Collect & Create at Chronicle Wines

Join us and our current Artist in Residence, Jody Cukier, for an afternoon of art and hands-on creativity at Chronicle Wines! Using seashells and stones gathered from local beaches and beyond, create a collage that creatively combines found fragments…and friends. Participants are welcome to bring their own special specimens, but plenty will be provided. Create a unique piece of art, all while enjoying a glass of Chronicle Wine! No experience necessary. Just imagination!

Your ticket includes:

• A glass of Chronicle Wine
• A shadowbox to build & display your work
• Instruction by our Artist in Residence, Jody Cukier.
• Materials to create your very own piece of art to bring home
• A great time!

*small bites and more wine available for purchase at the event.

Tickets available through Eventbrite

Jody Cukier : “Come Shell or High Water”

Working with elements of design that nature left behind, Jody collects seashells and marine-life fragments to create small sculptures, abstract assemblies and photographs, that was first presented at a solo exhibition titled, “Come Shell or High Water” for a gallery in NYC. “Finding beauty in that which is broken,” her images and inventions celebrate the specimens she gathers – precious moments of design that survived a tumultuous journey. Her work relies on the physical labor of hand-collection, the patience of hand-manipulation and the meditative benefits of both. “The process by which I search and sort and collect and create is as important as the work that results.”

Jody studied art and psychology at Harvard College and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, before a decades-long career in advertising and motion picture marketing. She also credits a long list of gifted art teachers and inspiring camp counselors, “who cultivated my passion for the arts and the act of ‘making,’ which continues to influence my art to this day.”

Now, deeply immersed in the East End art community, she’s presented a PechaKucha at the Parrish Art Museum and conducted Artist Talks for both the Pollock-Krasner House and South Fork Sea Farmers TV, among others. Her work appears regularly in group and juried exhibitions with East End Arts, Southampton Artists, the Water Mill Museum, Guild Hall and East End Photographers Group, and is a featured artist at the Shelter Island Historical Society Havens Store. Images and stories about her work have appeared in Southampton and Sag Harbor newspapers, and her photographs and sculptures are in private collections from one end of the country to the other. In one form or another, all of Jody’s creations are dedicated to the memory of her daughter, Julia, and the possibility of moving forward with pieces left behind. For more on her street safety advocacy and arts education support.