PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE Guild Hall of East Hampton 29th Student Art Festival
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Guild Hall of East Hampton
29th Student Art Festival
PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE
When a caterpillar enters its chrysalis, it dissolves itself,
quite literally, into liquid. In this state, what was a
caterpillar and will be a beautiful butterfly is neither one
nor the other, it’s a sort of living soup. Within this living
soup are the imaginal cells that will catalyst its
transformation into winged maturity. May the best among
us, the most visionary, the most inclusive, be the imaginal
cells - for now we are in the soup. The outcome of
disasters is not foreordained. It’s a conflict, one that takes
place while things that were frozen, solid and locked up
have become open and fluid - full of both the best and
worst possibilities. We are both becalmed and in a state of
profound change.
Rebecca Solnit
The impossible has already happened: what coronavirus can
teach us about hope.
WELCOME As the school year inches closer, we at Guild Hall are so excited to invite and share details on our 2021 Student Art Festival: Past-Present-Future. When first envisioning this theme, we imagined the Student Art Festival (SAF) as a celebration of both Guild Hall’s 90th Anniversary and the centennial of the Village of East Hampton; looking to our shared past in order to forge a future. But as the realities of the Covid-19 pandemic hit our area, and the social & civil injustice in our country came to the forefront of societies, our thinking on the SAF expanded. Through the practice of art and design, ranging from imagery of growth and metamorphosis to Futurism and Science-Fiction, we hope to collectively produce an exhibit that reflects on our past, acknowledges and celebrates our present, and imagines a changed and hopeful future. Within this document you will find prompts to begin the creative/thinking process for you and your students; collective questions, subject/area zones, and work/artists examples. Additionally, dates, deadlines, and guidelines for labelling/submitting work are including. Thank you for exploring this new theme with us, and please feel free to reach out with questions, project ideas, and/or requests for guest-artist or residencies in your classrooms, as Guild Hall would love to be part of this process with you. Very best, Anthony Madonna, The Patti Kenner Fellow in Arts Education amadaonn@guildhall.org Casey Dalene, Registrar/Curatorial Asst./Ass. for Museum Education cdalene@guildhall.org
PROMPT: THOUGHTS/QUESTIONS We propose that as a class and collective of artists, we investigate this title/concept through how we think, explore, and create. Playful or Serious? Work that discusses and investigates a concept does not necessarily need to be serious in content and feeling. What is the relationship between our pasts, presents, and futures? How have past decisions and tasks altered our current social, financial & ecological situations? In what ways can we alter our current trajectory? Where/How do we see our personal selves and our local towns/environments in 20, 30, 50, 100 years? How can we share that vision through art & design? Who are the people we look up to? How have they accomplished what they have? How can we walk in their footsteps? How can we portray a changing-narrative through our work? What do we want to say through our art? How can we say/show it? PROMPT: SUBJECT AREAS/ZONES We have gathered our thinking together into several areas or zones. Our aim is to the use these to inform our thinking/making, to find ways into a project and to decide how we want to situate our work. This may also provide Guild Hall Curators with a potential framework/structure for the exhibit. We share this as a potential prompt to inspire your projects, and encourage you to explore your own areas/zones based on student interests and academic needs. Additionally, Arts Education Fellow, Anthony Madonna, is available to collaboratively brainstorm, lead workshops, and/or coordinate artist visits/ residencies upon teacher request. GROWTH, TIME, NATURE IDENTITIES, NARRATIVES, CULTURES Natural evolution & metamorphosis Reclaiming spaces & stories Climate Change & Action Revealing unknown histories LANDSCAPES, COMMUNAL CENTERS, SCIENCE FICITION, DYSTOPIA, HUMAN INTERACTIONS FUTURISM, RETROFUTURSIM Transforming spaces through art & design Plausible & Fantasized Futures & Beings New Inventions & Fashions for daily life Comics, Super-heroes, PERSONAL GROWTH & TRAJECTORY Role Models/ Heroes Time lapses & Identity
PROMPT: WORKS/ARTISTS EXAMPLES
Below are examples of works and artists that we both find interesting, and that reflect
the proposed subject areas/zones. In addition to images and quotations, hyperlinks
to several artist profiles, museum shows, and/or project plans are included to
give more context and prompt further inspiration.
Special attention has been given to including the work of locally based artist and/or
artists with a close connection with Guild Hall. If there is interest in an in-school
residency or guest artist lecture/session, please reach out to Arts Education
Fellow, Anthony Madonna.
ZONE 1: GROWTH, TIME, NATURE
TOP LEFT Metamorphosis of a Butterfly
(1705; Copper Engraving), Maria Sibylla
Merian
TOP RIGHT A Parrot Tulip, Auriculas, and
Red Currants, with a Magpie Moth, its
Caterpillar and Pupa (Black chalk and
watercolor on vellum), Maria Sibylla
Merian
LINK: Intro. To Maria Sibylla Merian
BOTTOM LEFT Still image from SPRING;
Time Lapse, Jamie Scott
LINK: Time Lapse Video
Countryside, The Future 2040 (2019)
Rem Koolhaas & Samir Bantal Damon Gameau, Director
LINK: Learn more about this specific work Link: Official Trailer
LINK: Learn more about the Guggenheim exhibit
Purple (2017; Video Installation)
John Akomfrah
LINK: Learn more about this installation
The Cuyahoga River (2019; Oil On Wood)
Alexis Rockman
ZONE 2: LANDSCAPES, COMMUNAL CENTERS, HUMAN INTERACTIONS
Integrated Ocean Energy Farms, Scott Bluedorn
Link: East End Futures
“In July of 2019 we decided to self-
initiate a design strategy that would
bring life back to Herrick Park, the one
and only park in the village of East
Hampton. In recent years, the park
has become nearly obsolete and
invisible to most. Neither a place to go
to, nor the urban connective tissue
that it could be, it has seen better
days. You never hear anyone say: see
you in the park!
We set out to change that; and
reverse the course of life-quality
degradation that has sadly been
inflicted on East Hampton Village. The
rejuvenation of the park, proposed
here, will start a chain reaction of
positive, progressive improvement
that, we hope, will restore the village
to the hub of life that it was, should be
HERRICK PARK DESIGN PROPOSAL and will be.”
MB ARCHITECTURE
Scott Bluedorn
Link to Design Proposal Maziar Behrooz & Bruce Engel
Boot-sy (Before & After), Almond Zigmund
Guild Hall of East Hampton
POWER
Morag Myerscough
Battersea Power Station, London UK
Link to Artist Talk: Transforming Spaces with Color & Embracing the
Unknown
ABOVE SoaPEN, Shubham Issar; Yogita
Agrawal; Amanat Anand
Link to Product Link to Video
“To design is much more than
simply to assembles, to order,
or even to edit; it is to add
value and meaning, to
illuminate, to simplify, to
clarify, to modify, to dignify, to
dramatize, to persuade, and
perhaps even to amuse.”
Paul Rand, Author & Graphic Designer
Designs from Society of Spectacle’s, A.HUMAN
Link to review of the show/exhibit
ZONE 3: PERSONAL GROWTH & TRAJECTORY
Selections from A Women’s Work
Las Photos Project
Link: Review of Exhibit
Link: Las Photos Project
“a student photography showcase that
explores the various occupations that
women undertake by highlighting an eclectic
mix of individuals at different stages in their
careers and walks of life. From stay at-home
mothers, teachers and street vendors to a
piñata maker and a television producer for a
major sports network, the photos invite the
viewer to think about success, power and
gender roles, and to be inspired by the
complexities involved in women’s work.”
Latino USA, NPR
Boyhood (2014)
Richard Linklater,
Director
Link: Official TrailerZONE 4: IDENTITIES, NARRATIVES, CULTURES
LEFT Doubling (2019; Paper Collage)
Troy Michie
ABOVE Plaid-Yourself (2019; Digital Collage)
Dave McClinton
LEFT Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801; Oil on Canvas), Jacques-Louis David,
RIGHT Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps (2005; Oil on Canvas), Kehinde Wiley
LINK Interview: Kehinde Wiley & Christiane AmanpourTOP LEFT The Oath of Horatii (1784; Oil on Canvas),
Jacques-Louis David
RIGHT The Oath (2015; Archival Inkjet Print), Jeremy
Dennis
BOTTOM LEFT Untitled from Rise series (2018;
Metal Print), Jeremy Dennis
LINK: Learn more about Dennis’ series, Rise.
“My images question and disrupt the post-
colonial narrative that dominates in film and
media and results in damaging stereotypes,
such as the “noble savage” depictions in
Disney’s Pocahontas. As racial divisions and
tensions reach a nationwide fever pitch, it’s
more important to me than ever to offer a
complex and compelling representation of
indigenous people.”
SARAJEVO: HERE (22 karat
gold leaf, palladium leaf, &
23.5 karat moon gold), Ellen
Frank and Cities of Peace.
Link: Learn more about this
piece.
Link: Learn more about Cities
of Peace project.ZONE 5: SCIENCE-FICITION, DYSTOPIA, FUTURISM, RETROFUTURISM
Without a model, you are nowhere…a
nation that can’t make a model is a nation
that doesn’t understand things, a nation
that doesn’t live.
Bodys Isek Kingelez
TOP LEFT U.N. (1995: paper, paperboard, & other various
materials)
CENTER LEFT ville de sète 3009 (2009: paper, paperboard,
plastic, & other various materials)
BOTTOM LEFT africanisch (1994: paper, paperboard, plastic,
& other various materials)
TOP RIGHT sports internationaux (1997: paper, paperboard,
plastic, & other various materials)
CENTER RIGHT stars Palme bouyeges (1989: paper,
paperboard, plastic & other various materials)
Bodys Isek Kingelez
LINK: Learn more about Kingelez and his work via the MoMa
2018 exhibit: City Dreams.Sun Ra; Film still from Space is the Place (1974) Beyoncé; Film still from Black is King (2020)
LINK: Official Trailer LINK: Official Trailer
Parliament, Mothership Connection (1975)
LINK: Full album
JOHN JENNINGS ON AFROFUTURISM
Link: VOX Interview
Afrofuturism, to me, is looking to the past,
trying to examine it, and try to deal with an
unresolved task around race and identity in this Black Panther (2018)
country, in the diaspora. It’s also looking to the Director: Ryan Coogler
future. Both of these sides are wrestling… Link: Official Teaser Trailer
John JenningsThe Strange, Complicated, Feminist
History of Wonder Woman’s Origin Story
Link to Article; Angelica Jade Bastien, Vulture
“Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda
for the new type of woman who should, I
believe, rule the world.”
William Moulton
(creator/author of Wonder Woman)
“Wonder Woman symbolized many of the
values of the women’s culture that feminists
are now trying to introduce into the
mainstream: strength and self-reliance for
women; sisterhood and mutual support among
women; peacefulness and esteem for human
life; a diminishment both of ‘masculine’
aggression and of the belief that violence is the
only way of solving conflicts.”
Gloria Steinman
LEFT Wonder Woman (2017)
Director; Patty Jenkins
LINK: Official Trailer
Amy Franceschini’s Superhero: Achieving a Common Good
LINK: VIDEO & PROJECT/LESSON PLAN
SFMOMAABOVE James Gurney, Waterfall
City; Dinotopia: Land Apart from
Time (Oil on Canvas)
RIGHT “Twiki” from the tv-series,
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
(1979) and the Robot from the film I,
Robot (2004)
LEFT Andrey Sokolov, Space Settlement (1982; Acrylic on orgalit)
ABOVE Andrey Sokolov, Gates to Antiworld (1981: Acrylic on orgalit)IMPORTANT DATES: EXHIBITION OPENING AND
EVENTS
Exhibition Dates: January 16, 2021 - February 21, 2021
Opening Reception (TBD): Saturday, January 16; 1 - 3pm
High School Awards Ceremony (TBD): Saturday, February 6; 1pm
IMPORTANT DATES: REGISTRATION, ART DROP-OFF &
PICK-UP
Registration Forms Due: Wednesday, Dec. 9 - Dec. 16, 2020
Drop-off Art Work: Thursday, January 7 & Friday, January 8
*Reserved drop-off times required (TBD)
Pick-up Art Work: Wednesday, February 24 & Thursday, February 25
*Reserved pick-up times required (TBD)
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING REGISTRATION FORMS
& LABELLING WORK
SUBMITTING WORK & SIZE RESTRICTIONS
When submitting art work please be sure to submit a registration form
for each submitted piece. This includes the title, size, and medium of the
piece. Additionally, we ask that no more than one piece per student is
submitted (with the exception if a student is also part of a group piece).
Due to the quantity of work submitted, we ask that you please keep in
mind the size of your projects. To aid with space we ask that you please
following the parameters below;
• Smaller works in a similar aesthetic or from the same class should be
mounted together on paper or poster board.• Sculptural Pieces/Projects need to be communicated with Guild Hall
in advance of the Wednesday December 11 deadline to facilitate
installation.
• Larger pieces or pieces with special/intended hanging must be
communicated with Guild Hall in advance of the Wednesday
December 9 deadline to facilitate installation.
Guild Hall cannot guarantee that all work will be hung together nor
accommodate all special hanging requests due to the limited space
in the galleries. This will be at the discretion of the Museum.
New this year, Guild Hall is asking for all registration forms to be
digitally submitted. More details and a fillable form will be distributed
in early September 2020.
LABELLING WORK
We ask that you please label all individual works. Label once on the
back of artwork or bottom of sculpture then again in the form of a label for
the wall or pedestal. Specifically for younger classes, please have
students write their name either directly on the art piece or include a label
with their name directly below each piece. This will aid both parents and
students in finding their work. For larger group projects/murals, one
label can be made on 81/2 x 11 inch paper and will be attached to the wall
next to the piece.
Labels must include the following:
Work Title (Medium)
Student Name; Grade Level
Name of Art Teacher; School
For any questions or concerns with labeling/submitting work, please
reach out to Casey Dalene either by email, cdalene@guildhall.org, or
phone, (631) 324-0806, ext. 19.You can also read
