ART SOCIAL: COLLAGE WITH ALMOND ZIGMUND—SOLD OUT

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

STUDENT ART FESTIVAL: RAUSCHENBERG100

The 2025 Student Art Festival: Rauschenberg100 honors the centennial of Robert Rauschenberg’s birth by joining an international museum initiative organized by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Guild Hall will partner 8 Public Schools and 10 East End Artists to collaboratively delve into what Rauschenberg called the “gap between art and life,” valuing chance and collaboration in a wide range of materials, subjects, styles, and creative techniques.

The Festival concludes with an exhibition of new works and creative presentations by the partnered public schools and artists, and a special presentation of Rauschenberg’s work held in Guild Hall’s permanent collection. The permanent collection exhibition will be co-curated by the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council and Museum Director & Curator of Visual Arts, Melanie Crader.

Participating Schools: Amagansett School; Bridgehampton School; East Hampton High School; East Hampton Middle School; John Marshall Elementary School; Shelter Island School; Springs School; Pierson Middle-High School

Participating Guest Artists: Bastienne Schmidt; Candace HillMontgomery; Eva Faye; Evan Yee; Kevin Teare; Laurie Lambrecht; Linda K Alpern; Margaret Garrett; Peter Dayton; Scott Bluedorn


ABOUT THE STUDENT ART FESTIVAL

The Guild Hall Student Art Festival (SAF) is a beloved tradition that encourages and celebrates the artistic achievement and imagination of students, Kindergarten to Grade 12, on the South Fork of Long Island. Through close collaboration with schoolteachers and districts, we explore an annual theme, partner each participating school with regional artists, produce an exhibition of new works, and link the tenets of creative production to civic participation.

 

ART SOCIAL: MARINE DEBRIS VASE-MAKING – SOLD OUT

SOLD OUT – Email akirwin@guildhall.org to be added to the waiting list.

INSTRUCTED BY CINDY PEASE ROE

Join us for the new series, Art Social, where attendees will enter into a supportive and judgment-free session of art/craftmaking and socializing. Bring your friends and expect to make new ones while tapping into your creative selves. Workshops will be led by experts in their practice, and the projects are designed to be easily and enjoyably accomplished by all skill levels.

Join artist Cindy Pease Roe for a Marine Debris Vase Making Workshop focused on environmental action, upcycled arts, and sustainability. Participants will transform plastic marine debris into stunning upcycled vases using discarded secondhand glassware and marine rope collected from our shorelines. Learn how to craft beautiful and functional pieces while making a positive impact on our environment using art. Cindy Pease Roe is the founder of UpSculpt, a New York based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering action against the crisis of ocean plastic pollution using art, science, and educational workshops.

For this session, guests will being a vase from home (think of those glass vases from the florist) which they will use to create colorful upcycled masterpieces. Cindy will bring her extensive collection of marine debris collected from beaches far and wide to be used for this special project. 

Bring your own vase. All additional materials will be provided.

The Art Social admission fee includes a complimentary glass of wine, beer, or a non-alcoholic beverage, and lite bites generously donated by Harbor Market & Kitchen in Sag Harbor.

ART SOCIAL: COLLAGE-MAKING – SOLD OUT

with Perry Burns and Jolie Parcher

SOLD OUT 

Join us for the new series, Art Social, where attendees will enter into a supportive and judgment-free session of art/craftmaking and socializing. Bring your friends and expect to make new ones while tapping into your creative selves. Workshops will be led by experts in their practice, and the projects are designed to be easily and enjoyably accomplished by all skill levels.

Stretch your creative mind as broadly as it can go in this functional collage-making class led by artist Perry Burns assisted by his wife Jolie Parcher. Gather up pretty papers, paintings that can be cut up, bits of wallpaper, old cards, tin boxes, matchboxes, and anything that inspires you to collage over. There is no need to purchase more stuff when you can easily make a purposeful art piece with existing materials lying around your house or studio.

The Art Social admission fee includes a complimentary glass of wine, beer, or a non-alcoholic beverage, and lite bites generously donated by Harbor Market & Kitchen in Sag Harbor.

ART SOCIAL: WET FELTING – SOLD OUT

Led by Kerry Sharkey-Miller

SOLD OUT – Email akirwin@guildhall.org to be added to the waiting list.

Art Social offers a supportive and judgment-free session of art/craftmaking and socializing. Bring your friends and expect to make new ones while tapping into your creative selves. Workshops will be led by experts in their practice, and the projects are designed to be easily and enjoyably accomplished by all skill levels.

Do you have a burning desire to create some amazing fabric from scratch? Join artist Kerry Sharkey-Miller in an exploration of the ancient art of wet-felting. The process of blending wool fibers together to create an incredibly strong and versatile fabric. You will be introduced to some basic techniques of laying out wool fiber and processing the fiber into a 3 dimensional piece of felt using bubble wrap, soap, water and elbow grease!  You’ll create a beautiful vessel out of soft and fluffy wool fibers to take home to dry and embellish to your hearts content!

The Art Social admission fee includes a complimentary glass of wine, beer, or a non-alcoholic beverage, and lite bites generously donated by Harbor Market & Kitchen in Sag Harbor.

 

ART SOCIAL: CREWELWORK – SOLD OUT

Led by Erica-Lynn Huberty

SOLD OUT – Email akirwin@guildhall.org to be added to the waiting list.

Art Social offers a supportive and judgment-free session of art/craftmaking and socializing. Bring your friends and expect to make new ones while tapping into your creative selves. Workshops will be led by experts in their practice, and the projects are designed to be easily and enjoyably accomplished by all skill levels.

Have you always admired gorgeously-coloured embroidery? Are you eager to channel your inner Renaissance Queen? Then Crewelwork is for you… Crewelwork (or Crewel Embroidery) is often associated with England during the 16th to 18th centuries, and from England it was brought to the American colonies. It was particularly popular in New England, including our own Eastern Long Island! Crewelwork was primarily considered “women’s work” and thus was also used to convey subversive and feminist messages through symbolism.

Fiber artist Erica-Lynn Huberty will lead this 2-hour workshop where you will immerse yourself in vibrant colours, rich textures, and intricate designs. Crewel embroidery uses wool to create “surface” stitches, which are more textural than regular embroidery. A wide variety of stitches are used to follow a design outline applied to the fabric. There is no counting or math involved, Crewelwork is a style of free embroidery, similar to drawing. The workshop will teach participants stitches such as: stem stitch, chain stitch, satin, couched, seed and split stitches, and French knots. Participants will be given a choice of traditional designs drawn onto squares of woven linen and stitched using needles, wool thread, and an embroidery hoop.

This session will coincide with the release of Erica-Lynn Huberty’s new novel, The Crewel Wing. Books will be available for purchase on site.

The Art Social admission fee includes a complimentary glass of wine, beer, or a non-alcoholic beverage, and lite bites generously donated by Harbor Market & Kitchen in Sag Harbor.

 

ART SOCIAL: GARMENT REVIVAL

Led by Laurie Lambrecht and Anna-Lena Hamann

$25 ($22.50 for Members) 

Join us for the new series, Art Social, where attendees will enter into a supportive and judgment-free session of art/craftmaking and socializing. Bring your friends and expect to make new ones while tapping into your creative selves. Workshops will be led by experts in their practice, and the projects are designed to be easily and enjoyably accomplished by all skill levels.

Do you have a piece of clothing that could use a creative touch to bring it back into your wardrobe circulation? For our first Art Social, don’t miss this opportunity to revitalize an item a special way. We will use needle felting to repair small holes or wear and tear and embellish the pieces with personalized motifs or other creative designs. In this way, you can give your garment a personal and sustainable touch.

Please bring an item or items you wish to revitalize. All other materials will be provided.

The Art Social admission fee includes a complimentary glass of wine, beer, or a non-alcoholic beverage, and lite bites generously donated by Harbor Market & Kitchen in Sag Harbor.

 

PASSAGE: A FORGOTTEN PARADISE PROJECT

Join us for a community gathering honoring the Pyrrhus Concer Homestead, its memory, its ancestors, and its resilience.  Concer is one of the most important figures in Southampton’s history; come build a monument, hoist a sail, sing, break bread, and fellowship with us. We’ll call in our indigenous, black and brown ancestors who transcend time and space, who charge us to imagine a liberated, more just, more caring world, a world in which life is precious.

PASSAGE is the third chapter in an ongoing, creative investigation called FORGOTTEN PARADISE which imagines the dreams of the forcibly displaced, and enslaved peoples across the European/American, trans-Atlantic slave trade.  It connects spirits of ancestors with descendants across oceans and between times.

**Please bring a lawn chair and wear all white. The program will be filmed for future iterations of the project. Please note that guests of Guild Hall may be photographed, videotaped, or otherwise recorded. 

Arrive early for the self-guided tour: PYRRHUS CONCER: AN ADVENTUROUS LIFE created by Brenda Simmons / Southampton African American Museum (SAAM)

Created in Collaboration with:

Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence: Charlotte Brathwaite and Malick Welli
Collaborative Artists: Gregory Corbino, Sunder Ganglani, and Tareke Ortiz
Eastville Community Historical Society & Pyrrhus Concer Action Committee: Dr. Georgette Grier-Key
Southampton African American Museum & Pyrrhus Concer Action Committee: Brenda Simmons
Community Partners: Guild Hall Teen Arts Council, and members of the Sag Harbor Community  

Rain Date: Sunday, October 13, 2024

ERIC FISCHL: A DAY AT THE BEACH

BOOTS LAMB EDUCATION CENTER

Eric Fischl, mainly known for his large-scale, naturalistic images of middle-class American life, has created this interactive work where the public is invited into the studio during gallery hours to create their own “paintings” with provided precut magnetic figures—or make new figures—to develop compositions that play with changing perspective, narrative, and the history of painting.


Galleries are open Wednesday to Sunday, 12-5 PM. Enter the Boots Lamb Education Center from Pondview Lane. 

TEEN FASHION SHOW

Join us for the Second Annual Guild Hall Teen Arts Council Fashion Show!

Led by guest artist, Amanda Cappabianca, the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (GHTAC) has designed and curated a line of repurposed fashion appropriate for any summer night in the Hamptons – from galas to a beach day. The evening will begin with a runway show hosted by members of the Teen Arts Council where each GHTAC member will walk the runway in their very own design and will conclude with a reception in Guild Hall’s Furman Garden. 

Note: Advance registration is encouraged but not required.


ABOUT GUILD HALL TEEN ARTS COUNCIL

The Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (GHTAC) is the region’s first paid teen arts program. As employees of Guild Hall, GHTAC members work to curate public programming, advance their creativity, increase Guild Hall’s outreach to local teens, and learn through collaboration with Guild Hall staff.
Click HERE for more info.

HOLIDAY COOKIE DECORATING WITH CITARELLA

Drop into Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center for a festive session of gingerbread cookie decorating with the holiday cookie artists from Citarella. All materials, including freshly baked cookies and decorating supplies, will be provided.

This program is taking place in conjunction with East Hampton Village’s SantaFest.

FREE
Advance registration is recommended but not required