Installation view of Regeneration: Long Island’s History of Ecological Art and Care at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (February 22–June 14, 2026). Photo: © Gary Mamay.
Earth Day Panel with Robert Rauschenberg Foundation & Reception | Regeneration
Open to All, With Helen Hsu of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and artists in the Regeneration exhibition, Moderated by Associate Curator Scout Hutchinson
April 18, 2 pm - 4 pm
Free for Members | Free for Resident Benefits PassHolders | $25 Guests of Member | $30 Adults | Free for Students & Children
As we celebrate Regeneration: Long Island’s History of Ecological Art and Care, Earth Day, and Robert Rauschenberg’s Centennial, join us in the Lichtenstein Theater at 2 PM for a conversation between Helen Hsu, Associate Curator for Research at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and artists in the Regeneration exhibition, moderated by Scout Hutchinson, The FLAG Art Foundation Associate Curator at the Parrish. A reception will follow the talk at 3 PM.
American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) designed the first Earth Day poster in 1970 and engaged with ecological issues throughout his career. In this panel discussion, Hsu will expand on the environmental facets of Rauschenberg’s practice, and artists featured in Regeneration: Long Island’s History of Ecological Art and Care will speak to their approach to ecological concerns in their work. The conversation will reflect on Rauschenberg’s legacy and the broader question of art’s role in relation to activism and social issues.
Advance registration is recommended. Limited spaces will be available at the door.
This panel discussion is organized in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
About the Robert Rauschenberg Centennial
With support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Parrish Art Museum joins an international roster of institutions commemorating the artist’s 100th birthday. Rauschenberg’s conviction that engagement with art can nurture people’s sensibilities as individuals, community members, and citizens was key to his ethos. The Centennial celebrations seek to allow audiences familiar with him and those encountering the artist for the first time to form fresh perspectives about his art work.
A year of global activities and exhibitions in honor of Rauschenberg’s Centennial reexamines the artist through a contemporary lens, highlighting his enduring influence on generations of artists and advocates for social progress. The Centennial’s activation of the artist’s legacy promotes cross-disciplinary explorations and creates opportunities for critical dialogue. Learn more by visiting rauschenbergfoundation.org.
About the Exhibition
Regeneration: Long Island’s History of Ecological Art and Care (February 22–June 14, 2026) explores our responsibility to the natural world that sustains us. The exhibition features eleven intergenerational artists with strong ties to Long Island and New York whose works stem from an active involvement with the environmental challenges that impact the East End. Working in indoor and outdoor sculpture, painting, collage, installation, photography, and video, the artists address rising sea levels, depleted natural habitats, and ocean pollution from a place of curiosity, hope, and shared responsibility, modeling alternative and restorative ways of engaging with the non-human world. The exhibition includes new work by Hanis Coos artist Sara Siestreem created during a yearlong collaboration with the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers. Additional artists include Scott Bluedorn, Jeremy Dennis, Sasha Fishman, Maya Lin, Tucker Marder, Mamoun Nukumanu, Cindy Pease Roe, Randi Renate, Alan Sonfist, and Michelle Stuart.
Regeneration is part of the Museum’s USA250: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, a year-long program organized in response to the United States’ semiquincentennial in 2026. The USA250 exhibition series will reflect on the nation’s history and founding values, examine our present moment, and imagine new ways of moving forward, while recognizing the contributions of regional artists to the broader landscape of American art and culture. Responding to language in the Declaration of Independence that states “life” as one of the inalienable rights, Regeneration explores our responsibility to the various forms of life that sustain us.
Regeneration is co-organized by Scout Hutchinson, The FLAG Art Foundation Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, and Corinne Erni, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator of Art and Education.
Exhibition Support
Regeneration: Long Island’s History of Ecological Art and Care is made possible, in part, thanks to the generous support of Lois Whitman-Hess and Eliot Hess; the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation; Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder; and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
We are also grateful to Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, for their in-kind support.
The Parrish Art Museum’s programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and by the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.
Earth Day Panel with Robert Rauschenberg Foundation & Reception | Regeneration
Open to All, With Helen Hsu of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and artists in the Regeneration exhibition, Moderated by Associate Curator Scout Hutchinson
April 18, 2 pm - 4 pm
Free for Members | Free for Resident Benefits PassHolders | $25 Guests of Member | $30 Adults | Free for Students & Children
As we celebrate Regeneration: Long Island’s History of Ecological Art and Care, Earth Day, and Robert Rauschenberg’s Centennial, join us in the Lichtenstein Theater at 2 PM for a conversation between Helen Hsu, Associate Curator for Research at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and artists in the Regeneration exhibition, moderated by Scout Hutchinson, The FLAG Art Foundation Associate Curator at the Parrish. A reception will follow the talk at 3 PM.
American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) designed the first Earth Day poster in 1970 and engaged with ecological issues throughout his career. In this panel discussion, Hsu will expand on the environmental facets of Rauschenberg’s practice, and artists featured in Regeneration: Long Island’s History of Ecological Art and Care will speak to their approach to ecological concerns in their work. The conversation will reflect on Rauschenberg’s legacy and the broader question of art’s role in relation to activism and social issues.
Advance registration is recommended. Limited spaces will be available at the door.
This panel discussion is organized in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
About the Robert Rauschenberg Centennial
With support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Parrish Art Museum joins an international roster of institutions commemorating the artist’s 100th birthday. Rauschenberg’s conviction that engagement with art can nurture people’s sensibilities as individuals, community members, and citizens was key to his ethos. The Centennial celebrations seek to allow audiences familiar with him and those encountering the artist for the first time to form fresh perspectives about his art work.
A year of global activities and exhibitions in honor of Rauschenberg’s Centennial reexamines the artist through a contemporary lens, highlighting his enduring influence on generations of artists and advocates for social progress. The Centennial’s activation of the artist’s legacy promotes cross-disciplinary explorations and creates opportunities for critical dialogue. Learn more by visiting rauschenbergfoundation.org.
About the Exhibition
Regeneration: Long Island’s History of Ecological Art and Care (February 22–June 14, 2026) explores our responsibility to the natural world that sustains us. The exhibition features eleven intergenerational artists with strong ties to Long Island and New York whose works stem from an active involvement with the environmental challenges that impact the East End. Working in indoor and outdoor sculpture, painting, collage, installation, photography, and video, the artists address rising sea levels, depleted natural habitats, and ocean pollution from a place of curiosity, hope, and shared responsibility, modeling alternative and restorative ways of engaging with the non-human world. The exhibition includes new work by Hanis Coos artist Sara Siestreem created during a yearlong collaboration with the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers. Additional artists include Scott Bluedorn, Jeremy Dennis, Sasha Fishman, Maya Lin, Tucker Marder, Mamoun Nukumanu, Cindy Pease Roe, Randi Renate, Alan Sonfist, and Michelle Stuart.
Regeneration is part of the Museum’s USA250: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, a year-long program organized in response to the United States’ semiquincentennial in 2026. The USA250 exhibition series will reflect on the nation’s history and founding values, examine our present moment, and imagine new ways of moving forward, while recognizing the contributions of regional artists to the broader landscape of American art and culture. Responding to language in the Declaration of Independence that states “life” as one of the inalienable rights, Regeneration explores our responsibility to the various forms of life that sustain us.
Regeneration is co-organized by Scout Hutchinson, The FLAG Art Foundation Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, and Corinne Erni, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator of Art and Education.
Exhibition Support
Regeneration: Long Island’s History of Ecological Art and Care is made possible, in part, thanks to the generous support of Lois Whitman-Hess and Eliot Hess; the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation; Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder; and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
We are also grateful to Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, for their in-kind support.
The Parrish Art Museum’s programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and by the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.
