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11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Juneteenth 2023 Celebration
11:30 am - 6:30 pm
Juneteenth 2023 – SIPPING SERIES: SPIRITS OF SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS – PART II
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2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
FILM & TALK | SAG HARBOR SANS COMMUNITY
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
A Juneteenth Celebration – Remembering Harry Belafonte
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2023 JUNETEENTH ANNUAL CELEBRATION
HOMECOMING
Friday June 16, 2023 6pm - 11pm
Keynote Speaker:
Charnele Dozier
Karen Charnele (née Dozier; born October 30, 1960) is an American actress, producer, writer, fashion designer and singer. Dozier is perhaps best known for her role as Kimberly Reese on NBC comedy sitcom A Different World from 1988 until 1993.
Born in East Hampton, Dozier is a graduate of East Hampton High School.
Dozier later attended the State University of New York at New Paltz Where she studied acting with other notables, including Aida Turturro. Dozier made her Broadway debut in 1989 as the first American member of the South African musical “Sarafina!” Other stage performances have included the roles of Polly and Delores in “The Trials and Tribulations of Stagger Lee Brown,” Ruby in “The Lord’s Will,” Marty in “Sisters” and Mable in “My Diary.” After A Different World ended, Dozier guest starred on sitcoms such as Living Single, Martin, and Girlfriends. She made a brief appearance in a movie titled How Ya Like Me Now? that starred Darnell Williams and Salli Richardson.
Guest soloist: Nah-tarsha Cherry
Christian/Gospel Music Artist
Nah-Tarsha Cherry with her praise and worship style mixed with jazz, R&B, and even a little rock and roll, can’t be defined and has never been boxed in musically. God definitely uses her gift to be a blessing to the un-churched as well as the believer. Nah-Tarsha has once said she was put on this earth to minister and that she would do that until the day she dies. As she continues walking into her destiny and allowing God to carve space for her in this industry, eyes have not seen, nor have ears heard so just stay tuned… Nah-Tarsha Cherry is a native of Southampton.
NIGHT WILL END WITH DJ INFMATICK
DJ Infmatick, one of New York’s most versatile DJ’s, was born and raised in Long Island, New York. Born into a family of musical legends and talents, DJ Infmatick discovered his love for all types of music at a very young age. He was one of the “infamous” DJ’s on the live broadcasts of Beats Rhymes and Life Radio.
saturday June 17, 2023
SELF-GUIDED
Museum Tours
11AM - 2:30pm
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inspiring panel discussion with panelist who grew up here
“How has Our World Changed?”
- Charnele Dozier (actress in “A Different World”) – an American actress, producer, writer, fashion designer and singer. Dozier is perhaps best known for her role as Kimberly Reese on NBC comedy sitcom A Different World from 1988 until 1993.
- Wendell Brown (also former child TV actor). Wendell Brown a child actor in a Warner brothers movie “Up The Academy”, ABC monkey “Dreams Don’t Die, the voice of Billy Jo Jive cartoons on Sesame Street, a NBC special treat called “ A Piece of Cake with Ossie Davis and Al Freeman Jr. and over 200 commercials, assorted print adds and radio commercials.
- Kenny Browning (Broadway Actor). Kenny Browning won an acting scholarship to Weist-Barron Studios trained in acting for film and television with Emmy award winning director Peter Miner, Emmy award nominated director Norman Hall and award winning director and acclaimed acting coach David Triacca. and recently an extraordinary lead role as “Othello”!
- Mark Johnson (V.P./Community Development Manager at Truist born raised in Southampton)
Continue the Juneteenth Celebration
Father’s Day Weekend
with June 17 ArtSoul “Summer Sipping Series”
ArtSoul in the Hampton created by “ Coordinator Extrodinaire”Yaya Reyes to celebrate influential and emerging BIPOC artists living in the Hamptons community and beyond.
This series of events inaugurated last year supports and connects artists with art curators, collectors, and supporters.
The first event this year was The Art Walk which kicked off the unofficial weekend of summer with the first stop at the Southampton African American Museum (SAAM), founded by Brenda Simmons. SAAM is currently featuring international contemporary artist Demarcus McGaughey, who has a residency through July 22, 2023.
This extraordinary partnership with ArtSoul in the Hamptons bringing people from near and far literally putting SAAM on the map as a great exceptional designation to The Hamptons!
JUNE 19, 4 - 6PM
FILM & TALK | SAG HARBOR SANS COMMUNITY
Co-presented with Eastville Community Historical Society and Southampton African American Museum
$16 Adults | $12 Seniors | $10 Members | $5 for Students, Children
To celebrate Juneteenth and delve into the diversity of the East End, in collaboration with Eastville Community Historical Society and the Southampton African American Museum, the Parrish Art Museum will host a screening of AppleTV’s HOME (Season 2, Ep. 5, 35 minutes) and New York Times Magazine’s A Beach of Our Own (9 minutes).
The film screenings will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Renee Simons, SANS Sag Harbor President; Dr. Georgette Grier-Key, Executive Director of Eastville Community Historical Society; Dr. Beverly Granger, artist and SANS resident; and Sarah Kautz, Consultant, Cultural resources and preservation; moderated by Brenda Simmons, Executive Director of Southampton African American Museum. The panel will reflect on the films and how Sag Harbor Village’s historically Black subdivisions–Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, Ninevah, collectively known as SANS–came into being in the mid-20th century and have remained a haven for African American families on the East End.
Public programs are made possible, in part, by Weill-Cornell Medicine – Southampton and The Corcoran Group.
ON VIEW:
Artist Demarcus McGaughey: "KindRED"
Demarcus McGaughey was doing a residency at Ma’s House on the Shinnecock Reservation in Southampton and was encouraged to visit the Southampton African American Museum (SAAM) last summer.
He was eager to learn about the BIPOC community and especially the Black community that he did not know or think existed in Southampton (aka The Hamptons). After spending a few hours with Demarcus we felt a connection with the importance of preserving family history.
So Demarcus will be our 2023 Opening Art Exhibition entitled “ Kindred”. This exhibition will featured portraits of his family legacy which captured and align with our mission:
To promote an understanding and appreciation of African American culture by creating programs that will preserve the past, encourage learning and enhance the life of the community. SAAM will research and collect local history, produce media events, create exhibitions and community celebrations.
“Kindred” is multi-media artist Demarcus McGaughey’s most intimate and revealing series of work yet. One might describe it as his “long walk home.” Reflective and poignant, it comprises a multitude of timeless reminders of family moments. “Kindred” honors the sometimes-forgotten ancestry of Black Americans while acknowledging the cultural contribution of his family beyond enslavement.
The series comprises over 40 mixed media pieces exploring memory, identity, and spirituality and are inspired by his rediscovery of family photographs and cherished stories. These images reacquainted Demarcus with his history and reaffirmed for him the importance of understanding the impact of his family’s existence in the American south for more than five generations.
“While creating the work for ‘Kindred,’ I transported myself to a time where the appreciation of tangible items held a weight much heavier than present day,” he says. In a world where digital content is king, Demarcus honors his family’s legacy by way of family photo albums, boxes of snapshots, and generations of memorable stories. The work informs his ability to take his artistry and aesthetic to new heights.
“This is what I’m made of,” he says. “A tribe of ancestral family, friends, entrepreneurs, believers, and givers who transformed their lives through faith, familial bonds, love, hard work, fearlessness, and song. My goal was to reclaim their personhood in a society that challenged their very rite to fully exist.” The works are a canonization of his ancestors as symbols of divinity and triumph; spiritual icons ever watching over those who acknowledge that they were here.
With paper collage, inherited fabrics that belonged to his grandmother, acrylic, and resin on canvas, you are invited to view a collection of memories and documentation of culture through Demarcus’ eyes. The choice of dimensions for these generational treasures and keepsakes are small with the artist’s desire to share with you weathered yet impressive family tales. His hope is that you will see you and your family in his.
Demarcus McGaughey, a Texas native and New York-based mixed media artist, passionately captures the beauty, strength, and vibrancy of people of color.
Inspired by his mother as a child, he sharpened his artistic talents by coloring within the lines of her tracings. Eventually, he tapped into his storehouse of magic that pushed him to color outside the lines and chart an artistic path of his own.
McGaughey specializes in a style that combines painting, photography, mixed media, and graphic design. This elixir of artistic elements stems from his fruitful stint in corporate advertising and graphic design. Post undergrad, he licensed his time and talents to ad agencies and corporations as a freelance designer. Since then, he’s developed a mastery of graphics, product development, branding, and brand coaching.
In the early days of his career, he found graphics to be the ideal catalyst to tell stories for other people. But it was through painting that he discovered an avenue to tell stories, his way. His vibrant portraits capture elements of his world travels, his family, and his community. Each painting, a love letter to the world, declaring, “I see you and I hear you.” Behind his art, resides a lifelong fascination with human psychology. McGaughey has always been intrigued by the mind, especially the stories people tell themselves.
As a result, in his art he assumes a narrator role—telling heroic stories of his subject’s self-actualization and self-determination. As a certified life coach, he passionately empowers his coaching community that life is what you create it to be. His portraiture work reveals triumphant tales of African American subjects who have manifested their destiny with a particular focus on the eyes, the window to the soul. McGaughey also pays homage to cultural influences with elements of pop art, mass media, comic books, and advertising in his pieces. Inspired by Barkley Hendricks, who famously painted Black people in all their coolness, McGaughey portrays his people in a larger-than-life display.
Drawing inspiration from Andy Warhol’s acclaimed artistry in pop art and advertising along with Kehinde Wiley’s massive masterpieces, McGaughey’s work exudes an undeniable flow. Throughout his 20-year art career, McGaughey has worked with prestigious brands and organizations, including Beyoncé Knowles Carter and beverage giant Dr. Pepper. His work has been highlighted in numerous magazines and galleries stateside in New York and Texas, and globally in Spain. He has completed art residencies with Mas el sigols in Barcelona, Nfinit Foundation Arts Residency in Brooklyn, and Art Crawl Harlem in New York. He has the distinct honor of being selected as a 2021 Artist-In-Residence at Chateau Orquevaux in France. Through his captivating lens, Demarcus McGaughey hopes to continue to inform inspiring stories of Black triumph.
