An art festival in the Southern Tier has been named one of 100 reasons to love America.
The LUMA Projection Arts Festival, which lights up historical businesses and uses them as canvases for 3D animation displays in Binghamton, N.Y., was featured in People magazine’s June list of “100 Reasons to Love America in 2022.” The LUMA festival, which draws more than 30,000 people, was named No. 42 under “Cities as Art.”
“Video displays that make buildings come alive—like this fairy tale projected onto the Carnegie Library in Binghamton, N.Y., at a LUMA light festival—turn cities into canvases,” People wrote.
One other Upstate New York attraction also made People’s list of 100 reasons to love America: Niagara Falls.
The LUMA Projection Arts Festival is scheduled to return Sept. 9-10 in downtown Binghamton, with artists delivering visual storytelling performances about a variety of topics, such as Greek mythology or Edgar Allan Poe stories. Powerful projectors and 3D animation create the illusion that enormous structures transform by magic, such as city hall looking like a gingerbread house or the courthouse as Stonehenge.
For more information, visit lumafestival.com.
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