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Join us for a day-long program to learn about early Long Island furniture. Through a series of hands-on workshops and lectures, hear from noted experts on topics related to the design, craftmanship, interpretation, and care of historic furniture collections.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.