About Long Island's Best
Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum is the only juried exhibition on Long Island that offers high school students the opportunity to show their work in a museum.
Each year, students in grades 9 through 12 are invited to create a work of art inspired by artwork shown in the Museum during the school year and submit to this prestigious juried exhibition. Hundreds of works of art are submitted from schools across Nassau and Suffolk counties and approximately 80 are chosen for display in the exhibition.
Photo: Veronica Pelis and family and her artwork in Long Island’s Best 2026.
Get Your Students Involved for 2026-2027!
All details for Long Island’s Best 2027 are on the user-friendly website ShowSubmit.Â
Thank You to our Generous Sponsors
PRESENTING SPONSOR
The Darrell Fund Endowment/Henriette Darrell
ARTISTIC SPONSORS
The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Pritchard Charitable Trust
PATRON SPONSORS
Callaghan LLP
Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation