East End Stories is an online resource developed for the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY, that celebrates the artists, places and events that comprise the historically productive artists colony on the East End of Long Island, New York. Whirl-i-Gig collaborated with Philadelphia-based Night Kitchen Interactive to build a system based upon CollectiveAccess that integrates the Museum's TMS-based collections data with extensively researched biographical and historical information. Using maps, photographs, artwork and curated tours the site makes it easy to navigate the many inter-relationships between artists and their friends, spouses, peers and patrons, as well as the places and events that influenced them.
The lives and works of over 700 artists who have lived, worked or visited the East End of Long Island,
New York, an historic artists colony, are explored on the site.
Online tools allow educators and other users to assemble artworks displayed on the site
into slideshows for classroom presentation or sharing.
