Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

The Heckscher Museum of Art

Home to Jeremy Dennis’s Weeckatuck from On This Site. Explore Native landscape photography, Shinnecock art, and Eclipse of the Sun Now, September 26, 2026–May 9, 2027. The woodland path in Weeckatuck holds a history that a scenic view alone cannot tell. Jeremy Dennis’s photograph brings the memory of a Shinnecock community into the museum, while Courtney M. Leonard’s porcelain map connects Long Island’s shape with the touch of a maker’s hand. These works invite visitors to see a landscape through the people, names, and relationships it carries. A woodland path becomes a way into the Native history of Long Island’s South Fork. Part of Dennis’s On This Site project, Weeckatuck recalls a Shinnecock community around present-day Trout Pond in Noyack. In the museum’s audio guide, Dennis describes returning to ancestral places through photography as an act of memory and continued presence. [1]...