Armed with a newly finished, state-of-the-art renovation, East Hampton’s Guild Hall, now in it’s 94th year and led by executive director Andrea Grover, continues to lead the East End’s charge for celebrating, preserving and presenting the arts.
Open since 1931, early Guild Hall trustees were mostly members of the social elite, usually conservative and with token representation from the year-round community. That quickly changed as intentions shifted to make the locale not only a welcoming place for community members who appreciated the arts, but a gathering place for the artists themselves.
“[Mary Woodhouse] believed that we’d be better neighbors, we’d be better critical thinkers, we’d be more engaged in civic life if we experienced art together,” says Grover. “I’ve found it hard to find an organization exactly like ours anywhere.”
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