ART SOCIAL: WET FELTING – SOLD OUT

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Wet felted vessel, work in progress by Kerry Sharkey-Miller. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Tag: Learning + New Works

Community Artist-in-Residence Showcase: East End Native

Andrina Wekontash Smith, Shinnecock Storyteller and performer, explores the intersection of race and class on the East End. Part one-woman show, part panel discussion, East End Native will dive into the complicated history through the unique lens of her personal narrative. Spoken word, monologues, and storytelling will comprise of the first half, and in the second she will moderate a conversation with influential leaders fighting for representation for all of the East End’s residents. Panelists include Minerva Perez, Executive Director OLA of Eastern Long Island, Dyashwa Sylvester, Director, Shinnecock Youth Clubhouse, and London Bess, Shinnecock High School Student.

East End Native is a benefit performance for the Shinnecock Youth Clubhouse and Guild Hall Learning & Public Engagement initiatives. The Shinnecock Youth Clubhouse provides an open space where cultural and educational programming are introduced as alternatives to drug and alcohol use. The clubhouse enhances and provides support for the physical, social, emotional, mental, spiritual, and financial wellbeing of the Shinnecock Youth.

This program is the culminating showcase of Andrina Wekontash Smith’s 2021 Community Artist-in-Residence.

The eAT Coffee Bar will be open for drinks and refreshments!

Guests attending programs indoors in the John Drew Theater must show proof of full vaccination. Click HERE for full  COVID-19 protocol for guests.

Apex Ape

Apex Ape is an experimental film, and original creature that explores the changing American image through the lens of local legend. Inspired by interviews with East End residents and video archives from LTV, Apex Ape examines societal decay through impressionistic cinematography, treating our familiar landscape as a living organism. As viewers are confronted with the husks of our past, they may even catch sight of the illusive Ape, a cryptid-inspired manifestation of those left behind in a rapidly changing habitat.

Apex Ape was created as part of Guild Hall’s 2021Community Artist-in-Residence program. The film will be installed as a multi-channel video installation in our Minikes Garden, allowing the public to enter the film at any time throughout the evening.

Family Gallery Tours

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3:30PM and 4:30 PM

Join Guild Hall’s FAQ Team (Frequently Asked Questions) for a family focused museum tour of  Robert Longo: A History of the Present. 

Using our Family ARTiviy Guide as a prompt to observe and discuss the works on view, families will be introduced to various ways of engaging with the work, like drawing, discussing, writing, and even dancing! Family ARTivity Guides are available onsite at Guild Hall, or digitally available to complete at home with our Matterport tours.

The Family Tours are part of Guild Hall’s 90th Birthday celebration. The afternoon includes an ongoing Paint Like Pollock workshop, complimentary cupcakes from Citarella, and a late night Silent Dance Party!

FREE – Reservations Recommended.

Paint Like Pollock!

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Join Artists from the Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center and Guild Hall as we paint like Pollock! 

Inspired by the current exhibition, Robert Longo: A History of the Present we will learn the techniques of Jackson Pollock and create a communal drip painting solely in grayscale. With a large canvas spread across our front lawn, buckets of paint, and jazz music blasting, we will collaborate on a communal painting to be exhibited in Guild Hall’s Education corridor.

This ongoing workshop is part of Guild Hall’s 90th Birthday celebration. The afternoon includes Family focused museum tours, complimentary cupcakes from Citarella, and a late night Silent Dance Party!

Guided Sound Walk: Full of Noises – with Viv Corringham and the Founders of Gesso

We are excited to kick-off our big 90th birthday with special guests! Join sound artists, Viv Corringham, and co-founders of the audio-guide app., Gesso, Henna Wang and Michael Reynolds, for a guided tour of Full of Noises: A Village Soundwalk. The tour will begin at Guild Hall, leading you through various locations in the Village, including the beloved Duck Pond, and culminate with an informal talk-back in Guild Hall’s Minikes Garden.

Composed and narrated by sound artist, Viv Corringham, Full of Noises links the cultural gifts of Mary Woodhouse – Guild Hall, The Duck Pond, and Clinton Academy –, with prompts for finding, imagining, and remembering sounds. Simply download the free app. on your phone, pop-in a pair of headphones, and listen. 

FREE – Reservations recommended.

Through our walking feet we can listen for traces of previous walkers, for stories from the earth, for echoes of history, and for our own memories. The essence of a place is revealed to the feet that move through it and listen. 

Full of Noises is a self-guided soundwalk for the Village of East Hampton that leads the public through known spaces with new, heightened, and playful listening.  

Composed and narrated by sound artist, Viv Corringham, Full of Noises links the cultural gifts of Mary Woodhouse – Guild Hall, The Duck Pond, and Clinton Academy –, with prompts for finding, imagining, and remembering sounds. Simply download the free app. on your phone, pop-in a pair of headphones, and listen.  

Producer, Anthony Madonna
Technical Director, Patrick Dawson 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR SELF-GUIDED SOUNDWALK 

1) Once registered you will receive instructions for how to access the soundwalk through the free app., Gesso. Instructions will be sent to the email you used to register.  

2) The soundwalk begins at Guild Hall, leads you through The Duck Pond on Davids Lane, and finally to East Hampton Historical Society’s Clinton Academy. 

3) The walk itself is a little over an hour, though you may decide to pause the audio at times and spend more time in certain locations. We suggest wearing sturdy walking shoes, bringing a bottle of water, and carrying a portable charger for your mobile device.  

4) We encourage playfulness.

 

Communicating the Plastic Crisis: Erica Cirino & The Bridgehampton Childcare & Recreation Center

A Guild Hall Education Initiative

Led by science-writer and visual artist, Erica Cirino, Communicating the Plastic Crisis is a series of watercolor and plastic works by student artists at the Bridgehampton Childcare & Recreation Center (BHCCRC). Over the course of four week one-hour art and science workshops, Cirino and the BHCCRC Students engaged in conversations and activities on waste, plastic pollution, and how plastic trash can be repurposed as an art medium of the modern age; conveying the importance of humanity’s relationship to the planet earth and how it might be improved.

The exhibition is paired with a participatory talk, Thicker Than Water with Erica Cirino, as part of the Guild Hall After Hours program on July 15.

BRDIGEHAMPTON CHILDCARE & RECREATION CENTER STUDENT ARTISTS

Nigel Ambercrombie Zacheriah Michelle
Deyver Cabanas Jessica Morocho
Anna Bella Delgiorno Kaylee Munoz
Johnny Delgiorno Michael Munoz
Jaili Escobar Johan Otavalo
Daniella Garnica Alysson Pichon
Samantha Garnica Ashley Reyes
Kaylee Gordillo  

CURATOR
Casey Dalene, Lewis B. Cullman Associate Curator for Learning & Public Engagement
Anthony Madonna, Patti Kenner Senior Associate for Learning & Public Engagement

Materials for Communicating the Plastic Crisis were generously donated by the Hawai’i Wildlife Fund. 

Aurelio Torres: Valparaíso, 2021

A Guild Hall Education Initiative

Valparaíso by Aurelio Torres is on view in the Minikes Garden, June 13–July 5, during Museum hours.

For the first Guild Hall After Hours immersive event, Artist, Aurelio Torres, brought us a new participatory installation allowing visitors to contribute in the creation of one of his largescale sculptures. The sculpture, Valparaíso, is reflective of Aurelio’s larger body of work which references ships, sailboats, and other maritime symbols. Chosen as a complement to the exhibition within the museum galleries, Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks, Aurelio’s piece is made up of 4 main ‘totems’ or ‘masts’ with attached abstract hull-shaped elements consisting of repurposed building materials. The sculpture was located at the front of Guild Hall during the After Hours event on June 12, where patrons were invited to contribute by creating and attaching a message-in-a-bottle. The bottles consisted of recycled water bottles, wine corks, and a piece of brightly colored fabric. Visitors were prompted to write or illustrate a response to the question: If you could tell the plastics industry something what would it be? The assembled bottle was then attached with twine to the rope system of the sculpture.

The sculpture will be on view in Guild Hall’s Minikes Garden, just off of Dunemere Lane, from June 13–July 5 during Museum hours. Enjoy refreshments from our newly expanded eAT Coffee Bar while you sit and view the installation.

THE TILE CLUB: Open Studio Painting Workshop with Artist Scott Bluedorn

Community Artist-In-Residence Scott Bluedorn will lead a series of open studio painting workshops in Guild Hall’s Minikes Garden as a part of his residency project.  Scott’s project is focused on the history, practice, and revitalization of “The Tile Club;” a group of artists from the late 19th century, who met and painted on decorative tiles, often en plein air, on the Eastern End of Long Island.

Scott will host these open studios once a month during the extended Museum hours on Saturdays in June, July and August. During these free workshops our concessions will be open and artists will paint on tiles provided by Guild Hall and are asked to bring their own acrylic paints, brushes, water jar, and palette. We ask that each participant gives at least one tile to Guild Hall to be included in a final installation culminating this project in the Fall of 2021.

This program will be moved indoors in the case of inclement weather. Face coverings and social distancing will be required indoors.

THE TILE CLUB: Open Studio Painting Workshop with Artist Scott Bluedorn

Saturdays, June 19, July 17, and August 21 from 5-7pm

Community Artist-In-Residence Scott Bluedorn will lead a series of open studio painting workshops in Guild Hall’s Minikes Garden as a part of his residency project.  Scott’s project is focused on the history, practice, and revitalization of “The Tile Club;” a group of artists from the late 19th century, who met and painted on decorative tiles, often en plein air, on the Eastern End of Long Island.

Scott will host these open studios once a month during the extended Museum hours on Saturdays in June, July and August. During these free workshops our concessions will be open and artists will paint on tiles provided by Guild Hall and are asked to bring their own acrylic paints, brushes, water jar, and palette. We ask that each participant gives at least one tile to Guild Hall to be included in a final installation culminating this project in the Fall of 2021.

This program will be moved indoors in the case of inclement weather. Face coverings and social distancing will be required indoors.

THE TILE CLUB: Open Studio Painting Workshop with Artist Scott Bluedorn

Saturdays, June 19, July 17, and August 21 from 5-7pm

Community Artist-In-Residence Scott Bluedorn will lead a series of open studio painting workshops in Guild Hall’s Minikes Garden as a part of his residency project.  Scott’s project is focused on the history, practice, and revitalization of “The Tile Club;” a group of artists from the late 19th century, who met and painted on decorative tiles, often en plein air, on the Eastern End of Long Island.

Scott will host these open studios once a month during the extended Museum hours on Saturdays in June, July and August. During these free workshops our concessions will be open and artists will paint on tiles provided by Guild Hall and are asked to bring their own acrylic paints, brushes, water jar, and palette. We ask that each participant gives at least one tile to Guild Hall to be included in a final installation culminating this project in the Fall of 2021.

This program will be moved indoors in the case of inclement weather. Face coverings and social distancing will be required indoors.