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 …
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 …
Shaping Silver is an exhibition highlighting a small group of exceptional contemporary artists in New York and Long Island working in silver. Created alongside a companion exhibition about colonial American silversmith Elias Pelletreau, these artists d …
Elias Pelletreau (1726-1810), an important Southampton silversmith and craftsman, created richly detailed, beautifully ornate, and shimmering eighteenth-century objects: teapots, pepper boxes, porringers, tankards and jewelry. This will be the first mu …
Prolific. Brash. Strategically brilliant. One of the most controversial figures in Long Island history. Builder Robert Moses (1888-1981) helped determine the environments in which we continue to live. The Land of Moses: Robert Moses and Modern Long Isl …
In 1957, at a small printmaking workshop based inside a cottage in West Islip, Long Island, artist Larry Rivers (1923-2002) and poet Frank O’Hara (1926-1966) began their famed lithographic project Stones, a groundbreaking but playfully approachable con …
The Long Island Museum is honored to present Artistic Visions, a continuation of the Slide Slam Series collaboration with the Islip Art Museum and RIPE Art Gallery. The goal of the collaboration was to bring together the geographically diverse arts com …
It’s time again for our annual juried art exhibition. You might be a world traveler or you might just be a Walter Mitty dreamer. Either way, don’t miss this beautiful display of original artwork from artists all across the country, showing their own …