Spring Fling, the Parrish Art Museum’s annual community party and fund raiser, will take place Saturday, April 21, from 7:30 to 11 pm. This year’s celebration will feature a live band by Todd Barrie Music; delectable hors d’oeuvres donated by Sant Ambroeus; Glacier Potato Vodka martinis, fine wines from Niche Import Co., and Southampton Publick House ales from an open bar; and a silent auction of luxury items, including designer accessories and a fine selection of merchandise and services from the Hamptons community.

Spring Fling co-chairs are Susan Davis and Nancy Hardy.

Auction items include: a cocktail party for 100 guests from Michael Mosolino and The Deli Counter; golf at The Bridgehampton Club and National Golf Links of America; VIP tent passes to the 2012 Hampton Classic Horse Show; home accessories from Mackenzie Childs, Hildreth’s, and Baccarat; handbags from Brahmin and Isaac Mizrahi; designer jewelry; and certificates from Water Mill Cupcake, Canal Café, Bay Street Theatre, and Hampton Jitney, among others.

In addition to the silent auction, the Museum will raffle two dinner tickets to its festive July Midsummer Party, a $2,000 value. Raffle tickets are $50 and may be purchased by phone, at the event, or online. It is not necessary to buy tickets to Spring Fling or be present at the event to enter the raffle.
Tickets for Spring Fling are $100 for Museum members, $150 for nonmembers. All tickets are $175 at the door. To purchase tickets, visit parrishart.org or call the Special Events office at 631-283-2118, ext. 42.

About the Parrish Art Museum

The Parrish Art Museum is located in Southampton, New York. Founded in 1897, the Museum celebrates the artistic legacy of Long Island’s East End, one of America’s most vital creative centers. Since the mid-1950s the Museum has grown from a small village art gallery into an important art museum with a collection of more than 2,600 works of art from the nineteenth century to the present. It includes such contemporary painters and sculptors as John Chamberlain, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Elizabeth Peyton, as well as such masters as Dan Flavin, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning. The Parrish houses important collections of works by the American Impressionist William Merritt Chase and the post-war American realist Fairfield Porter. A vital cultural resource serving a diverse audience, the Parrish organizes and presents changing exhibitions and offers a dynamic schedule of creative and engaging public programs including lectures, films, performances, concerts, and studio classes for all ages. On July 19, 2010, the Parrish broke ground on a new building designed by internationally acclaimed Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. The 34,500-square-foot facility will triple the Museum’s current exhibition space and allow for the simultaneous presentation of loan exhibitions and installations drawn from the permanent collection. The new building is expected to open in fall 2012!

*photos by Richard Lewin