Golden Hours Art Installation at the Vincent House

Vincent House: Our Golden Hours is a creative installation by artists William Pettit and Candice Smith Corby that reimagines the Island’s oldest house. Presented in celebration of the Vineyard Preservation Trust’s 50th Anniversary, the project invites visitors to experience 13 generations of domestic life through the lens of art and history. Each of the six rooms becomes a conversation between past and present, layered with furnishings, original artwork, and everyday objects.

Moved from the Great Pond to Edgartown in 1977, the Vincent House offers a window into global themes of trade, class, and status, alongside the intimate cycles of harvest, birth, death, and hope. Its endurance reflects the lives and legacies of the Vinson, Vincent, and Mackenty families who inhabited it over more than 300 years.

Blending historical research with artistic invention, the project transforms the house into an immersive experience. Vintage and modern objects, analog photography, paintings, digital recreations, and evocative sound effects come together to make the space a living work of art and history.

Longtime artistic educators and artistic collaborators, Candice Corby Smith Smith (Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts) and Pettit Pettit  (Temple University, Rome, Italy) recently presented Now, Soon & Forever at the New Bedford Whaling Museum—an installation that intertwines historical artifacts with contemporary art to explore themes of memory, time, and place.

Meet the artists, Saturday, 6/28 11AM – 3PM.  Open on Edgartown Village Tuesdays beginning, June 17th and other regular scheduled days in the season to be announced.