THIS FRIDAY

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LEARNING

FRIDAY, MAY 10, 7:30-9 PM

SAG HARBOR BATHTUB PROJECT

Join the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council and Sag Harbor-based architect Nilay Oza at Kidd Squid for a sharing of their collaboration, The Sag Harbor Bathtub Project.

The evening will feature GHTAC’s public works alongside the research, video pieces, and topographic maps gathered throughout the project by Nilay Oza and his collaborators. Food & drink will be available for purchase at Kidd Squid Brewery.

NEXT WEEK

NEW EXHIBITION

MAY 19-JULY 14, 2024

FIRST LITERATURE PROJECT

First Literature Project proposes to support Native nations in their efforts to maintain and further their languages, narratives, and oral traditions. Employing a new immersive storytelling platform, 3D video is mixed with virtual reality to re-create the timeless experience of sitting face-to-face with a storyteller.

The project utilizes the newly released Apple Vision Pro headset to present the immersive experience Padawe, developed over a two-year period by Guild Hall Community Artists-in-Residence Wunetu Wequai Tarrant and Christian Scheider. The exhibition also features video works by the Shinnecock language revitalization collective Ayim Kutoowonk and interviews with members of the Shinnecock Nation.

NEW EXHIBITION

MAY 19-JULY 14, 2024

SPIN A YARN

This exhibition features work by over 20 international artists and includes tapestries, embroideries, quilts, Vodou flags, and other fiber-based works. Spin A Yarn examines the historical importance of the tradition of textiles as tools for communication and cultural expression, as well as their increasing use in contemporary art to reflect on social, political, and environmental issues.

This exhibition is curated by Estrellita Brodsky, Founder/Director of ANOTHER SPACE, Chelsea, New York.

NEW EXHIBITION

MAY 19-JULY 14, 2024

TED CAREY: QUEER AS FOLK

Edward “Ted” Fawcett Carey (1932-1985) is primarily known for his close friendship with Andy Warhol in the 1950s. He later developed a unique mode of painting informed by his strong interest in American folk art. While living and working in East Hampton through the early 1980s, Carey methodically produced a small but coherent body of work that chronicles his personal life and relationships while picturing aspects of gay male identity and subculture.

This exhibition is organized by independent curator Matthew Nichols, Ph.D.

MEMBERS ONLY

SATURDAY, MAY 18, 12-5 PM

MEMBER PREVIEW DAY

Guild Hall members, join us for a preview of the newest exhibitions on view, First Literature Project, Spin a Yarn, and Ted Carey: Queer as Folk. Be the first to tour the galleries and engage with the curators, artists, and staff, and take part in an Open Studio with cross-disciplinary artist, Raul Martinez.

LEARNING

MAY 19 & MAY 20, 12-5 PM

OPEN STUDIO:

RAUL MARTINEZ

Open Studio invites audiences to ask questions, view works in process, and gain hands-on experience with the creative process of artists currently working or exhibiting at Guild Hall.

Raul Martinez’s work examines the intersections between art and language, and more specifically, the possibilities of using legal language as material for art, dance, and performance. Audiences are invited to join Martinez in a new collaborative in-process piece or begin an individual piece of their own with the materials on-site.

KIDS

SUNDAY, MAY 19, 12-2 PM

OLA FAMILY DAY

Join Guild Hall & OLA for an afternoon of art, workshops, and more. 

Inspired by Guild Hall’s current exhibition, Spin A Yarn, the afternoon will consist of drop-in workshops, where families can create their own cardboard Looms, self-guided gallery tours, and an Open Studio with artist Raul Martinez.

GALLERY and LOUISE & HOWIE’S COFFEE BAR HOURS

Friday to Monday, 12-5 PM

Museum Admission is FREE

SPONSORS

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, Stephanie Joyce and Jim Vos, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Endowment Fund, and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.

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

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

PHOTOS

Composite Photo: Nilay Oza

Wunetu Wequai Tarrant. Photo: Christian Scheider

Jorge Eielson, 𝘙𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘟𝘝, 1978. Fabrics and acrylic on board. 21 inches in diameter. Estrellita B. Brodsky Collection.

Ted Carey, Emak Bakia, 1978-80. Oil on canvas. 21 x 31 inches. Gift of the Estate of Ted Carey.

84th Artist Members Exhibition. Photo: Rossa Cole

Raul Martinez Hands. Photo: SF Museum of Craft & Design

KidFEST @ CMEE: MUSIC FROM THE SOLE: Afro-Brazilian Funk & Dance, 2022. Photo: Jessica Dalene Photography