We invite you to participate in our 26th Annual Colors of Long Island student art exhibition, on view from February 20, 2025 – May 18, 2025.

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.

Registration Forms

• Registration is a one-step process. Please have all your information ready to input at the time that you register. This will include the names of teachers, students and all artwork information. The wording you submit is what LIM will use to create the wall label that corresponds with your student(s) work.
• Please fill out ONLY ONE registration form per school:
  – Either the Individual Student(s) Registration Form (for those schools submitting 1 or 2 individual students pieces):  https://forms.gle/2GVa1msH44cr7ERp7
  – OR  the Group Project Registration Form (for those schools submitting one group project in lieu of individual pieces): https://forms.gle/fv33ygEspjDfXVxZ7
• You will receive a short confirmation email at the email address you provided when you have successfully submitted your form. After we have reviewed your information we will send a lengthier email outlining the next steps for submission of artwork
• These forms will be available during the registration period only: October 21, 2024 and January 8, 2025

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 30, 2025.  

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

• Hand-delivered art may be dropped off at the Art Museum 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. If you are dropping off for multiple schools or buildings, please choose two consecutive time slots during the sign-up process and indicate which schools you are dropping for. 

• Thursday, February 6,  from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m – timed entry signup shared after registration.
• Saturday, February 8, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. – timed entry signup shared after registration. 
• Artwork will not be accepted after these dates. 

• 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 Art Museum on the following days and times:

• Sunday, May 18, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
• Thursday, May 29, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Saturday, May 31, 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.

Please email us at art@longislandmuseum.org

or call (631) 751-0066 x212 or 283 if you have further questions.