$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)
$42.16 with book ($37.16 for Members), tax included
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 thread-artist, Sal Salandra. Salandra’s highly detailed narrative thread paintings combine themes of repression, liberation, masculinity, worship, and identity, with personal history, and pop culture – confronting the viewer with joy, fear, pleasure, and eccentricities imbued in fetish. Salandra has presented a solo show at Club Rhubarb, and his works have been acquired by well-known collectors, Beth Rudin DeWoody, and architect Charles Renfro, and the Tom of Finland Foundation.
The Lab will focus on Salandra’s thread painting practice, including a hands-on introduction to his creative process.
This Creative Lab is programmed in tandem with the Guild Hall Exhibitions Spin a Yarn and Ted Carey: Queer As Folk.
Copies of Sal Salandra’s book, Iron Halo, are available for purchase in advance and in-person only while supplies last.
$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 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.
- 12 PM
- 12:30 PM
- 1 PM
- 1:30 PM
- 2 PM
- 2:30 PM
- 3 PM
- 3:30 PM
- 4 PM
- And Fridays at 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6, & 6:30 PM
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.
