The Gil Gutierrez Trio, featuring the internationally renowned guitarist and composer, will perform at The Church Friday evening at 6. Mr. Gutierrez will be accompanied by Oriente Lopez, a three-time Grammy Award winner, on piano and flute, and Mario Rodriguez, whose résumé includes a three-year residence at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan, on bass.
A virtuoso of the nylon-string guitar, Mr. Gutierrez is recognized for his artistry in combining classical, jazz, flamenco, and “son Cubano,” a genre of music and dance that originated in eastern Cuba during the 19th century.
As a soloist, he has appeared with the Minnesota Symphony, Florida Symphony, and the Doc Severinsen Big Band Tour in the United States. He was also a guest soloist with Arturo Sandoval at Mexico City’s Palace of Fine Arts, and in 2023 he and his band were featured in the annual San Miguel de Allende Jazz Festival.
Tickets are $25, $20 for members.
Jaime T. Herrell, an independent curator, education programs developer, and museum-studies specialist based in Santa Fe, N.M., will be at the Sag Harbor venue on Saturday at 4 p.m. to explore the intersection of her curatorial work and the themes of resistance, witnessing, and reclaiming space that are central to “Eternal Testament,” The Church’s current exhibition.
An enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts, she will take an in-depth look into several works in the exhibition: Natalie Ball’s “You Usually Bury the Head in the Woods Trophy Head”; James Luna’s “Take a Picture With a Real Indian”; Marie Watt’s “Placeholder (Horizon),” and Cara Romero’s “Last Indian Market.”
She will then engage the audience in an interactive discussion that asks how best to support Indigenous artists, land sovereignty, and Indigenous futurism in tangible ways.
Tickets are $25, $20 for members.
Sheri Pasquarella, The Church’s executive director, and Wayne Gonzales, an artist from New York City, will engage in a dialogue around 10 specially selected paintings that date from the distant past to the contemporary era on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Each will present the other with five paintings, which will be revealed only as the program unfolds. They will then spontaneously examine and discuss the paintings individually, engaging the audience in a conversation designed for art enthusiasts of all levels of experience.
Tickets are $10, $5 for members.
