JUNE 2024

THEATER REOPENING

THE 2024 SEASON IS HERE

The season has officially been announced! Read through the 2024 Season Program guide to hear from the Executive Director, Andrea Grover, and Chairman of the Board, Marty Cohen; find the perfect programs for you and your family and friends to experience in the newly renovated Hilarie and Mitchel Morgan Theater and enjoy new and old favorite programs coming back this year.

SEASON PROGRAM GUIDE

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IN THE NEWS

DAVID MOIN, WWD

May 24, 2024

“There’s a glorious past to Guild Hall, the 93-year-old regional cultural hub in East Hampton, N.Y., where Gwen Verdon created benefit dance festivals, Edward Albee directed theater in the 1970s, Thornton Wilder starred in his play Our Town, and which Willem De Kooning once referred to its members as ‘family’…'”

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EXHIBITION IN THE NEWS

FIRST LITERATURE PROJECT

The first VR Media produced in the Shinnecock Language has been developed over a 2-year period by Guild Hall Community Artists-in-Residence Wunetu Wequai Tarrant and Christian Scheider. First Literature Project (FLP) proposes to support Native nations in their efforts to maintain and further their languages, narratives, and oral traditions, making them available to both their tribal communities and surrounding areas. By utilizing FLP’s new immersive storytelling platform in Virtual Reality (VR), advanced 3D technology is repurposed to recreate an important tradition—sitting face-to-face with a storyteller.

Read more about First Literature Project in Native News Online, James Lane Post, Sag Harbor Express, ArtDaily, 27 East, The East Hampton Star, Patch, PR Newswire, and WSHU.

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ANNOUNCEMENT

2024/2025 APPLICATIONS OPEN

Deadline: July 1, 2024

The Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (GHTAC) is the region’s first paid teen arts program. As employees of Guild Hall, GHTAC members work to curate public programming, advance their creativity, increase Guild Hall’s outreach to local teens, and learn through collaboration with Guild Hall staff.

As part of GHTAC, teens will have the opportunity to work alongside Guild Hall staff, fellow GHTAC Members, and local/international artists to devise, produce, and participate in creative interactions, public programs, and special events surrounding all that Guild Hall has to offer.

APPLY

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LOOKING BACK

RECENT EXHIBITION OPENINGS

Thank you to all of those who attended the openings of First Literature Project, Spin a Yarn, and Ted Carey: Queer as Folk. These three exhibitions will be on view until July 14, 2024.

Click HERE for photographs by Jessica Dalene Photography.

Click HERE for photographs by Bekah Phoenix.

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LOOKING AHEAD

2024 CLOTHESLINE ART SALE

Saturday, June 22, 9 AM–2 PM

The Clothesline Art Sale is one of the most beloved and affordable art traditions in the Hamptons since its inception in 1946. For 78 years, it has provided accessible artwork to the community, while supporting the local artists who thrive here. Throughout our history, great artists such as Alfonso Ossorio, James Brooks, John Little, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Elaine and Willem de Kooning have shared their talents to support Guild Hall in this unique annual fundraising effort.

Art lovers everywhere will flock to Guild Hall looking for their next masterpiece. Works range in price from $75 to $3,500.

Registration is now open to be a participating artist.

ARTIST REGISTRATION

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GALLERY and LOUISE & HOWIE’S COFFEE BAR HOURS

Friday to Monday, 12-5 PM

Museum Admission is FREE

The exhibition First Literature Project is supported by The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.

Guild Hall’s Community Artist-in-Residence Program and collaboration with Wunetu Wequai Tarrant, Christian Scheider, and the Padoquohan Medicine Lodge was made possible through support from CRNY’s Artist Employment Program. Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY), a project of the Tides Center, is a three-year, $125 million investment in the financial stability of New York State artists and the organizations that employ them.

Additional project support was provided by the Long Island Community Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and an anonymous donor.

The formation of Ayim Kutoowonk was made possible through the Library of Congress’s Connecting Communities Digital Initiative, part of the Library’s Mellon-funded program Of the People: Widening the Path. The program provides funds to projects that offer creative approaches to the Library’s digital collections and center Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and other communities of color.

First Literature Project’s VR installation was developed by Khora, a leading Scandinavian virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) production studio, creating cutting-edge content within multiple application areas.

Guild Hall’s Learning + New Works programs are made possible through The Patti Kenner Arts Education Fellowship, Vital Projects Fund, the Glickberg/Abrahams S. Kutler Foundation, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Endowment Fund, and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.

Additional support provided by Friends of Learning + New Works: Julie Raynor Gross, and Stephanie Joyce and Jim Vos

Visual Arts programs are supported by funding from The Michael Lynne Museum Endowment and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.

Additional support provided by Friends of the Museum: Jane Wesman and Don Savelson, and Laurie and Martin Scheinman

Free gallery admission is sponsored, in part, by Landscape Details.

Performing Arts programming is supported in part by The Schaffner Family Foundation and funding from The Melville Straus Family Endowment. Music Programming is supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming.

Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: John and Joan D’Addario

PHOTOS

Billy Porter, featured in the July 12 theater reopening benefit concert. Photo: Franz Szony

Guild Hall. Photo: Jessica Dalene Photography

Wunetu Wequai Tarrant, Andrina Wekontash Smith, and Ayim Kutoowonk. Photo: Bekah Phoenix

Guild Hall Teen Arts Council Members. Photo: Lionel Cruet

Spin a Yarn. Photo: Jessica Dalene Photography

1946/1947 Mary Woodhouse at the Clothesline Art Sale