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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!
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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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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Guided tour of Paul Rogers Farm
Thursday, August 14, 11am to 12:30pm
Paul Rogers Farm, 1514 Road D, Water Mill, NY 11976
$10 Admission
Come meet Paul Rogers and see the family-run farm he grew up on in Water Mill. Paul recently retired from his work as an architect and now works his farm full time. You’ll get to learn a bit of local history on how the farm’s operation has changed over time and how they are adjusting to the many issues modern farmers face. After the tour, guests will get to enjoy a taste of the farm’s offerings courtesy of Almond. Co-sponsored by The Bridgehampton Museum and the Peconic Land Trust. Max guests 25.
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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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Tour of the Beebe Windmill with Southampton Town Historian Julie Greene
Saturday, September 13, 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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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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