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

Neo–Tile Club: Community Exhibition – 2021 Guild Hall Community Artist-In-Residence: Scott Bluedorn

The historic Tile Club, founded in 1872, was a group of artists in New York City who met regularly to paint on tile, a popular surface of the coinciding decorative arts movement. Among the artists in the club were William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, and architect Stanford White. When the Long Island Railroad expanded to Montauk in the late 1870s, The Tile Club was invited to ride to the eastern-most tip of Long Island and paint what they saw, making these western artists some of the first to visit the East End, initiating the long history of art in the area.

Inspired by this club, Scott Bluedorn focused his 2021 Guild Hall Community Artist-in-Residence project on the history, practice, and revitalization of The Tile Club. Throughout the 2021 summer season, Scott led 6 free workshops, some en plein-air, during which ceramic tiles were given to participants along with a demo and discussion of the history of the Tile Club. Participants were asked to donate at least one completed tile to the Education Corridor Exhibition. The exhibition and project are in tandem with Guild Hall’s current exhibition, 90Years: Selections from the Permanent Collection that includes original Tile Club paintings c. 1875, on view in the education corridor from October 30 through January 2, 2022.

We are extremely thankful to all those who participated in this project and contributed their artwork to this exhibition. We would also like to thank the East Hampton Historical Society for the use of Mulford Farm as a plein-air painting site, and to the local builders Wirth & Company, Lori and Roy Dalene, and Andrew Fetherston for donating tiles.

Community participants included Leo A., Sofia Abboud, Labbeb Abboud, Pamela Abrahams, Michele Abramsky, Paul Abramsky, Casey Chalem Anderson, Cassandra Bajan, Rachael Barash, Beth Barry, Jim Bergesen, Scott Bluedorn, Ivy Brondo, Jen Brondo, Joe Brondo, Tanessa Cabe, Lisa Claisse, Bonnie Comley, Donna Corvi, Casey Dalene, Barbara Dayton, Elaine Dia, Mare Dianora, Ollie Dianora Brondal, Nova D’Innocenza, Gina D’Orazio, AG Duggan, Andrew Fetherston, Kurt Ghie, Kimberly Goff, Laurie Hall, Gizella Harte, Janet Jennings, Miren Kova, Frankie Lane, Lenny Lane, Stewart Lane, Teresa Lawler, Alexandra Lopez, Setha Low, Sara McLaughlin, Kathleen McLaughlin, Rich Mothes, Jamie Pancella, Mark Perry, Dalton Portella, Luca R., Gabriele T. Raacke, Guilia Ratto, Adrienne Ratto, Tina Ripperger, Nora Ripperger, Caroline Scherr, Andréa Sher, Karen Solimando, Sabina Streeter, Rebecca Sullivan, Sean Sullivan, Deborah Walley, and ZSG.

Fitted face masks are required for all guests over the age of 2 indoors regardless of vaccination status, except when eating or drinking. Click HERE for full COVID-19 protocol.

Behind the Screen with Bel Canto Boot Camp: Setting Orpheus and Eurydice

Come meet Bel Canto Boot Camp in person! In collaboration with Guild Hall of East Hampton, BCBC explores this fall’s Met: Live in HD repertoire.  Bel Canto Boot Camp aims to unite the rich traditions of the past with the exciting productions in today’s opera house.

Join BCBC co-founders, Rachelle Jonck and Derrick Goff, as we explore the varied settings of the ancient legend of Orpheus and Eurydice – from Monteverdi to Ricky Ian Gordon via Gluck and Offenbach.

This program is presented in tandem with The Met: Live in HD screening of Eurydice. A complimentary coffee from our eAT Coffee Bar will be available for all participants between the lecture and screening.

Fitted face masks are required for all guests over the age of 2 indoors regardless of vaccination status, except when eating or drinking. Click HERE for full COVID-19 protocol.

Behind the Screen with Bel Canto Boot Camp: Opera Today and Tomorrow

Come meet Bel Canto Boot Camp in person! In collaboration with Guild Hall of East Hampton, BCBC explores this fall’s Met: Live in HD repertoire. Bel Canto Boot Camp aims to unite the rich traditions of the past with the exciting productions in today’s opera house.

Join the conversation with BCBC co-founders, Rachelle Jonck and Derrick Goff, as we discuss the current trends in opera – musical, dramatic and visual. How do we define opera in 2021? How does the present shape our experience of the past? And our expectations of the future? 

This program is presented in tandem with The Met: Live in HD screening of Fire Shut Up In My Bones. A complimentary coffee from our eAT Coffee Bar will be available for all participants between the lecture and screening.

Guests attending programs indoors in the John Drew Theater must show proof of full vaccination. Click HERE for full  COVID-19 protocol for guests.

Behind the Screen with Bel Canto Boot Camp: The Russian Chorus

Come meet Bel Canto Boot Camp in person! In collaboration with Guild Hall of East Hampton, BCBC explores this fall’s Met: Live in HD repertoire. Bel Canto Boot Camp aims to unite the rich traditions of the past with the exciting productions in today’s opera house.

Join BCBC co-founders Rachelle Jonck and Derrick Goff as they explore the rich tradition of Russian choral singing. In operas with political plots the chorus provides the social context in which the action takes place. Many voices together provide the voice of different nations, peoples, and social classes, sometimes wanting different outcomes. The chorus paints the picture of what the people believe, think, and want.

This program is presented in tandem with The Met: Live in HD screening of Boris Gudonov (encore screening). A complimentary coffee from our eAT Coffee Bar will be available for all participants between the lecture and screening.

Guests attending programs indoors in the John Drew Theater must show proof of full vaccination. Click HERE for full  COVID-19 protocol for guests.

Community Artist-in-Residence Showcase: East End Native

Andrina Wekontash Smith, Shinnecock Storyteller and performer, explores the intersection of race and class on the East End. Part one-woman show, part panel discussion, East End Native will dive into the complicated history through the unique lens of her personal narrative. Spoken word, monologues, and storytelling will comprise of the first half, and in the second she will moderate a conversation with influential leaders fighting for representation for all of the East End’s residents. Panelists include Minerva Perez, Executive Director OLA of Eastern Long Island, Dyashwa Sylvester, Director, Shinnecock Youth Clubhouse, and London Bess, Shinnecock High School Student.

East End Native is a benefit performance for the Shinnecock Youth Clubhouse and Guild Hall Learning & Public Engagement initiatives. The Shinnecock Youth Clubhouse provides an open space where cultural and educational programming are introduced as alternatives to drug and alcohol use. The clubhouse enhances and provides support for the physical, social, emotional, mental, spiritual, and financial wellbeing of the Shinnecock Youth.

This program is the culminating showcase of Andrina Wekontash Smith’s 2021 Community Artist-in-Residence.

The eAT Coffee Bar will be open for drinks and refreshments!

Guests attending programs indoors in the John Drew Theater must show proof of full vaccination. Click HERE for full  COVID-19 protocol for guests.

Apex Ape

Apex Ape is an experimental film, and original creature that explores the changing American image through the lens of local legend. Inspired by interviews with East End residents and video archives from LTV, Apex Ape examines societal decay through impressionistic cinematography, treating our familiar landscape as a living organism. As viewers are confronted with the husks of our past, they may even catch sight of the illusive Ape, a cryptid-inspired manifestation of those left behind in a rapidly changing habitat.

Apex Ape was created as part of Guild Hall’s 2021Community Artist-in-Residence program. The film will be installed as a multi-channel video installation in our Minikes Garden, allowing the public to enter the film at any time throughout the evening.

Family Gallery Tours

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3:30PM and 4:30 PM

Join Guild Hall’s FAQ Team (Frequently Asked Questions) for a family focused museum tour of  Robert Longo: A History of the Present. 

Using our Family ARTiviy Guide as a prompt to observe and discuss the works on view, families will be introduced to various ways of engaging with the work, like drawing, discussing, writing, and even dancing! Family ARTivity Guides are available onsite at Guild Hall, or digitally available to complete at home with our Matterport tours.

The Family Tours are part of Guild Hall’s 90th Birthday celebration. The afternoon includes an ongoing Paint Like Pollock workshop, complimentary cupcakes from Citarella, and a late night Silent Dance Party!

FREE – Reservations Recommended.

Paint Like Pollock!

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Join Artists from the Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center and Guild Hall as we paint like Pollock! 

Inspired by the current exhibition, Robert Longo: A History of the Present we will learn the techniques of Jackson Pollock and create a communal drip painting solely in grayscale. With a large canvas spread across our front lawn, buckets of paint, and jazz music blasting, we will collaborate on a communal painting to be exhibited in Guild Hall’s Education corridor.

This ongoing workshop is part of Guild Hall’s 90th Birthday celebration. The afternoon includes Family focused museum tours, complimentary cupcakes from Citarella, and a late night Silent Dance Party!

Guided Sound Walk: Full of Noises – with Viv Corringham and the Founders of Gesso

We are excited to kick-off our big 90th birthday with special guests! Join sound artists, Viv Corringham, and co-founders of the audio-guide app., Gesso, Henna Wang and Michael Reynolds, for a guided tour of Full of Noises: A Village Soundwalk. The tour will begin at Guild Hall, leading you through various locations in the Village, including the beloved Duck Pond, and culminate with an informal talk-back in Guild Hall’s Minikes Garden.

Composed and narrated by sound artist, Viv Corringham, Full of Noises links the cultural gifts of Mary Woodhouse – Guild Hall, The Duck Pond, and Clinton Academy –, with prompts for finding, imagining, and remembering sounds. Simply download the free app. on your phone, pop-in a pair of headphones, and listen. 

FREE – Reservations recommended.

Through our walking feet we can listen for traces of previous walkers, for stories from the earth, for echoes of history, and for our own memories. The essence of a place is revealed to the feet that move through it and listen. 

Full of Noises is a self-guided soundwalk for the Village of East Hampton that leads the public through known spaces with new, heightened, and playful listening.  

Composed and narrated by sound artist, Viv Corringham, Full of Noises links the cultural gifts of Mary Woodhouse – Guild Hall, The Duck Pond, and Clinton Academy –, with prompts for finding, imagining, and remembering sounds. Simply download the free app. on your phone, pop-in a pair of headphones, and listen.  

Producer, Anthony Madonna
Technical Director, Patrick Dawson 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR SELF-GUIDED SOUNDWALK 

1) Once registered you will receive instructions for how to access the soundwalk through the free app., Gesso. Instructions will be sent to the email you used to register.  

2) The soundwalk begins at Guild Hall, leads you through The Duck Pond on Davids Lane, and finally to East Hampton Historical Society’s Clinton Academy. 

3) The walk itself is a little over an hour, though you may decide to pause the audio at times and spend more time in certain locations. We suggest wearing sturdy walking shoes, bringing a bottle of water, and carrying a portable charger for your mobile device.  

4) We encourage playfulness.

 

Communicating the Plastic Crisis: Erica Cirino & The Bridgehampton Childcare & Recreation Center

A Guild Hall Education Initiative

Led by science-writer and visual artist, Erica Cirino, Communicating the Plastic Crisis is a series of watercolor and plastic works by student artists at the Bridgehampton Childcare & Recreation Center (BHCCRC). Over the course of four week one-hour art and science workshops, Cirino and the BHCCRC Students engaged in conversations and activities on waste, plastic pollution, and how plastic trash can be repurposed as an art medium of the modern age; conveying the importance of humanity’s relationship to the planet earth and how it might be improved.

The exhibition is paired with a participatory talk, Thicker Than Water with Erica Cirino, as part of the Guild Hall After Hours program on July 15.

BRDIGEHAMPTON CHILDCARE & RECREATION CENTER STUDENT ARTISTS

Nigel Ambercrombie Zacheriah Michelle
Deyver Cabanas Jessica Morocho
Anna Bella Delgiorno Kaylee Munoz
Johnny Delgiorno Michael Munoz
Jaili Escobar Johan Otavalo
Daniella Garnica Alysson Pichon
Samantha Garnica Ashley Reyes
Kaylee Gordillo  

CURATOR
Casey Dalene, Lewis B. Cullman Associate Curator for Learning & Public Engagement
Anthony Madonna, Patti Kenner Senior Associate for Learning & Public Engagement

Materials for Communicating the Plastic Crisis were generously donated by the Hawai’i Wildlife Fund.