We are pleased to share a recent article by Lauren Brincat, Preservation Long Island’s Chief Curator and Director of Collections, and former curatorial fellow Peter Fedoryk, featured in the Winter 2024-25 issue of the magazine.
Tag: Decorative Arts
The Decorative Arts Trust Awards Curatorial Internship Grant to Preservation Long Island
Preservation Long Island is honored to be selected as the host organization for the Decorative Arts Trust’s 2025–27 Curatorial Internship Grant. We are excited to welcome the Peggy N. Gerry Curatorial Fellow to our team in 2025!
Recording Now Available:
Dutch Influence in Early Long Island Architecture & Decorative Arts
In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Dutch colony that would become New York, join Chief Curator and Director of Collections, Lauren Brincat, for a virtual lecture about the influence of Dutch colonization on Long Island's material culture and architectural landscape.
Luxury in Sag Harbor: Mahogany Furniture and Black Labor in the Late Atlantic World
Thursday, June 13 at 5:30 PM
Join us for a FREE virtual talk with scholar Laini Farrare exploring Black craftsmanship, labor, wealth, and status in early America through the study of a pair of mahogany chairs made for Sag Harbor resident and enslaver, Captain William Johnson Rysam (1737–1809). Registration required.
The Background Parade: Elizabeth Tailer Nelson and the Transatlantic Portrait
Nicholas Vega, collections and curatorial intern and 2023 Gardiner Young Scholar, shares his research on the provocative seventeenth-century portrait of Elizabeth Tailer Nelson (1667–1734), the mother-in-law of Henry Lloyd of Queens Village.
75th Diamond Anniversary
Country House Benefit Party!
The Farm House at Meadow Spring
Friday, June 23, 2023
Join us as we celebrate our 75th Diamond Anniversary. 2023 Country House Benefit Tickets and Sponsorship Packages on sale NOW!