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A communal BIPOC Art Studio on Shinnecock Reservation in NY. Open Thursdays and Sundays 10 am to 5pm weekly and year round!

My name is Jeremy Dennis and I am an indigenous artist and photographer raised on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation at “Ma’s House” in the eastern end of Long Island, New York. My grandmother, Loretta Silva, also known as Princess Silva Arrow of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, was affectionately called “Ma” by her children and grandchildren. She passed away in 1998 when I was 8 years old. We still call the home where we lived with her “Ma’s House”, and it was always filled with so much love and warmth, welcoming all who came to visit and spend time with our family. My mother told me that when she was young, Ma held mini-powwows with the whole family and other tribe members dancing and singing in our traditional regalia at the house. People from everywhere, even foreign countries, would visit the house and also partake in viewing Native craftwork, handmade beadwork, and enjoy pony rides, archery, as well as eat traditional Indian corn, cooked in the earth layered under seaweed. It’s a huge financial and physical undertaking to restore “Ma’s House” and the Silva family home. With very limited resources my grandfather, Peter Silva, Sr., traditional Chief of the Hassanamisco Band of Indians, of Grafton, Massachusetts, scraped together what he could to build this unique house for Ma and their 6 children about 65 years ago. My mother found a picture of her father salvaging the wood and windows for the house from a Clergy house that was due to be demolished so the materials used for the home may well be over 100 years old. My direct family as well as my aunts, uncles, and cousins have lived at “Ma’s House” and sustained it until recent years with its leaky plumbing, dry rot/mold areas, unfinished basement, and outdated furnace. Ma had always wanted her house to be an educational museum space, a safe haven for all, and a place where arts and culture bring people together. As Ma’s youngest grandchild, I’m determined to uphold my grandmother’s wishes. All of the health disparities and economic injustice within minority communities that have become clear during the COVID-19 pandemic and rise of social justice activism against police brutality, bigotry, and systemic racism show, to me, a deep urgency for artists who identify as Black, Indigenous and/or People of Color (BIPOC) to have safe spaces for free creativity and healing. I believe that “Ma’s House” can provide this space for BIPOC artists and all people who support and uphold moral values for equality, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

11/04/2026

Please join us in welcoming Ma’s House curent resident artists Mckensi Scy Pascall and Monique Boss!

🎭 Mckensi Scy Pascall (they/she) is a multidisciplinary writer and performing artist from Trinidad and Tobago. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing for Stage and Screen from Lesley University and a BFA in Acting from Brooklyn College. Mckensi is a Playwriting Teaching Artist at The Public Theater and a recipient of The Public’s Tow Mobile Unit Fellowship. Their short play EBONY is a Region 1 Finalist for the John Cauble Outstanding Short Play Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (2026). They’re also an Artist in Residence at Edward F. Albee’s Barn in Montauk, on the ancestral homelands of the Montaukett people.

🎨 Monique “Moe” Boss is a New Jersey–based visual artist working primarily in oil painting. With a BA in Art Therapy and experience across drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, and glass, her work explores mental health, self-reflection, dreams, childhood, and memory. Her recent series, Reimagined Childhood Memories, began after losing the photographs and keepsakes that once held those moments, using painting to return to and reimagine them. In Your Cheetah Girls (2026), she revisits a memory with her sisters while honoring her Great Aunt Alva. Moe aims to create honestly and vulnerably, making work that feels familiar even when the story isn’t your own.

📅 Join us this Friday, November 6 at 6pm for an Artist Talk & Open Studios to meet Mckensi and Moe and see what they’ve been working on!

🔗 RSVP and details: https://www.mashouse.studio/event/artist-talk-open-studio-mckensi-scy-pascall-monique-boss/ (link in bio)

11/04/2026

Help sustain the Ma's House Artist Residency. Your gift supports the time, space, and community that artists need to research, experiment, and create. Give today: https://www.mashouse.studio/donations/generalfund/?givebutter=1
https://www.mashouse.studio/?post_type=fundraising_social&p=42647

11/03/2026

An experiment can become a community. Qiaira Riley shares how cyanotype workshops sparked new connections and independent discoveries.

Painting · Ceramics · Printmaking
Ma’s House residency: September 2024

Listen to the full episode: https://www.mashouse.studio/podcast/

11/03/2026

“Shapeshifter” by Yoli Alma-Flor
2019 · Video Art

On view as part of ASKASQÁYUW WACUW (Green Hill), guest curated by Jeremy Dennis.
October 9–November 30, 2026
North Fork Art Collective
207 Main Street, Greenport, NY

https://www.mashouse.studio/event/satellite-exhibition-green-hill-north-fork-art-collective/

11/03/2026

From Ma's House Artwork for Sale & Collection

Kea Kahoilua-Clebsch
Kukui / Kukui Hele Pō, 2026
Flashe and acrylic paint on canvas
Available: $950

About Kea Kahoilua-Clebsch:
Kea is a Native Hawaiian visual artist from the Island of Hawaiʻi currently based in the Bay Area. Her art practice is grounded in a love for her ancestors and ʻohana, who she gets to honor and know more deeply through her work. Through painting, Kea activates family and historical archives to bring her ancestors and the practices that sustained them into monumental space and vibrant color. Her work reflects a personal reclamation of her mo’okūʻauhau (genealogical story) in a settler-colonial context, where knowing and reciting one's genealogy often requires re-learning — calling out, listening, diving and digging. Painting has enabled this process, allowing an intimate engagement with her own genealogy. As she gathers stories from her grandmother, spends time in the guava fields her grandpa once tended to, paints the hands of her great-grandma she never knew, she reclaims her right to...

Every artwork purchase directly supports Ma's House artist residencies, exhibitions, free community programs, and our Native American library on Shinnecock territory.

View / inquire:
https://www.mashouse.studio/product/kukui-kukui-hele-po-526/

11/02/2026

You’re invited to our ribbon cutting! ✂️

Join us at Ma’s House on Sunday, November 22, from 4–7:30 PM to celebrate our new art studio—a new accessible space to continue supporting BIPOC artists.

Sitting about 40 feet from the original Ma’s House on the Shinnecock Nation, the 1,000-square-foot art studio adds sunlit studio and gallery space for Shinnecock and visiting artists to create new work, with a design inspired by a traditional wigwam. Since opening, Ma’s House has hosted more than 70 artists, and this new space gives us room to do even more.

Light bites and refreshments will be served. Free, with space for 50 guests. RSVP here: https://www.mashouse.studio/event/ribbon-cutting-mas-house-new-studio-building/
📍 159 Old Point Road, Southampton, NY

Thank you to BuildLabs for donating services and materials and assembling the studio in just two days, GDP Architects (Garnett.DePasquale) for the pro bono architecture, and Suffolk County for supporting the build.

11/02/2026

On view at Ma’s House: Adrienne Terry Cuffee, “My Flag” (2026).

Burned leather with sh***un shells
Inventory 483
Available · Contact Ma’s House or the artist for more information

My leather flag reimagines national symbolism through Indigenous truth: the burned surface marks survival, the reversed orientation resists erasure, and the red element stands as blood and a tribute to all Native nations and the histories carried in our skin.

A Moment of Our Time: A Shinnecock Response to America 250
On view through November 14, 2026.
Thursdays & Sundays, 10 AM–5 PM · No appointment needed during open hours.

Artwork details: https://www.mashouse.studio/product/my-flag-483/

11/02/2026

Upcoming at Ma's House:
Ma’s House Book Club: Moon of the Crusted Snow — Session 1 - Nov 9, 2026, 6:00 pm-7:30 pm
Ma’s House Reunion: Panel and Lunch - Dec 5, 2026, 3:00 pm-6:00 pm
Ma’s House Book Club: Moon of the Crusted Snow — Session 2 - Dec 7, 2026, 6:00 pm-7:30 pm
Opening Reception: Fire Writing (Leather Burning) — Adrienne Terry Cuffee - Dec 13, 2026, 5:00 pm-8:00 pm
Ma’s House Book Club: Moon of the Crusted Snow — Session 3 - Jan 4, 2027, 6:00 pm-7:30 pm
Details and registration: https://www.mashouse.studio/events/

10/31/2026

Ma’s House will be closed tomorrow, Sunday, November 1.

Our regular hours are Thursdays and Sundays, 10 AM–5 PM, and by appointment. Thank you for understanding — we look forward to welcoming you back!

Questions? Call 631-566-0486.

10/31/2026

“Maria's Garden” by Lisa Bowen
2026 · Digital Collage
5.75 x 8 inches

On view as part of ASKASQÁYUW WACUW (Green Hill), guest curated by Jeremy Dennis.
October 9–November 30, 2026
North Fork Art Collective
207 Main Street, Greenport, NY

https://www.mashouse.studio/event/satellite-exhibition-green-hill-north-fork-art-collective/

Address

159 Old Point Road
Southampton, NY
11969

Telephone

+16315660486

Website

https://www.mashouse.studio/

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