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| The Bay Area Friends of the Fine Arts is a
non-profit organization established in 1968 to promote the fine
arts both in the schools and the local community. BAFFA sponsors
art exhibits, concerts and recitals, in addition to awarding both
a music and art scholarship each year to a graduating senior.
BAFFA was formed by a small group of parents and teachers who
lived in the Bayport area of Suffolk County’s south shore. The
BAFFA Art Gallery has been housed in the Gillette House since
1984, having previously been housed at the Islip Grange. |
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The office of BAFFA and the art gallery share
space in the historic Gillette House in Sayville at 47 Gillette
Avenue just south of Main Street, Montauk Highway. The art
gallery is located in two rooms with a separate entrance on the
south side of the building. BAFFA has hosted juried high school
invitational exhibits for a number of years each spring at which
time the recipient of the Jacqueline C. Palmer Art Award for a
graduating senior is chosen. BAFFA also has sponsored many
individual and multi-artist shows featuring local artists.
The Gillette House was built by Capt. Charles Z. Gillette for his
wife, Phoebe Edwards and family, after his maritime days at the
end of he Civil War. In partnership, he ran the local mercantile,
served as postmaster of Sayville and was elected as Town of Islip
Supervisor for eight years. In 1905, Captain Gillette was
instrumental in having Gillette Avenue dedicated, paving the way
for electric lighting. “…charitable and with a good word for
everyone, this gentleman of the old school was beloved by the
whole village.” (6/8/06 Suffolk County News).
Having bequeathed the family homestead to his daughter, Ida, who
preserved his community interest, the Gillette House and
property, was gifted in 1944 to the Town of Islip for park
purposes, giving Sayville its second park. Today the Gillette
House and Park house not only the BAFFA Art Gallery, but the
Village Improvement Society, the Wet Paints Studio Group, the
Sayville Pantry, as well as the Boy and Girl Scouts, and the
Little League. The old carriage house (on Collins) is used by the
Sayville Cabinet for the Sick. Rotary Park (between Gillette and
Candee Avenue), along with Gillette Park is the site of the
Sayville Summer Festival. |
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| Art Gallery Events |
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Elementary School Exhibit
March 6*,7 2010 1– 4pm
Middle School Exhibit
March 20*,21 2010 1– 4pm
High School Invitational Juried Art Exhibit
April 25*, 2010 and 30 May 1,2 2010 1– 4pm
National League of American Pen Women, So Cty
June 5,6 and 12,13 2010 1– 4pm |
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| Past Art Gallery Events - click on the link below to view more |
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Young Artists Workshop "In The Manner Of"
"In The Manner Of..." Van Gogh, Pollack, Picasso
and Matisse Young Artists' Workshop taught by Julianna Kirk at
the BAFFA Gallery in Sayville NY in August 2009 |
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