Visionaries 2020 is an intimate gathering that introduces an innovator and their personal stories of success. We follow the journeys of creative “visionaries” as they realize their dreams, break boundaries, and create businesses and organizations that reflect their values and histories. Conversations are moderated by someone close to the featured speaker and reveal extraordinary narratives about starting something new.
We join Christina Isaly Liceaga at her Amagansett restaurant, Rosie’s, diving into her career in fashion, sales, Broadway production, and hospitality. Join us for a socially distanced conversation from 5:30PM to 7:30PM to learn what motivated Christina to create a restaurant based in a beach lifestyle, health, local produce, and family ties.
“Visionaries is an essential program at Guild Hall because it champions creativity, originality and resourcefulness and introduces new ways of thinking about business and the arts. Participants engage with next generation leaders and learn about how they are igniting change in their respective fields.”
–Andrea Grover, Executive Director
Visionaries Membership (up to 2 people): $1,000
- The Visionaries Membership offers special pricing for Visionaries attendees
- Access to select performances, previews, talks, and exclusive visual, performing arts, and networking events
- Members Opening Reception for each Museum exhibition*
- Special discounts on tickets, classes, & workshops
- Advanced ticket sale notice
- Special invitation to select theater programs*
- Eligibility to enter the Artist Members Exhibition
- Season Program Guide
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Visionaries Members: For discounted ticket price, please email Kristen Curcie at kcurcie@guildhall.org to purchase.
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Christina Isaly Liceaga
Christina Isaly Liceaga is a born and bred New Yorker who takes on every opportunity with the positive, go-getter mind of an athlete and the sensitivity of an artist.
Christina studied Industrial Design and History at Carnegie Mellon, spending most of her free time on the soccer field and basketball court as part of the University’s Division III teams. After graduation she lived in Mexico City, teaching English, learning Spanish, and playing soccer with the women’s national team feeder club. Upon her return to New York, Christina began a career in fashion with shoe designer Nancy Geist of ZeitGeist NYC, and later, Ralph Lauren.
After years in fashion, Christina ventured into new terrain, taking a finance position within her family's company, OrbiMed, and then running her own real estate development business, Fractal Management, overseeing more than 30 NYC properties.
Christina made her way to Amagansett 12 years ago, and it was love at first sight. She was immediately inspired to create a new type of place to eat, drink, and gather. In 2019, she opened Rosie’s, a full-service farm-to-table restaurant right on Main Street.
She has most recently added the role of Broadway producer to her resume, with her first credit, Jagged Little Pill, earning 15 Tony Award nominations in 2020. She shares her time between Amagansett and New York, and is the proud mother of 5 children.
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Andrea Grover
Andrea Grover is a curator, writer, and nonprofit arts leader with 25+ years of experience with socially engaged and interdisciplinary artistic practices. She is the Executive Director of Guild Hall, a historic civic arts institution in East Hampton, NY, founded during the Great Depression with a mission to build a better society through the arts. From 2022–25, she led a transformative renovation of the Guild Hall campus, modernizing its 1930s-era infrastructure to support contemporary performance, exhibition, and education. She simultaneously created an interdisciplinary program team that provides thought partners for new works like the recently developed First Literature Project (Shinnecock language revitalization in VR) by Wunetu Wequai Tarrant and Christian Scheider.
Grover began her career in community-centered art by founding Aurora Picture Show, Houston, in 1998, a nonprofit moving image art center originally located in her home, a converted church in the Sunset Heights. Her curatorial focus has long included artist-led experiments in public space, alternative infrastructures, and cross-disciplinary inquiry. While Curator of Special Projects at the Parrish Art Museum, she launched initiatives such as Parrish Road Show, Platform and PechaKucha Night Hamptons, and received a Tremaine Foundation grant and ADAA Curatorial Award for Radical Seafaring, a landmark exhibition of artists creating works on the water. At Carnegie Mellon University, she curated 29 Chains to the Moon and Intimate Science, exhibitions about artists’ solutions for global problems.
Through her writing and curating, she frequently engages themes of art, science, and social change. She has served on panels for the Pew, Rauschenberg, and Pulitzer Foundations, and taught at the University of Houston and Texas Southern University. She is a past fellow of the Warhol Foundation, Center for Curatorial Leadership, and Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Syracuse University.