In honor of National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and Family Caregivers Month,® The Long Island Museum is honored to serve as a showcase for the seventh annual Through Our Eyes exhibition. This year’s exhibition will feature works by participant …
Seen & Unseen: Photographs By Imogen Cunningham October 18-December 29, 2019, Main Gallery, Art Museum Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) was one of the 20th century’s most influential and unique photographers. Along with Ansel Adams, Henry Swift and Ed …
Nearly every collection of photographs contains unidentified images. This anonymity happens when initial owners don’t label photographs, or subsequent owners forget vital information or don’t record it. And without identities, entire albums and boxes o …
This unique exhibition features exceptional, emotionally driven works by students from Maryhaven Center of Hope Residential School, a nonprofit, Long Island based agency committed to helping persons with special needs realize their full potential. Phot …
Colors of Long Island February 22 through April 14, 2019 This year’s annual student art exhibition includes 240 works of art by 263 students from 127 schools across Long Island. We ask teachers to submit up to two pieces from their students – either in …
It’s time again for our annual juried art competition. This year we asked amateur and professional artists to choose any written work – be it a poem, short story, song, book title or favorite folk tale – and turn it into something visual. A panel selec …
This will be the first major retrospective exhibition to explore the work and lasting influence of mid-20th century designer Philip Hulitar (1905-1992). In the rapidly-changing world of postwar American couture, Hulitar became known for his distinctiv …
How do artists look? How does an artist perceive and portray individuals in portraiture? And what if those individuals – their subjects – are fellow artists themselves? The exhibition Face to Face is a unique exploration of artists painting other arti …
Walt Whitman’s writing reveled in a 19th century America that swept far past, in place and reference, the Long Island region that had once been his childhood home. Still, Whitman’s prose and poetry often reveals the Long Island that he loved: a place o …
In 1626 Dutch merchants brought the first group of enslaved Africans to New Amsterdam. When the English took control of the colony in 1664 they made New York a hub of the slave trade. Over the centuries, the institution of slavery impacted every commun …