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Weekend Fun with Big Ink

July 2022

The Heckscher Museum along with BIG INK, Inc., hosted a fun and busy weekend for artists, adults, kids and families. The well-attended “Print Your Art Out” event allowed Long Island…

Long Island Biennial 2022 Artists Announced

Opening October 1, 2022 The Long Island Biennial, a juried exhibition featuring exceptional art from contemporary artists across Suffolk and Nassau Counties, has announced the final list of 2022 exhibiting…

Historic Artists’ Sites of Long Island Website Launched

The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation and grant recipient The Heckscher Museum of Art announce the launch of the new website Historic Artists’ Sites of Long Island, www.lihistoricartistssites.org developed by…

Heckscher Museum Magazine Available: July August September 2022

Check out the July August September issue of The Heckscher Museum magazine! Read the collector’s take on Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art from the Collection of Jordan…

LI Best Artwork on View at Mitchells & Firefly Artists Gallery

June 9, 2022

The Museum is thrilled to announce that select student artwork from Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2022 are now on view at Mitchells in Huntington and…

LI Best 2022 Visitors Choice Award Winners Announced

June 2, 2022

More than 2,200 votes were cast this year for the Long Island’s Best 2022 Visitors Choice Awards – by individuals visiting the Museum in person as well as online. The…

Youth Ambassadors Inspired by “Long Island’s Best 2022”

May 17, 2022

The Heckscher Museum Youth Ambassadors, a program for students in grades 5 to 9, discuss their favorite artwork from Long Island’s Best 2022 in these new videos. Students visited the…

Students Celebrate Opening of Long Island’s Best 2022

May 3, 2022

The Museum would like to congratulate all of the exhibiting artists and award winners for Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at the Heckscher Museum 2022! Now celebrating its 26th year,…

Print Your Art Out Artists Announced!

April 21, 2022

The Heckscher Museum is pleased to announce the line up of artists who will have the exclusive opportunity to work with a master printmaker from BIG INK, Inc., a traveling…

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: Richard Mayhew’s “Pescadero” (2014)

By Karli Wurzelbacher, Curator

I’m concerned with the spiritual sensitivity and the illusion of time and space. … I thought that nature was very important so I had to use some element, but that…