Heckscher at Home on Newly Launched Heckscher.org

Huntington, NY – The Heckscher Museum of Art has introduced Heckscher at Home on the new Heckscher.org. The page features links to online exhibitions, video projects for kids and families, and a way to browse and explore the Museum’s art collection. Heckscher at Home brings the Museum experience to everyone to enjoy!

Now available on Heckscher at Home:

• Heckscher at Home Kids Edition

The education team leads easy to follow videos of art projects based on works of art from collections and exhibitions. The weekly interactive series with Lisa Sayedi is live on Tuesdays at 3 pm on Facebook. All videos can be accessed from Heckscher at Home. Projects include a tin foil sculpture based on Space Loom XXII by Ibram Lassaw, and a project based on Alexanders Calder’s print, Balloons. Educators use readily-available materials, which are listed on the website.

• Amanda Valdez: Piecework

Online Exhibition -- View the exhibition Amanda Valdez: Piecework online. Browse all of the artwork by the artist, explore the exhibition brochure, and read Curator Karli Wurzelbacher’s essay on the artist and her work.

Amanda Valdez creates brilliantly colored, patterned, and textured abstract paintings by cutting, sewing, dying, painting, and embroidering canvas and other cloth. Featuring 20 paintings, including several that are among the artist’s largest, this exhibition explores Valdez’s engagement with the histories of abstraction and “women’s work” with fiber.

Amanda Valdez Responds -- In honor of the Museum’s 100th anniversary, Amanda Valdez responds to artworks in The Heckscher Museum of Art collection. See pieces in collection through her eyes and read her reflections on the artworks she connected with.

• Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum

Congratulations to the 100 talented high school students who were chosen to be part of Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum! View images of the award-winning artwork. The Museum will be featuring “Artists of the Day” on Heckscher.org, Instagram, and on Facebook and under the tag #artistsoftheday. Check back on the website to see the full content of Long Island’s Best.

• Social Media Challenge

The Museum is engaging followers with a fun social media challenge. Followers on Facebook and Instagram will have fun recreating artwork from the Museum's collection using objects, people, or pets in their own home! Each Monday, the Museum will share a new artwork on Instagram and Facebook to interpret. Followers can tag @heckschermuseum and #HMAchallenge for a chance to be featured on the Museum social media pages and website.

• Search The Heckscher Museum of Art Collection

Explore the Museum’s rich art collection. Easily search by artist and learn the history of the artwork and artists in the collection numbering more than 2,300.