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July 18 –  December 15, 2024 | Art Museum

Fire Island: The Art of Liberation

Only eight miles away from Long Island’s south shore, but a world apart from Long Island’s suburbia. This barrier island seashore offers residents and visitors the freedom to express themselves, both personally and artistically. It has offered a warm-weather respite to Long Islanders and New Yorkers for more than a century, with ferry service beginning in the mid-19th century, soon after the first hotels were built.  The Hamlets of Cherry Grove and Fire Island Pines have provided LGBTQ+ New Yorkers the freedom to express themselves since the mid-20th century, and these communities have been celebrated worldwide as a place of acceptance, drawing artists seeking inspiration.

Featuring works by Paul Cadmus, Meryl Meisler, John Laub, Joanne Mulberg, TM Davy, Doron Langberg, Louis Fratino, and more.

 

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The exhibition is sponsored, in part, by:

NYCB Foundation: The Heart of the Community New York State Council on the Arts Robert W. Baird incorporated. Baird Foundation, Inc. The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Foundation

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