These long days of summer are the perfect time to come explore the outdoors at Wave Hill, from the cool trails through our woodlands to the shaded paths along the Aquatic Garden. My favorite in summer is the still the benches of the Pergola overlooking the Hudson River. Potted plants overflow with color and the lush planting overhead seem to cover every beam.
Caribbean-born artists Paloma McGregor McGregor and Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow will each be performing in separate pieces Sunday afternoon. They will close out our summer exhibit This Place We Once Remembered, exploring memories and ancestral pasts and the way that are bound to the intersection of nature, culture and site.
Family Art Project: Nighttime Creepy Crawlies
Free with admission to the grounds
Registration is not required
What sort of bugs come out at night? Discover all the different insects that buzz and fly through our summer nights. Create a handmade creepy crawly model using a simple paper-mâché method. The program takes place indoors in the Kerlin Learning Center located on the lower level of Wave Hill House.
Public Gallery Tour
Free with admission to the grounds
Registration is not required
Exhibitions at Glyndor Gallery explore the dynamic relationship between nature, culture and site. When exhibitions are open, Gallery Greeters lead public gallery tours on Thursdays and Saturdays. Visitors can expect an in-depth look at artworks on view in Glyndor Gallery and in the Sunroom Project Space, showcasing the work of both emerging and established artists in a unique environment. Each tour lasts approximately 45 minutes.
Performance & Exhibition Closing: Paloma McGregor
Sun, August 6, 2023, 12:00PM
Free with admission to the grounds
Registration is encouraged but not required; online or by calling 718.549.3200 x251
On the closing weekend of the Glyndor Gallery exhibition This Place We Once Remembered, Paloma McGregor will present a site-specific performance from her ongoing project Building a Better Fishtrap, responding to the themes of the exhibition. The exhibition features work by former Winter Workspace artists-in-residence that conjure memories, moving between ancestral pasts and speculative futures. Exploring the body’s capacity to carry memory forward, somatic and performative works create living archives of ancestral traditions and violent histories. The performance takes place outdoors; please dress with that in mind.
Free with admission to the grounds
Registration is encouraged but not required; online or by calling 718.549.3200 x251
On the closing weekend of the Glyndor Gallery exhibition This Place We Once Remembered, Paloma McGregor will present a site-specific performance from her ongoing project Building a Better Fishtrap, responding to the themes of the exhibition. The exhibition features work by former Winter Workspace artists-in-residence that conjure memories, moving between ancestral pasts and speculative futures. Exploring the body’s capacity to carry memory forward, somatic and performative works create living archives of ancestral traditions and violent histories. The performance takes place outdoors; please dress with that in mind.
Public Garden Highlights Walk
Free with admission to the grounds
Registration is not required
Join a knowledgeable Wave Hill Garden Guide for a leisurely stroll in the gardens. Topics vary by season and the expertise of the Guide--come back for an encore; each walk varies with the Guide leading it. This walk lasts a half-hour to 45 minutes. Severe weather cancels.
Performance: Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
Sun, August 6, 3:00PM
Free with admission to the grounds
Registration encouraged but not required, online or by calling 718.549.3200 x251
Exploring performance and installation, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow’s work draws from the nostalgia of her Jamaican homeland, Caribbean folklore, fantasy, feminism, globalism, spirituality and environmentalism. Her performance Living Her-Stories of Sugar is adapted in part from the 2022 play Living Histories of Sugar, directed by Dr. Marisa Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, with scholarly research accredited to Diana Paton, William Robertson Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. In the original production, Lyn-Kee-Chow was one of six performance artists and scholars on the three-year project who have generational or familial links to the histories of enslavement in the Caribbean and the sugar industry in Scotland. In her performance at Wave Hill, taking place on Jamaica’s Independence Day (August 6), she reprises two of her original roles in the play, with monologues by Sarah Williams, an enslaved Black woman, and by Mary Williamson, a free mixed-race woman of African and European descent who addresses the importance of gardening as a strategy of survival and resistance.
Free with admission to the grounds
Registration encouraged but not required, online or by calling 718.549.3200 x251
Exploring performance and installation, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow’s work draws from the nostalgia of her Jamaican homeland, Caribbean folklore, fantasy, feminism, globalism, spirituality and environmentalism. Her performance Living Her-Stories of Sugar is adapted in part from the 2022 play Living Histories of Sugar, directed by Dr. Marisa Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, with scholarly research accredited to Diana Paton, William Robertson Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. In the original production, Lyn-Kee-Chow was one of six performance artists and scholars on the three-year project who have generational or familial links to the histories of enslavement in the Caribbean and the sugar industry in Scotland. In her performance at Wave Hill, taking place on Jamaica’s Independence Day (August 6), she reprises two of her original roles in the play, with monologues by Sarah Williams, an enslaved Black woman, and by Mary Williamson, a free mixed-race woman of African and European descent who addresses the importance of gardening as a strategy of survival and resistance.
Public Garden Highlights Walk
Free with admission to the grounds
Registration is not required
Join a knowledgeable Wave Hill Garden Guide for a leisurely stroll in the gardens. Topics vary by season and the expertise of the Guide--come back for an encore; each walk varies with the Guide leading it. This walk lasts a half-hour to 45 minutes. Severe weather cancels.
HOURS: 10AM–5:30PM, Tuesday–Sunday
Shuttle Service runs Thursday–Sunday
Information at 718.549.3200. On the web at wavehill.org
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