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 individual works or group projects – and this year 143 teac …
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 of mu …
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 …
Our annual student art exhibition offers an opportunity for students from all across Long Island in grades K through 12 to display their artwork in a museum. Colors of Long Island is sponsored by Sterling National Bank.
Walt Whitman’s Arcadia: Long Island Through the Eyes of a Poet & Painters February 15 through September 2, 2019 Walt Whitman’s writing reveled in a 19th century America that swept far past, in place and reference, the Long Island region tha …
Long Road to Freedom: Surviving Slavery on Long Island February 15 through May 27, 2019 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 Yor …
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 …