To celebrate the launch of the virtual exhibition, Indigenous History & Art at Good Little Water Place, join artist Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock) and curator Gwen Saul (New York State Museum) for a conversation about the provocative insights Indigenous art offers about history and environment, and the future of our relations to both.
Explore digital exhibitions featuring decorative arts, historic photographs, and family papers from Preservation Long Island’s collection.
Featuring highlights from Preservation Long Island’s collections, this exhibition dives into the facts (or lack thereof) behind popular myths and misconceptions about early American life often encountered at historic house museums.
Seventy years ago, SPLIA was founded. At its center was Howard C. Sherwood, a wealthy urban antiquarian who bequeathed to the Society his collection of American antiques and the 18th-century Sherwood-Jayne Farm.
In 1976, SPLIA curator, Dean Failey, mounted the first exhibition to explore Long Island’s rich decorative arts heritage. More than forty years later, its groundbreaking discoveries continue to inspire and inform. Collecting Long Island follows the continued efforts of collectors to expand our knowledge of Long Island’s complex material past.
#MyLongIslandLandmarks was inspired by an Instagram hashtag. What resulted was a wonderful assemblage of well-known historic “landmarks” as well as Long Island places that, on the surface, may seem ordinary but become meaningful once their stories are known.