WHO WE ARE
The Arts Center at Duck Creek is a vibrant, sustainable arts organization dedicated to the stewardship of historic Duck Creek Farm as a place to inspire our community with free creative programming that supports artists, celebrates diversity, and honors the East End’s cultural legacy.
ART CENTER AT DUCK CREEK FOUNDERS
Ira Barocas
Pamela Bicket
Loring Bolger
Zachardy Cohen
Jess Frost
2023 BOARD MEMBERS
Jess Frost, President
Loring Bolger, Vice President
Helen Harrison, Secretary
Ira Barocas, Director
Jennifer Cross, Director
Judy Haselton, Director
2023 AFFILIATES
Peconic Pictures, Community Outreach Coordinators
Louise Eastman, Community Outreach Advisor
Opal Cavalier, Development Associate
George Cortes, Docent, Program Assistant
JESS FROST, CO-FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jess Frost spent her childhood summers in a modest cottage across the street from Duck Creek, imagining the creative lives of the artists who lived there. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in painting from SUNY Purchase, she moved to New York City and began an exciting career, working with influential dealer Barbara Gladstone, artist Matthew Barney and musician David Byrne. When she returned to live on the East End full time in 2004, she worked with several art galleries, publications and private collections, eventually taking a position as Associate Curator of the Permanent Collection at Guild Hall, where she digitized the museum’s extensive art collection from 2015 - 2020.
Frost is deeply grateful to find her lifelong advocacy for the Arts and love of the East End Community manifested in The Arts Center at Duck Creek.
TESTIMONIALS
JULIAN SCHNABEL 9/29/21 (2021 Curator)
During the past year I’ve had the illimitable pleasure of working with Jess Frost, the director of The Arts Center at Duck Creek, on one exhibition in two parts. Merging the intentions of two artists, and narrowing the gap between their intention and the public is an altruistic practice and one that must be admired. There is a selfless and magnanimous nature to this practice, and a love of art and people. It takes patience and courage and strong opinions and a human touch that can’t be minimized in any way. I’ve watched, close at hand to indefatigable situations, where no job was too big or small to achieve the best result: the inspired exhibition. In the welcoming rustic barn and landscape of Duck Creek Farm, a light has been switched on that says ‘join this community of joy and talent and newness, and be surprised to see what you wouldn’t have seen otherwise.’
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