OCTOBER 2024

ANNOUNCEMENT

GUILD HALL & PETER PENNOYER ARCHITECTS

RECEIVE MCKIM, MEAD & WHITE AWARD

The Institute of National Architecture and Art recognized Peter Pennoyer Architects with the Commercial Civic and Institutional Architecture Award for their work on our renovation.

Our facility-wide Capital Improvements Project & Campaign included top-of-the-line physical and technological enhancements to better deliver our mission as an artist-driven, interdisciplinary institution. These comprehensive enhancements saw the structural and technological upgrade of Guild Hall’s grounds and near-century-old building—encompassing its museum, theater, education center, and administrative offices.

EXHIBITION CLOSING

JULIAN SCHNABEL:

SELECTED WORKS FROM HOME TO CLOSE THIS WEEKEND

Gallery Hours: Friday to Sunday, 12-5 PM

Schnabel’s art evokes a deep yet elusive connection to humanity. The installation of his large-scale works within Guild Hall’s newly renovated galleries offers visitors an all-encompassing, contemplative experience—a rare opportunity to lose oneself in the artworks, their history, and their transformation —and to capture a sense of time suspended.

INSIDE LOOK

ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE: TIMOTHY WHITE EAGLE

As a 2024 Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence, Timothy White Eagle gathered a collective of close collaborators, including Hatlo, Crystal Cortez, Olivia Komacheet, and DB Amorin, to realize a new piece titled Indian School.

Indian School is a poignant solo performance by Timothy White Eagle, delving into themes of cultural displacement and identity. Pulling together timelines from America’s ongoing projects of genocide and hydraulic engineering that reshape landscapes and relationship to land, White Eagle explores imperfect archives of family history and tactics of assimilation that separate us from understanding and belonging where we are now.

INTERVIEW

LIVE WITH SUJAY HEADLINERS OF H.O.P.E

—ANDREA GROVER

Dr. Sujay, Headliners of H.O.P.E., October 8, 2024

Thank you, Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook, for having Executive Director Andrea Grover on Local TV, Inc. to talk about Guild Hall, AI, art, artists, peak experiences, and the power of hope.

COMMUNITY

GHOULD HALL’S HALLOWEEN SILENT DISCO DANCE PARTY

RETURNS THIS SATURDAY

Join us in Guild Hall’s “spookified” Furman Garden for the return of our Halloween Silent Disco Dance Party. Wireless headsets will feature three different channels, and guest DJs will spin the best dance tunes from the 70s to today for a scary good time. In addition to the dancing, Guild Hall’s Teen Arts Council will offer interactive activations and activities for all ages.

Make sure to come in costume for a chance to win a prize!

VENUE RENTAL

MAKE YOUR NEXT EVENT UNIQUELY GUILD HALL

Guild Hall has been the heart of East Hampton for over 90 years. Our newly renovated campus is one of the most unique and in-demand event locations in the Hamptons, offering a truly one-of-a-kind experience. 

Events hosted at Guild Hall have included weddings, corporate retreats, reunions, cocktail parties, lectures, plays, film premieres, benefits, classes, meetings, camps, dance parties, and more–with an institution that has thrived for generations on developing art, the possibilities are endless.

Our many beautiful spaces, indoors and out, are available to host your next gathering or program–whatever it may be. 

IN THE NEWS

FLOWERS, SURFBOARDS, AND PUNK ROCK

By Mark Segal, The East Hampton Star, September 19, 2024

“While Mr. Dayton has enjoyed a successful career as an artist, including site-specific flower installations at Chanel and Louis Vuitton stores all over the world, he enjoyed a second accomplished career, as a musician…”

Join Melanie Crader, director of visual arts, for a conversation with Peter Dayton on Sunday, November 3, at 2 PM.

SUPPORT

COMMUNITY PILLARS EVENT

Community Pillars Night is open to all local businesses on Friday, November 22 from 5:30 to 7 PM. The evening will begin in our Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan Theater where we’ll hear from four local business owners, including Trustee Christina Isaly Liceaga of Rosie’s Amagansett, about their successes and challenges. Attendees are then invited for networking and a reception in the lobby.

GALLERY and LOUISE & HOWIE’S COFFEE BAR HOURS

Thursday to Sunday, 12-5 PM

Museum Admission is FREE

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Performing Arts programming is supported in part by funding from The Melville Straus Family Endowment, and Monica and Peter Tessler. 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, Christine and Bill Campbell, Gabrielle and Gianpaolo de Felice, Galia Meiri-Stawski and Axel Stawski, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Michèle and Steve Pesner, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Lisa Schultz and Ezriel Kornel, Jayne Baron Sherman and Deborah Zum, Leila Straus, and Susi and Peter Wunsch. 

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: Sara Amani and Timothy Ward, Danielle Anderman, Shari and Jeff Aronson, The Artist Profile Archive, Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann, Cara and John Fry, Susan Lacy, Robert Longo and Sophie Chahinian, Onna House, Lisa and Richard Perry, Laurie and Martin Scheinman, Jeff and Audrey Spiegel, Hillary and Jeff Suchman, Barbara Tober, Jane Wesman and Don Savelson, and Neda Young 

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

Guild Hall’s Learning + New Works programs are made possible through The Patti Kenner Arts Education Fellowship, Vital Projects Fund, 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, Stephanie Joyce and Jim Vos, S. Kutler Foundation, N. Glickberg, D. Glickberg, and J. Abrahams, Andrea and Jeffrey Lomasky, Peter Marino, Stephen Meringoff, and Eva Sandler. 

All Musical Programming is supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming. 

Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence  

Principal Sponsor: Kathy Rayner in memory of her husband, Billy Rayner  

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PHOTOS

Guild Hall. Photo: Michael Moran

Julian Schnabel: Selected Works from Home. Photo: Gary Mamay.

2024 William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence: Timothy White Eagle. Video: Julian Alvarez.

Andrea Grover and Dr. Sujay. Video by LTV.

2022 Guild Hall Halloween Silent Disco Dance Party. Photo: Jessica Dalene Photography.

Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan Theater. Photo: Michael Moran

Peter Dayton. Photo courtesy of the artist.