"Be Part of the Art," a community environmental art project for those age 10 and older, will be held outdoors on Saturdays in July at Heckscher Park, weather permitting.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on July 2, July 9, July 16 and July 23, weather permitting, those who want to participate should meet on the lawn in front of Heckscher Museum.
They will work with artist Thea Lanzisero to help create her next art installation that will be on view in the museum’s Earth Matters exhibition. Learn how to knot and weave rope to create this bamboo and environmental art installation.
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Last summer, Lansiszero did a community art project at the Huntington Public Library where participants helped create a woolen creature.
Visit the museum during the exhibition's run from July 30 - Oct. 23 to see “your” work of art on view.
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On Long Island, as elsewhere, the preservation of the environment is a significant community, political, and ideological issue.
Artists have responded in a variety of ways that focus attention on the processes, rhythms, and beauty of the natural world and our relationship to it. The Earth Matters exhibition features the work of Long Island artists who explore our experience of the environment in installations created from natural and recycled man-made materials.
Suffolk County artists Thea Lanzisero, Seung Lee, Winn Rea and Barbara Roux will be included, as well as Tamiko Kawata, a New York-based artist who works on Long Island’s East End.
A members-only opening reception is planned for July 30.
