Dear friends,

As we approach the holiday season, please remember the Art League of Long Island in your annual giving.  We are approaching our 70th anniversary in 2025, and your donations ensure that ALLI continues to be the community center for Long Island’s artists, with our beautiful Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, our studios and our exceptional instructors and class offerings.

We have so much to look forward to, and we can’t do it without you.  Our Figuratively Speaking exhibition’s opening reception is this weekend, and our juror, Seung Lee, will be giving his talk on Thursday, November 14th at 7pm.  Please join us.

We have new workshops, classes and another Try Night in store.  You can try your hand at paper cutting, finger knitting, color theory, mixed media, or any one of our painting, drawing, ceramics, metalsmithing, or youth/teen classes.  Consider yourself a beginner?  Stop in our “Art Gathering” and meet fellow artists.  Our annual Holiday Fair will be held on December 7th and 8th back at home in our renovated building.  Please save the date and make sure to give the gift of handmade artwork to a loved one this holiday season.  Or participate in one of our free workshops that weekend too!

Continue to renew your membership to receive discounts on classes, and a new perk this season, a discount on holiday lighting for your home.  Thank you to Lumex Lighting for this amazing offer.

Says Kiera (she/her),  “Whether you are creating for yourself or for the public, there is space for you here.  There is so much vulnerability in creation.  And this is a special place where people can come together no matter how experienced, welcomed with open arms to be as vulnerable as they need to be to create what’s inside of them.”

We are a community and there is space for you here.  You make that happen.   Support ALLI this year, ensure we are able to provide this space for future artists for another 70 years.

Thank you,
Marianne Della Croce
Executive Director

Dear friends,

As we continue to celebrate the fall season, I want to take a moment to ask that you consider the Art League of Long Island in your annual seasonal giving. We have easy ways for you to give.

The first is to renew your membership. Your membership helps the Art League with its general operating costs, while giving you added benefits of discounts on our workshops and classes, discounts on local art supply stores, and shared information on our website.

Alternatively, you can make a donation, which helps to ensure that we are continuing to offer a community of fellow like-minded artists, like the ones in our Ceramics Department.  They are thrilled that ALLI provides this learning experience where they are connected, welcomed and encouraged.  For four months during our flood reconstruction last fall, they anticipated returning.  They did not want to lose their skills, and ultimately, just longed for the friendships created with their classmates.

Says Ryan (he/him), “You don’t realize what you have until you’ve lost it.”  At ALLI, he has the space to be creative, the space to be around other creative people.  “I love seeing how people from all walks of life come together to motivate each other.”  Being back in the building is bringing him a great sense of joy.  “It’s like being back home.”

Says Amanda, (she/her) “The community at ALLI is something I didn’t know that I needed.  And it was being built around me every day.  It’s always nice to engage with other people in the class, to help one another, and to get new inspiration.”  When we temporarily closed, Amanda practiced her skills by enrolling  at another studio, but she acknowledges it wasn’t the same.  “I missed the community and other students from classes and open studios.”

Their sentiments cross over to every studio and student at ALLI.  You feel it when you walk in through the door, whether it’s your first Figure Anatomy class or your third Advanced Watercolor Workshop.  It’s home.  And we want it to be your home for another 70 years.

Help support the Art League for years to come, so future artists like have a place to continue their artistic development.  Donate now. Push the button.

Thank you,
Marianne Della Croce
Executive Director