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PRESIDENT'S COMMENTS
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Oh, what a glorious spring it is! I write this letter in March as LongHouse is gorgeously bursting with life and bloom. If this were not the season with so many new things in store (and yes, one of them is INstore) – we would throw open the gates right this minute and say Come One and All - Come Now!
But as we are still in the midst of pouring, pruning, installing, staining, leveling, gravelling, and grading – we must beg your patience until our Rites of Spring on April 28.
We can’t wait for you to see the results. INstore will be a shopping experience like none you have ever encountered. Jack has blown his horn across the globe and fabulous artisans, weavers, jewelers, craftsmen and potters have answered his plaintive call. You will love being able to take a piece of the LongHouse aesthetic home with you.
Of course, our traditional Rites of Spring opening is a must. We proud Trustees of LongHouse; including our welcome new members: Dennis Schrader, author, plantsman and proprietor of LandCraft Environments and Lee Skolnik, renowned residential and museum architect, are eager to show off the new LongHouse to you. Our plans for ON+OFF on June 21 and Composition, our Summer Gala, on July 21 are better than ever, and that is saying something. So dig into this Newsletter with your calendars open. Read on.
I am so eager to see you soon at LongHouse, where there is always something blooming,
Dianne B
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DIRECTOR’S REMARKS
 Matko Tomicic, Director LHR |
Spring is here as we begin our 3rd decade! As promised, many useful new amenities await you upon your return to LongHouse. Our construction project benefitted from our mild winter and the comfort and pleasure of our visitors will be enhanced with the successful build-out.
The new upgrades mean so much to the property and to the safety and comfort of our visitors. I wish to express to all of our donors that the gratitude I feel is indescribable. Thank you for making LongHouse your house. LongHouse Reserve will open this year with the entirety of the expansion plan complete, a testament to the can and will-do attitude of our contracted construction crews.
Our gardens, with some new features, are ready to burst. A new installation of sculptures curated by Bonnie Rychlak will nest in these gardens along with a spectacular piece by Isamu Noguchi. The exhibition Accumulations: NOW, curated by Jack Larsen, will hold your interest with its massive collection of craft made in the last 100 years. Objects will include clay, fiber, glass, hollowware and furniture; including works from recent gifts by Morton Katzenberg.
The Rites of Spring will be held on Saturday April 28th. As always, it will be such a pleasure to see you back at LongHouse.
Matko Tomicic
Executive Director
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Heartfelt Thank You
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Jack Larsen, and the entire staff of LongHouse, would also like to extend a heartfelt thank-you to everyone who took part in this project. We would like to share with you the team instrumental in this positive turning point for LHR. We are grateful first and foremost to:
• John Shea, of Twomey, Latham, Shea, Kelley, Dubin and Quartararo LLP, who shepherded our application through the innumerable East Hampton Town Boards and Committees;
• Drew Bennett who did our engineering work;
• Steve Talmage of D.L. Talmage for his expert work on paving our parking lot and drives;
• Rodney-Chip Pierson of Squires & Pierson for perfect work on the grading and drainage work of the parking lot, as well as excavation of the shed foundation;
• David Reishman of T.N.F. Construction for great carpentry work on the shed and GateHouse;
• Social Concrete and Delfino Insulation for work on the shed
foundation;
• Brian d’Italia of North Sea Well Drilling for the new water well;
• Jose Oscar Molina of M.O.E. Masonry for work on the walkway and INstore plaza;
• Steve Arkinson for all the electric work;
• Jim Dinizio of Sterling Communications for the communications infrastructure;
• Jerold Lack of JLack Consulting for the IT work;
• Ray Smith of Ray Smith and Associates for work on grounds preparations as well as moving a huge cryptomeria
• Work on the retrofitting of the GateHouse could not have been done without any glitch if it was not for the perfect guidance of general contractor Kevin Fitzgerald of Ark Construction.
• We are grateful to Kohler Co. for their generosity in donating our lavatory fixtures.
We highly recommend all these companies as the level of professionalism, their crews and their craftsmanship is outstanding.
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INstore @ LongHouse
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| Elements of place settings in the new museum store are comprised of custom made, one-of-a-kind elements inimitably composed by Jack. |
IN store for all of us is a carefully curated array of beautiful objects! In keeping with the LongHouse aesthetic, we have spent these winter months personally selecting and creating a line of individual items and home goods that may actually keep you from the gardens! Imagine a throw pillow using a museum quality fabric from Jack Larsen’s personal collection.…available nowhere else. For summer entertaining, we have made Batic placemats brought back from Thailand by Jack himself. How will you resist a Tushar Kumar shawl from India or the ‘hard to find’ Penhaligon fragrances and lotions from Great Britain?
Walk in and browse INstore at LongHouse or shop online anytime at www.longhouse.org
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2012 SEASON OPENING
While entering our 3rd Decade we are so proud to present our newly renovated grounds. Please join us for the Rites of Spring, our annual Opening Day. New amenities will ensure your comfort. Take home something special from our new Museum Store, engage in conversation about the current sculpture installations, and enter The Pavilion to view our new exhibition. Please, join us for refreshments and a long-awaited new season greeting!
Saturday, April 28
Season Opening 2-5 pm
Reception 5-7 pm $10;
members complimentary
Installation of new work in the gardens was made possible with the generous support of the Johnson Family Foundation, Barbara Slifka, Cowles Charitable Trust, and Vital Projects Fund. Art in the Gardens is funded in part by Suffolk County under the auspices of the Office of Cultural Affairs, Steven Bellone, County Executive.
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Campaign for a 3rd Decade
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In 2011 we launched our first Capital Campaign in many years. It is our greatest pleasure to share with you that it was a most successful endeavor. Upon immediate entrance to the grounds you will see the results of a vigilant and effective building plan. We achieved a significant goal by raising $300,000. Carefully allocated funds ensured the completion of our building project, but as with any renovation, unforeseen expenses arise. To completely cover the expense of our expansion we are looking to secure an additional $75,000.
Please call the office at 329.3568 for information on naming opportunities and giving levels.
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Ray Smith Drive
Drew Bennett, Reed Jarvis, Steve Talmage and Ray Smith reviewing the plans for the parking lot grading
It is with great honor that we have named our Cryptomeria Allee Ray Smith Drive after our director of Horticulture Ray Smith who has so lovingly taken care of and given new life to these magnificent trees that are the pride of LongHouse.
Squires & Pierson excavating the parking lot drywells
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Volunteers’ Annual Spring Gathering
As an honored tradition at LHR, our volunteers are welcomed each spring with a refresher meeting to hear about what is new and exciting. We truly value the support we receive from all of these individuals! Our energetic volunteers provide the public face of LongHouse at our openings, special programs, and events. Come to know LongHouse in its entirety. LHR needs help at the GateHouse, in the office, and docenting for school children and adult groups.
Also, LHR always needs volunteers in our garden. This is a terrific opportunity to learn a new skill while imparting a valuable contribution to the care of the property. Help is sought in all areas of horticultural maintenance and can include planting, weeding and pruning. Simply express your area of interest and we will be happy to accommodate you!
We encourage you to bring a friend! Please join us to hear how you can add to what LongHouse has to offer. We are so grateful for all that you are, and all that you do.
Friday, April 13; 10 am | RSVP to Joanne at 631.329.3568
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Summer Benefit Composition
At our annual summer benefit this year, we will honor two individuals whose talent and support we hold in the highest regard. Donning black, white and voguish yellow, we will celebrate the LongHouse Award with our Hampton’s neighbor and dear friend, Robert Wilson. Known as one of the world’s foremost artists, Bob is a distinguished performer, painter, sculptor, and lighting and sound designer. And this year our great supporter and champion of so many wonderful causes, Dorothy Lichtenstein, will be the recipient of the LongHouse Art Leadership Award. Dorothy is President of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. A graduate of Arcadia University, she became director of the pioneering Bianchini Art Gallery in New York, promoting the emergence of Pop art. She is committed to art, culture and scientific research. Dorothy is a member of several significant Boards, and is a member of the International Advisory Board for LHR.
Our benefit will take on even more of a celebratory significance with our founder’s 85th birthday! A remarkable evening is being planned! Please join us.
Saturday, July 21, 6pm
For tickets and sponsorship opportunities, please call Joanne @ 631.329.3568 or, email events@longhouse.org
Sponsored in part by BNY Mellon  Wealth Management.
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LongHouse Reserve at SOFA
This year’s SOFA (Sculpture, Object, and Functional Art) exhibition, April 19th though the 22nd will be held once again at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. This esteemed venue will showcase a LHR exhibit of Wharton Esherick pieces from LHR’s own collection. At the Designer’s Breakfast on April 20th Jack will present the LongHouse Prize for Best Artwork in Show and the Best Booth Design at SOFA New York.
Our connection to SOFA is strengthened on Saturday, April 21st, as Jack personally hosts a preview tour of LHR’s Accumulations: NOW exhibition, dedicated to the Morton Katzenberg family and Mark Lyman, founder/director of SOFA. Departing NYC at the Armory at 9am a chartered bus will bring attendees round trip from NYC.
$150/$120 members (box lunch included)
For reservations call Joanne at 631.329.3568 or email events@longhouse.org
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Gifts to LHR Collection
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Elephant Bench, 2008, by Judy Kensley McKie
grey Bardiglio marble, 2 of 6
27” x 70” x 25.5”
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Our collection became richer this year by the largest gift we ever received. This gift, over 50 pieces of seminal works in craft media, was generously contributed to LHR from the Dena and Morton Katzenberg collection. We also received work by Maria Rudavska gifted to us by Ron Kuchta. The most recent addition to our collection is an Elephant Bench by Judy Kensley McKie, partial gift by the artist and Pritam and Eames, with the generous support of the following donors: Elizabeth and Ted Rogers, Lauren Bedell and Michael Mills, Barbara Slifka, Katja Goldman and Michael Sonnenfeldt, Jack Lenor Larsen, and Jim Zajac.
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CALL FOR DOCENTS: Adult & School Groups
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Our ability to reach further into neighboring communities is becoming significant. And, our reputation continues to flourish with East End schools. With this growth comes the inevitable challenge of providing docents to lead LHR tours. Docents get so much joy from interacting with our attendees. We offer tours to both student and adult groups. So that no school or guests are declined, we are extending an invitation to all, to come to a Docents-in-Training session. Learn for yourself all that you can offer to our visitors. This is a fun and rewarding position. We know you will succeed! Let us get you completely comfortable with all that you can share about LongHouse. Bring a friend! E-mail Theresa Davis at tdavis@longhouse.org or call the office to let us know if you will attend. We are also more than happy to arrange another time to train one-on-one with you!
Docents-in-Training
Saturday April 14
Monday April 16
10am
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PRE-SEASON HAPPENINGS: Winter Benefit
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 A wonderful time was had by all who attended our great friend
Edward Albee’s revival of The Lady from Dubuque. Many thanks to Peter Wilson and Scott Saunders for graciously hosting our extended group. The evening began with cocktails and dinner in their beautiful penthouse overlooking the High Line. It ended with a standing ovation in the fabulous Signature Center.
Above: Jack Larsen with Edward Albee on stage during the Q&A after the performance; Below: Caroline Hansberry, David Remfry; Elizabeth Levine, Roseline Koener, Regina Levin |
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Above: Edward Albee, Dianne B. and Jack Larsen
Middle Row: Matko Tomicic, Dania Echemendia, Dianne Benson, Tara Durkan, Marcia Wilson, Herb Hellman, Nancy Hoving
Below: Peter Olsen, Mary McDonald, Guests enjoying the pre-performance gathering at the Penthouse apartment of Peter Wilson and Scott Saunders. |
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Above: Nancy Hoving, Peter Wilson, Louis & Jane Gropp; Mark & Elizabeth Levine
Middle Row: Mark & Jean Patiky, Ayse Kenmore & Lys Marigold; Aaron Lieber, Bruce Horten
Below: Scott Sanders, Barbara Slifka; Charlie & Mary Jane Brock; Madelaine Bennett |
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LONGHOUSE RESERVE WELCOMES OUR NEW BOARD MEMBERS
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We are very happy to have two new Board members and offer a hearty welcome to Dennis Schrader and Lee H. Skolnick. Their additional input and expertise will greatly enhance our mission at LHR.
Dennis Schrader: Dennis is a noted personality among New York’s horticultural circles, and is one of the foremost experts in the metropolitan area on plant production and garden design. He has operated Landcraft Environments Ltd., a wholesale greenhouse operation, since 1992. He collects rare seeds and plant material from around the world and grows them on trial display gardens before introducing these rarities to the gardening world. Landcraft ships plants to garden centers, public gardens and garden designers throughout the Northeast. Dennis is currently a contributing editor to Garden Design magazine.
Lee H. Skolnick: Lee is a graduate of Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. He seeks to synthesize art, science, and architecture to create memorable and meaningful experiences, pursuing his philosophy of “design as interpretation.” His New York based cultural clients include the Sony Wonder Technology Lab, the Paley Center for Media and the American Museum of Natural History. Lee currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the National Association for Museum Exhibition. As well, he is an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester in England.
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NEWS FROM THE GARDEN
In addition to all of our renovation and expansion, the gardens here will be better than ever! This year’s visitors will be greeted by thousands of new flowering bulbs – masses of them and drifts extending great distances! The new entrance path is banked with them, including a hundred stately foxtail lilies. These bulb plantings are also inclusive of drifts of bluebells under the dawn redwoods. Nearby, the late flowering flat-faced white daffodils should, in their second May, be glorious! Dennis Schrader from Landcraft Environments promises a fine new tropical display garden on either side of the new rill.
Our entire property will benefit from the updated and expanded irrigation system installed by R. B. IRRIGATION. R.B’s continued generosity and great workmanship goes far towards the upkeep of the gardens.
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Planters ON+OFF the Ground V Invitational
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Join us on Saturday, June 23 for our fifth Planters invitational. Along with Jack Larsen and our Garden Committee, judges will review and ribbon entries accommodating every vision imaginable! Each year this event gains momentum. The camaraderie among designers and the appreciation from spectators has earned this event a top spot in Hamptons horticultural events.
We are thrilled to have three prominent people in the world of design and creativity critiquing and presenting ribbons to the exhibitions: culinary icon and author Ina Garten, artist April Gornik and renowned architect Fred Stelle. The melding of these inventive minds is sure to make this competition of dream planters a very spirited event! And, in keeping with the tradition that has become so popular – the People’s Choice Award will also be presented. To complement this day Broken Arrow Nursery, from Hamden, Ct. will be selling a carefully chosen selection of their rare and unusual plants. Part of the proceeds from the sale will benefit LHR.
Saturday, June 23 on view through July 28
4:30 pm: Gardens open and Exhibition Preview
6:30 pm: Ribbon Presentation
by Ina Garten, April Gornik, and Fred Stelle
$20/$10
Planters: ON+OFF the Ground V is made possible with generous support by RB Irrigation.
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Ina Garten
Fred Stelle
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Yoshiko Wada Lecture – India Unfolds
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In great anticipation of our “Insider’s Tour: Passage to India” taking place this fall, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada will host this powerpoint lecture. Titled “India Unfolds: seen through an artist’s eyes,” she will explore the varied strands of traditions and cultural expressions practiced on the Indian subcontinent. With a focus on historical and traditional designs in architecture and textiles, weaving across landscapes and intertwining religious practices, Yoshiko will share her rich and flavorful experiences of her many travels across the subcontinent since 1983. This lecture will highlight India’s extraordinary sense of color and its practice of design, one imbued with cultural heritage that speaks of human relationships with remarkable people.
An artist, curator and textile researcher, Yoshiko has long been an exponent of traditional and sustainable practices in fashion and textile production. She received a BFA in Japan, a MFA in the United States, and was named a “2010 Distinguished Craft Educator – Master of Medium” by the James Renwick Alliance. Her research has yielded the definitive publications, Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing, and Memory on Cloth: shibori now. This fall, along with Jack, she will be leading the very first LHR tour to India.
Saturday May 5, 5:30 pm
$30/$20 member
For those interested in the LongHouse Insiders Tour: Passage to India (October 25-November 9) please call the office 631.329.3568 to obtain the detailed itinerary.
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ArtHamptons Opening Night Preview to Benefit LHR
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We are so privileged to be, yet again, the sole beneficiary of the proceeds of admission of the Opening Night Preview at the 2012 ArtHamptons Fine Arts Fair in Bridgehampton. This is the third year running that we have benefitted from this illustrious event. A host of internationally acclaimed galleries will be on site, exhibiting carefully curated works of modern and contemporary artists. Each year this evening takes on greater purpose and it is thrilling for LongHouse to receive the financial benefits from this merited Preview.
ArtHamptons Opening Night Preview to benefit
LongHouse Reserve
Thursday, July 12, 6–9:30pm; $125
6–7:30pm: Opening Preview Patron Party Benefiting LongHouse Reserve.
7:30–9:30pm $75 VIP Opening Reception Benefiting
LongHouse Reserve.
Valet Parking $20
Location: Sculpture Fields of Nova’s Ark is located at 60 Millstone Rd. (off Scuttle Hole Rd.), Bridgehampton, NY.
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Gifting to LongHouse
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Matching contributions, in which employers participate in a corporate gift-matching program, are an ever-increasingly popular way through which you can double your gift to LHR. Or, you may wish to consider a contribution of appreciated securities, thus avoiding capital gains tax, making you eligible for a tax deduction at appreciated value. Alternatively, life insurance, annuities and bequests can provide your family with additional income before your gift is used by LHR. Consult your professional financial advisor for tax and legal advice.
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On Leaving a Legacy: Planned Giving
We invite you to consider leaving a legacy to LongHouse. By including LongHouse as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy or as a recipient in your will, you will help to ensure that LongHouse continues to grow and thrive. You can earmark your gift. We will acknowledge and meticulously honor your intent.
Many options are available including a designation in your will, a charitable remainder trust, or as a beneficiary in your life insurance or retirement policies. Should you wish, we will work with you and your attorney or financial advisor.
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Each year the attendance at LongHouse Reserve increases. This growth will only be amplified with our recognition as a Residential Museum. Our small, dedicated staff thoughtfully conceives and executes our openings, programs, and lectures. The curated pieces of art are carefully selected and the gardens continue to thrive under watchful cultivation. Perhaps you have a favorite program that you look forward to participating in each season, or education in the Arts is vastly important to you. Is there a favorite garden you frequent on your visits to the property? LHR asks you to consider underwriting a current, on-going, or future event that makes your visits to us so meaningful. Consider financing educational activities like the Student Annual or underwriting the yearly updates of our popular LHR family activity guides. If the gorgeous grounds keep you returning you may wish to sponsor the ON+OFF the Ground invitational or endow a favored garden. For Patrons of the Arts, underwriting an installation or lecture, concert or special exhibition might be your contribution of choice. The LongHouse staff would be happy to work with you in identifying the program or event that specially suits your interests. It would be our pleasure to acknowledge your personal or corporate contribution in all of our publications, on the web, and at the event itself.
For information of the Capital Campaign, corporate or individual sponsorship, estate planning options, charitable gifts and /or planned giving, contact Executive Director, Matko Tomicic, at 631.329.3568.
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