The Robert Giard Fellowship Comes Home to the Hamptons

A Benefit with Guest of Honor Mark Doty

Sunday, August 24, from 5-7 p.m. at the home of Sue Shapiro.

Please join us for the Robert Giard Foundation’s first event on the East End, a benefit for the Robert Giard Fellowship, with guest of honor, American poet and memoirist Mark Doty, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry.

This is an exciting homecoming for the Foundation after 12 years of activity as a New York City-based non-profit focusing on the visual arts.  The East End is where Bob Giard lived. It is the place he loved and where he matured as a photographer.

The fellowship extends the spirit of Robert Giard, for it supports visual artists like him whose content in the area of human sexuality,  gender and the LGBTQ experience is often closed to official channels of support. In fact, our annual grant of $7,500 is the largest visual arts fellowship given in these subject areas. Click here for info about our current Fellow and here for info about past Fellows.