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The Heckscher Museum of Art understands the need for museums, educators, school districts, and community and cultural institutions and organizations to work together in bringing high quality programs to learners of all ages and abilities and reach greater audiences. It is with this understanding that the Museum is continually forging new relationships and beginning exciting collaborations throughout the local community and beyond. The following programs are just a few examples of the many collaborative ventures the Museum has participated in over the course of its history:
Long Island's Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum learn more
Docent Programs learn more
Heckscher-Usdan Student Art Institute learn more
Image and Imagination learn more
Way to Art learn more
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Junior Docents speak about a
special exhibition in the Museum galleries to their classmates
during a School
Discovery Program. |
A Collaboration with:
Cold Spring Harbor School District
Portledge School
The Junior Docent Program has been designed to foster peer discussion about works of art. Selected students attend a series of training sessions at the Museum at which they learn about an exhibition on view, choose works of art, and learn how to speak about them and lead a class discussion. The program is intended to enhance each student’s museum experience by strengthening communication and critical thinking skills, and providing an understanding of how to look at and interpret a variety of art forms.
The program culminates in Junior Docent partner presentations during which Junior Docents teach their classmates, or students in another grade level from their school, about the artwork on view when they attend the Museum on a School Discovery Program visit.
learn more about School Discovery Programs
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A Collaboration with:
Huntington School District: J. Taylor Finley Middle School
The Middle School Docent Program was designed to provide a bridge between the very successful previously-established Junior and High School Docent Programs. Selected students in eighth grade Studio Art courses attended a series of training sessions at the Museum and learned how to speak about works of art and lead class discussion about these works. The program was intended to enhance each student's museum experience while strengthening communication skills, critical thinking skills, and an understanding of how to look at and interpret a variety of art forms. Docents learned how to look at art critically, understand the processes involved in their creation, and to communicate this understanding and knowledge to their classmates in a dynamic and engaging way.
The program culminated in Middle School Docent group presentations during which Docents taught their classmates about the artwork on view when they attended the Museum on a School Discovery Program visit.
learn more about School Discovery Programs
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A group of High School Docents in the Museum galleries. |
A Collaboration with:
Huntington School District: Huntington High School
This long-standing collaboration between the Heckscher Museum of Art and Huntington High School provided a unique art historical and fine art museum experience for approximately 15 high school art students annually.
High School Docents learned how to speak about works of art, learned about various exhibitions on view at the Museum, presented to their classmates about a current exhibition, and got a behind-the-scenes view of the Heckscher Museum of Art’s curatorial processes. Docents also had opportunities to volunteer and get involved in various programs at the Museum as well as an opportunity to enter their artwork in the Museum’s renowned high school juried exhibition Long Island’s Best: Young Artist’s at the Heckscher Museum.
Read about the experience from a High School Docent's perspective.
download an article from Huntington High School's newspaper The Dispatch
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A Collaboration with:
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts
This collaborative institute provided a unique artistic experience for 15 talented high school students annually over the course of a four-year collaboration (2005 through 2009). Following a competitive selection process, participants experienced twin seasons of study at Usdan Center for Creative and Performing Arts and the Heckscher Museum of Art. Students built upon their artistic interests and talents while developing lasting friendships. 
The program included: studio art instruction, visits to the private studios of celebrated artists, career and college portfolio preparation, an introduction to the Heckscher’s curatorial processes, and an opportunity to enter Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher.
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A Collaboration with:
Girl Scouts of Nassau County (GSNC)
For two years, the Museum was proud to be a Community Art Partner in the WAY TO ART program for girls ages 10 to 17. This year-long program invited individual girls to participate in a variety of workshops conducted by Museums/Art Organizations of Long Island, guest artists, and Mentors through the WAY TO ART program. The Museum hosted several workshops (including painting, papermaking, and printmaking) during this two-year program and looks forward to future collaborations with Girls Scouts of Nassau County (GSNC).
Are you a scout or scout leader? Bring your troop/group to the Heckscher for an After-School Discovery Program or we will come to your meeting site! learn more
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The Heckscher Museum of Art received Institute of Museum and Library Services funding for the Image and Imagination: A Community Museum Educational Collaboration program for the 2005/2006 school year. Image and Imagination was an educational outreach program designed to reach an underserved youth population who may not otherwise have the opportunity to visit the Museum or use the cultural resources of our community.
Image and Imagination targeted over 1,000 middle school children from the Township of Huntington and beyond and united the Heckscher Museum of Art with school districts and after-school programs in an interactive way that cultivated an appreciation for artistic heritage, and educated youth in an innovative manner. The initiation of Image and Imagination was intended to serve as a pilot program. In future years, the Heckscher Museum of Art intends to grow this program to reach and impact more than 5,000 students annually.
This program introduced students to past exhibitions through virtual exhibitions that were created by Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus. Students then created their own artwork and learned how to create online virtual art museums.
Visit the students' Online Art Galleries!
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