The park, which is officially named after former New York State Senator Earl Brydges, is generally referred to as Artpark.

Artpark & Company is a not-for-profit 501c3 Arts and Education organization which serves the people of Western New York and Southern Ontario.

[5] 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.

[9] 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.

[10] It continued to be an important laboratory for outdoor sculpture,[11][12] with over 200 artists and collectives creating art and installations at the site between 1974 and 1984.