space and eight artist studios. Resident artists include Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, Kate Eggleston, Haemee Han, Andrew Harrison, Traci Johnson, Jin Jung, Chanika Svetvilas, and Misha Tyutyunik. Atim Oton is the residency and festival curator. Art City is rooted in the energy and diversity of New Brunswick, and is part of coLAB Arts’ mission to engage artists, social advocates, and communities to create transformative new work. Art City is creating a new space for art, people, and place to collide, including a daylong festival, new gallery and artist studios at coLAB Arts Studios, and artist residencies for the creation of new temporary public art installations around New Brunswick. Art City is supported by funding through the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s A.R.T.-Phase II Grant Program. Art City, presented by coLAB Arts When: October 18, 2026; 11am-6pm. (Rain date: October 25, 2026) Where: Downtown New Brunswick, NJ Festival entrances are available at Bayard Street and Joyce Kilmer Avenue, New Street and Joyce Kilmer Avenue, and Bayard and French Streets. Parking decks are available at each festival entrance. The festival is a short walk from New Brunswick’s NJ Transit train station, with connections to New York Penn Station, Secaucus Junction, Newark Penn Station, and Trenton. Event registration and additional festival information is available at the Art City website, www.artcitynewbrunswick.org.

coLAB Arts

Join coLAB Arts and 100 art vendors, activations, and installations from 11am-6pm on Sunday, October 18 as Art City transforms Downtown New Brunswick into an open-air celebration of art, culture, and community. Discover bold public art and immersive installations, enjoy live performances, shop art vendors, and grab a bite from food vendors along the way. With family-friendly experiences and activities around every corner, Art City invites you to be curious, explore, and celebrate Central Jersey's artists and culture. Art City is free for the public with advance registration available at www.artcitynewbrunswick.org.

The festival will also feature new temporary public art works from New Jersey and New York-based artists who have been in residency through Art City at coLAB Arts’ newest facility in New Brunswick, coLAB Arts Studios which includes a rotating gallery exhibition space and eight artist studios. Resident artists include Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, Kate Eggleston, Haemee Han, Andrew Harrison, Traci Johnson, Jin Jung, Chanika Svetvilas, and Misha Tyutyunik. Atim Oton is the residency and festival curator.

Art City is rooted in the energy and diversity of New Brunswick, and is part of coLAB Arts’ mission to engage artists, social advocates, and communities to create transformative new work. Art City is creating a new space for art, people, and place to collide, including a daylong festival, new gallery and artist studios at coLAB Arts Studios, and artist residencies for the creation of new temporary public art installations around New Brunswick. Art City is supported by funding through the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s A.R.T.-Phase II Grant Program.

Art City, presented by coLAB Arts
When: October 18, 2026; 11am-6pm. (Rain date: October 25, 2026)
Where: Downtown New Brunswick, NJ
Festival entrances are available at Bayard Street and Joyce Kilmer Avenue, New Street and Joyce Kilmer Avenue, and Bayard and French Streets. Parking decks are available at each festival entrance. The festival is a short walk from New Brunswick’s NJ Transit train station, with connections to New York Penn Station, Secaucus Junction, Newark Penn Station, and Trenton.

Event registration and additional festival information is available at the Art City website, www.artcitynewbrunswick.org.

6 Kirkpatrick St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA

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