East Hampton - Calling all artists! The 73rd Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition is accepting entrants through April 22. All registration materials are available online at GuildHall.org. The show opens Saturday, May 7 and runs through Saturday, June 11.

This is the oldest non-juried museum exhibition on Long Island and one of the few non-juried exhibitions still offered. It is open to every artist member of Guild Hall and the top honor of distinction is a solo exhibition in Guild Hall's Spiga Gallery. Categories include Best Representational Painting, Best Abstract Painting, Best Sculpture, Best Work on Paper, Best Mixed Media, Best Photograph and numerous Honorable Mention citations, along with the $250 Catherine and Theo Hios Landscape Award and the Best New Member Artist presented to one artist who is new to the members exhibition or who has not entered in the past five years. This Awards Judge is Deborah Cullen, Ph.D., Director of Curatorial Programs at El Museo del Barrio, New York. The exhibition is organized by Michelle Klein, Guild Hall Curatorial Assistant, and the installation is supervised by Christina Mossaides Strassfield, Director/Chief Curator, Guild Hall Museum. Select works are available for sale.

"This is my favorite exhibition of the year. Every artist in our community has the opportunity to exhibit their art in a museum setting," said Strassfield. "Each year we showcase approximately 350 artist members."

For 73 years Guild Hall Museum has reserved space in its exhibition schedule for the Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition. Artists, representing every level of development, enter to underscore their support for the museum and its dynamic role in the community as a Museum, Theater and Educational Arts Center. The exhibition is sponsored by Bridgehampton National Bank.

All registration materials available at GuildHall.org. Postmark Deadline is April 22.
For more information, call 631-324-0806 ext.19 or michelle@guildhall.org.

Saturday, May 7
From 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Open Reception: Guild Hall 73rd Artist Members Exhibition, on view through June 11 at The Museum at Guild Hall. Hours: Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, 12 noon to 5 p.m.;$7 suggested museum admission. Sponsored by Bridgehampton National Bank .

Saturday, June 4
At 1 p.m. Meet The Winners of the 73rd Annual Artist Members Exhibition, moderated by Klein, Assistant Curator/Lewis Be. Cullman Education Associate. Free with $7 suggested museum admission.

Saturday, June 11
At 3 p.m. Website Design for Artists - lecture on basics of website design. Free with $7 suggested museum admission.

Guild Hall Artist Members Show Awards Jurors

 • 2011 Deborah Cullen, Ph. D., Director of Curatorial Programs at El Museo del Barrio, NY
 • 2010 Benjamin Genocchio, Art Critic, The New York Times.
 • 2009 Jodi Hauptman, Curator in the Department of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art.
 • 2008 Linda Yablonsky, Art Critic, Bloomberg News
 • 2007 Faye Hirsch, Senior Art Editor, Art In America
 • 2006 Magdalena Dabrowski, Special Consultant, 19-century, Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 • 2005 Holly Block, Director of Art in General
 • 2004 Tracy Bashkoff, Associate Curator for Collections, Guggenheim Museum
 • 2003 Carolyn Lanchner, Former Curator, Museum of Modern Art
 • 2002 Amei Wallach, Free-lance Art Critic
 • 2001 Raphael Rubinstein, Senior Editor, Art in America
 • 2000 Lisa Phillips, Director, The New Museum of Contemporary Art
 • 1999 Gail Levin, Professor of Art History, Bernard Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
 • 1998 Patrick Murphy, Director of The Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
 • 1997 Arthur C. Danto, Art Critic, The Nation, and Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Columbia University
 • 1996 Dan Cameron, Senior Curator, The New Museum of Contemporary Art
 • 1995 Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Associate Curator, Brooklyn Museum of Art
 • 1994 Thomas McEvilley, Art Critic, Contributing Editor, ArtForum
 • 1993 Dianne Waldman, Deputy Director and Senior Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
 • 1992 Barbara Haskell, Curator, Whitney Museum of Art
 • 1991 Gary Sangster, Curator, The New Museum
 • 1990 John Perreault, Art Critic
 • 1989 Vivien Raynor, Art Critic, The New York Times
 • 1988 Amei Wallach, Chief Arts Critic, Newsday