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 …
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 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 …
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 …