Location
133 Hands Creek Rd
East Hampton, New York 11937
United States
Date & Time
3:00pm EDT - 5:00pm EDT
About This Event
For the fourth and last 2026 InsiderOutsider program in collaboration with Ma's House we welcome Kindall Gant for an immersive eco-creation workshop that brings together poetry writing and visual collage, inviting attendees to experiment with layering language and image as a way of generating something new. A guided walk through the sculpture garden sets the creative process in motion, as participants pause, observe, and absorb the textures, forms, and seasonal rhythms of the land, letting personal responses to the environment take root in new work. Participants will have access to a full range of traditional craft and collage materials, including magazines, books, and other ephemera to draw from and incorporate into their creation. Whether you arrive as a writer, a visual artist, or simply someone curious about making, this workshop invites you to slow down, look closely, and let the garden lead toward intuitive, meditative experimentation.
Kindall Gant is a Black femme interdisciplinary poet and New Orleans native based in Brooklyn. She experiments with visual storytelling as liberation bringing poems into conversation with expressive forms like film, visual art, music and photography. They have received support from Cave Canem, the Poetry Foundation, MASS MoCA, the Saltonstall Foundation, the Watering Hole, Studio Museum in Harlem, the Guggenheim, and Ma's House among other arts institutions. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and appears or is forthcoming in Seedlings, TORCH, 1619 Speaks, Brooklyn Poets, The Poetry Society of New York's Milk Press, Obsidian and WSQ published by the Feminist Press.
InsiderOutsider: New Voices in the Art World is a dynamic series spotlighting underrepresented artists who challenge convention, expand the boundaries of contemporary art, and invite deeper dialogue. It is presented in collaboration with Jeremy Dennis and the artists-in-residence of Ma’s House, a center for Indigenous and BIPOC artists. Together, we explore the creative practices and personal narratives shaping today’s evolving art landscape through conversation and hands-on creativity.
Made possible with public funding provided by Suffolk County Department of Economic Development and Planning, with the support of County Legislator Ann Welker, and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding for this program comes from Vital Projects Fund.
ACCESSIBILITY
LongHouse Reserve has an Accessibility Coordinator onsite to help assist guests with disabilities. To request accommodations, or with any questions or concerns, please contact our Accessibility Coordinator via email access@longhouse.org, or phone at +1 (631) 329-3568. Please allow for up to seven business days for a response.
About This Event
For the fourth and last 2026 InsiderOutsider program in collaboration with Ma's House we welcome Kindall Gant for an immersive eco-creation workshop that brings together poetry writing and visual collage, inviting attendees to experiment with layering language and image as a way of generating something new. A guided walk through the sculpture garden sets the creative process in motion, as participants pause, observe, and absorb the textures, forms, and seasonal rhythms of the land, letting personal responses to the environment take root in new work. Participants will have access to a full range of traditional craft and collage materials, including magazines, books, and other ephemera to draw from and incorporate into their creation. Whether you arrive as a writer, a visual artist, or simply someone curious about making, this workshop invites you to slow down, look closely, and let the garden lead toward intuitive, meditative experimentation.
Kindall Gant is a Black femme interdisciplinary poet and New Orleans native based in Brooklyn. She experiments with visual storytelling as liberation bringing poems into conversation with expressive forms like film, visual art, music and photography. They have received support from Cave Canem, the Poetry Foundation, MASS MoCA, the Saltonstall Foundation, the Watering Hole, Studio Museum in Harlem, the Guggenheim, and Ma's House among other arts institutions. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and appears or is forthcoming in Seedlings, TORCH, 1619 Speaks, Brooklyn Poets, The Poetry Society of New York's Milk Press, Obsidian and WSQ published by the Feminist Press.
InsiderOutsider: New Voices in the Art World is a dynamic series spotlighting underrepresented artists who challenge convention, expand the boundaries of contemporary art, and invite deeper dialogue. It is presented in collaboration with Jeremy Dennis and the artists-in-residence of Ma’s House, a center for Indigenous and BIPOC artists. Together, we explore the creative practices and personal narratives shaping today’s evolving art landscape through conversation and hands-on creativity.
Made possible with public funding provided by Suffolk County Department of Economic Development and Planning, with the support of County Legislator Ann Welker, and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding for this program comes from Vital Projects Fund.
ACCESSIBILITY
LongHouse Reserve has an Accessibility Coordinator onsite to help assist guests with disabilities. To request accommodations, or with any questions or concerns, please contact our Accessibility Coordinator via email access@longhouse.org, or phone at +1 (631) 329-3568. Please allow for up to seven business days for a response.
Getting There
LongHouse Reserve
133 Hands Creek Rd
East Hampton, New York 11937
United States
Location
133 Hands Creek Rd
East Hampton, New York 11937
United States
Date & Time
3:00pm EDT - 5:00pm EDT
Time Capsule
—after Howardena Pindell’s Autobiography: Oval Memory #1 (1980–81)
when i was seven, i almost drowned / so did new orleans / in a multicolored swirl on channel 4 / didn’t know hurricanes could have eyes / until the night before / we relaxed / after packing / rocked in porch chairs until mosquito bites bloomed & streetlights came on / after sunset / the next day, we drove / i-10 traversing lake pontchartrain / for hours / looking out, i wondered how / to name / blue / which was / water / or sky / imagined my mother saying baptism / could see my father nodding in silence / until we arrived / to mississippi / where the moon / was full / benson hedges menthol & marlboro 100s smoke circling / what we lost / days in, it was power at my uncle’s / again / i sat in the car listening to anything / on the radio / other than news / looking at the sun / that august yellow like yolk / heat slipping through eggshell / cracks / like levees lining my crescent city / incomplete mounds of man-made earth & river / 80% underwater / folks who couldn’t wade in blue-black, no longer lived / the revolution wasn’t televised in 2005, but genocide masquerading as natural / disaster wiping away the city before / katrina, a memory / this wasn’t easy / nothing was / about the city / engulfed in flood water / helicopter blades whirred / unfulfilled promises of sustenance & rescue / troops who knew how to shoot & kill / were / more often than not, willing to do so / without reason / the nopd kept ham sandwiches / covering up murders they committed / greenlit by the chief of police / america’s hands / washed by media / attention diverted to photos & footage / shattered storefronts & headlines of looting / the president safe / on vacation at his texas ranch / while x-codes marked mortality by spray paint / uprooted trees leaned with waterlogged bark / swelling like bodies adrift / from a home / unidentifiable & beyond reach / at seven, it doesn’t make any sense / we are living / but away / only multicolored strings connect us / stretching across land & water / swirling around oblivion / the colors a kaleidoscope of traveling light / in memoriam of what was & could have been
—Kindall Gant