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.
This Family Tour + Workshop will focus on the current exhibition, Darlene Charneco: Field Mappings – Weaves and Touchmaps. Please enter Guild Hall through the Boots Lamb Education Center facing 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 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.
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First Literature Project proposes to support Native nations in their efforts to maintain and further their languages, narratives, and oral traditions. Employing a new immersive storytelling platform, 3D video is mixed with virtual reality to re-create the timeless experience of sitting face-to-face with a storyteller.
First Literature Project utilizes the newly released Apple Vision Pro headset to present the immersive experience Padawe, developed over a two-year period by Guild Hall Community Artists-in-Residence Wunetu Wequai Tarrant and Christian Scheider. The exhibition also features video works by the Shinnecock language revitalization collective Ayim Kutoowonk and interviews with members of the Shinnecock Nation.
Timed entry is required to experience First Literature Project’s virtual-reality work. Admission is free. Patrons who wear glasses or corrective lenses are strongly encouraged to wear contact lenses.
Organized by Anthony Madonna, Guild Hall Patti Kenner Director of Learning + New Works.
Timed entry is required to experience First Literature Project’s virtual-reality work. Limited space is available every half hour from Friday to Monday, during the times below, and can be reserved HERE. Advance reservations are recommended to ensure time slots, but are not required.
In conjunction with the exhibition, A Creative Retreat: Portraits of Artists, Guild Hall collection artist Linda K Alpern will join Director of Visual Arts Melanie Crader in conversation about Linda’s career, her works in the exhibition, and the stories behind her photographs.
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 documentary photographer, Linda K Alpern. Alpern has spent decades photographing subjects in and around New York City and at her home on the East End of Long Island. Among them are poignant portraits of her communities, patients, and close relationships with artists such as Alfonso Ossorio, Chuck Close, and Mable D’Amico.
The Lab will focus on Alpern’s photography practice, evoking ideas of time & memory, experimentation with film & various reflective surfaces, and her work currently on view in the Guild Hall exhibition, A Creative Retreat – Portraits of Artists.
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, A Creative Retreat – Portraits of Artists.
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.
This Family Tour + Workshop will focus on the current exhibition, A Creative Retreat—Portraits of Artists. Please enter Guild Hall through the Boots Lamb Education Center, facing Pondview Lane.
EXPLORE ● TASTE ● DISCOVER
Guild Hall presents ART & ABOUT 2024: Pittsburgh
Register HERE – Password: PITTSBURGH
Visionaries, Director’s Circle, and Chairman’s Circle Members – Come with us to Steel City as we uncover the art and innovation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! This under-the-radar, city of bridges boasts world-class art collections and leading-edge technology.
Together we’ll hit the Pittsburgh high notes…
● Explore Carnegie Museum of Art, Warhol Museum & Mattress Factory
● Excursion to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
● Visit to Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
● Tour Troy Hill Art Houses with creator Evan Mirapaul
● Studio visit with artists Isla Hansen & Tucker Marder
● Dine at The Duquesne Club hosted by Cornelia & Ralph Heins
● Savor the flavors of the best chef-driven, local cuisine
What’s Included:
● 3-nights at The Oaklander, an Autograph Collection Hotel
● All planned meals & beverages, taxes and gratuities
● Private tours, attractions, entrance fees
● Ground transportation during the program
Program Dates & Rates:
May 3–6, 2024
$3,500 per person (based on double occupancy*)
Reservations are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Click HERE for the trip flyer.
To register, click HERE and enter Password: PITTSBURGH Or contact plan A events at (310) 860-1300, planA@planaevents.com.
*Single supplement will apply
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Spin a Yarn takes its title from an expression believed to have originated in sailors’ practice of telling stories, often tall tales, while repairing ropes during long sea voyages. Delving into the complex relationship between textile labor and storytelling, the exhibition examines the use of textiles as vehicles for the preservation of memories and knowledge. The terms textile and text are derived from the Latin texere (to weave), and while Western cultures have historically prioritized the written word, many others, particularly in Latin America, have relied on a rich tradition of using threads, knots, and woven materials to record and transmit information.
Spin a Yarn brings together a diverse selection of fiberbased works dating from ancient Andean times to the present. Some of the artists featured reflect on the weavings and feather works of pre-Hispanic cultures as precursors of geometric abstraction, while others explore and build on the embroidery and weaving techniques employed by indigenous peoples across Latin America as a means of advocating for the protection of these communities and the environment. Spin a Yarn casts light on the enduring significance of fiber arts in the modernist canon and the profound impact of indigenous and pre-Hispanic weaving traditions on the development of contemporary art.
This exhibition is curated by Estrellita Brodsky, founder and director of ANOTHER SPACE, New York, with Raul Martinez.
Member Preview Day: Saturday, May 18, 12-5 PM
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Galleries are open Friday to Monday, 12-5 PM. Museum admission is always free.
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