Knowledge Friday With Margaret Garrett
Strike a pose and continue your celebration of International Women’s Day at our special March Knowledge Friday! – that explores the intersection of our current exhibition while also celebrating a creative community member of the South Fork. Join us for a sit down with Shelter Island’s own Margaret Garrett, a former dancer turned visual artist.
Knowledge Friday provides an intimate presentation by a community member who shares their knowledge and expertise with rare intimacy. For March, we’re exploring Garret’s special history with dance and then will turn the spotlight on a special Martha Graham Dance Company Project: The 19 Poses. The audience is invited to learn a few of the poses, do the poses, and to own them in their own, powerful way!
Developed as part of The Eve Project, Martha Graham Dance Company’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, The 19 Poses honors the suffragists and accentuates Martha Graham’s revolutionary representation of women onstage. Drawn from a curated selection of photographs of Graham in evocative poses, The 19 Poses were shared in this YouTube Video, starring the star of The Church’s Saturday dance performance, Xin Ying! The project also led to a memorable Insta-Graham challenge, which invited women everywhere to utilize the poses in their everyday life. Join us as we learn more about an incredible project that brought women together through movement and expression.
This talk has been programmed in tandem with Martha Graham: Collaborations, on view January 18 – March 22 during our exhibition hours, Thursday through Monday from 11 AM – 5 PM.
ABOUT MARGARET GARRETT Margaret Garrett is an interdisciplinary American artist whose practice includes painting, collage, printmaking, and video art. She grew up training to be a dancer and joined a professional ballet company at the age of 16. In her early twenties, she discovered painting, finding something spiritually akin to dance in the movement of line and color and switched her focus to visual art.
Margaret Garrett’s work is held in numerous private and corporate collections in the United States and Europe. She has exhibited in New York City at Planthouse, Danese/Corey, the FLAG Art Foundation, and Birnam Wood Gallery. Recent achievements in large-scale public work include a 40-foot glass mural commissioned by NYU Langone Art Program and fabricated in collaboration with Peters Studio in Germany. Museum collections include Blanton Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, Jordan Schnitzer Collection, The Leiber Collection, and Guild Hall Museum.
ABOUT THE CHURCH The Church was established in 2019 by artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik. Housed in a deconsecrated 19th-century church, its doors were opened in April 2021. Our mission is to foster creativity and to honor the living history of Sag Harbor as a maker village. The East End represents an exceptional artistic legacy, spanning the practices of indigenous art of several centuries ago, Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th Century, and the many celebrated writers, makers, musicians, and visual artists of the recent past and current moment. Core programming includes visual art exhibitions, concerts and events, educational programming, workshops, lectures, and an artist’s residency.