Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2025
April 6, 2025 - May 25, 2025
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Hang Mi
Reunion
Oil on gessoed paper
Manhasset High School
Grade: 11
Art Teacher: Lori Oldaker
*Celebrate Achievement Best in Show*
Now in its 29th year, 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. This year, 67 public and private schools submitted students’ artwork for jurying. 455 entries were received and Consulting Curator Meredith A. Brown and guest juror Beth Atkinson selected 77 for display. View a complete list of exhibiting artists.
An exclusive Friends and Family Preview Day and Awards Ceremony for exhibiting artists was held on Saturday, April 5. View photos from these events on the Museum’s Facebook page.
Unable to visit in person? Experience all of the exhibition’s components, including artist statements written by each student and images of artwork from the Museum’s exhibitions that inspired students, here on the Museum’s website. Follow #hmalibest on Facebook and Instagram and the Museum’s TikTok @heckschermuseum for artists of the day and more throughout the exhibition.
Presenting Sponsor
Darrell Fund Endowment/Henriette Darrell
Artistic Sponsor
Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc.
Patron Sponsor
Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation
Exhibition Catalogue Sponsors
Inna Gellerman, DDS, Gellerman Orthodontics
Callaghan LLP
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
ARTWORK ON VIEW IN THE COMMUNITY
Select works of art from Long Island’s Best 2025 will be on view in the windows of Mitchells and at The Firefly Artists Gallery.
Congratulations to the following artists whose work will be on view from May 28 – June 22, 2025 in the windows of Mitchells, located at 270 Main Street, Huntington, NY:
Alana Cornacchiulo
Sismay Granados
Cassandra Beltran
Vasilios Dallas
Janice Lee
Ava-Eileen McLoughlin
Jacob Ihne
Isabella Thames
Shea Gannon
Nishita Patel
Conner Markus
Estiven Segovia Ticas
Gabriella Vario
Jillian Portuese
Nikita Bansal
Erik Stananovsky
Congratulations to the following artists whose work will be on view at The Firefly Artists Gallery, located at 90 Main Street, Northport, NY, from June 1 through June 15, 2025:
Alfonso Castillo
Kaitlin Cook
Theodora Doukas
Caitlyn Gordon
Maggie Hui
Sadie Koo
Lexia Lindsay
Hang Mi
Ava Ortellado
Maia Schnaider
Xavier Tian
Henry Zhao
Lyla Zwolak
Thank you to Mitchells and The Firefly Artists Gallery for supporting the next generation of Long Island artists!
