For a fun July 4th experience in the Hamptons: Leila Heller Gallery at the Southampton Arts Center Sculpture Garden. July- October 14, 2026

Southampton Arts Center Sculpture Exhibition July 3, 2026 - October 14, 2026 Leila Heller Gallery is delighted to be curating Contained Movement, an exhibition of contemporary outdoor sculpture in the newly renovated Paulson Family Gardens of the Southampton Arts Center, opening today, July 3rd, 2026. CONTAINED MOVEMENT Curated by Leila Heller Gallery, Simone Levinson, Christine Mack, and Christina Strassfield   Contained Movement brings together works by Kiki Smith, Richard Hudson, John Clement, Mia Fonssagrives Solow, Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Katya Emelyanova, Anton Bakker, Arthur Carter, and Helena Chastel, each exploring this theme. From mirrored steel and painted aluminum to bronze, ceramic, and fiberglass, the exhibition examines how material can evoke tension, transformation, and quiet energy, inviting viewers to experience sculpture as a moment suspended between stillness and motion.   SOUTHAMPTON ARTS CENTER Southampton Arts Center is the local hub for all things art in the Village of Southampton. Located at 25 Jobs Lane, just steps from historic Main Street, SAC is committed to building an inclusive, multimedia arts and culture center — presenting 4+ exhibitions and 150 programs annually with and for its community.   25 Jobs Lane, Southampton NY, 11968   Gallery Hours:  July 1st - September 1st (on season) Thursday - Monday | 12 PM - 5 PM   SAC Grounds: Open to the public   Tickets: Free admission     PLAN YOUR VISIT     Kiki Smith Big Girl, 2008 Bronze 82 x 64 x 66 in. | 208.3 x 162.6 x 167.6 cm Richard Hudson  Envelope, 2015 White Marble 31.5  x 17.75 x 19.75 in. | 80 x 45 x 50 cm, 750kg John Clement Butterfly, 2023 Aluminum Pipe, Aluminum Plate, Auto Paint 45 x 66 x 30 in. | 114.3 x 167.6 x 76.2 cm John Clement Man in the Moon, 2024 Steel pipe, steel plate 144 x 120 x 36 in. | 365.8 x 304.8 x 91.4 cm John Clement Love Exists, 2019 Steel pipe, steel plate, paint 112 x 108 x 64 in. | 284.5 x 274.3 x 162.6 cm Mia Fonssagrives Solow Muon, 2020 White Enamel on Fiberglass 46 x 34 x 64 in. | 116.8 x 86.4 x 162.6 cm Mia Fonssagrives Solow Egg, 2026 Fiberglass 96 x 30 x 48 in. | 243.8 x 76.2 x 121.9 cm Rachel Lee Hovnanian Body Armor II (Soldier), 2023 Brushed  aluminum, black painted bronze base with detachable steel disc 80.5 x 26.5 in. | 204.4 x 67.3 cm (Edition of 7 + 3 AP) Rachel Lee Hovnanian Body Armor II (The General), 2023 Polished aluminum, black painted patina bronze base with detachable steel disc 90.5 x 26.5 in. | 229.8 x 67.3 cm (Edition of 7 + 3 AP) Katya Emelyanova Avangarde Women, 2025 Ceramic glazed 86.6 x 10.6 x 10.6 in. | 220 x 27 x 27 cm Katya Emelyanova Mr. Mojo, 2025 Ceramic glazed, metal stage 82.7 x 14.6 x 14.6 in. | 210 x 37 x 37 cm Katya Emelyanova Trickster, 2025 Ceramic glazed 86.6 x 9.8 x 9.8 in. | 220 x 25 x 25 cm Anton Bakker  Opus 191008 Curved Clover Leaf Knot, 2021 Stainless Steel, Mirror Polish 60 x 37 x 37 in. | 152.4 x 94 x 94 cm Arthur Carter Inversion, 2001 Bronze 96 x 36 x 36 in. | 243.8 x 91.4 x 91.4 cm Helena Chastel  Orion, 2025 Aluminum, industrial paint 76 x 36 x 32 in. | 193 x 91.4 x 81.3 cm Helena Chastel  Estella, 2025 Aluminum, industrial paint 84 x 32 x 32 in. | 213.4 x 81.3 x 81.3 cm Helena Chastel Vilma, 2025 Aluminum, industrial paint 81 x 34 x 30 in. | 205.7 x 86.4 x 76.2 cm INQUIRE   #leilahellergallery#southamptonartscenter#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com #fouthartfun#artfuncelebrate#artfunall#happyfourthjuly

Hi Summer is upon us. Save the Date uly 9th for.the Southampton Arts Center presentation of Scrapiallrelli: Fashion Becomes Art. See below to register.

Fashion has been art since the first bead or flower adorned an outfit. This exhibition as an important landmark presentation by the curators from the Victoria Albert Museum. 

Calling all fashion enthusiasts and art lovers: join us for an illuminating conversation exploring Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art, the landmark exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Featuring: Lydia Caston,  Curator, Victoria and Albert Museum Thursday, July 9, 2026 | 5:00 PM Reception to follow Southampton Arts Center Hosted by: Jamee Gregory & Audrey Gruss

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Dear Friend,  Giving Tuesday is such a great day to show support for organizations you care about. We know you care about SAC, we wouldn't be here today, bringing people together through the arts, without you.  We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for enabling us to bring vibrant art, photography, music, theater, panel discussions and more to our beautiful home in the heart of Southampton.  Please give a gift today to SAC if you can. Only with your support, can SAC continue to be the vibrant cultural center of Southampton that it is today and has been for the last ten years. Please consider a donation, a new membership, or a naming opportunity gift (listed below) every gift will make a difference. Yours with deepest appreciation,  Christina Mossaides Strassfield Executive Director Naming Opportunities $100 underwrites one kid's art program $500 sponsors an adult's art program $1,000 covers a curator/artist talk panel $2,500 underwrites an opening reception $5,000+ sponsors an exhibition program or documentary film $10,000+ sponsors a major show or series DONATE SCOA INC. DBA Southampton Arts Center is a registered not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Donations are tax-deductible in accordance with the current IRS regulations. Looking for more at SAC?   DONATE MISSION  Southampton Arts Center is committed to community building through the arts. We present and produce inspiring, inclusive, socially and regionally relevant programs across all disciplines – welcoming, connecting, and collaborating with the diverse members of New York’s East End community and beyond. Our mailing address is: Southampton Arts Center 25 Jobs Lane Southampton, NY 11968 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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South Hamptons E-news letter for March.

March is here and in honor National Women's History Month, we are excited to celebrate the many local women artists in our current exhibition, East End Collected7. To learn more about their work and what inspires them, please join us for our upcoming programming of panels, films, and studio workshops. We are also excited to partner with AIA Peconic for a screening and panel, of Gray Matters which explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture.  Please tour our virtual 3D gallery HERE where you can learn more about the art and artists of East End Collected7. Here's what’s on for this week as SAC! Studio: Figure Drawing Workshop Friday March 10 @ 1 PM Working from a live model, artist Linda Capello will guide students through the basics of figure drawing using a variety of mediums. Talk: Curator Tour  Friday March 10 @ 3PM East End Collected7 curator Paton Miller will offer a tour of his own studio in Southampton.    LEARN MORE + REGISTER In celebration of Women's History Month, join us March 23rd @ 6PM for a screening of the documentary Gray Matters about architect and designer Eileen Gray, followed by a brief panel discussion featuring local architects. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the 20th century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought after designer and decorator in the next before reinventing herself as an architect, a field in which she labored largely in obscurity. Apart from the accolades that greeted her first building persistently and perversely credited to her mentor–her pioneering work was done quietly, privately and to her own specifications.  But she lived long enough (98) to be re-discovered and acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices and attention, her legacy, like its creator, remains elusive, contested and compelling. Reflection panel led by AIA Peconic President Lori K. Beppu, AIA who will be joined by AIA architect members Pamela J. Glazer, AIA and Viola G. Rouhani, AIA. Co-presented by Southampton Arts Center and AIA Peconic, a chapter of The American Institute of Architects. Proudly sponsored by Pella. Licensed architects are eligible for two learning units for attending this program. Join Southampton Arts Center and Hamptons Jazz Fest on March 25, as we present Will Bernard Quartet for an evening of jazz! The concert will begin at 7 PM. Guitarist Will Bernard, a Berkeley, CA native and Brooklyn NY transplant studied guitar and piano from an early age with Dave Creamer, Art Lande and Julian White later developing an interest in classical music composition. He received a degree in music from UC Berkeley where he studied with Andrew Imbrie and others. He began playing and recording on an international level as a member of Peter Apfelbaum’s Hieroglyphics Ensemble, who made their recorded debut with Don Cherry on “Multikulti” (A&M 1989). Since then, Bernard has participated in a host of boundary stretching groups, ranging from jazz, hip-hop and world music to experimental music, with many stops in between. In the 90’s Bernard recorded and performed with many projects under the direction of acclaimed producer Lee Townsend and worked with groups ranging from the Hindustani-influenced Jai Uttal to the political hip-hop group the Coup. The most commercially successful of these projects was the group T.J. Kirk (with Charlie Hunter) whose sophomore album “If Four Was One” on Warner bros. was nominated for a Grammy in 1997. Will made further inroads with the Stanton Moore trio which toured extensively and made three albums on Telarc and a Hal Leonard drum instructional video and book. LEARN MORE + REGISTER Janet Culbertson (b. 1932) grew up in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She loved nature, canoed through the Allegheny Mountains, and raised baby owls and released them into the wild. Janet Culbertson has been a using art as activism for years. Common themes in her work include global warming, extreme weather, overpopulation, and the diminishment of the earth. Her work is fueled by the constant news barrage of both natural and/or contrived disasters of the day. When possible she takes trips to experience first-hand the sustaining power of nature amidst the evidence of humanity's destructive impact.  I feel that art, whether beautiful or provocative, can be a force for creating a greater ecological awareness of our threatened world.  Her first exhibition was called Elegy to Nature, an eco series inspired by tankers wiping out coastal life and oil companies dumping oil waste into the sea. Soon after completing Elegy to Nature, she took a course at The Foundation for Mind Research which introduced her to Joseph Campbell's monomyth, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1948). Culbertson in response, created a Mythmaker suite of drawings (1973-76) that chart the course of a woman's struggle to follow her own path through a maze of seemingly insurmountable hurdles presented by male-dominated society. During the seventies she had four one-woman shows in New York City at the Lerner Heller Gallery; received a C.A.P.S. New York State drawing award and exhibited in a number of group and museum shows; proposed and worked on the HERESIES Ecology Issue #13 along with a group of other concerned women. In 1987, Culbertson began a series of billboard paintings contrasting the beauty of nature with our destruction of it. She searched for beautiful sites as well as the ubiquitous polluted areas–to paint, to photograph and to absorb. She was invited to have solo shows at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, the University of Nebraska, the University of Bridgeport, Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA., (her home town), The Museo de Los Ninos in Costa Rica, The Accola-Griefen Gallery, NYC and more recently, a forty-year retrospective, "Paradise Gone" at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY. Janet's work can be viewed in our current exhibition East End Collected7.  DISCOVER THE EXHIBITION Looking for more at SAC?

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