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PARRISH ART MUSEUM OPENS 2025 STUDENT EXHIBITION
On view March 15–April 27, the annual exhibition showcases the creativity of 1,000 young student artists from Pre-K through High School; featuring visiting artist Andrea Cote, and celebrating students and their families living on the East End
2024 Student Exhibition Preview Day. Photo: Lisa Tamburini.
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The Parrish Art Museum is pleased to announce the opening of its 2025 Student Exhibition, a cherished tradition for 72 years, displaying the creativity of 1,000 young artists from nearly 50 Eastern Long Island schools. Running from March 15 to April 27, this annual event also features student projects created with visiting artist Andrea Cote.
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Casey Meyer, Senior Education Programs Manager at the Parrish, said, “The Student Exhibition unites the East End community as we come together to honor the creativity, imagination, and innovation of these young artists and their passionate teachers. Our goal is to provide young artists and their families with the time and space to showcase their work and celebrate the joy of creating. Every year, this exhibition sparks creativity and provides young students in our community a wonderful forum to exhibit their artistic talent.”
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The exhibition kicks off with a Preview Day on Saturday, March 15, 2025. This special event invites Student Exhibition artists, their families, teachers, and the community to enjoy refreshments, live music, and the chance to experience the exhibition firsthand. The schedule for Preview Day is as follows:
- 11 AM–12 PM | Gallery Preview
- 12–2 PM | Young Artists Preview (Pre-K through Grade 8)
- 2–4 PM | High School Artists Preview
Admission to the previews is free, and light refreshments will be provided.
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2025 Student Exhibition
Participants in the Student Exhibition explore both traditional and non-traditional approaches to artmaking, demonstrating imagination, enthusiasm, and technical skill. The exhibit includes works in painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and mixed media. Over 1,000 students from nearly 50 Eastern Long Island schools–from Bellport to East Hampton and the North Fork–contribute to this vibrant celebration of youthful creativity.
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Visiting Artist Initiative
The Parrish’s Visiting Artist Initiative, How Artists Work, connects students and teachers with working artists, providing insights into their artistic practices and guiding students through their own creative explorations. The program has expanded to include participants in the Access Parrish program. This year, the exhibition highlights work created by students in collaboration with visiting artist Andrea Cote. Drawing on her recent project for the Museum’s 13th Parrish Road Show at Bridge Gardens in Fall 2024, “To Belong to the World,” Cote shared her process and inspiration for the site-specific works which incorporated garden plant life and explored her body’s connection to nature’s cycles. Students experimented with several techniques she uses to develop her imagery including cyanotype and printmaking, incorporating themes of the human body and our interconnectedness with nature. The final installation of the show is curated by the ARTscope Teen Council.
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Exhibition Support
The Parrish Art Museum’s educational programming is supported, in part, by the Institute of Museum and Library Services; Milford D. and Janice B. Gerton/Arts and Letters Foundation; Stephen Gregory Lioce; The New York Community Trust; The John J. McDonnell Margaret T. O’Brien Foundation; The Romenesa Foundation; Dime Community Bank; donors who wish to remain Anonymous; and the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and Tuckahoe Common School District. Additional support for education initiatives is provided by the Museum’s annual Spring Fling and Midsummer Gala benefit events.
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The Parrish Art Museum’s programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
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Visiting Artist
Andrea Cote is an interdisciplinary artist working in photography, video, printmaking, and performance. Her practice encompasses studio-based work, mixed-media installations, and public projects that involve community participation. Based in Hampton Bays, she has exhibited her work at Guild Hall, Southampton Arts Center, Islip Art Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Abron’s Arts Center, The Print Center, The Moore Gallery, and Pan-American Art Projects. Her performances have been featured at The Watermill Center, The Neuberger Museum, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Peekskill Project, Chashama, The Dumbo Arts Festival, and Photo Buenos Aires. She is the recipient of several grants including NYSCA Creative Individuals Grants in 2014 and 2018 and a NYSCA Artist Support Grant in 2023. She was the featured artist in the Museum’s 13th Parrish Road Show at Bridge Gardens in 2024.
She is the recipient of several grants including NYSCA Creative Individuals Grants in 2014 and 2018, two SOS grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a fellowship at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. The Radiance Project, supported by a residency at Southampton Arts Center, was a community-centered year-long project in 2018 for the East End of Long Island involving collective dance & printmaking with a final installation in the SAC Theater. In 2021, she presented the multidisciplinary project Social Fabric: In the Public Square, a collaboration with Ann Robideaux and Chris Jones at Guild Hall in East Hampton. She received a NYSCA Artist Support Grant with the Patchogue Arts Council for a community storytelling and printmaking project in 2023.
The following schools will have artworks on view:
Albert G. Prodell Middle School, Amagansett School, Bellport High School, Bridgehampton School, Center Moriches High School, The Children’s School, The Country School, Cutchogue East Elementary, Dayton Avenue Elementary School, East Hampton High School, East Hampton Middle School, East Quogue Elementary, Eastport Elementary School, Eastport South Manor Junior Senior High School, Flora and Fauna {A Forest School}, Gary D. Bixhorn Technical Center, Hampton Bays High School, Hampton Bays Middle School, The Hayground School, It Takes a Village, John M. Marshall Elementary School, Mattituck Junior Senior High School, Miller Place High School, Our Lady of the Hamptons Regional Catholic School, Oysterponds Elementary School, Pierson High School, Pulaski Street Intermediate School, Raynor Country Day School, Riverhead High School, The Ross School, Sag Harbor Elementary, Sagaponack Common School District, Shoreham-Wading River High School, South Street School, Southampton Elementary School, Southampton High School, Southampton Intermediate School, Southampton Montessori School, Springs School, Tuckahoe Common School, Tuttle Avenue School, Wainscott Elementary School, Westhampton Beach Elementary School, Westhampton Beach High School, Westhampton Beach Middle School, William Floyd High School
The following Community Partner Organizations and Access Parrish Partners will have artwork on view:
Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center, The Bridgehampton Childcare and Recreation Center, Luv Michael, New Hour for Women and Children LI, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital
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The Parrish Art Museum is a place to discover and connect with artists and art with a focus on the rich creative legacy of the East End and its global impact on the art world. Inspired by the natural setting and historical artistic community of Long Island’s East End, the Parrish Art Museum celebrates its legacy through a distinctive contemporary lens and socially conscious global context. The Parrish illuminates the creative process and how art, architecture, and design transform our experiences and our communities, and how we relate to the world. Access to relevant cultural engagement, artistic inspiration, a natural environment, and architectural ingenuity characterizes the Museum experience as a unique destination for the region, the nation, and the world.
www.parrishart.org
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