Name: OPENING RECEPTION: Gallery 908 Inaugural Summer Benefit Art Exhibition 2026
Start: 2026-06-05T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Gallery 908 | Masonic Old Town Lodge 908

Gallery 908 | Masonic Old Town Lodge 908

Join us Friday, June 5, from 6-8pm for the opening of the Gallery 908 Inaugural Summer Benefit Exhibition 2026, a summer-long exhibition celebrating the creative talent of the East End to benefit Sea Scouts Ship 908, an inclusive program for neurotypical and neurodiverse youth, helping young people build confidence, responsibility, and lasting friendships through shared hands-on maritime experiences.
Featuring works by Christopher Charveriat, Bruce Lieberman, Paton Miller, Oscar Molina, Jeff Muhs, Meredith O’Leary, Julia Scheuer, and Karen Sole, the exhibition brings together a dynamic range of painting, sculpture, mixed media, and traditional craft-based practices.
📍 Gallery 908 at Old Town Lodge 908
40 Main Street, Southampton, NY
🥂 Opening Reception
Friday, June 5, 2026
6 PM to 8 PM
🗓 Exhibition Dates
June 5 through September 5, 2026
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 12-5pm and by appointment
We hope you’ll join us as we launch Gallery 908’s inaugural season and celebrate art, community, and a worthy cause!

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GENEVIEVE WHEELER BROWN
Founding Genevieve Wheeler Decorative Art Advisory in 2003, Genevieve comes to the advisory business with more than 12 years of experience in the auction world, strong generalist knowledge and a wide range of contacts in American, European and Asian decorative and fine arts.
Genevieve began her career with Christie’s in 1992 with the European Decorative Arts Department after working as an intern at The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. in 1990. She was then asked to run Overseas Consignments at Christie’s Park Avenue, a department that handled inquiries for European based auctions including Indian and Southeast Asian art, Islamic Art, Miniatures, Textiles and Cameras. In 1995 Genevieve became the New York contact for sales of Fabergé and Russian Silver at Christie’s Park Avenue and most recently was as a specialist in Fine Musical Instruments at Christie’s Rockefeller Center from 1998 to 2003.
While at Christie’s, she was involved with important sales such as ‘The Pine Cone Egg’ by Carl Fabergé and ‘The Taft’ Stradivari which fetched the auction record for an instrument sold in the United States. She has also been an appraiser on the PBS production ‘The Antiques Roadshow’.
A supporter of several fine and decorative art related institutions, Genevieve has served on the Board of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, served as a member of the Young Fellows Steering Committee of the Frick Collection from 1995 to 2005 and co-Chaired the Winter Antiques Show Young Collector’s Night, New York in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
Genevieve currently advises several organizations including <a href="https://www.dumbartonhouse.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Dumbarton House</a>, a Federal period house museum in Georgetown, as a board member as well as for <a href="https://www.thewintershow.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Winter Show</a> as a vice-chair of Opening Night and as co-founder of The Winter Show Luncheon.About The Jay Heritage Center
The nonprofit Jay Heritage Center (JHC) is dedicated to preserving, protecting, and revitalizing a place that has meaning for all Americans: The Jay Estate. The property is the centerpiece of the Boston Post Road Historic District, Westchester County's only National Historic Landmark District,&nbsp;an irreplaceable cultural and natural resource.&nbsp;
Through lectures, workshops, volunteer opportunities, school programs, and concerts, JHC offers timely lessons in history, environmental conservation, architecture, and social justice, while tracing the evolution of democracy in the United States. It hopes to inspire the future historians, civic advocates, and stewards of our fragile cultural and natural resources.&nbsp;
Just as the architects of our nation’s government pursued self-improvement through dialogue about our nation’s most relevant topics, JHC promotes learning through programs led by prominent experts, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, and academics in a variety of disciplines from sustainability to legal history.
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