ART SOCIAL: COLLAGE WITH ALMOND ZIGMUND—SOLD OUT

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Artist Almond Zigmund in her Wading Room gallery, Photo: Jessica Dalene Photography

Tag: Learning + New Works

GATHER: Conversations led by Black and Indigenous Change-Makers, WAMPUM: HISTORY, CRAFT, & PRACTICE

THIS PROGRAM WILL NOW TAKE PLACE INDOORS IN THE MORAN GALLERY. Guests attending any program indoors in the galleries must show proof of FULL vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test result. Face coverings are required for unvaccinated guests and due to the small size of the galleries, masks are  also recommended for those who are vaccinated.

Click HERE for full COVID-19 information to review prior to your visit.

GATHER: Conversations led by Black and Indigenous Change-Makers is a celebration of the East End’s diversity, a recognition of fault and colonization, and, most importantly, an opportunity to build and implement new understandings. Devised specifically for community leaders, service workers, teachers, and developers, this series platforms the voices and experiences of various BIPOC scholars, artists, and leaders, providing both lessons on our past histories, and strategies and examples of how to progress forward together. The series spans from Friday, July 16 – Monday, July 19. 

WAMPUM: HISTORY, CRAFT, & PRACTICE
Monday, July 19, 4 – 5:30pm Guild Hall of East Hampton 

Chief Harry Wallace and Tecumseh Ceaser lead an open dialogue and lecture on the understandings, teachings, and significance of Wampum. The conversation will touch on traditional practices, historical accounts and lessons, and what contemporary carvers have “learned from the shell.” 

“Wampum has been used in my culture in ceremonies, regalia, trade agreements, and treaties to connect our people and remind them of their connection to the water and earth, which gives us life and food. We as eastern woodland natives treasure wampum; its beautiful colors allow us to wear it with pride and know that our ancestors have been working with it for thousands of years. My artwork allows me to connect with my ancestors by carrying on their traditions and saying to the world we are still here, and we are still connected with our genealogical ties to the land.”
Tecumseh Ceaser 

This iteration of GATHER is programmed in tandem with the Guild Hall exhibition, Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks. Proceeds from this series aid the education initiatives at Guild Hall of East Hampton, the development of Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, and the institutions and artists involved. 

FULL GATHER SCHEDULE
Join in one or all four events led by Jeremy Dennis, artists and tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, Anthony Madonna, Guild Hall’s Senior Associate for Learning and Public Engagement, and a rotating panel of historians, artists, and/or leaders of the Hamptons, including Roddy Smith, Andrina Wekontash Smith, Tecumseh Ceaser, Chief Harry Wallace, Dr. Georgette Grier-Key, Donnamarie Barnes, and Skip Finley. 

LEFT BEHIND/WITHIN
Friday, July 16, 6–7:30pm
MA’s House & BIPOC Studio, Shinnecock 

TUKTU PADDLE TOUR OF SHINNECOCK
Saturday, July 17, 10–12PM OR 2-4PM
MA’S House & BIPOC Studio, Shinnecock 

BOOK TALK: WHALING CAPTAINS OF COLOR with Author, Skip Finley
Sunday, July 18, 4:30-6pm
Guild Hall of East Hampton 

WAMPUM: HISTORY, CRAFT, & PRACTICE
Monday, July 19, 4pm
Guild Hall of East Hampton 

Artist-in-Residence Showcase: Ryan Campbell

Join Playwright and Guild Hall 2021 Guild House Artist-in-Residence, Ryan Campbell for the premiere of his one-person play, Speed Kills in the Slaughter West featuring actor, Ariana Venturi. 

“The cathedral was on fire. I set the fire.” These are the first thoughts we hear from Wren Blair as we watch her tour her most caustic & chaotic memories. Has she made the right choices? Are right choices even possible? 

The evening will be presented as a YouTube Premier event on Guild Hall’s YouTube channel. Campbell will be joining the premier to answer questions from viewers in real time about the work and residency.

About Guild Hall’s Guild House Artist-in-Residence Program
Established in 2016, Guild Hall’s Guild House Artist-in-Residence (GHAIR) program offers artists and collectives the time and space to research, experiment, and develop new ideas/projects. Throughout the month-long residency, residents connect with accomplished artists, community leaders, and philanthropists at weekly salon dinners, receive mentorship from select members of our Academy of the Arts and Staff, and visit artist studios, cultural centers, and the natural preserves of the Hamptons. 

Due to the Covid19 pandemic, the Winter 2021 GHAIR program was completed remotely from each artists home/studio.  

Artist-in-Residence Showcase: Mark Sarvas

Join Author and Guild Hall’s 2021 Guild House Artist-in-Residence, Mark Sarvas for a discussion on his 2019 American Book Award winning novel, Memento Park. 

After receiving an unexpected call from the Australian consulate, Matt Santos becomes aware of a painting that he believes was looted from his family in Hungary during the Second World War. To recover the painting, he must repair his strained relationship with his harshly judgmental father, uncover his family history, and restore his connection to his own Judaism. Along the way to illuminating the mysteries of his past, Matt is torn between his girlfriend Tracy and his attorney Rachel, with whom he travels to Budapest to unearth the truth about the painting and, in turn, his family. As his journey progresses, Matt’s revelations are accompanied by equally consuming and imaginative meditations on the painting and the painter at the center of his personal drama, Budapest Street Scene by Ervin Kálmán. By the time Memento Park reaches its conclusion, Matt’s narrative is as much about family history and father-son dynamics as it is about the nature of art itself, and the infinite ways we come to understand ourselves through it. 

Of all the questions asked by Mark Sarvas’s Memento Park ―about family and identity, about art and history― a central, unanswerable predicament lingers: How do we move forward when the past looms unreasonably large? 

The evening, produced in partnership with BookHampton, will also feature discussions on and readings of new works/excerpts written during Sarvas’ time as a Guild House Artist-in-Residence. Copies of Sarvas’ Memento Park are available for purchase at the BookHampton storefront or online. 

About Guild Hall’s Guild House Artist-in-Residence Program
Established in 2016, Guild Hall’s Guild House Artist-in-Residence (GHAIR) program offers artists and collectives the time and space to research, experiment, and develop new ideas/projects. Throughout the month-long residency, residents connect with accomplished artists, community leaders, and philanthropists at weekly salon dinners, receive mentorship from select members of our Academy of the Arts and Staff, and visit artist studios, cultural centers, and the natural preserves of the Hamptons. 

Due to the Covid19 pandemic, the Winter 2021 GHAIR program was completed remotely from each artists home/studio.  

Artist-in-Residence Showcase: Jackson Gay

Join Director and Guild Hall 2021 Guild House Artist-in-Residence, Jackson Gay for a night of participatory theater, collective listening, and discussion as she reflects on her time at Guild Hall, and shares the beginnings of her new project, Endless Loop* of Gratitude and other works written during her time in residence.

In a culture that can reduce a profound feeling to a blithe hashtag, Endless Loop* of Gratitude is an interactive installation that invites participants to reflect on and share their own stories about the people, places, events, and objects that have changed their lives. Endless Loop not only asks what you are grateful for, but why. 

The evening will be a live Zoom event. Headphones are recommended for optimal listening and participation.  

About Guild Hall’s Guild House Artist-in-Residence Program
Established in 2016, Guild Hall’s Guild House Artist-in-Residence (GHAIR) program offers artists and collectives the time and space to research, experiment, and develop new ideas/projects. Throughout the month-long residency, residents connect with accomplished artists, community leaders, and philanthropists at weekly salon dinners, receive mentorship from select members of our Academy of the Arts and Staff, and visit artist studios, cultural centers, and the natural preserves of the Hamptons. 

Due to the Covid19 pandemic, the Winter 2021 GHAIR program was completed remotely from each artists home/studio.  

 

High School Awards Ceremony; Student Art Festival 2021: PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE

The High School Awards Ceremony is a moment to celebrate and recognize high achievement and creativity in select high school artists whose work is exhibited in the Student Art Festival 2021: PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE.  

The 2021 Awards are decided and given by celebrated artist and Guild Hall Academy of the Arts member, Clifford Ross. Ross has awarded 30 students from East Hampton High School and the Ross School within traditional categories from Best Drawing to Best Collaboration to Best Mixed Media, and honors unique to this year’s Festival, including Best Architectural Project, and the Social Responsibility Award. 

This year the Awards Ceremony takes the form of a prerecorded video. In late January, Ross met with Guild Hall’s Curatorial Assistant/Lewis B. Cullman Associate for Museum Education, Casey Dalene, to share his thoughts on the Festival as a whole, and to offer individual congratulations to each awarded artist. This prerecorded awards ceremony is available for free streaming on our website and YouTube page through end of the Student Art Festival.  

 

2021 HIGH SCHOOL AWARDEES 

Best Drawing: Sofia Nagle, East Hampton High School
Best Portrait: Keira Atwell, East Hampton High School
Best Portrait: Emily Cubero, East Hampton High School
Best Photography: Andrew Herrera, East Hampton High School
Best Painting: Mya Del Percio, East Hampton High School
Best Work on Paper: Alexendra Schumacher, East Hampton High School
Best Collaboration: Goldie Benarroch, Isabella Brauer, Tor Burwell, India Galeshi-Grant, Sophie Gorban, Cosmo Hamada, Zani Katarebe, Gasho Kurokawa, Daria Matuzania, Holden McGowan, Amelia Regan-McLaughlin, Jackson Sabbet, Sophie Walters, Emelia Winters, Kevin Wang, Ross School
Best Mixed Media: Mary McCann, East Hampton High School
Best Sculpture: Chris Chimbo, East Hampton High School
Best Sculpture: Dylan Chapman, East Hampton High School
Best Architectural Model: Andrew Dimopoulos, East Hampton High School
Best Architectural Model: Jax Cantwell, East Hampton High School
Best Architectural Project: Hudson Musnicki, East Hampton High School
Best Creative Expression of Past-Present-Future: Hanna Hartsough, East Hampton High School
Social Responsibility Award: Neo Albertini, East Hampton High School
Social Responsibility Award: Caleb Peralta, East Hampton High School 

Bel Canto Boot Camp: Bel Canto 101

Join Bel Canto Boot Camp for a special introductory session especially for Guild Hall. Bel Canto Boot Camp empowers singers with historically based and skill focused instruction and inspires singers and opera lovers alike to refine listening skills through guided listening, learn about the human voice and our operatic art through reading, and to share in a community centered on the power and beauty of the human voice. Rachelle Jonck and Derrick Goff, the two NYC vocal coaches who have founded Bel Canto Boot Camp, have crafted an introduction especially for Guild Hall to explain some of the specialized “geeky” aspects and terminology used in BCBC’s approach, and will be joined by Steven Tharp for some guided listening representing the best of our first few Audiophile Society meetings. We learn together what to listen for in historical recordings where the technology needs our ears and minds to “fill in” what might not be there. 

Bel Canto Boot Camp: Audiophile Society

Join Bel Canto Boot Camp‘s (BCBC) Steven Tharp, former Metropolitan Opera tenor and Professor of Voice at the University of Missouri, and BCBC founders, Rachelle Jonck and Derrick Goff for a series of Sunday Zoom Listening Salons. With a participating audience of both opera lovers and professionals, we will learn together what to listen for in historical recordings, discussing opera history and the bel canto technique, and where the technology needs our ears and minds to “fill in” what might not be there. 

February 7, 2021: All Together Now
Duets, ensembles, finales 

February 14, 2021: In Praise of Love
A Valentine’s Day tribute to opera’s favorite subject 

February 21, 2021: Bel Canto Pop
Classic vocal virtues in 20th/21st Century vernacular song 

February 28, 2021: Favorites & Requests
Selections chosen by the Audiophile Society

ABOUT BEL CANTO BOOT CAMP
Bel Canto Boot Camp empowers singers with historically based and skill focused instruction and inspires singers and opera lovers alike to refine listening skills through guided listening, learn about the human voice and our operatic art through reading, and to share in a community centered on the power and beauty of the human voice. 

Stories and Crafts with the East Hampton Library

Join storytellers and creatives from Guild Hall and the East Hampton Library for a family hour of stories, gallery tours, and art workshops. At each session we will be reading a children’s book in response to our current Guild Hall exhibit, Student Art Festival 2021: Past-Present-Future, followed by a hands-on workshop. 

All sessions are led remotely via Zoom by East Hampton Library’s, Ms. Anna. Each child is provided with a take-home kit of art supplies, available for pick-up at Guild Hall the weekend prior to each session.  

This series is produced as part of Guild Hall’s Student Art Festival 2021: Past-Present-Future. 

GATHER: Conversations led by Black and Indigenous Change-makers in Suffolk County 

GATHER is a celebration of the East End’s diversity, a recognition of fault and colonization, and, most importantly, an opportunity to build and implement new understandings. Devised specifically for community leaders, service workers, teachers, and developers, this series platforms the voices and experiences of various BIPOC scholars, artists, and leaders, providing both lessons on our past histories, and strategies and examples of how to progress forward together.  

Join in one or all four conversations led by Jeremy Dennis, artist and tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, Anthony Madonna, Guild Hall’s Senior Associate for Learning and Public Engagement, and a rotating panel of historians, artists, and/or leaders of the East End, including Tela Troge, Courtney M. Leonard, Donnamarie Barnes, David Rattray, and Georgette Grier-Key. All sessions occur virtually over Zoom with an intimate group of 15–20 people, and include hands-on activities and briefs for a deeper connection to the topics discussed. 

This series is produced as part of Guild Hall’s Student Art Festival 2021: Past-Present-Future. Proceeds from this series aid the education initiatives at Guild Hall of East Hampton, the development of Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, and the institutions and artists involved.

SCHEDULE
Monday, January 25: On this Site with Jeremy Dennis & Tela Troge
Monday, February 1: The Art of Water with Courtney M. Leonard
Monday, February 8: Plain Sight Project with Donnamarie Barnes & David E. Rattray
Monday, February 15: Preservation and Community with Dr. Georgette Grier-Key  

Create Your Own Comic Book with Loot Comics

A new collaboration between Guild Hall and Loot Comics, this five-week workshop series explores the thrill and drama of storytelling and character development through the art of Comic Books.  

Children will delve into the world of superheroes and far-off places, reading, writing, acting, and illustrating the genesis of various stories, and create their own imaginative and action-packed comic books through the lens of their own lives. Encouraging every child to reflect on their past, question their present, and imagine their own future.  

All sessions are led remotely via Zoom by Loot’s “Professor Joe.” Each child is provided with a kit of materials for the entire series – available for pick-up at Guild Hall the weekend of January 15.

This series is produced as part of Guild Hall’s Student Art Festival 2021: Past-Present-Future.