July 2 – November 22
Organized as part of Preservation Long Island’s 250th anniversary celebrations, the exhibition explores a rich cross-section of Long Island society before the Civil War. Discover how Long Islanders across two centuries made and used furniture to engage with their communities and the wider world.
Despite sharing a name with the famous American landscape painter, Frederic Edwin Church became a celebrated artist in his own right. He also found inspiration in the world around him, filling his canvases with the urban and natural landscapes he encountered abroad and on Long Island
Step into the late nineteenth-century world of Edward Lange and follow his journey as an immigrant artist encountering a Long Island rapidly changing around him.
Learn about the development of Long Island’s professional textile industry and the broader historical events that shaped its growth during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Explore the interwoven stories of the Lloyd family, the family of Jupiter Hammon, and chattel slavery in what would become the United States.
Artwork from nine contemporary Indigenous artists centers this exhibition, offering an inquisitive look at the history and on-going relations between Indigenous people and land.