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.
$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.
$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.
$15.00 ($10.00 Members)
Free for Members of the Shinnecock Nation
In conjunction with the exhibition, First Literature Project, Guild Hall Community Artists-in-Residence, Christian Scheider and Wunetu Wequai Tarrant will join Anthony Madonna, Guild Hall Patti Kenner director of learning + new works for a conversation on the project, and their two-year residency with Guild Hall.
$15 ($10 Members)
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 Shinnecock artist, Ahanu Valdez. Valdez is a mixed-media artist specializing in poetry, pottery, and watercolor painting. The Lab will focus on the work she created as part of Ayim Kutoowonk, a Shinnecock Language revitalization collective, currently on view in the Guild Hall exhibition, First Literature Project.
Participants will create seashell imprints in clay, following the personal and creative practice of Valdez as documented in her exhibited work, Piece Upon A Piece.
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 mixed-media artist, Darlene Charneco. Charneco is a contemporary Latin-American artist whose mixed-media mapping series looks at people, networks, homes, and communities as part of a larger organism’s growth stage.
The Lab will focus on Charneco’s Guild Hall exhibition, Field Mappings – Weaves and Touchmaps, culminating in the creation of a collective “Learning Library,” connecting our memories, relationships, and intentions.
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 interdisciplinary artist-duo and 2024 Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence, LoVid. LoVid’s practice focuses on aspects of contemporary society where technology seeps into human culture and perception. Throughout their interdisciplinary projects over two decades, LoVid has maintained their signature visual and sonic aesthetic of color, pattern, and texture density, with disruption and noise.
The Lab will focus on LoVid’s most recent project, Heartsleeves Portrait Studio. The project is an immersive environment for portrait creation, inviting participants to enjoy a playful and embodied relationship with the work they collect. The Portrait Studio uses live camera input to process the participants’ images by applying LoVid’s algorithmically generated moving patterns.
