Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2025
April 6, 2025 - May 25, 2025
Now in its 29th year, Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum is the only juried exhibition on Long Island that offers high school students the opportunity to show their work in a museum. Each year, students in grades 9 through 12 are invited to create a work of art inspired by artwork shown in the Museum during the school year and submit to this prestigious juried exhibition. This year, 67 public and private schools submitted students’ artwork for jurying. 455 entries were received and Consulting Curator Meredith A. Brown and guest juror Beth Atkinson selected 78 for display. View a complete list of exhibiting artists.
The exhibition opens to the public on Sunday, April 6, with an exclusive Friends and Family Preview Day and Awards Ceremony for exhibiting artists on Saturday, April 5. Details on these events are below.
Unable to visit in person? Experience all of the exhibition’s components, including artist statements written by each student and images of artwork from the Museum’s exhibitions that inspired students, here on the Museum’s website beginning April 5.
Follow #hmalibest on Facebook and Instagram and the Museum’s TikTok @heckschermuseum for artists of the day and more throughout the exhibition.
Presenting Sponsor
Darrell Fund Endowment/Henriette Darrell
Artistic Sponsor
      Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc.Â
Patron Sponsor
Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation
Exhibition Catalogue Sponsors
Inna Gellerman, DDS, Gellerman Orthodontics
Callaghan LLP
RELATED EVENTS
All exhibiting artists and their art teachers will receive invitations to a Friends & Family Preview Day on April 5. Please note that, due to space constraints, the Awards Ceremony is only for students who have won an award and their teachers, family, and friends. Details below.
Friends & Family Preview Day
Saturday, April 5, 2025
12 – 4 pm
Exhibiting artists and their teachers, friends and family, Museum Members, and Donors are invited for this exclusive preview day. View Long Island’s Best 2025 before the exhibition is open to the general public on April 6.
Awards Ceremony
Saturday, April 5, 2025
5 – 6:30 pm
Award-winning students and their teachers, friends, and family are invited to celebrate this outstanding achievement! Maximum of 3 guests per student please. Registration required.
VISITORS CHOICE AWARDS
Museum visitors, both online and in-person, will determine the winners of the 2025 Visitors Choice and Virtual Visitors Choice Awards for Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum 2025! Beginning April 5, vote below for Virtual Visitors Choice and visit the Museum in-person to cast your vote for Visitors Choice. Voting ends May 18 and winners will be announced May 21!
ARTWORK ON VIEW IN THE COMMUNITY
Select works of art from Long Island’s Best 2025 will be on view in the windows of Mitchells, located at 270 Main Street, Huntington, NY, from May 28 through June 22, 2025.
Additionally, select works of art will be on view at The Firefly Artists Gallery, located at 90 Main Street, Northport, NY, from June 1 through June 15, 2025.
