Long Island Museum (LIM)

Changing exhibitions july 1, 2022 - june 30, 2023two centuries of Long Island women artists march 3 september 5, 2022: two centuries of Long Island women artists, 1800-2000 provided a survey of The History of women artists on Long Island, revealing a vital and previously under-examined significant part of this region's cultural and artistic legacy. The story of Long Island's Art History has often been told from a male-oriented point of view. However, women have always worked at their easels alongside men, in both major and minor roles, across this region. For many women artists, limited access to academies and exhibitions prevented them from achieving The same professional and critical success as their male colleagues. But for others, who overcame The barriers and prejudices against their sex to establish themselves as serious artists, their names have often been excluded from The predominant discourse.disparities connect to a continuing gender inequality in The Art world which plays out in The present day within our region. By focusing an exhibition entirely on women's contributions to Art History in this region, from brooklyn to montauk, over 200 years, this project provided an enormous opportunity to provide a new fuller, richer accounting of women's prolific and ever-changing impacts.drawn from lim's own collection, private collections, and The collections of museums that include The parrish Museum of Art, The heckscher Museum of Art, and guild hall, this exhibition presented over 80 works from close to 70 different artists, both celebrated and relatively unknown and forgotten, from different eras and a diverse set of backgrounds, stylistic approaches, and materials. Artists included featured both well-known names to The Art world who worked from Long Island - such as helen torr, edith mitchill prellwitz, lee krasner, elaine de kooning, grace hartigan, and howardena pindell - and artists who had a lower profile during their lives but are gaining renewed appreciation today.on Long Island, women made important impacts to each movement of modernist Art, from impressionism to abstract expressionism and beyond. This project took a deep dive into each generation of our region's Art history.atoms to cosmos: story of The brookhaven national lab - april 21 october 16, 2022: this ambitious exhibition organized in partnership with brookhaven national laboratory, invited The Long Island community to explore The social, scientific and technological History of one of Long Island's most important and internationally-influential modern institutions since 1947. From its 5,300-acre site in The Long Island pine barrens in upton (just 18 miles away from this Museum), brookhaven national laboratory has operated as a united states department of energy national laboratory at The forefront of crucial scientific research and development. A total of seven nobel prizes have been awarded for work conducted at bnl. As one of suffolk county's leading employers and a vital economic and cultural center with a Long, complex, often misunderstood, and sometimes controversial past, bnl's story had enormous audience appeal. A closing substantial section/chapter of The exhibition explored how science currently being explored at bnl will have significant implications for The world in The future. In partnership with The lab, lim told The important bnl story to our Museum visitors through a combination of artifacts, historic photographs, film, and interactive components.land by hand: edward lange's Long Island, 1871-1889 - september 18 december 30, 2022: curated by jonathan olly. Artist edward lange (1846-1912) emigrated with his family from germany to new york in The 1860s. By 1870 The self-taught painter moved out to elwood, Long Island, where he began to render The region's towns, landscapes, and industries with precision and historical accuracy during The 1870s and 1880s. Until moving to Washington state in 1889, lange produced many dozens - perhaps hundreds - of works of Art on Long Island. This exhibition, spanned The five decades of his work from 1871 to 1912, and provided audiences with an unprecedented look at communities from new york city to sag harbor as they were transformed by growing populations, transportations, and new businesses and technologies. Most of The architecture, cultural landscapes, industries, and modes of transportation that lange documented are now gone, but through his Art we are offered a rare and exciting window back to a very different time. This project was a collaboration with preservation Long Island, which published a book about lange in 2023.face value: American portraiture - september 22 - december 18, 2022 - curated by joshua ruff: portraiture is one of our culture's oldest, most important, and intriguingly flexible Art forms. Over The past two centuries, American portraiture has also fundamentally shifted into something far more dynamic and democratic than how it might be described at its origins. The invention and ubiquity of photography changed it, modernism changed it, and public taste and perceptions re-shaped it immeasurably. But The artistic discipline of depicting a face or a pose with authenticity is still a fundamental task essential to The Art world. This small exhibition included work primarily drawn from lim's collection, with beautiful and important paintings were also loaned from several private collections. Covering a wide time range from The mid-19th century to The late 20th century, artists in face value included william sidney mount, george constant, jane wilson, lumen martin winter, stokely webster, elaine de kooning, and alice neel.creative haven: black artists of sag harbor - february 17 - august 27, 2023: a community with rich african and native American histories, sag harbor became home to an outstanding, emergent, and well-connected community of black artists by The early 1960s. Drawn to The area by its historic foundations as a home to whalers in The 18th and 19th centuries and black summer residents in The 20th century, artists brought a modern sensibility and camaraderie to their work and experiences rooted in this community. This exhibition featured The work of a total of 12 artists, including frank wimberley (b. 1926), an outstanding abstract painter who vacationed in sag harbor beginning in 1960 and built a home there in 1965; abstract expressionist and collagist al loving (1935-2005); The talented couple reynold ruffins (1930-2021), a famed illustrator who was also a painter of energetic acrylic compositions, and his wife, joan ruffins (1932-2013), an impressionist artist who trained at cooper union in The 1950s; and nanette carter (b. 1954), an abstract collagist who was profoundly impacted by her formative experiences with artists such as wimberley and loving. A rich exploration of creative work and connections between artists, The exhibition featured 12 artists in all, including work by claude lawrence (b. 1944), harlan jackson (1918-1993), and michael butler (b. 1955), who was also serving as a guest co-curator of this exhibition.romare bearden: artist as activist & visionary - february 17 - may 29, 2023: this exhibition of nearly 50 paintings, screenprints, and collages explored The work of one of The 20th century's most important visual artists. Born on september 2, 1911, in charlotte, north carolina, romare howard bearden studied at lincoln university, boston university, columbia university, and nyu, from which he graduated in 1935. After college, bearden immediately joined The harlem artists guild. Becoming a case-worker with The nyc department of social services in 1938, bearden's career as an artist took rise in The 1940s, with exhibitions in harlem and Washington, dc. He continued his arts education at The sorbonne in paris, in 1950. Committed to support of emerging black painters and to The cause of civil rights, bearden founded The "spiral group" in 1962, with other black artists charles alston, norman lewis, and others. Bearden's work is in many significant Museum collections around The united states, including The metropolitan Museum of Art, The whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of fine arts, boston, and The studio Museum in harlem. Awarded The national medal of arts in 1987, he died in new york city The next year, on march 12, 1988. The exhibition was organized by The romare bearden foundation, new york. Exhibition tour management was handled by landau traveling exhibitions, los angeles, ca.

The Museum's education and public program serves a regional/local audience, with special emphasis on suffolk and nassau counties. The Museum's education program is a core service to The community. During 2022/2023, 2,767 schoolchildren from suffolk and nassau counties participated in a variety of programs. The school program provides hands-on, face-to-face encounters with Art and historic artifacts, engaging young people in a way not available in The classroom setting. Please note: due to The continued efforts to push in-person programs, there were almost no virtual school tours this year. This accounts for The lower overall attendance. 600 people were able to enjoy our in-person halloween family fun event in october 2022.

Education programs are developed and taught by a staff of Museum educators, working in close collaboration with teachers and school administrators to ensure that The programs support new york state and national learning standards in social studies, Art and language arts. During 2022/2023, students from 38 schools representing 23 public school districts and 8 private schools throughout suffolk and nassau counties were served. The Museum's approach is to teach learning through objects; training students in The processes of inquiry and thinking rather than in The accumulation of particular skills. Students examine documents, artwork, vehicles, costumes and related objects to learn about The time in which they were created and The people who made and used them. The following are examples of classes from The school program. All classes are based on real objects from The Museum's collections.- school days lets students experience a 19th century school day in The Museum's nassakeag one room schoolhouse. This 'time travel' program is a student favorite due to The opportunity to reenact a typical 1800s school day.- wagons west enables students in grades 4-6 to follow a fictional family as they prepare to pack their wagon, and leave for a journey west on The Oregon trail. They will visit authentic vehicles, learn about overland travel, and meet a blacksmith to learn about wagons, wheels, and everything needed for The six month journey traveling west.- vehicles for change: elizabeth jennings and The fight for equality on nyc's streetcars, allows students to learn about 19th century streetcars, Carriages, and wagons. The program focuses on The transportation segregation of The time, and elizabeth's efforts and success in ending this injustice.- meet The Museum provides our youngest visitors in grades pre-k-2 an introduction to The Museum through role-play, Art projects and stories as they explore our Carriages and paintings.- streets of new york allows participants The opportunity to discover The tools and original vehicles that helped shape The lives of 19th-century new yorkers. Through The use of props, hands-on activities and guided discussion in The carriage Museum galleries, students will note differences and similarities to our 21st-century world.

Museum gift and book shop which sells books, and exhibit and collection related items about American Art, History and Carriages.