Watercolor Workshops!

Have the muses of artistic creativity been calling your name? Join us with artist Melinda Hackett for watercolor workshops in the gardens and historic interiors of the Madoo Conservancy. Geared to beginning students just exploring paints and palettes all the way to advanced painters looking for new inspirations.

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Take inspiration from the gardens  and as Robert Dash once said,

“You are not painting Madoo you are painting AT Madoo.”

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Dates: Thursdays, July 24 and 31, August 7, 14, and 21

Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm
$95 per class. Materials included. 

Participant limit: 9 per class

Register HERE

The Shop at Madoo Is Open!
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Looking for the perfect hostess gift during this long holiday Weekend? The Shop at Madoo is open! We’ve scoured the market to bring you the best home accessories, gardening supplies & tools, up-to- the-minute books, magazines (even The Garden Museum in London’s latest catalog), one-of-a-kind gifts, even water color kits! Many of the items are locally sourced and/or made exclusively for Madoo. We have beautiful handmade baskets from Underwater Weaving including a trug specially made for us. Charming tea towels, twig-shaped tapers (perfect for dinner parties) in fabulous colors, and botanical scented hand soaps, all perfect for gift giving. Hand-blown glass Avocado vases to grow your own avocado tree! Terracotta pots from Impruneta, the best in the world to go with our Sneeboer tools. And, our own trucker hat in Madoo colors, sure to become the accessory of the season.

Come for the shop, stay for the garden!

Summer hours: Wednesday thru Saturday 12:00 to 4:00 PM

“If this isn’t nice, what is?”

Our new exhibition opens today. “If this isn’t nice, what is?” (a Kurt Vonnegut quote) examines Sagaponack as a uniquely American town with artists, writers and farmers living side-by-side. Artworks by Robert Dash (shown above), Jill Krementz, Marilee Foster, Pingree Louchheim and Loren Dunlap show a gentler side of our Village. Steve Miller brings the tradition forward with his 2021 painting Favela Forest, (2021) drawing on his travels to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and his residency in Cerne, Switzereland, home to to the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This massive underground ring accelerates particles to near the speed of light and collides them, allowing scientists to study the fundamental building blocks of matter.

“Sagaponack has changed little until its last few years: always one school, one store, a port from which to export whale oil and farm produce (the earliest was North West Harbor, later came Sag Harbor, named after its founder, Sagaponack). From this hamlet have come well-known men of the Bible, law cases that are still studied today, and advancements in agriculture by farmers.” -Richard Hendrickson, 2006.

Books from Dash’s library in the exhibition include volumes dedicated to Dash by Kurt Vonnegut and Peter Matthiessen. Author, artist and farmer Marilee Foster rounds out the show with a painting of two cucumbers speaking to each other on a farm field, in a piece titled, In the end they’d have to sell the farm.

The exhibition runs through August 2.

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