Southampton Arts and Culture Committee
Sandrow founded, chairs the inaugural Town of Southampton Arts and Culture Committee (SHACC) devoted to arts and culture on the east end. Colleague committee members currently (2021) include artists Jeremy Dennis, Esly E. Escobar, Candace Hill, Hope Sandrow (Founder, chair), Andrina Smith, Shane Weeks (Secretary); arts professionals Longhouse Reserve Philanthropy Advisor Rebecca Chapman, Southampton Arts Center Executive Director Tom Dunn, Eastville Community Historical Society Executive Director and Curator Dr. Georgette Grier-Key; OLA Director and performing artist Minerva Perez, Watermill Center Director Elka Rifkin, Parrish Art Museum Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects Corinne Erni; Executive Director Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center of the Arts Tracy Mitchell; The Nurtury for Kids founder, director Mark-Antonio Smith; Parrish Museum Art Education Director Cara Conklin Wingfield;; Wildlife and Nature Advocates Jane Gill, Kathleen Marder.
"Southampton Arts and Culture Committee is my medium to engage colleagues and East End Residents in creating the cultural landscape we want to live in, Sandrow says. I’ve founded, with the support of Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman, and will chair the first committee of its kind in the Town of Southampton, New York. At a critical time to pose questions locally; nationally; globally.”
SHACC broadens the focus of open air studio from Sandrow's own backyard (Shinnecock Hills), and those of Sandrow's neighbors (Sketches of Local History) to the east end of Long Island. In this municipal partnership with locally elected officials and governments.
“We have committees on practically everything, but we don’t have a committee on arts and culture,” Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said after the April 25 Town Board meeting at which the board unanimously approved the creation of the committee. “Now we will be having a committee that could help promote the arts.”
The Southampton Arts and Culture Committee (SHACC)’s mission is to advise the Town of Southampton on promoting greater exposure and participation in arts and culture-related activities through creative collaboration. Founded in 2017, its goal is to inspire engagement with art in historical, cultural, and social contexts on the East End of Long Island.
A new arts and culture committee was recently established in Southampton Town
April 26, 2017
Southampton Town has High Hopes for New Arts and Culture Committee
May 16 2017
Southampton Arts & Culture Committee's Inaugural Day Tour To Visit Two Iconic Hamptons Sites September 2018
SHACC on the Road by Minerva Perez
Southampton Town Arts Calendar On Web
September 18 2018)
Southampton Arts And Culture Committee Bus Tour Will Visit Parrish, Dan Flavin Institute
February 14 2019
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Southampton Town Arts And Culture Committee Tour Rolls Out Again
April 5, 2019
Southampton Town Leads Art Tour on May 18
May 14 2019
Southampton Town Arts and Culture Committee Rolls Out Autumn Tour
October 16 2019
Southampton Arts And Culture: On The Road Again
OCTOBER 29, 2019
UPDATE May 2020: Due to continuing concerns for health and safety around Covid19, SHACC has temporarily suspended all public programming including SHACC on the Road and Town Hall meetings until further notice.
UPDATE OCtober 2020: Virtual meetings held weekly (since May 12 2020) hosted by Town of Southampton Councilman SHACC Liaison Tommy John Schiavoni. Discussions relate to the impact of Covid19 mandates on the east end arts and culture community. Including conducting a study of the impact that Arts and Culture have on the community as a whole.
Monday, June 19, 2017
Photographed at inaugural meeting in front of Southampton Town Hall.
June 19, 2017) (l to r) include Marguerite Smith, Kelly Dennis, Denise Silva-Dennis, Jeremy Dennis, Geoffrey Drummond, Eric Dever, Annie Plumb, April Gornik, Carolyn Oldenbusch, Phyllis Hollis, Jane Iselin, Scott Bluedorn, Bridgett LeRoy, Charlie Charzuh, Shane Weeks, Elka Rifkin, Amy Kirwin, Irene Tully, Laura Devinney, Melissa Parsoff, Barbara Kushner, Thomas J. Farrell, Julie Jacobs, Nina Yankowitz, Barry Holden, Terrie Sultan, James Slezak, Blair Seagram, Lillian Ball, Bonnie Doyle, Maria Hults, John Boyd, Cholena Smith, Hope Sandrow pictured by Ulf Skogsbergh all rights reserved 2017; and below, Hope Sandrow, Sept 10 2019, Shinnecock Nation artist Shane Weeks performs traditional welcoming ceremony beginning each SHACC meeting and event. (l to r) Esly E. Escobar, Ulf Skogsbergh, Patricia Paladines, Jane Gill, Anne Welker, Heather Meehan, Dan Weldin, Tom Dunn
SHACC is a project similar in context to Sandrow’s public art project Artist & Homeless Collaborative (A&HC, 1990-1996) sited at the 68th Regiment Armory Park Avenue Shelter for Women. A municipal partnership of artists, arts professionals, shelter residents with the NYC mayoral administrations of Ed Koch, David Dinkins, Rudy Giuliani. Honored by (1994) National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Governor’s Award, New York City HRA Volunteer Service Award; (1993) New York City HRA Volunteer Service Award, Mayor Dinkins Superstar Award; (1992) Andy Warhol Foundation Grant; (1991) Manhattan Borough President's Citation for Excellence in the Arts; (1990) ArtMatters Fellowship; National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Special Projects Grant; (1989) New York City HRA Volunteer Service Award.
Commemorated in the upcoming exhibit Art for Change: The Artist & Homeless Collaborative, curated by Rebecca Klassen and Laura Mogulescu at the New York Historical Society (June - Sept 2020 postponed to October - February 2021 due to COVID19 mandates for museums).
(Excerpt copied from text of the Skowhegan Governors Award (1994) “For the past six years, artist Hope Sandrow has marshaled a .. radically unpredictable, and consistently enthusiastic coterie of art workers and has transformed them into ... The Artist & Homeless Collaborative. She founded the Collaborative as a component of her art making which has become a fertile ground for the creation of innovative and moving works of art. The fruits of A&HC labors have been exhibited at the Alternative Museum, The Whitney Museum, Henry Street Settlement, Art in General, and the Aldrich Museum. Hope has shown all of them the way. Perhaps the ultimate compliment comes from one of the participants herself, resident artist Lonzetta Poole; ”I often wondered what the quotation meant “Without art a nation perishes or is reduced to the bare essentials of life. Comparing this idea to the shelter means the same. With art we are better for these positive effects.”
Thomas Sokolowski, 1994