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Nazli Sarpkaya, Rami Margarin, Max Samuels, Christopher Daftsios in Angry Young Man, 2017. Photo: David Rogers

Student Art Festival 2021: Past-Present-Future

The Guild Hall Student Art Festival (SAF) is a beloved tradition that encourages and showcases the artistic achievement and imagination of students, Kindergarten to Grade 12, on the South Fork of Long Island. 

As a celebration of both Guild Halls 90th Anniversary, and the centennial of the Village of East Hampton, this years festival, Student Art Festival 2021: PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE, looks to both our shared past and an imagined future. Through the practice of art and design, ranging from imagery of natural growth and metamorphosis to Futurism and Science-Fiction, students across the East-End have collectively produced an exhibit that reflects our past, acknowledges and celebrates our present, and imagines a changed and hopeful future.  

This festival begins with a free public opening of the exhibition, a series of weekend family workshops, and concludes with an awards ceremony for high school students.  

Curators
Casey Dalene, Curatorial Assistant & Lewis B. Cullman Associate for Museum Education
Anthony Madonna, The Patti Kenner Senior Associate for Learning and Public Engagement

To ensure the health and safety of its visitors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Guild Hall has instituted the following measures:

  • Reservations to visit the Museum are recommended. You can reserve timed tickets online or by calling 631-324-0806 Friday-Sunday, 12-5 p.m. Drop-ins are also welcome!
  • Visitors are asked to be on time for their appointment. Visits are for a maximum of one hour and no more than 50 people will be allowed in the museum galleries at a time.
  • Visitors should enter through the left most front door of the building and check in with the Receptionist at the box office. A one-way footpath proceeds throughout the museum.
  • Masks are required in the building for all patrons over the age of 2.
  • Social distancing of at least 6 feet is encouraged in the museum galleries and lobby.

Sing Loud for PD: A Choir for People with Parkinson’s Disease

Offered in collaboration with the American Parkinson Disease Association, and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease, Sing Loud for PD is a chorus for people living with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners. Led by Valerie diLorenzo, and Amanda Jones, this fun, virtual program will unite us in song and music. No previous musical experience is required and all lyrics will be provided!

Classes are offered live via Zoom, and you may join us for one or all eight sessions. Registration is limited.

Sing Loud for PD: A Choir for People with Parkinson’s Disease

Offered in collaboration with the American Parkinson Disease Association, and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease, Sing Loud for PD is a chorus for people living with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners. Led by Valerie diLorenzo, and Amanda Jones, this fun, virtual program will unite us in song and music. No previous musical experience is required and all lyrics will be provided!

Classes are offered live via Zoom, and you may join us for one or all eight sessions. Registration is limited.

Sing Loud for PD: A Choir for People with Parkinson’s Disease

Offered in collaboration with the American Parkinson Disease Association, and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease, Sing Loud for PD is a chorus for people living with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners. Led by Valerie diLorenzo, and Amanda Jones, this fun, virtual program will unite us in song and music. No previous musical experience is required and all lyrics will be provided!

Classes are offered live via Zoom, and you may join us for one or all eight sessions. Registration is limited.

Sing Loud for PD: A Choir for People with Parkinson’s Disease

Offered in collaboration with the American Parkinson Disease Association, and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease, Sing Loud for PD is a chorus for people living with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners. Led by Valerie diLorenzo, and Amanda Jones, this fun, virtual program will unite us in song and music. No previous musical experience is required and all lyrics will be provided!

Classes are offered live via Zoom, and you may join us for one or all eight sessions. Registration is limited.

Sing Loud for PD: A Choir for People with Parkinson’s Disease

Offered in collaboration with the American Parkinson Disease Association, and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease, Sing Loud for PD is a chorus for people living with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners. Led by Valerie diLorenzo, and Amanda Jones, this fun, virtual program will unite us in song and music. No previous musical experience is required and all lyrics will be provided!

Classes are offered live via Zoom, and you may join us for one or all eight sessions. Registration is limited.

Sing Loud for PD: A Choir for People with Parkinson’s Disease

Offered in collaboration with the American Parkinson Disease Association, and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease, Sing Loud for PD is a chorus for people living with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners. Led by Valerie diLorenzo, and Amanda Jones, this fun, virtual program will unite us in song and music. No previous musical experience is required and all lyrics will be provided!

Classes are offered live via Zoom, and you may join us for one or all eight sessions. Registration is limited.

Sing Loud for PD: A Choir for People with Parkinson’s Disease

Offered in collaboration with the American Parkinson Disease Association, and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease, Sing Loud for PD is a chorus for people living with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners. Led by Valerie diLorenzo, and Amanda Jones, this fun, virtual program will unite us in song and music. No previous musical experience is required and all lyrics will be provided!

Classes are offered live via Zoom, and you may join us for one or all eight sessions. Registration is limited.

Sing Loud for PD: A Choir for People with Parkinson’s Disease

Offered in collaboration with the American Parkinson Disease Association, and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Center for Parkinson’s Disease, Sing Loud for PD is a chorus for people living with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners. Led by Valerie diLorenzo, and Amanda Jones, this fun, virtual program will unite us in song and music. No previous musical experience is required and all lyrics will be provided!

Classes are offered live via Zoom, and you may join us for one or all eight sessions. Registration is limited.

Monica Banks: Cloud Garden

Cloud Gardenis a site-specific outdoor installation and community project by artist, Monica Banks. Installed in the trees of Guild Halls Furman Garden, tangles of wire, balled-up deer fencing, feathers, pop tops from seltzer cans, unidentifiable pieces of hardware, and other artifacts from the artists everyday life hang as mobiles, creating dangling objects that shimmer in the air like the stories we tell about ourselves. 

Banks’ “Cloud”series began in 2006 when the artist received boxes of her childhood toys, jewelry and trinkets. Wanting to give meaning to her history through sculpture, Banks combined souvenirs of her present life with these fragments of herpastin tangles of wire that hang, cloud-like, from ceilings or tree branches. She is revisiting this process during the Covid19 pandemic, when like most of us, she is spending more time at home immersed in the minutia of domestic life. The work in this installation updates her materials as a record of this extraordinary time, and includes samples from the bag of orphan socks she discovered in the back of a closet, pieces of a wall sculpture she made for her infant son (now 24 years old), fingertips of unused gloves, tufts of fur from her new puppy, and shards of the Nerf soccer ball he attacked, along with other items unearthed during the prolonged quarantine. 

The installation expands into Guild Halls Minikes Garden with an exhibit of student work; Saturday, September 19 – Monday, October 12. Through remote workshops withThe Bridgehampton Childcare & Recreational Center,Banks has shared her work and process with children of The Center, resulting in an installation of the childrens own cloud sculptures. 

Curator
Christina Strassfield, Museum Director/Chief Curator 

Project Coordinator
Anthony Madonna, The Patti Kenner Fellow in Arts Education 

Cloud Garden is on view during regular Museum Hours. The Guild Hall Gardens are self-monitoring spaces; we ask that patrons observe proper physical-distancing, observe maximum capacity signage, and wear face-coverings on the grounds.