Join us in celebrating the opening of the 2024 Student Art Festival: Eco vs Ego. The afternoon will consists of family workshops, pop-up performances, and a guided tour by the students and artists whose work is on view.
The 2024 Student Art Festival: Eco vs Ego explores our symbiotic relationship with nature. Inspired by guest thought-leader, Edwina von Gal, the Festival asks students, schoolteachers, and artists to delve into topics such as needs/survival, infrastructure & growth; anthropomorphism & symbolism, and biophilia, through the practice of art, design, horticulture, and performance.
Click here to learn more about Student Art Festival: Eco vs Ego.
Touring Exhibition
GUILD HALL: AN ADVENTURE IN THE ARTS
On View February 10 – April 28, 2024
Gallery Hours:
Sunday, 1-5 PM
Monday, 10 AM-5 PM
Tuesday, Four Arts members only, 1-5 PM
Wednesday through Saturday, 10 AM-5 PM
Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts presents highlights from our permanent collection. Established in 1931 by Mary Woodhouse (also a co-founder of The Society of the Four Arts), Guild Hall has become the cultural heart of the East End through its core principle that participation in the arts creates greater civic engagement.
Guild Hall’s collection comprises over 2,400 works by internationally renowned 20th and 21st century artists. An Adventure in the Arts features 72 works by 59 artists, including George Bellows, Lynda Benglis, Chuck Close, Jane Freilicher, Adolph Gottlieb, Jasper Johns, Thomas Moran, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Rauschenberg. Many of these artists lived and worked in the East End, highlighting the tradition of artists in residence since the 1870s. The exhibition is accompanied by the publication Guild Hall For All (2021), which was published in celebration of our 90th anniversary.
The aroma of cinnamon and spice is in the air and we are delighted to bring back the beloved gingerbread house decorating event! Families are invited to join Citarella’s merry team of confectionary experts and make festive displays using frosting, candy, and a fully assembled, freshly baked cookie house.
Each group will be given the supplies for one house ($20 Members/$25 non-Members). When registering, choose one ticket with the fee for the first attendee and then add all additional attendees at $0.
This program will take place in the Boots Lamb Education Center. Guests should enter off the path on Pondview Lane.
Join Artist Members Exhibition artist Michael A. Butler and Director of Visual Arts Melanie Crader for a conversation about his work. The discussion will center around the evolution of Butler’s artwork and its recurring themes of imagined representations of underrecognized peoples based on scarce written documentation.
Crossing Boundaries and Disciplines: Art and Academic Practices. How do these different practices come together and enrich our East Hampton community? Join Artist Members Exhibition artist Setha Low for this salon conversation. After a brief presentation of the material and metaphorical threads that underlie Low’s art and publications, she will lead a discussion of the multiple ways that Guild Hall is a community public space that supports the multidisciplinary nature of artists. Low argues that a better sense of community and activism can evolve through art and science, and she hopes you will join her in this endeavor.
CREATIVE LAB is a series of interdisciplinary workshops designed and led by Guild Hall’s Visiting, Exhibiting, and Resident artists. Each CREATIVE LAB invites participants to learn about an artist’s practice through an open lecture and a participatory workshop.
This month’s LAB is led by artist and 2019 GH Artist Member Exhibition winner Mary Boochever. In developing her own color language, Boochever has explored sources as diverse as Kabbalah and Goethe’s Color Theory. The LAB will include a tour of the artist’s current Guild Hall exhibition, Mary Boochever: Chart of the Inner Warp, and an exploration of practice through introductory Tai chi / Qi Gong movements and a collective color knowledge experience.
CREATIVE LAB is held in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center. Participants are asked to enter the building through the door on Pondview Lane.
CREATIVE LAB is a series of interdisciplinary workshops designed and led by Guild Hall’s Visiting, Exhibiting, and Resident artists. Each CREATIVE LAB invites participants to learn about an artists practice through both an open lecture, and participatory workshop.
This month’s LAB is led by acoustic ecologist, Gordon Hempton. As the Sound Tracker®, Hempton has circled the globe three times over the last 35 years in pursuit of Earth’s rarest nature sounds—sounds which can only be fully appreciated in the absence of manmade noise. During the LAB, Hempton will share his practice and give a sneak-peak into his new work, Sound Place Love, set to premiere at Guild Hall in Spring 2024.
CREATIVE LAB is held in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center. Participants are asked to enter the building through the door on Pondview Lane.
CREATIVE LAB is a series of interdisciplinary workshops designed and led by Guild Hall’s Visiting, Exhibiting, and Resident artists. Each CREATIVE LAB invites participants to learn about an artists practice through both an open lecture, and participatory workshop.
This month’s LAB is led by Shinnecock Linguist and Guild Hall Community Artist-in-Resident (GH CAiR), Wunetu Wequai Tarrant. As part of her GH CAiR, Tarrant and her collaborator, Christian Scheider, are advancing the work of The First Literature Project, and the formation of Ayím Kutoowonk (She Speaks), a collective of four Indigenous Shinnecock women working toward the reclamation and revitalization of the Shinnecock language. The project proposes to support the language reclamation efforts through the preservation of Indigenous stories, culture, and language by utilizing immersive 3D, virtual reality, and holographic technology to create two immersive orations to be exhibited at Guild Hall in Spring 2024.
CREATIVE LAB is held in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center. Participants are asked to enter the building through the door on Pondview Lane.
Lunch Break is a series of open, insightful, participatory, and short discussions about art. Each Lunch Break is led by Guild Hall’s Patti Kenner Director of Learning + New Works, Anthony Madonna and focuses on various ways to absorb and interpret the work of the artists on exhibit.
Participants are welcome to join staff for lunch in the Guild Hall Pantzer Gallery or Minikes Garden after the program. Attendees may bring their own lunch or purchase small bites from Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar in the lobby. *
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 12 PM: Leo Villareal: Celestial Garden
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 12 PM: Mary Boochever: Chart of the Inner Warp
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 12 PM: 84th Artist Members Exhibition
*Small croissant sandwiches from Tutto Caffè, will be available, first come, first served.
