Earl W. Brydges Artpark State Park
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| Type | State park |
| Location | 450 South 4th Street Lewiston, New York |
| Nearest city | Lewiston, New York |
| Coordinates | 43°09′50″N 79°02′35″W / 43.164°N 79.043°WCoordinates: 43°09′50″N 79°02′35″W / 43.164°N 79.043°W |
| Area | 108 acres (0.44 km2) |
| Created | 1974 |
| Operated by | New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation |
| Visitors | 301,523 (in 2014) |
| Open | All year |
| Website | Earl W. Brydges Artpark State Park |
Earl W. Brydges Artpark State Park (or Earl W. Brydges State Artpark) is a 108-acre (0.44 km2) state park located in the Village of Lewiston in Niagara County, New York. The park, which is officially named after former New York State Senator Earl Brydges, is generally referred to as Artpark. The park overlooks the Niagara Gorge.
The park is a venue for summer musical entertainment, in addition to offering picnic tables and pavilions, fishing, hiking, nature trail, a performing arts theater, recreation programs and cross-country skiing. Also located on the property is the Lewiston Mound, an archaeological site on the National Register of Historic Places.
Artpark was founded in 1974, one year after Robert Smithson's death, and had an artist's residency program in his honor. The park, created on the site of a former industrial waste dump, became an important site for works of the land art movement. It was the site of Alan Sonfist's Pool of Virgin Earth, a 25-foot-diameter (7.6 m) clay basin for catching aerial seeds, and projects by several women artists in the 1970s, including Michelle Stuart, Alice Adams and Agnes Denes and Nancy Holt. It continued to be an important laboratory for outdoor sculpture, with over 200 artists and collectives creating art and installations at the site between 1974 and 1984.
Installations at Artpark were intended to be temporary. Works created at the park included:
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