“Settlement of Shapes” by Bastienne Schmidt photo courtesy of Sylvester Manor.
TICKETS
$20
*Tickets do not include a ferry ride or transportation
**All proceeds benefit The Church and Sylvester Manor
Please note this event has a limited capacity.
Meet at 10 AM on the Shelter Island side of the ferry
OR
Meet at 10:15 at Sylvester Manor
Tour begins at 10:30 AM
Let’s meet up and explore the cultural wilderness! Tom Cugliani, curator of the inaugural Sculpture @ Sylvester Manor exhibition, leads a specially reserved 90-minute tour for The Church participants. Meet us at the Shelter Island side of the Ferry Terminal at 10 AM or at Sylvester Manor at 10:15 AM and join us for a final look at the exhibition before it closes the following day. Transportation and ferry tickets are not included in the ticket price and must be purchased separately. If you are unable to secure transportation and are still interested in attending, get in contact! Please reach out to info@thechurchsagharbor.org.
The ambitious project, which spans a small portion of the woodlands and gardens of the former plantation, features 25 esteemed local artists. While some of the works included address the former slaveholding plantation’s past, others address the context of the natural landscape and the changes it has undergone. For more information about the exhibition and for a full list of artists please visit the Sylvester Manor exhibition page here.
TOM CUGLIANI
Curator
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TOM CUGLIANI, a lifelong resident of Shelter Island and an artworld professional for over thirty years, brings together an understanding of local sensibility and artworld expertise. Known for his ability to identify emerging artists, his eponymous gallery was the first to exhibit works by Christian Marclay, Jack Pierson, Charles LeDray, and others who have developed important professional careers. During the 1990’s Cugliani was the Marlborough Gallery point person for the American painter Alex Kats, 29 paintings by whom he placed into the Saatchi Collection, London, and was instrumental in organizing solo exhibitions of the artist’s paintings at PS1MoMA and MMK Frankfort. At that time, Cugliani was the curator of the Collection of Celebrity Cruise lines, managing a $30M art acquisition budget over a period of 6 years to furnish an expanding fleet of luxury vessels with contemporary art. Tom Cugliani has advised numerous private collections of contemporary art and currently resides on Shelter Island.
SYLVESTER MANOR
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The lands of Shelter Island’s Sylvester Manor were home for millennia to indigenous Manhansett people. The 236-acre site is the most intact remnant of a former slaveholding plantation north of Virginia. The site was home to eleven generations of Sylvester descendants, from 1652 until 2014, when it was gifted to the nonprofit organization Sylvester Manor. Over the past 370 years, Sylvester Manor has been a provisioning plantation, an Enlightenment-era farm, and a pioneering food industrialist’s summer estate. Today, the site includes a 1737 Manor House, a restored 19th-century windmill, an Afro-indigenous Burial Ground, and a working farm along with educational, history & heritage, and cultural arts programs open to all. Sylvester Manor was designated a Historic District of national significance on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.