OPEN STUDIO: RAÚL MARTINEZ

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Raul Martinez Hands. Photo: SF Museum of Craft & Design

Tag: Learning + New Works

OPEN STUDIO: RAÚL MARTINEZ

Open Studio invites audiences to ask questions, view works in-process, and gain hands-on experience with the creative process of artists currently working or exhibiting at Guild Hall.

This Open Studio, which will take place for three days—Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, May 18-20 from 12-5 PM—will be led by cross-disciplinary artist Raúl Martinez. Martinez’s work examines the intersections between art and language, and more specifically, the possibilities of using legal language (i.e., employment contracts, traffic rules and regulations, military training codes, etc.) as material for art, dance, and performance. Audiences are invited to join Martinez in a new collaborative in-process piece or begin an individual piece of their own with the materials on-site.

This Open Studio is programmed in tandem with the Guild Hall exhibition Spin A Yarn, where Martinez’s work is on view.

This program is open to members only for Members Preview Day on Saturday, May 18, and open to the public Sunday, May 19, and Monday, May 20. Open Studio is free of charge. Advance reservations are not required.

GATHER: ROBIN WALL KIMMERER

$35 ($30 for Members)
$56.73 with Book ($51.73 for Members)

Join mother, scientist, decorated professor, and author, Robin Wall Kimmerer for a conversation on her collection of essays, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants.

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plans and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings -asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass – offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.

Braiding Sweetgrass was named a New York Times Best Seller, a Washington Post Best Seller, a Los Angeles Times Best Seller, a “Best Essay Collection of the Decade” by Literary Hub, A Book Riot “Favorite Summer Read of 2020,” and a Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading Recommendation.

Copies of Braiding Sweetgrass can be purchased in advance with tickets or on the day of the program, while supplies last.

GATHER is an ongoing series that spotlights the voices of BIPOC scholars, artists, and leaders, providing lessons on Black & Indigenous histories & traditions, and strategies for moving forward together. The program is co-produced by Guild Hall and Ma’s House & BIPOC Studio. Founded by Jeremy Dennis, an artist and tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, Ma’s House is a communal art space that includes a residency program for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), an art studio, and a library.

SAG HARBOR BATHTUB PROJECT

FREE
Suitable for All Ages

Join the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council and Sag Harbor based architect, Nilay Oza at Kidd Squid for a sharing of their collaboration, The Sag Harbor Backyard Bathtub Project.

Like any coastal community, the effects of a changing climate are tangible to our lived reality on the East End. Our current means of dealing with these changes – planning, zoning, and private development – need to be supplemented to meet these challenges. The Sag Harbor Backyard Bathtub Project is an ongoing initiative to publicize and deal with these issues of local climate resilience through the eyes of young people.

Over the past few months Oza has worked with the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (GHTAC) to investigate their personal connections to the issue, resulting in the creation of several public art works ranging from video projections and designed buttons to site-specific installations. With an emphasis on the term “bathtub,” GHTAC’s works bring awareness to the issue through humor and play – inviting participants to enter a serious and pressured issue with ease.

The evening will feature GHTAC’s public works alongside the research, video pieces, and topographic maps gathered throughout the project by Nilay Oza and his collaborators. Food & Drink will be available for purchase at Kidd Squid Brewery.

ARTIST TALK: MARK MANN, KLASSIC CARELLA, & JOSE SEBASTIAN

$15.00 ($10.00 Members)
$80.18 with book ($75.18 for Members) – tax included

In conjunction with the exhibition A Creative Retreat – Portraits of Artists, Guild Hall exhibiting artist Mark Mann will join Anthony Madonna, Guild Hall Director of Learning + New Works, Klassic Carella, Flexn Dancer, and Jose Sebastian, founder & artistic director of Hamptons Dance Project, for a conversation on Mann’s project, Movement At The Still Point and their experience creating & working on the East End of Long Island.

Movement At The Still Point is a collection of images that captures the dynamism and energy of the mediums of both dance and photography. In homage to his hero Irving Penn, Mann installed a backdrop of painterly muslin in vast West Side studio. Dancers from many genres – including ballet, jazz, African, tap, Broadway theater, hip-hop, and ballroom – perform and discuss their passions about the art form in this stark environment. The project is a testament to the emotional and physical power of each dancer, in stillness and in motion.

The collection has been published by Rizzoli International Publications. Books will be available for purchase in advance or on the day, subject to availability, with a signing by Mark Mann and the artists directly after the program.

FAMILY TOUR + WORKSHOP

$15.00 per family ($10.00 Members)

Join us for a forty-five-minute, interactive family tour in the Guild Hall galleries. Learn about art together through lively discussion, storytelling, and hands-on activities.

This Family Tour + Workshop will focus on the current exhibition, Spin a Yarn. Please enter Guild Hall through the Boots Lamb Education Center facing Pondview Lane.

Age recommendation: 4 – 7 + Parents/Guardians

LUNCH BREAK

Lunch Break is a series of open, 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 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.

 

This Lunch Break will focus on the themes of the current exhibition, Ted Carey: Queer As Folk.

LUNCH BREAK

$15.00 ($10.00 Members)

Lunch Break is a series of open, 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 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.

This Lunch Break will focus on the themes of the current exhibition, Spin a Yarn.

FAMILY TOUR + WORKSHOP

$15.00 per family ($10.00 Members)
Recommended for ages 4 – 7 + Parents/Guardians.

Join us for a forty-five-minute, interactive family tour in the Guild Hall galleries. Learn about art together through lively discussion, storytelling, and hands-on activities.

Family Tours + Workshops focus on the exhibitions on view. Please enter Guild Hall through the Boots Lamb Education Center facing Pondview Lane.

ARTIST TALK: WUNETU WEQUAI TARRANT, ANDRINA WEKONTASH SMITH, AND AYIM KUTOOWONK

$15.00 ($10.00 Members)
Free for Members of the Shinnecock Nation

Join Guild Hall Community Artists-in-Residence, Wunetu Wequai Tarrant, and the members of Ayim Kutoowonk (She Speaks), a Shinnecock language revitalization collective, as they discuss the formation of Ayim Kutoowonk and the works they developed, currently on view in Guild Hall’s exhibition, First Literature Project.

Ayim Kutoowonk (She Speaks) is a collective of three Indigenous Shinnecock Women, Cholena Boyd-Smith, Kaysha Haile, and Ahanu Valdez, working towards the reclamation and revitalization of the Shinnecock Language. Facilitated by Shinnecock Linguist, Wunetu Wequai Tarrant, and guest lecturers, Christina Tarrant, and Kaylene Big Knife, Ayim Kutoowonk works to bridge the divide between academic linguistics training and contemporary Indigenous culture, easing anxieties and building a language-learner focused pedagogy through multi-media projects and learning tools. The collective was founded in Spring 2023 as part of Guild Hall’s Community Artist-in-Resident program, sponsored by the Library of Congress’s Connecting Communities Digital Initiative.

The conversation is moderated by Shinnecock writer, actor, storyteller, and Guild Hall Academy of the Arts Member, Andrina Wekontash Smith.

CREATIVE LAB: SAL SALANDRA

$15.00 ($10.00 Members)
$42.16 with book ($37.16 for Members), tax included

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 evening’s Lab is led by thread-artist, Sal Salandra. Salandra’s highly detailed narrative thread paintings combine themes of repression, liberation, masculinity, worship, and identity, with personal history, and pop culture – confronting the viewer with joy, fear, pleasure, and eccentricities imbued in fetish. Salandra has presented a solo show at Club Rhubarb, and his works have been acquired by well-known collectors, Beth Rudin DeWoody, and architect Charles Renfro, and the Tom of Finland Foundation.

The Lab will focus on Salandra’s thread painting practice, including a hands-on introduction to his creative process.

This Creative Lab is programmed in tandem with the Guild Hall Exhibitions Spin a Yarn and Ted Carey: Queer As Folk.

Copies of Sal Salandra’s book, Iron Halo, are available for purchase in advance and in-person only while supplies last.