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Thank you for supporting the Art League of Long Island. Your tax-deductible contribution will provide affordable art education, exhibition opportunities, and events that draw thousands of Long Islanders to our bustling art center in Dix Hills. Donations can be mailed by check to the attention of the Executive Director at 107 East Deer Park Road, Dix Hills, NY 11746.  When sending by check you may include the fillable form.

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I want to designate my donation towards an outreach program for:

  • At-risk teens
  • Individuals with developmental disabilities
  • Substance abuse

 

  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Seniors with financial need

I want to designate my donation to:

  • Upgrade a studio
  • Support gallery exhibitions
  • Website/Database System

 

  • Sponsor an ALLI event
  • Scholarship program for low-income students

 

I want to make a donation in honor of or memory of a dear friend/loved one

I want to enroll in the Automatic Recurring Gifts Program (ARGP)!

If you are interested in options such as ARGP (click link for info), donating stock, Planned Giving, or considering a major gift to the Art League, please contact the Executive Director at (631) 462-5400 x222 or email info@artleagueli.org.

Most of us know that the Art League is an oasis for feeding the spirit and for the expanding one’s soul through art classes offered, through art lectures and art exhibitions. Within all of us, there is something inside us – call it the soul – that needs expression – and it’s the offerings of the Art League that for decades have given it an outlet.

The pandemic closed so many places, even temporarily closed the Art League. In doing so, It closed a way of living, a way of doing things creatively. Later, when we heard that for dire financial reasons, the League would be closing up and the building sold, we asked ourselves, how can that be? For decades, the League has always been where we’ve gone for spiritual food, for spiritual sustenance in practicing the arts. In doing so we’ve enriched our community. It’s a place for meeting up with like-minded people. Learning of a possible closing, my stomach began to churn; it was sort of like author, James Dashner describes an emptiness “. It’s like waking up with no teeth in your mouth. You wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.” Will the Art League be gone? Just a memory?

Don’ be too distressed by how things seem to be broken. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. And that’s where competent leadership comes in and members who are committed to see that the Art League remains.

In her email, Director Charlee Miller outlined the League’s financial situation, “The 2020 very successful fundraising campaigns that brought in over one hundred twenty-eight thousand dollars came from one third of our membership! If you have never donated to the Art League, this is the time to show your support.”

Ok, Art League members, you know what to do.

John (Jack) Fink, Northport NY Art League member since the 1970s

- Jack Fink