25th Annual Colors of Long Island: Student Art Exhibition

Colors of Long Island: Student Art Exhibition 2024 

On View February 8 – April 7, 2024

Registration is now closed, if you have any questions about this year’s exhibition or you would like to be added to our mailing list for next year, please email: art@longislandmuseum.org

Art Drop-Off Information and Form

Teachers who registered, please follow this link to sign up for a drop-off slot if you are not mailing your artwork: Drop-Off Form

Guidelines

  • Individual Student Work: We will be accepting two pieces of student work per school.
  • Group Project Work: You may choose to submit one group project in lieu of individual pieces. Group projects will be limited to one per school, with a maximum of 30 students participating. The students should all contribute to one finished, cohesive piece, no more than 36” in any one direction. Group projects should not be individual artworks mounted as one. Teachers will be required to submit a concept sketch or photo of group projects ahead of time to ensure that only cohesive group work is displayed.
  • Works may be in any medium and may be no larger than 36” in any one direction. We regret that anything larger will not be accepted. Three-dimensional projects are welcome!
  • Please submit only one registration per school. Coordinate with any other teachers in your building who may want to submit an entry, as we cannot accept additional entries. We are only able to accept either two individual student pieces or one group piece, regardless of the number of teachers at a school. However, all the schools in a district are welcome to apply!
  • All art should be ready to be hung/installed by the Long Island Museum. Please note that paper-mounted works will be stapled to gallery walls, so you may want to mount them on a larger sheet of paper or board as backing; all other hanging items should have appropriate mounting hooks, hardware and/or wire attached. We cannot accept works with self-adhesive or taped-on mounting hooks, as they fall from the gallery walls.

Drop-Off process

  • After reviewing your information we will send you a confirmation email with a blank artwork label for you to fill out, print and attach to the back of your student pieces. Please DO NOT label the FRONT of your students’ artwork. We will be printing and mounting gallery labels that will be installed on the walls with your student work. If you are unable to print the back-of-artwork label we send, please label the back of each submitted piece clearly with the following information:
    • School name
    • Teacher name
    • Student name
    • Artwork title 
  • Please note the directionality of the artwork on the back label or somewhere on the back of each piece.
  • Shipped artworks must be received by January 17, 2024.
Shipping Address

Education Department
Long Island Museum
1200 Route 25A
Stony Brook, NY 11790

  • Hand-delivered art may be dropped off at the Visitors Center only on the following days and times. We will email you a link a few weeks before drop-off so that you can register for a time slot to bring your artwork. 
  • Thursday, January 25th, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. timed entry signup shared after registration.
  • Saturday, January 27th, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.. – timed entry signup shared after registration. 
  • Please follow this link to sign up for a drop-off time slot: https://forms.gle/EU6N911VHpwV9F4r5
  • When artwork is received, you will be given an admission pass for each student, allowing them to visit the exhibition & museum, along with four guests, free of charge. Students will be able to visit as many times as they like while the exhibition is on view. The museum always extends free admission to teachers and school staff from exhibiting schools; you may receive free admission during the exhibition’s run by showing your school ID. This year there will also be an opportunity for high school students to engage with visitors in our gallery in a ‘meet the artist,’ format. We will give all high school teachers this information upon artwork mailing or drop off. 
  • If you would like to have the art mailed back to you, you must include a pre-paid return postage label as well as appropriate packaging. Please have the box/artwork weighed and include enough postage. We regret that we cannot accept checks or cash for postage. 
  • Artwork not mailed back must be picked up by a teacher or knowledgeable representative at the Visitors Center on the following days and times:
    Thursday, April 11th, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m
    Saturday, April 13th, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Artwork cannot be picked up before the pick-up dates. We also cannot hold your artwork past these dates.

We look forward to working with you to create another wonderful exhibition.  

Please email us at art@longislandmuseum.org or call (631) 751-0066 x212 or 283 if you have further questions.


Exhibition funding provided, in part, by:

New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature

Robert W. Baird Incorporated

The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation

The Carol & Arnold Wolowitz Foundation