This is your chance to view and buy prints and originals from veteran artists. View the work of former USMC Combat Artist and illustrator Elize McKelvey,  the vibrant abstracts of former Navy Seabee Angelo T. Robinson, and the stunning mixed media work of Newburgh-based Navy veteran Auguster Williams. See samples from Frontline Arts, and watch demonstrations of their unique community-oriented Veterans’ papermaking program which teaches Veterans of all service eras and branches the transformational practice of making handmade paper from military uniforms.

Last Out is a play written by and starring former Green Beret Scott Mann – it is perhaps the most 360-degree view of war and its after-effects that has ever been put on stage. But it has now been filmed and will be released on Amazon Prime, so to celebrate, the Savage Wonder Festival is proud to present this incredibly special screening with the cast in attendance and a Q&A to follow.

If you like poetry or spoken word performances, you’re going to love this. And if you don’t like them, you may love it even more. You’ve never seen spoken word performances like this. Poets, writers, and actors face off with each other, reading selections that tackle love, fear, lust, loss, combat, peace, internal angst and external enemies in complementary or contradictory ways. Punctuated by the outlaw country singing of Afghanistan veteran and green-on-blue survivor Doc Oliver, this is a blend of poetry and music that will have you laughing, crying, and thinking.

Poughkeepsie, NY native and former Marine Tyler Mendelson is one of the most well-known and popular veteran filmmakers from the GWOT (Global War on Terror) era. We are proud to feature two of his award-winning films: the autobiographical A Marine Corps Story and his acclaimed short filmThe Hun back-to-back.