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LongHouse Reserve
Rites of Spring 2023
Celebration
Maren Hassinger
Creates Monuments On-Site
with Community Engagement
Saturday April 8 and Sunday April 9
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The weekend of April 8 and 9 celebrates Rites of Spring 2023
at LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton’s
beloved 16-acre sculpture garden. As is tradition, nearly
one million daffodils and rare bulb plants will be in bloom
to welcome back the local community. On display will be new
works of art including two large scale sculptures by Maren
Hassinger and three by Wyatt Kahn. Popular
permanent collection pieces by Buckminster Fuller,
Sol Lewitt, Yoko Ono, Toshiko Takaezu, and many
others remain on view, along with sculptures from Fitzhugh
Karol, Moko Fukuyama, William and Steven
Ladd, Alexander Polzin, and Ai Weiwei. |
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Friends and families are invited to weave branches from the
garden with Maren Hassinger as she creates her
site-specific Monuments. LongHouse is a closed-loop
garden, meaning that all of its plant materials remain
onsite. We welcome you to assist the artist, making winter
branches into a work of art. Bring your own pruners!
Visitors will enjoy Wyatt Kahn’s three corten steel
sculptures–Parade,
Painting the Painter, Umbrella–most recently on
view in City Hall Park, now at LongHouse in a new
partnership with the Public Art Fund. |
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On April 9, Easter Sunday, come for a stroll in your Easter
Bonnet around the gardens. LongHouse Founder, Jack Lenor
Larsen, collected hats - what better way to honor his legacy
than by parading in your bonnet? Easter treats will be
available for kids of all ages.
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LongHouse
welcomes members to join for Member Mornings: members have
the gardens all to themselves on Wednesday and Saturday
mornings before public opening hours. Special art making and
nature foraging activities will be available Saturday
mornings, in conjunction with SHINE,
LongHouse’s seasonal partner in inspiring creativity,
confidence, and curiosity. |
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The hard-working staff and supportive board at LongHouse,
look forward to a 2023 season centered on Land —
a nature reserve with thousands of living species; Place —
an institution to learn, explore, and grow; and Spirit —
a relaxing sanctuary for creativity, wellness, and respite. |
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Programs in art, design, music, dance, and wellness this
season include puppet making workshops with Kim
Profaci on April 15; a weaving workshop with Suzanne
Tick on April 22; World Tai Chi and Qigong Day on
April 29, marking the start of weekly Tai Chi classes with
instructor Katherine Henderson; the first
exhibition from LongHouse’s new Curator-at-Large, Glenn
Adamson, entitled A Summer Arrangement, opening
May 27; the ever-popular Planters ON+OFF on June 24;
LongHouse Reserve’s Summer Benefit, this year themed A
Midsummer Dream, on July 22; a recital under the stars
with pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner planned
again for Jack Lenor Larsen’s birthday on August 5; a Puppet
Show by Kim Profaci on August 13, Hamptons Music Festival on
August 19; Opera al Fresco on September 3; and the Landscape
Luncheon on September 9. LongHouse enters this season with a
renewed focus on education with Head of Education and
Community Engagement, Esperanza Leon, offering
summer camp programming and school visits, as well as
offering scholarships and robust internships in the arts and
horticulture. The Student Annual - this year on June 17 -
will be transformed into a day of fun and activities for
students of all ages and their families. |
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ABOUT LONGHOUSE RESERVE
LongHouse Reserve is a 16-acre sculpture garden and natural
sanctuary located in East Hampton, NY. As many as 60 works
of art, including sculptures by Buckminster Fuller, Yoko
Ono, and Willem de Kooning can be viewed in the LongHouse
gardens, which are open to the public from April to December
with changing exhibitions each year. The gardens serve as a
living case study of the interaction between plants and
people. LongHouse expands the imagination and appeals to
visitors of all ages, with an education program providing
students with docent-led school tours, online materials,
internship activities, family-activity guides, and the
LongHouse Scholarship Award.
LongHouse was founded by Jack Lenor Larsen (1927-2020),
internationally known textile designer, author, and
collector. Larsen’s 13,000 square foot house was designed by
Charles Forberg, a nephew of Walter Gropius, and is based on
the Shinto shrine on the Ise Peninsula in Japan. A team is
currently studying the future use of the house and welcomes
thoughts from our visitors in our workshops and talks this
summer.
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TO VISIT LONGHOUSE RESERVE:
LongHouse
Reserve opens April 1 and will be open Wednesdays through
Sundays from 12:30pm until 5pm, through December. A
Membership allows you to visit LongHouse Reserve throughout
the season, including early entry at 10am on Wednesdays and
Saturdays. General admission is $20, with half price tickets
for seniors, and no charge for students, veterans or
active-duty personnel. More information is available at www.longhouse.org.
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