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GET READY FOR THE JULY REOPENING
With great enthusiasm, we announce that Guild Hall will reopen this July. Our galleries, grounds, classroom, and offices are nearly complete and ready for you to enjoy. Behind that green construction fence, magic and hard work have been happening to make Guild Hall sustainable, efficient, and accessible for generations to come.
Members get in early with a special preview on Saturday, July 1. Join today!
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CLOTHESLINE ART SALE
RETURNS JULY 22
The wait is over. Clothesline Art Sale, one of the Hamptons’ most beloved and affordable art traditions since 1946, is back. For 77 years, Clothesline has provided accessible artwork to the community while supporting the artists who live here. Over 300 artists enter the sale, and art lovers everywhere flock to Guild Hall to find something special. Works range in price from $75 to $5,000, with all proceeds split 50/50 between the artists and Guild Hall. Throughout 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 annual fundraising event. Who knows, maybe you’ll find the next masterpiece.
The 2023 Clothesline Art Sale is dedicated in memory of Barbara McClancy, a longtime volunteer who was the heart and soul of this event.
Save the date: Saturday, July 22!
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HAMPTONS DANCE PROJECT
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
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The Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence program is back for another year of artist support and new works development. To start the season, Hamptons Dance Project is presently in residence preparing for a weekend of performances at Fireplace Lodge, Friday to Sunday, August 18-20.
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KEEPING OUR MEMBERS ON THEIR TOES
This past Tuesday, Guild Hall upper-level Members gathered at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for a private tour of the New York City Ballet, including special access to a working rehearsal. Together we collectively took in the beauty and history of this iconic setting, and learned illuminating facts about the world of a ballet dancer. A highlight was the intimate access to observe a dress rehearsal of Brandenburg (1997), by esteemed choreographer, Jerome Robbins with music by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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GETTING TO KNOW GUILD HALL
What’s your name? Jennifer Brondo
Where you are from? I’m originally from northern New Jersey – right over the George Washington Bridge.
What’s your role at Guild Hall? I’ve been the Director of Operations since 2021 – I love being able to work a little bit on everything and with everyone! Before that I was the General Manager of the John Drew Theater, but I actually started at Guild Hall as a theater intern in 2006.
Where did you go to school and what did you study? I went to Southampton College (where I met my husband!) and studied Communications with a concentration in Theater and Film. After that campus was closed, I transferred to Marymount Manhattan College where I got my BA in Theater Management.
What’s your favorite Guild Hall program of all time? This is an incredibly difficult question for me! Guild Hall is such a huge part of my life, and not only as a staff member. I’m going to have to list a bunch of my favorites, in no specific order – Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, The Missing Element, Laurie Anderson’s Virtual Reality exhibition, Philip Glass, Ugo Rondinone: sunny days, Bluebirds, every single Stirring the Pot with Florence Fabricant, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, All My Sons, Ben Folds, Sneak Peek at Susan Stroman’s Little Dancer, KidFEST: BubbleMania!, National Theatre Live screening of Frankenstein, and the Clothesline Art Sale!
What’s your passion? My family first! My husband and my son are my world. But also cooking, eating, reading, and experiencing any kind of art.
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Looking Forward…
RENEE COX: A PROOF OF BEING
Our first exhibition in the newly renovated galleries, Renee Cox: A Proof of Being, is a selection of the artist’s most well-known and celebrated photographs from 1993 to the present. This survey, organized by Monique Long, demonstrates how the artist’s practice has evolved through a series of performative self-portraits. The avatars Renee Cox creates are variably historical figures, art historical tropes, cosmopolitan socialites, and Afro-centric superheroes—all imbued with sexual agency and resolute confidence.
On View: July 2 through September 4
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Looking Back…
GATHERING TOGETHER
The GATHER series, now in year three, began on April 21 with authors Joshua Whitehead & Joseph M. Pierce at BookHampton, discussing Whiteheads’s newest book, Making Love With The Land. That was followed by a panel discussion at Main Prospect on April 27 with Jeremy Dennis of Ma’s House, Guild Hall Community Artist-in-Residence, Wunetu Wequai Tarrant, and Candice Hopkins, Executive Director of The Forge Project. The series concluded on May 6 with a “Kinstillatory Fire” with Emily Johnson and IV Castellanos (pictured) at Ma’s House.
GATHER, co-produced by Guild Hall and Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, spotlights the voices of BIPOC scholars, artists, and leaders, providing lessons on Black & Indigenous histories & traditions and strategies for moving forward together.
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Clothesline Art Sale Media Partner: East Hampton Star
Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence Program Principal Sponsor: Kathy Rayner in memory of her husband, Billy Rayner
Renee Cox: A Proof of Being
Lead Sponsor: Dorothy Lichtenstein
Additional Support: Agnes Gund, Bernard Lumpkin and Carmine Boccuzzi, Lori and John Reinsberg, Jane Wesman and Don Savelson, and Lyn and E.T. Williams, Jr.
Media Partner: Hamptons Magazine
Museum programs are supported by Crozier Fine Arts, and funding from The Michael Lynne Museum Endowment, and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.
GATHER is generously supported by Maureen McMahon and Josh Baratz, and public funding provided by Suffolk County.
Media Partner: James Lane Post
Guild Hall’s Learning + New Works programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional major support comes from The Patti Kenner Arts Education Fellowship, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Endowment Fund, and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.
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PHOTOS
Guild Hall facade. Photo: Peter Aaron and Jessica Dalene with rendering elements by Peter Pennoyer Architects
Clothesline Art Sale 2021. Photo: Jessica Dalene Photography
Hamptons Dance Project at The Tower. Photo: Joe Brondo
Guild Hall members visit the New York City Ballet. Photo: Joe Brondo
Jennifer Brondo and an ice cream cone. Photo courtesy of Jennifer Brondo.
Renee Cox, Chillin with Liberty, 1998. CibaChrome Print. 48 x 60 inches. © Renee Cox
IV Castellanos at GATHER on 5/6. Photo: Jessica Dalene Photography
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