Education

It’s not a practice one normally associates with a world-class art museum, but tucked away in a quiet corner of the expansive meadow surrounding the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill sit four beehives. And now, the honey that those bees have worked so hard to make all summer long has been jarred and labeled and is ready to come home for the holidays.

Lauren Lyons has made it her mission to tell stories through the photographs she takes: Amy, a naked, painted woman smokes a cigarette as she sits on a public toilet; a spiky-haired man named John stands in front of a vibrant, pink backdrop — he wears trousers made of candy, an “Eat Me” T-shirt and a sneer; Carolyn, a woman covered in mud, crawls on the ground toward the camera under the darkness of night. Though Lyons controls every aspect of what appears in the frame — from the models and costumes to the color scheme, props and setting — the responsibility of ultimately determining what story the image is telling lies with the viewer.

This week, the Parrish Art Museum offers socially-distanced, docent-led walking tours of Field of Dreams, the museum’s inaugural outdoor sculpture exhibition, as well as the opportunity to meet artist Scott Bluedorn who will guide visitors through his Road Show project “Bonac Blind.”