Parrish Art Museum

Film & Talk | Giving Birth In America: Arkansas
2024-08-09 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Parrish Art Museum, 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, NY, 11976, United States
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$10 Members | $20 Adults & Resident Benefit Pass | $18 Seniors | $15 Member’s Guest | Free for Students & Children
Join us for a screening of the short film Giving Birth in America: Arkansas followed by a panel conversation with exhibiting artists Julia Chiang, Sam Moyer, and Every Mother Counts founder and president Christy Turlington Burns. The film follows three mothers as they grapple with mental health concerns, lack of paid leave, and other challenges in the days, weeks, and months following birth, vividly painting a picture of the gaps in the current landscape of postpartum care. The film highlights the essential role of community-based support, especially within historically marginalized communities. Julia Chiang and Sam Moyer will be joined in conversation with Christy Turlington Burns as they discuss themes in the film, their approach to work as mothers, and how their maternal experiences affect and inspire their art.
Giving Birth in America: Arkansas is the seventh chapter in Every Mother Counts’ Giving Birth in America film series. This film spotlights Arkansas, the state with the highest maternal mortality rate across the United States. The short film vividly paints a picture of the reality of the postpartum experience. More than half of all maternal deaths take place during the postpartum period, yet this stage of pregnancy is often overlooked.
About Julia Chiang
Julia Chiang (American, b. 1978) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and studied Studio Art and Art History at New York University. Chiang has recently been featured in solo-exhibitions at Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, and The Journal Gallery, New York. This year, she created a mural with RxART for the new SUNY Upstate Nappi Wellness Institute in Syracuse, NY. In 2022, Chiang was commissioned by Rockaway Hotel and Spa for the “Rockaway Mural” in Queens, NY. She has been an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado, The Creative Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital, Henry Street Settlement in New York, HAP Clay Studios in Beijing, and Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont.
About Sam Moyer
Sam Moyer (American, b. 1983) received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and her MFA from Yale University. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Bass Museum, Miami; the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; the Drawing Center, New York; the FLAG Art Foundation, New York; the Hill Art Foundation, New York; LAND, Los Angeles; MoMA PS1, Queens; the Parrish Art Museum, New York; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; and White Flag Projects, St. Louis. Moyer’s large-scale outdoor sculpture Doors for Doris (2020), commissioned by Public Art Fund, was on view in the Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park, New York from September 2020 through October 2021. Her recent solo exhibitions include Memory Mine (2023) at the Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn; Relief (2022) at Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; Good Friend (2021) at Kayne Griffin, Los Angeles; and Tone (2021) at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
Moyer’s work is featured in prominent public collections, including the Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Massachusetts; the Morgan Library & Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; and the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris.
About Every Mother Counts
Motivated by the belief that maternal health is a human right, Every Mother Counts works to advance evidence-based strategies to address the global maternal health crisis and improve maternal health outcomes and the experience of care for all. EMC supports community-centered care and workforce development by raising awareness, investing in community-led solutions, and advocating for critical systems change. To date, EMC has invested over $42M to make pregnancy and childbirth safe, respectful, and equitable for everyone, everywhere.
Friday Nights at the Parrish are made possible by The Corcoran Group.

Film | 5th Annual Black Film Festival, Part I
2024-08-23 18:00 - 21:00
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$13 Members | $13 Friends of BHCCRC | $20 Adults & Resident Benefit Pass | $18 Seniors | $15 Member’s Guest | Free for Students & Children
Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land, 2023, 93 min. Directed by Eternal Polk
Join us for the 5th Annual Black Film Festival, Part I, as the Parrish continues its annual collaboration with the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center, Suffolk County Office of Minority Health, the Witness Project of Long Island, and Black Public Media. The Black Film Festival, Part I, will screen Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land, a new, stirring documentary from Executive Producer Al Roker, that examines the cause and effects of the issues and experiences of people impacted by land loss.
The Black Film Festival presents award-winning short and feature films and documentaries that highlight the work of black filmmakers as well as stories that describe and elevate black lives and experiences, touching on current sociopolitical topics, art, music, performance, mental and physical health, among others. Films are selected by a committee representing the Parrish Art Museum, Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center, the Witness Project of Long Island, and the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, Office of Minority Health, as well as a small group of dedicated individuals.
About the Film
By 1910, Black Americans had amassed 60 million acres of farmland. In 2023, that number has dropped to 3.9 million acres. Violence, eminent domain, and government discrimination—all had an impact. But it is a little-known issue, Heirs’ Property which has had a devastating effect on Black land ownership. Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land from Emmy Nominated Director Eternal Polk examines the causes, effects, and what is being done to fight the exploitation of this law and how landowners are reclaiming their agricultural legacy and creating paths to generational wealth.
Watch the trailer here.
Schedule
5 PM | Museum Tour of exhibitions on view, led by Chief Curator Corinne Erni
6 PM | Screening Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land
7:45–9 PM | Post-film Reception and Discussion
Save the Date
Black Film Festival, Part II, will be held on Friday, November 8, 2024.
Support for the Black Film Festival is provided by Suffolk County Office of Cultural Affairs; Support for Friday Nights is provided by The Corcoran Group.

Film & Talk | Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads & Hallucinations
2024-08-30 18:00 - 20:00
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$13 Museum Members | $20 Adults & Resident Passholders | $18 Seniors | $15 Member’s Guest | $10 Students | $5 Children
Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads & Hallucinations, 2023, 73 min., Directed by Matt Creed.
Join us for a special film screening of Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads & Hallucinations, presented in collaboration with Hamptons International Film Festival. The screening is followed by a Q&A with Producer Jacqueline Sischy, as well as a light reception and poster reveal for the 32nd Annual Hamptons International Film Festival, created by renowned contemporary artist Mary Heilmann.
About Mary Heilmann
Born in 1940 in San Francisco, California, Mary Heilmann earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1962), and an MA from the University of California, Berkeley (1967). She moved to New York the following year, in 1968. Since then, Heilmann’s work has appeared in three Whitney Biennial exhibitions (1972, 1989, 2008) and is included in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco MoMA, National Gallery of Art, the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, Netherlands, and the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.
Heilmann’s work is in the permanent collection of the Parrish, and she most recently participated in Artists Choose Parrish, Part I, in 2023. This documentary offers a visually immersive journey through the artist’s life, using rare archival material and in-studio footage to explore her mind and practice.
Learn more about Hamptons International Film Festival here.
Friday Nights are made possible by support from The Corcoran Group. Support for films at the Parrish is provided in part by Suffolk County Office of Cultural Affairs.
