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Various Locations Throughout the Summer Season
$20 per person per class
Artist and teacher Howard Rose will be leading a series of Plein Air Painting Classes for this summer with the Bridgehampton Museum. Plein Air painting has a lengthy history on the East End of Long Island with artists like William Merritt Chase. These classes are for artists of all abilities from beginners to professionals and will take place at a series of beautiful locations throughout the East End. Join us to get hands on with some history!
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At the culmination of this program, The Bridgehampton Museum will be hosting an exhibition of works done by students in this class. Each student will be able to submit one piece they worked on during one of the classes to be part of the exhibition which will be on view in the museum this fall.
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5/10 at The Bridge Golf Club
5/24 at The Corwith House
6/14 at The Arts Center at
Duck Creek Farm
6/28 at The Nathaniel Rogers House
7/12 at The Madoo Conservancy
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7/26 at Bridge Gardens
8/9 at The Corwith House
8/23 at The Southfork Natural History
Museum & Nature Center
9/6 at The Nathaniel Rogers House
9/20 at The Carl Fisher House
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Tour of the Beebe Windmill with Southampton Town Historian Julie Greene
Wednesday, July 16, 11 to 12pm
The Beebe Windmill
Hildreth Avenue, BH., NY 11932
Free Admission
Join Julie Greene, the Southampton Town historian for a chance to step inside this 200-year-old mill and learn about its history. Originally built in Sag Harbor for Lester Beebe in 1820, this windmill has been moved a total of five times and is linked to many notable East End families including Rose, Ludlow, Topping, Sandford and Sayre. Beebe is one of the first Long Island windmills to have a fly, regulators and cast iron gears and still retains many of its original parts showing an interesting part of American engineering history.
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Watercolor Painting – Gifts from the Sea: Seashells and More with Dr. Quincy Egginton
Thursday, July 17 from 10am to 1pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House
2539 Montauk Hwy., BH., NY 11932
$20 per person
Do you have a collection of seashells, crabs, a seahorse, rocks, feathers or driftwood? This class will focus on drawing a composition from a still life you arrange and bring to life with watercolor. Bring your objects and your watercolor supplies and be ready to paint!
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Upon This Ground: Cyanotype Workshop with Artist Ella Mahoney presented by BHM and Ma’s House
Friday, July 18, 2 to 3:30pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House
2539 Montauk Hwy., BH., NY 11932
Free Admission
Join artist Ella Mahoney for a hands-on, craft-focused cyanotype workshop suitable for all ages and experience levels. Using natural materials from the surrounding environment, paper cutouts, and other found objects, participants will explore this historic photographic printing technique to create striking blue-and-white prints on paper or fabric. This workshop offers a playful and accessible introduction to cyanotype, blending creativity with the natural environment. Perfect for families, friends, or solo makers looking to connect with nature through art. All materials provided. Just bring your curiosity!
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Encaustic Workshop with Bonnie Rychlak
Monday through Friday, 9am to 12pm
July 21- 25 | August 18 -22
The Corwith House
2368 Montauk Hwy., BH., NY 11932
$150 Per week long class
Learn the ancient technique of encaustic painting which dates to the Greeks. Students will be led by teacher and artist Bonnie Rychlak to learn the basics of this ancient craft that involves using hot wax and pigments to create something of a mixture between painting and sculpting. Through demonstrations, discussion and exploration, students will discover its endless possibilities for making art.
There is a class size limit of 10 students and students will be expected to come to all five classes. All materials will be supplied for this class.
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Goat on a Boat Puppet Show: Speedy Delivery
Friday, August 8, 12pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House
2539 Montauk Hwy., BH., NY 11932
Free Admission
Join Goat on a Boat for a free public performance of their newest puppet show, Speedy Delivery! Speedy Delivery is a collection of different stories that emerge from a pile of parcels. This paper and cardboard show has loads of audience participation and was built to inspire creativity long after the performance ends. Bring a blanket, a picnic and the family for this fun community event. This is a rain or shine event with a rain plan to move inside which has a limited capacity so please RSVP in advance in the event of bad weather.
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Goat on a Boat Puppet Show: The Princess, the Frog & the Pea
Friday, August 15, 12pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House
2539 Montauk Hwy., BH., NY 11932
Free Admission
Join Goat on a Boat for a free public performance of their newest puppet show, Speedy Delivery! Speedy Delivery is a collection of different stories that emerge from a pile of parcels. This paper and cardboard show has loads of audience participation and was built to inspire creativity long after the performance ends. Bring a blanket, a picnic and the family for this fun community event. This is a rain or shine event with a rain plan to move inside which has a limited capacity so please RSVP in advance in the event of bad weather.
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Best of All Things is Water with Megan and Scott Chaskey
Saturday, August 24, 5pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House
2539 Montauk Hwy., BH., NY 11932
Free Admission
Megan and Scott Chaskey met as poets on the island of Great Britain in 1978, and lived for a decade on the Penwith Peninsula, in the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole, on the granite shore of Mount’s bay. Now, living on this peninsula, in Sag Harbor, the eastern end of Long Island—for over three decades–their poetry has been inspired by the Atlantic from a different viewpoint. They will read poems of place influenced by rivers, rain, bays, and the tidal music of the sea.
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Watercolor Painting – Fruits and Vegetables: Farmers’ Bounty with Dr. Quincy Egginton
Thursday, August 28 from 10am to 1pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House
2539 Montauk Hwy., BH., NY 11932
$20 per person
Local farmers display their produce and we enjoy selecting the most appealing and appetizing. This class will focus on forms, composition and color. A still life will be arranged, you will sketch and then paint – wet-on-wet – with your watercolors. A demonstration will show you techniques and you will be encouraged to explore the beautiful, spontaneous quality of watercolor. Bring your choice of produce and your watercolor supplies and be ready to paint!
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Upon This Ground: Beadwork with Savannah LeCornu presented by BHM and Ma’s House
Saturday, September 5, from 1 to 3pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House
2539 Montauk Hwy., BH., NY 11932
Free Admission
Self-taught Indigenous artist Savannah LeCornu will be at the museum leading a drop in style beading workshop where guests can learn a timeless craft. In this workshop you will learn how to make a small beaded patch using a 2-needle flat stitch method! Small kits with all the necessary materials to create this small project will be provided by the artist. Savannah LeCornu is an artist from Ketchikan, Alaska and has been practicing beadwork since 2020. She is part of the Tsimshian, Haida, and Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) tribes.
This is a drop-in style class, RSVPs are not required but will help us know how much material to prepare. The craft itself can take 30 minutes or an hour depending on the chosen design and everyone’s aptitude for the skill.
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Famous Long Island Shipwrecks with Bill Bleyer
Saturday, October 18 from 5 to 6pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House
2539 Montauk Hwy., BH., NY 11932
Free Admission
Learn about prominent Long Island shipwrecks in a lecture by historian, author and retired Newsday reporter Bill Bleyer. The PowerPoint lecture will include maritime disasters from the Prins Maurits carrying colonists to what would become Delaware, HMS Culloden wrecked at Montauk during the American Revolution, the Mexico and Bristol carrying immigrants during the early 1800s, the fire that destroyed the steamship Lexington in 1840 – Long Island Sound’s worst calamity – to the sinking of the USS San Diego in World War I and the loss of the tugboat Gwendoline Steers in a 1962 winter storm.
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