As if the cause itself wasn’t worthy enough, the fact that the legendary Lou Reed played at the first fund-raiser for the landscape designer Edwina von Gal’s Azuero Earth Project in 2012 definitely made people stand up and take notice of the tiny organization working predominantly in rural Panama.

Two years later, the equally legendary Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, will be the special guest at a Labor Day weekend benefit picnic at Cindy Sherman’s house in Springs for the Azuero Project and the Perfect Earth Project, an initiative Ms. von Gal is leading to promote toxin-free lawn and landscape care closer to home.

Though different in focus, the two efforts rise from the same principles: that reducing chemical use and nurturing the land — whether it be a farm in Panama or a backyard in Sagaponack — in a way that works with nature, not against it, is ultimately better for the individual, the community, and the world.

“We are what I call ‘rational naturalists.’ Whatever it takes to get someone to ease into the program is fine with us,” Ms. von Gal said on Friday at her home office in Springs. In other words, while she envisions a more “perfect earth,” she realizes that it will take time and lot of education to approach that vision, hence the Perfect Earth initiative.

In Panama, where Ms. von Gal owns land on the Azuero Peninsula, her nonprofit works to preserve biodiversity and encourage healthier agricultural methods that will allow rural farmers to sustain their land and their communities well into the future.

With a large and influential client list here in the United States, it made sense that she would eventually bring a similar message back home, but focused instead on lawns and landscapes.

“I never paid much attention to the lawn,” she said. Going chemical-free had never been a priority on the properties she designed, but she had always “used plants that I didn’t think were so chemically dependent.” Her style is natural, serene, rarely formal, and her designs are sought after by a who’s who of clients and architects — she was in Panama originally to design the park for a museum of biodiversity designed by the famed architect Frank Gehry. (The museum had its “soft” opening last month, but the park has not yet been funded.)

On her early visits, she was introduced to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. “They were our science advisory team,” she said. “I met all these amazing scientists that were creating the science that measures global warming.”

“That’s how I actually began to do something about what I felt strongly about for years but was always too busy with landscape designing to do,” she said. “I always figured I plant enough trees to go to heaven.”

The Azuero Peninsula, where she bought land, is an arid, primarily agricultural region that has been heavily deforested for cattle farming.

“The dregs of the outdated chemicals of the world are being dumped on them,” she said Friday. Farmers there had been using outdated methods brought to them by outsiders. “They don’t have the old seeds anymore and they don’t know the old methods. Their soils are destroyed by chemicals and poor farming techniques . . . compacted by overgrazing,” she said.

They were aware that current practices weren’t working, they could see the effects of climate change firsthand, and because of this “they were really inspired to find a better way to farm.” Some of that involves looking back to old seed varieties, to pre-chemical methods, and some involves looking forward, using cutting-edge science to fix the soil and rebuilding it by planting trees and other resilient crops.

The Azuero Earth Project opened its office in Panama in early 2004. “We run on a shoestring, but basically due to the generosity of our donors . . . we can do a lot,” Ms. von Gal said. “We get these young, amazing scientists that come down to do thesis work. They build our science base and act as wonderful emissaries to the community.”

The peninsula is “a small enough place that I felt I could really make a difference,” she said.

“About two years ago, I said to all my clients, ‘How would you feel if we just took all of your properties toxin-free?’ ” Some of them were surprised that was not already the case. All of them said yes. “If their landscaping staff didn’t have the experience, we brought in people to assist them.”

“What we say is that you’re exchanging chemical inputs for intelligent input. . . . To my mind it’s more ineresting, understanding the lifecycle of plants. . . . That’s the connection to Panama: There’s no future in continuing to use chemicals because the more you use, the more you need, and they kill everything else.”

Perfect Earth is collaborating with the Peconic Land Trust to create an information and education center at its Bridge Gardens property in Bridgehampton. As part of that collaboration, Paul Wagner of Treewise is offering free advice on solving lawn and landscape problems without toxins every Thursday from noon to 4 p.m. through October.

“Lawns use two to four times as many chemicals as agriculture does,” Ms. von Gal said. To have what she calls a “PRFCT lawn,” people should seed, fertilize, and aerate in the fall, rather than the spring. Second, they should keep grass 31/2 to 4 inches high so it develops deeper roots. “If you cut the grass too short, you have to water it every day. Short grass allows the sun to hit the soil, which dries it out.”

“There are 118 landscape chemicals now being found in the Long Island aquifer,” she said. Drinking water quality is hugely important. “We’re saying, before you even get that far, do you know what it’s doing to your pets, to your children? People respond much better when it’s personal.”

She hopes to see this logic applied not only to home lawns, but to school campuses, playing fields, public parks, and even golf courses.

“I like to believe that someday when people see these really short-cut monoculture lawns, they’ll be suspicious of them,” Ms. von Gal said.

“We can make a huge difference in a very short period of time with actually a reduction of cost,” she said. “And if your landscaper doesn’t know how, do not get a new person, send them to us.”

The tastemakers and trendsetters in Ms. von Gal’s circle of clients and friends could well help turn the tide, making doing the right thing for the environment the “in” thing to do.

In addition to Ms. Sherman, the well-known photographer hosting the Aug. 30 picnic, the host committee this year includes Laurie Anderson, Nan Bush and Bruce Weber, Kim Cattrall, Blythe Danner, Calvin Klein, and Rufus Wainwright, who is also one of the musical guests. The musical lineup, under the direction of Jenni Muldaur, also includes the Persuasions, G.E. Smith, and Teddy Thompson.

Tickets to the benefit, billed as a family picnic, cost $100 for children and start at $1,000 for adults or $250 for those 35 or under.

Limited-edition platters by the artists Robert Longo and Billy Sullivan will be sold at the benefit and online for $650 apiece. Raffle tickets available online at $50 apiece or five for $200 buy a chance for, among other things, a four-night stay with two rooms at the American Trade Hotel in Panama City, two pairs of airline tickets, and a tour of the Azuero Earth Project’s reforestation and community education projects. All can be purchased at perfectearthproject.org.

The picnic runs from 4 to 7 p.m. on Aug. 30, with a rain date of Aug. 31.

The Shelter Island Friends of Music’s free concert series will present Intersection, a music trio based in New York City, on Sunday at 8 p.m. at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church.

Intersection features Laura Frautschi on violin, Kristina Reiko Cooper on cello, and John Novacek on piano. Its repertoire ranges from the classic, multiple-instrument concerti of Beethoven, Brahms, and Mendelssohn to new works written by such young composers as Patrick Zimmerli, Kenji Bunch, Dan Coleman, and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

The group has toured extensively in Asia, Europe, and the United States. A reception with the artists will follow the concert.

“Songs and Stories,” a cross-genre performance series, will be launched by the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m. The ongoing initiative will pair writers, poets, musicians, dancers, visual artists, and other creative individuals in free performances presented simultaneously at different venues in Southampton.

Inspired by the art exhibition “Tactility,” Iktus Percussion will perform two pieces at the cultural center. Sebastian Noelle Jazz will explore chance and the unconscious at Arthur T. Kalaher Fine Art.

Martha Cargo, a flutist, and Jonah Rosenberg, a pianist and saxophonist, will perform a program inspired by the work of Jonathan Cramer at Southampton Arts Center. Chrysalis Gallery will host Kelley Morrell on clarinet and Nisreen Nor on bassoon.

Each ensemble will perform 20-minute sets every half hour. Visitors will be able to enjoy the mini-concerts on their own or join an organized tour beginning at the Chrysalis Gallery at 3 p.m. A reception from 5 to 6 at the cultural center will conclude the event.

“Last Days in Vietnam,” the third film in the Hamptons International Film Festival’s SummerDocs series, will be screened on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Guild Hall.

This final film from Rory Kennedy, whose intimate biography of her mother in the film “Ethel” was screened in the SummerDocs series two years ago.

Alec Baldwin will host the event and lead a discussion with Ms. Kennedy and Stuart Herrington, one of the subjects of the film.

The film focuses on the efforts of a small group of Americans to protect their South Vietnamese friends and co-workers who are in danger of imprisonment and death with the impending victory of the North Vietnamese Army. Saigon was under fire and evacuation delayed by the inaction of Congress, so the group launched its own initiative to save as many lives as possible.

Ms. Kennedy made the film for American Experience and it will open theatrically in New York on Sept. 5.

The final film in the series, “The Overnighters,” will be screened on Aug. 29. The films are $23, $21 for members.

The festival will also present a Summer Family Film Festival next weekend at the Southampton Arts Center on Job’s Lane in Southampton Village. It will include family-friendly short and feature-length films.

On Friday, Aug. 22, Charlie Chaplin’s silent shorts will be shown outdoors on the lawn with live piano accompaniment. A 3-D screening of “How to Train Your Dragon” will take place at the Southampton movie theater on Aug. 24. Other films include “We Are the Best!”, “Ghost Dog,” and “Disneynature’s Bears.” Tickets for these films, which cost $12 or $8 for children per screening, available at hamptonsfilmfest.org, where a full schedule can be found. A package for the series is also available.

A weeklong student filmmaking workshop will also take place from Aug. 18 through 22 at the Southampton Arts Center.  

It has been another busy summer at the Stephen Talkhouse, the Amagansett bar and intimate live-music venue that has been hosting internationally recognized artists — onstage and in the audience — since 1987. This year, the venue has featured legendary performers including Taj Mahal, Southside Johnny, Buster Poindexter, the English Beat, David Bromberg, Leon Russell, Sonny Landreth, and, last night, Junior Brown.

As Labor Day approaches, the Talkhouse continues to offer live music nightly. On Sunday, Rufus and Martha Wainwright are set for an 8 p.m. show, and Jorma Kaukonen, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, will play on Aug. 29.

Many of these artists have spoken reverently about the tiny venue. For some, it conjures fond recollections of their early career; others voice appreciation for the up-close and direct connection with the audience.

In between the big-name, big-ticket artists, though, up-and-coming acts from the South Fork and elsewhere clamor to perform on the stage that has also hosted the likes of Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Jon Bon Jovi, Sting, and Billy Joel, among so many others. This week, two young artists will take that stage as they build an audience and forge their own careers.

Tomorrow, the vocalist Isabel Rose will perform at 8 p.m. Ms. Rose’s second album, “Trouble in Paradise,” is out Sept. 16 on BDG/Red, a division of Sony Music Entertainment.

Produced by Bob Rock and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge and Al Schmitt, “Trouble in Paradise” features interpretations of pop classics and American-songbook selections as well as original songs. The album’s lush orchestration recalls artists like Michael Buble, for whom Mr. Rock serves as a producer, and Diana Krall, whose recordings are recorded and mixed by Mr. Schmitt. A 19-time Grammy Award winner, Mr. Schmitt mixed the original “Peter Gunn” for Henry Mancini, and has done it again for Ms. Rose on “Trouble in Paradise.”

“My goal is to connect very directly with my audience,” Ms. Rose, who lives in New York and East Hampton, said, “so I’m always looking for venues like the Talkhouse that allow me to feel the energy very directly. That’s my job: to be the host of a really wonderful party that nobody wants to leave.”

Tomorrow’s performance will mark Ms. Rose’s Talkhouse debut. She will perform on Sept. 14 in Philadelphia, with an album-release party on Sept. 16 at the Cutting Room in Manhattan.

“I’ve been coming to the Hamptons since I was a teenager, and I’ve been in the Hamptons as a homeowner for many years,” she said. “We’re kicking off the ‘Trouble in Paradise’ tour at the Talkhouse because that is home base for me. My band and I are always happy to get out of the city, feel the beautiful beach air, and play for an audience that is also happily out of the city — happily ‘Hamptonized.’ ”

On Tuesday, Marco With Love and the Glazzies, two bands that share as a member Peter Landi, a drummer who is from Sag Harbor, will take the Talkhouse stage. Marco With Love is a new group fronted by Marco Argiro, who has been a member of Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg, Le Mood, and the Killing Floor. The band’s sound has been described as “street-smart electric boogie courtesy of influences from legendary artists like Tom Petty and the Kinks.” A release is due from the band late this year.

Prior to the band’s 7:30 p.m. show, it will offer a preview at 5 p.m. at Innersleeve Records, a short walk down Amagansett’s Main Street.

Mr. Argiro’s first experience at the Talkhouse came a few years ago, as a supporting act for the Glazzies. “I love the venue and the town,” he said. “Since then, we started making music together, and now we’re going to make our triumphant return.”

“I’ve been playing there since I was 14 with my very first band,” Mr. Landi said of the Talkhouse, “and then with the Glazzies. I’ve been playing there quite a bit and had some of my best shows there. They’ve always been super-cool and supportive in letting us play. It will be exciting to get Marco With Love out here as well — I go into New York City all the time, but those guys haven’t been out here where I grew up, so it will be cool to show them the local venue and record store — we’re all big into vinyl.”

Tickets for Ms. Rose’s performance are $30. Entry to the Glazzies and Marco With Love’s performance costs $10. Both are available at stephentalkhouse.com or at the door.

If you can’t get enough Shakespeare and haven’t had enough of Propero so far this summer, “The Tempest” is being offered twice this weekend by the Bay Street Theater, although not at its home base. On Saturday, a free outdoor reading will take place at Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor. On Sunday, the actors will meet guests and present another reading of the play on Shelter Island. Both performances start at 7.

“The Tempest” also continues at the Mulford Farm in East Hampton, tonight through Aug. 24 at 7 p.m. It is a production of the Hamptons Independent Theater Festival.

John Glover, who won a Tony Award for “Love, Valor, and Compassion” in 1995, will play Prospero in the Bay Street reading. Speaking from his Los Angeles house on Aug. 6, he said he was looking forward to the role even though it has its challenges.

“When you get to a certain age, people start mentioning Prospero to you,” he said. With some recent strong showings, such as the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2012 with Christopher Plummer in the lead and the Globe Theatre’s production last year, he said, he had “developed some ideas about this man, and thought, ‘Why not do a reading?’ ”

While Mr. Glover is a versatile actor who combines film and television work with his passion for the theater, he has been doing a lot of Shakespeare lately. He was featured in the recently closed Shakespeare in the Park production of “Much Ado About Nothing‚” and was one of the witches in “Macbeth‚” at Lincoln Center this past winter.

Outdoor staging is a departure for Bay Street. It’s part of Scott Schwartz’s new vision for it as artistic director. The idea for doing it outdoors had a long gestation. Mr. Glover became acquainted with Mr. Schwartz a couple of years ago during a workshop of a new play at SPACE on Ryder Farm in Brewster, N.Y.

“We had a great time working together, and I’ve been telling directors I like that I’m interested in working on Prospero,” Mr. Glover said.

Those involved in the reading will have three days to put it together. Presenting a play as a reading isn’t far removed from sitting in a rehearsal hall with just the actors, he said. “It’s how we start.”

The challenge, Mr. Glover said, was to discern how much staging the play needs. “How much music do we need? What about the magic he makes with Ariel and all those sprites? We want to tell the story as much as possible, so we won’t be sitting in a semicircle with scripts in hand, although we will have our scripts in hand.”

For Mr. Glover, it is a story he wants to tell. While working on Macbeth with Anne-Marie Duff, who has a young son with James McAvoy, another actor, he learned that they explained the plays they act in to the boy by telling him they are stories. Since then, he has started thinking about acting in plays as a way for him to tell a story.

The story he wants to tell with “The Tempest” is about a man “betrayed by his brother and stuck on an island with his daughter and a sprite and a fish-like creature who has molested his daughter. He creates a storm to punish those who have wronged him and learns something about existing with people, and it changes him.” Recent versions he had seen didn’t seem to tell the story, he said. “I want to try with Scott to tell the story I think happened.”

This is a kind of homecoming for Mr. Glover, who was a friend of Sybil Christopher, one of Bay Street’s founders. He acted in Bay Street productions in the early 1990s, including “Oblivion Postponed” and an evening of one-act plays. In years of acting credits, the one with the most cult-like following was “Annie Hall,” in which he had the bit part of Jerry, the actor, who asks Annie to “touch my heart, with your foot” in a flashback. “People freak out when they find that out about me. It was a very important film to a lot of people.”

Those attending the free performance in the park have been invited to bring picnics and chairs; seating will also be available on the bleachers. No glassware is allowed. As for the performance on Shelter Island, it is part of a benefit, which will begin with a cocktails. Those interested in attending can get the details at Bay Street’s development office.

The string quartet Brooklyn Rider performed back-to-back hour-long concerts on Saturday, just about halfway through this summer’s Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. One was, as usual, at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, at 6 p.m., and, in a new partnership for the festival, the other was at 9 p.m. at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill.

Kudos to the festival for initiating this new twist in programming, which allows concertgoers to fit concert-going into other plans. I went to the earlier one, although I was sorry that other commitments didn’t allow me to try the new venue. If the second performance was anything like the first, there were two very happy and enriched audiences.

Brooklyn Rider is a daring, compelling, and significant string quartet that is helping to redefine the 300-year-old medium and ensure its success in the 21st century.

One might first notice the players’ untypical concert attire. Among the four men, there were no ties, one jacket, one vest, rust-colored pants, and a pink shirt — you get the idea. Their dress may vary from concert to concert and from photo to photo, but Johnny Gandlesman and Colin Jacobsen on violin, Nicholas Cords on viola, and Eric Jacobsen on cello, individual as they may have looked, melded their instruments and musicality into one incredibly exciting, well-tuned, and well-tempered ensemble.

The quartet’s name is a play on “Der Blaue Reiter,”  a group of visionary artists in the early 1900s named for a Kandinsky painting. The concert opened with Haydn’s String Quartet in G Minor (Op. 74, No. 3), which is known as, yes, “therider quartet” because of its galloping motives and hunting horn-call figures in the first and last movements. These, combined with Haydn’s irrepressible sense of humor, were brought out in precise and gripping playing.

The gem, though, was the second movement, Largo Assai, with perfect, delicate balance and long, sustained, exquisite phrases. The audience responded to the Haydn quartet with bravos and whistles.

The rest of the program consisted of works written in the last year, and this is where the Brooklyn Rider is really making its mark. “Bradbury Studies” by Gabriel Kahane was heard in its world premiere. Its creative inspiration is the Bradbury Building in Los Angeles, the site of many films, television series, and literary works.

It is an extended one-movement work that fully exploits the string instruments and contemporary techniques — pizzicato, glissandos, jazzy rhythms, an otherworldly, ghostly voice high on the cello, frenzied double-stops, and a technique called col legno, literally “with wood,” which is striking the string with the stick of the bow. The result seems far beyond what four instruments can do.

I think the piece is a significant addition to the contemporary repertoire. The composer took his own pop song and “put it through his composerly lens.” Although the program notes say the “original song is slowly revealed over the course of the work,” the song didn’t become apparent to me on first hearing.

In the next piece, “Garden” from “Qi” by Evan Ziporyn, we heard a very different timbre: a straight-tone, crystalline string sound that did indeed suggest repose with nature and the flow of the elusive life force.

The group has started a commissioning project called the Brooklyn Rider Almanac, and the evening closed with three shorter works from it. Since the players wanted to find fresh approaches to quartet writing, they sought “composers who come mostly from the other side of the classical fence; the worlds of jazz, rock, and folk.”

“Five-Leggeds Cat” by Gonzalo Grau was inspired by the jazz and fusion pianist Chick Corea, and had a delightfully odd five-eight rhythm, Venezuelan influences, and, as if the players aren’t busy enough, foot tapping as well. “Show Me” by Aoife O’Donovan was a somewhat more traditional, unabashedly melodic fiddle tune.

Rubin Kodheli’s “Necessary Henry” was cleverly named after the composer and saxophonist Henry Threadgill and his tune “Necessary Illusion.” It was a marvelous culmination to a concert that was a high point of the festival.

In past seasons, the festival has done one or two concerts that were called “Offbeat,” and Brooklyn Rider was among the performers. Contemporary music seemed to have a much smaller following than traditional classical. I don’t know if it is a coincidence or what other factors may be involved, but that moniker has been dropped, and the audience for Brooklyn Rider this time was nearly as large as those for its other programs.

That is a good thing, because the programming was rather adventuresome, and showed us the new, vibrant life that is in the chamber music world, played excitingly in the hands of gifted and remarkable musicians.

The festival continues through Aug. 24. More information is at bcmf.org, 537-6368.     

Athos Zacharias’s house on Copeces Lane in Springs is unlike any other in the neighborhood. It is a two-story rectangular solid, constructed of whitewashed concrete block, flat-roofed, with large windows, an outdoor circular staircase, and an exterior block wall painted to resemble a Mondrian. The entrance is through the kitchen.

Mr. Zacharias cleared the lot himself and started work on the house in 1962. Because he was teaching, at Wagner College in Staten Island, he could only work during the summers, and since the money had to come from the sales of his paintings, “it took a long time.” He also built the one-story house next door, a smaller, flat-roofed box, suggestive of Phillip Johnson’s Glass House. “I lost both houses in a divorce,” he said, “but I bought this one back.”

The artist pointed out several items on one wall: small paintings by Elaine de Kooning and Ray Parker, a photograph of John Cage and Marcel Duchamp playing chess, and a manuscript page from one of Cage’s compositions.

“I built a table for Cage on which he composed his music,” he said. “I also made the box for the chess set you see in the photograph. We put microphones inside and ran wires to speakers, so when anybody moved a piece it made a sound.” He paused, then added, “I love building things.”

His high-ceilinged, skylit studio on the second floor is crowded with storage racks, worktables, and paintings hung on walls and propped against cabinets. Most of them, created during the past two years, have such familiar elements of Pop as cartoon figures and Ben-Day dots, but they are overlaid with swirling slashes of paint. “I was between generations,” Mr. Zacharias explained. “I loved Pop art, so I wanted to find a way to swoosh it together with Abstract Expressionism. I was really interested in what Warhol was doing. Some of the abstract artists verbally assaulted me when Pop elements started to appear in my work.”

Mr. Zacharias often appropriates images from comic books, magazines, and other artists, storing them on his computer. “When I integrate an artist in my free abstract painting style, it has to be an artist whose work I really like, and it has to be graphic.” He starts by printing an image from the computer, sometimes distorting it, then projects it onto a canvas and paints it. One work, “Triple Play,” appropriates a Time Magazine cover of a Lichtenstein painting of a Picasso painting.

The artist was born in Marlborough, Mass. in 1927, grew up in Fall River, Mass., and attended the Rhode Island School of Design. When he moved to New York after graduating from R.I.S.D., he stayed in the studio of Howard Kanovitz, who also grew up in Fall River. “Larry Rivers lived next door, and I did carpentry for him. In 1959, Larry chose me for the Art USA Contemporary, a show in New York for which established artists selected younger ones.”

The art world was much smaller in the 1950s, when Mr. Zacharias first began to exhibit, and he was very much a part of it, invited by Milton Avery to join the Artists Club and hanging out at the Cedar Tavern. Berenice D’Vorzon, an artist with whom he went to graduate school, suggested he move to East Hampton.

He freely acknowledged the influence of other artists, as he told The Star in 2012. “When I was de Kooning’s assistant, I mentioned to Elaine that I was selling paintings that looked a lot like what Bill was doing. I told her I didn’t want to sell them anymore. It was one thing to paint like him and learn from it, but another to sell it. She told Bill. Later, he went over to his bookcase and took out an art book. ‘I was influenced by Soutine,’ he said. ‘I was influenced by Picasso. You’re influenced by me, and I’m influenced by you.’ ”

“It took me years to understand that everybody is influenced by everybody.”

During his long career, Mr. Zacharias has worked in many styles. For 15 years he painted abstract windows that were suggestive of Richard Diebenkorn. For another 15 years he painted cylinders, faintly echoing the forms of Léger. He showed a visitor one of his combines, consisting of the back of a refrigerator and a piece of stovepipe.

The current work, which “swooshes together” Pop and Abstract Expressionism, has been long in coming. “I was trying for years to do this appropriation, but I couldn’t figure out how to do it until two years ago.”

Mr. Zacharias is an artist who is not easily satisfied and who has never stopped pushing the boundaries of his own work. Elaine de Kooning, in the catalog of his 1980 Guild Hall exhibition, wrote, “Athos Zacharias, as a painter, has serendipity: His colors and forms always charge into the right place at the right time.”

Sciulli at Duck Creek Farm

“Quiet Riot,” a site-specific installation by Christine Sciulli, will open today with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. in the John Little Barn at Duck Creek Farm in Springs and remain on view through Sept. 20.

Ms. Sciulli, who lives in Amagansett and New York, uses projected light to explore the potential of simple geometry. The exhibition, which has been organized by the John Little Society and Jess Frost, will be open Fridays and Saturdays from 4 to 7 p.m. and by appointment.

Images of Accabonac

“Images of Accabonac,” organized by the Accabonac Protection Committee, will be on view Saturday and Sunday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

The show features artists’ visions of the beauty of Accabonac Harbor and Creek. All artwork will be for sale, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the committee. Exhibition hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday and 11 to 8 on Sunday.

Sugimoto Seascapes at Tripoli

“Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes” will be on view at the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton from Wednesday through Oct. 21, with an opening reception set for Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m.

The exhibition, Mr. Sugimoto’s first solo show at the gallery, features the artist’s iconic seascapes. He has been traveling to remote oceans, seas, and lakes since 1980, capturing images with a box camera and black-and-white sheet film.

Outsider Art at Ille

“The Outsider Eye,” an exhibition of outsider and self-taught artists organized by Don Christensen, will be on view at Ille Arts in Amagansett from tomorrow through Sept. 17. A reception will be held Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

The show will include work by Bill Traylor, Minnie Evans, James Castle, and Emery Blagdon, as well as more recently discovered artists.

At Fireplace Project

The Fireplace Project is opening two shows this weekend. “Silver Pockets Full,” a show of work by Josephine Meckseper and Brad Troemel, will open tomorrow at the gallery’s Fireplace Road location in Springs, and “Tears of Ra,” a solo exhibition of work by Nick Theobald, will open Sunday at the Surf Lodge in Montauk. Both exhibitions will be on view through Sept. 22.

The gallery will hold a reception at its Springs location, including a picnic out in back, on Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. A reception will take place at the Surf Lodge Sunday from 3 p.m. until sunset.

New at Nightingale

Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill will present “Tales of a Librarian,” an exhibition of work by Glenn Fischer, from Saturday through Sept. 17. A reception will be held Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. Mr. Fischer scavenges old books, album covers, and magazines for characters, text, and illustrations that he repurposes in geometric, abstract collages.

Summer in Southampton

The McNeill Art Group in Southampton is presenting “Pristine Summer” through Sept. 15. The show includes photographs by Lori Cuisinier, abstract paintings by Sally Egbert, neon sculptures by Tapp Francke, new paintings by Jeff Muhs, and mixed-media works by both Bastienne Schmidt and Peter Tunney.

Street Art in Montauk

“For the People: Beat of the Street,” work by street artists from around the world, will be on view at the Atlantic Terrace Motel in Montauk from Saturday through Sept. 7.

Organized by Karyn Mannix, the show will open with a champagne reception for collectors on Saturday from 5 to 6 p.m. Preview tickets are $50. From 6 to 10, it will be on view without charge. After Saturday, it can be seen by appointment only. A portion of proceeds will benefit East End Hospice.

Endless Summer

“Endless Summer,” an exhibition of photographs by Tony Caramanico and Chris Leidy, will be on view at ARC Fine Art in Amagansett from today through Sept. 1, with a reception Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Mr. Caramanico, a Montauk-based surfer, will show pigment prints of surf culture in the United States and abroad. Mr. Leidy will be represented by a selection of chromogenic prints of underwater landscapes.

New at RJD Gallery

Richard Demato Fine Art in Sag Harbor will present “Shattered Boundaries,” an exhibition of work by Phillip Thomas, from Saturday through Sept. 8. A reception will be held Saturday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Mr. Thomas’s new body of work uses mixed media and oil on panel to explore issues of identity, challenge stereotypes, and offer a statement on colonialism and its aftermath, especially in his native Caribbean.

Call for Entries

East End Arts has announced a downtown Riverhead fire hydrant design contest for artists. “All Fired Up on Main” invites artists to submit applications, including a sketch of their proposed design and a brief biography, by Sept. 8. More information and free application forms are available at eastendarts.org.

Desert Dunes

“Dunes: Landscapes Evolving,” a show of photographs by Drew Doggett, is on view at Sylvester at Home in Amagansett through Sept. 30. The photographs were taken in Namibia’s Sossusvlei Desert, where the sand dunes are said to be the largest in the world. A reception for the artist will take place Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Portraits at Monika Olko

“Living Legends,” a show of mixed-media portraits by Dean Johnson, will open Saturday at Monika Olko in Sag Harbor with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Sept. 12. The works are composed of plexi-resin, pigmented inks, film, and encaustic wax dyed with oil paints. A portion of proceeds from sales of Mr. Johnson’s artwork will benefit the Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center’s Southampton office.

Low Country Landscapes

Hagins & Mortimer Design in Southampton will present an exhibition of paintings by Linda Fantuzzo from tomorrow through Sept. 30. A reception for the artist will be held tomorrow from 6 to 9 p.m., and a Southern high tea will take place Sunday afternoon from 2 to 4. Ms. Fantuzzo, who lives in Charleston, S.C., paints the ponds, streams, and marshes of the Low Country.

New at Dodds and Eder

“Across the Pond,” with work by Annemarie Waugh and Nina Girolamo, will be on view at Dodds & Eder in Sag Harbor from Saturday through Sept. 22. A reception, set for Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m., will include a live performance at 6 by a Spanish opera singer, Amaya Arberas.

Ms. Waugh will show a series of works on paper “inspired by the British sense of humor.” Ms. Girolamo will exhibit photographs of the Camargue horses of the south of France.

Vaudeville Pix

 Lawrence Fine Art in East Hampton will present “George Mann: The Vaudeville Years,” an exhibition of photographs from the 1930s taken by the vaudeville performer, from Saturday through Sept. 13.

Mann, who died in 1977, took more than 12,000 black-and-white images that document performers, costume designers, and choreographers, onstage and at rest.

Dougenis Early Watercolors

Early selected watercolors by Miriam Dougenis will be on view at Peter Marcelle Project in Southampton from Saturday through Sept. 9, with an opening reception Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Ms. Dougenis, a Sag Harbor artist now known for contemporary oil-on-canvas landscapes, painted award-winning watercolors early in her career. The exhibition showcases exceptional examples from the 1970s and ’80s.

Sculpture Park Now Open

Nova’s Ark Project on Millstone Road in Bridgehampton has scheduled open hours for the public on Sunday afternoons from 1 to 4 and Thursday evenings from 5 to 8 through Sept. 25. The property includes a loop trail that winds through the landscape to the sculpture fields, situated on almost 100 acres. The facility also has indoor galleries. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for students 6 to 17, and free for children 5 and under.

The Box Art Auction benefit for East End Hospice will present a preview of the cigar box creations of area artists beloved locally and internationally on Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Hoie Hall of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton Village. The boxes will remain on view next Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The auction itself will be held Sept. 6 at the Ross School.

The artists who have transformed cigar and wine boxes this year include Paton Miller, Gabrielle Raacke, Ronnie Chalif, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Bill King, April Gornik, Randall Rosenthal, Charles Waller, and Frank Wimberley. Eleven other artists are participating for the first time.

The benefit’s honorary committee includes Alec Baldwin, the Rev. Denis Brunelle, Michael Cinque, Ted Conklin, Eric Fischl, Ms. Gornik, Sheldon Harnick, Charles Hitchcock, Barbara Layton, Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr., David Wilt, and Susan Kennedy Zeller. Ms. Layton, the owner of Babette’s restaurant in East Hampton, will receive a community spirit award.

The proceeds from the event will benefit the hospice, which is located in Westhampton but serves the entire East End, providing end-of-life care to terminally ill patients and support for their families. The facility will break ground on an inpatient center in Quiogue soon.