Creative Lab is a series of interdisciplinary workshops designed and led by Guild Hall’s visiting, exhibiting, resident artists, and staff. 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 Guild Halls Patti Kenner Director of Learning + New Works, Anthony Madonna. Trained as a musician and educator, Anthony strives to construct experiences that both critically challenge our individual beliefs and bring awareness to our responsibility as a community. Anthony has worked within institutions such as The McCarter Theatre Center, The Juilliard School, and the Barbican Centre. His projects have been shown and/or performed as part of the Tate Modern: Tate Exchange (London), the Barbican Centre’s Dialogue, UnFinished, and Curious festivals (London), Guild Hall of East Hampton (Long Island, NY), and The Arts Center at Duck Creek (Long Island, NY).
The Lab will focus on Anthony’s improvisatory & interdisciplinary meditative practices, exploring a variety of collective vocal, movement, and writing processes.
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 fine artist & puppeteer, Liz Joyce. Trained as a fine artist, Liz’s approach to puppetry has been influenced by European puppetry traditions and the eccentric energy of New York’s downtown performance artists. She honed her carving skills working with traditional puppet carvers in Prague, Czech Republic, and often collaborates with other puppeteers in the international puppet community. Liz’s puppet operetta, Sing a Song of Sixpence, was awarded a UNIMA Citation, the highest award in American puppetry.
The Lab will focus on Liz’s puppetry and theatre practice. A collaboration between Liz Joyce and both Wainscott & Sagaponack schools is on view in the current exhibition, Student Art Festival: Eco vs Ego.
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 multi-media artist, Lionel Cruet. Cruet works in multiple mediums, including experimental digital printing processes, performance, and audiovisual installations. His artworks confront issues that concern ecology, geopolitics, and technology. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2017), Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse (2017) and a solo exhibition at the Bronx River Art Center (2015) and El Lobi in San Juan Puerto Rico (2021) and has been reviewed by Latinx Project, Made in Mind Magazine, Designboom, and Latinx Spaces.
The Lab will focus on Cruet’s video collage & audiovisual installations. A collaboration between Cruet and Guild Hall’s Teen Arts Council is on view in the current exhibition, Student Art Festival: Eco vs Ego.
Join us in celebrating the opening of the 2024 Student Art Festival: Eco vs Ego. The afternoon will consists of family workshops, pop-up performances, and a guided tour by the students and artists whose work is on view.
The 2024 Student Art Festival: Eco vs Ego explores our symbiotic relationship with nature. Inspired by guest thought-leader, Edwina von Gal, the Festival asks students, schoolteachers, and artists to delve into topics such as needs/survival, infrastructure & growth; anthropomorphism & symbolism, and biophilia, through the practice of art, design, horticulture, and performance.
Click here to learn more about Student Art Festival: Eco vs Ego.
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 month’s LAB is led by artist and 2019 GH Artist Member Exhibition winner Mary Boochever. In developing her own color language, Boochever has explored sources as diverse as Kabbalah and Goethe’s Color Theory. The LAB will include a tour of the artist’s current Guild Hall exhibition, Mary Boochever: Chart of the Inner Warp, and an exploration of practice through introductory Tai chi / Qi Gong movements and a collective color knowledge experience.
CREATIVE LAB is held in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center. Participants are asked to enter the building through the door on 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 artists practice through both an open lecture, and participatory workshop.
This month’s LAB is led by acoustic ecologist, Gordon Hempton. As the Sound Tracker®, Hempton has circled the globe three times over the last 35 years in pursuit of Earth’s rarest nature sounds—sounds which can only be fully appreciated in the absence of manmade noise. During the LAB, Hempton will share his practice and give a sneak-peak into his new work, Sound Place Love, set to premiere at Guild Hall in Spring 2024.
CREATIVE LAB is held in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center. Participants are asked to enter the building through the door on 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 artists practice through both an open lecture, and participatory workshop.
This month’s LAB is led by Shinnecock Linguist and Guild Hall Community Artist-in-Resident (GH CAiR), Wunetu Wequai Tarrant. As part of her GH CAiR, Tarrant and her collaborator, Christian Scheider, are advancing the work of The First Literature Project, and the formation of Ayím Kutoowonk (She Speaks), a collective of four Indigenous Shinnecock women working toward the reclamation and revitalization of the Shinnecock language. The project proposes to support the language reclamation efforts through the preservation of Indigenous stories, culture, and language by utilizing immersive 3D, virtual reality, and holographic technology to create two immersive orations to be exhibited at Guild Hall in Spring 2024.
CREATIVE LAB is held in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center. Participants are asked to enter the building through the door on Pondview Lane.
Join artist Leo Villareal and Kathleen Forde, inaugural Senior Curator for Superblue, as they discuss Leo’s work and large-scale immersive installations, in conjunction with Guild Hall’s exhibition of Villareal’s Celestial Garden. This engaging conversation with take place in the Marks Family Gallery North, and seating is limited, so get your tickets today.
Leo Villareal’s Celestial Garden features a never-before-exhibited monumental LED artwork accompanied by a soundscape and artist-designed furniture. The new light sculpture is composed of an array of LEDs over ten feet high and twenty-eight feet wide that is encased in a vinyl membrane. The artwork comes alive with perpetually evolving forms created by using custom software that orchestrates the compositions. An audio soundscape accompanies the visual display.
Villareal’s abstract compositions, inspired by nature’s intricate patterns, unfold in real-time and envelop the viewer in a dynamic interplay of light and sound where space and time intertwine.
SUMMER SING-ALONG
Thursday, August 31, 4 PM
Bring the whole family and join us for a Summer Sing-Along in Guild Hall’s Minikes Garden! Led by musicians Saskia Lane, Emily Eagan, & Skye Soto Steele this hour-long program will engage children and their parents through musical play, singing, songwriting, dancing, and more.
Recommended for ages 3 – 7 and their parents/guardians.
