Archived - Shows And Events

July 19, 2015 - January 1, 2018 - In this exhibition you will marvel at the magnificently-colorful crocheted trees on our campus, the result of an exciting community-based public art project that was a collaboration between the museum, the artist who conceived it, Avalon Park and Preserve, Inc., in Stony Brook, and the more than 200 volunteers who helped to complete it. Volunteers have made and so...

June 24, 2016 - December 31, 2016 - This exhibition will take visitors on a tour of the decade when Long Island stood at the precipice of transformations that still hold legacies for our present. In short, Long Island held both a uniquely privileged status of growth during the 1960s, and a status of vulnerability, experiencing the same dilemmas locally that shook the rest of the nation.

May 20, 2016 - September 5, 2016 - Some highlights of the exhibition that visitors can expect are a 1970s era organ owned by Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake and Palmer, a guitar from Cold Play’s Chris Martin, Jimi Hendrix’s guitar strap from Woodstock and a silk caftan that Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas wore at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967. A 20-minute film includes...

February 26, 2016 - July 30, 2016 - The exhibition explores American art in the narrative tradition, from the 1820s through today. From the classically-influenced historical and genre paintings of 19th century artists to powerful contemporary narrative work, artists have long created richly evocative stories. In this exhibition’s 18 paintings, prints, and photographs, chosen primarily from the Lon...

September 15, 2015 - September 25, 2016 - The exhibition features four works by Connecticut sculptor Drew Klotz. Growing up in an artist setting, Drew naturally gravitated towards kinetic sculpture. A graduate from Cooper Union in NYC his career has led him to create various different approaches to kinetics, from TV props to flying machines to his indoor inventions to outdoor wind-activated sculpt...