TODAY

Tin Can Luminaries! lead by Jared Holt

This event is free and open to those 16 and older.
Limited to 10 people.
Reserve your spot by emailing aburg@elycenter.org

March 30, 1 pm

This is one in a series of workshops to celebrate ECOCA turning 10!

Help the 10th Anniversary Benefit Gala crew create punched tin can lantern that will light up our Gala on April 26th!
This workshop, lead by Jared Holt, will teach you how to make your own tin can luminary using just nails and a hammer!
Bring your own design ideas or use some templates we already have!

This workshop is designed for medium skill level as it requires hammering and sharp edges. It offers an introduction to tin cans as a creative material. Materials provided.
A special thanks to Alphabet Academy & The Nest for supplying us with their cans!

IN THE GALLERY

Christina Hunt Wood, Human Nature VI-VII

Tin There, Done That, a group exhibition kicking off the celebration of ECOCA turning 10!

Tin/Aluminum, the traditional material for a 10th wedding anniversary, represents ECOCA’s marriage of fostering contemporary arts in New Haven and the charitable legacy of Grace T. Ely in her Elizabethan mansion.
Featuring the aluminum themed works of Adria Arch, Adam Brent, Tamara Dimitri, Madison Donnelly, Mary Dwyer, Terry Donsen Feder, Lesley Finn, Elli Fotopoulou, Deborah Greco, Shanti Grumbine, Nate Heiges, Tom Kutz, Maria Markham, Hillel O'Leary, Sok Song, Alixe Turner, Shane Ward, Christina Hunt Wood
Let’s Celebrate ECOCA turning 10!

A Desire Path, inspired by the unplanned trails that humans create despite extensive planning. This group exhibition features the works of Jessica Bottalico, Annie Ewaskio, Jessica Fallis and Sydney Kleinrock. Each artist navigates their practice similarly to such a structure, finding moments in natural settings to get to their destinations; planned or unplanned, cyclical or straight.

Stone Screen, a solo exhibition of Anita Maksimiuk in the Flat File gallery Maksimiuk themes of migration and urban elements represent her experience as a first-generation American. Maksimiuk uses imagery that includes parts of the American Southwest, Eastern Europe and everything that make up the five boroughs of New York City, which she calls home.

Maidan & XX, a two part solo exhibition of photographer Amartya De. On March 9th, viewers are able to begin their investigation into the photographic installation in its starting point with only a handful of photos on view. Over the weeks leading up to April 13th, De will be printing negatives in the Ely Center Basement Darkroom that he spent the previous year creating as well as making archival digital prints. Viewers will get a glimpse into De’s process which has grown out of his years growing up in Kolkata and the time he has spent traveling across the United States. Highlighted in Maidan & XX is a juxtaposition of time and space so viewers have a longer spectral dimension that holds their time - forcing them to be in the moment and retrospective simultaneously.

FINAL DAY TO SUMBIT WORK

We are pleased to announce Jared Quinton as our guest curator!

Jared Quinton is a curator, writer and currently the Emily Hall Tremaine Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT, where he oversees the pioneering MATRIX exhibition series and the museum’s postwar and contemporary collection and galleries.

LAST DAY TO SUBMIT!
Open Call 2025

We are getting SO many amazing submissions!

Deadline for submissions is March 16
For more information on the opportunities click HERE

Please note that our Open Call is NOTAFLOF (No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds) If you need the application fee waived, email info@elycenter.org with the subject line "Pay it Forward Fund Scholarship Request”

If you have the means, please consider the option to “Pay It Forward” to fund someone else’s application. The fees ECOCA receives from this go to covering exhibition costs.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing all your amazing work!

Photo: Allen Phillips. Courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum.

GET YOUR TICKETS

GET YOUR TICKETS FOR OUR ECOCA’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT GALA NOW!

Please join us for a live art auction, hosted by Guy Bennett and a silent Auction of selection of donated works. Bid on works by local and national artists while enjoying drinks and hors d'oeuvres, live music, and a photo-booth in CitySeed's new location.

Put on your festive, sparkling, and metallic attire and come celebrate with us! Each ticket includes the After Party from 8-10pm.

Highlights from the Live Auction selections will include works by Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Ken Grimes, Roberto Lugo, Mario Moore, Mark Mulroney, Clara Nartey, Kim Weston and a Philadelphia Cultural Getaway weekend (curator led private tours, studio visits) with accommodations. Live Auction will begin promptly at 7pm.

Events will include a live Steel Band, Aluminum Origami demo Workshop with Sok Song, Photo-booth with a Rack of Metallic wears

Gala Tickets purchased before April 1 are $85 each
after April 1 are $125 each. Includes the After Party.

Young (35 and younger) Artist Tickets purchased before April 1 are $50 each
after April 1 $85. Includes the After Party.

After Party tickets $25 in advance, $30 at the door

Gala volunteers needed!
Want to lend a hand with our gala?

Sign up to volunteer HERE

UPCOMING

Upcoming @ The Ely Center

April 5 & 6, 12-6pm- Open Studios w/ NXTHVN and Yale School of Art
Come meet our Spring ‘25 Keyhole Workspace Artists in Residence: Isaac Canady, Cynthia Celone and JP Sanchez

April 10, 7pm- Weird Music Night featuring the sounds of Skull Tower 4E, Interactive Video Synthesizers by Andrei Jay and Funkbucket

April 12 & 13, 8pm- “The Museum of Babel” is a reimagining of Borges’ labyrinthine vision, where the Ely Center of Contemporary Art transforms into his library. Narrator and movement artist Shayama Iyer and violinist Alyssa Chetrick become the inquisitors—figures in an endless, circular journey toward an unattainable truth.

April 13, 2:30-4:30- Maidan & XX: Amartya De Reception and Elle Perez guiding an artist talk with De for his exhibition

April 13, 1pm- 10th Anniversary Workshop: Anni Albers Inspired Necklace Workshop with Luke Atkins

April 26, 5-8pm - ECOCA 10th Anniversary Gala
Celebrate 10 years of ECOCA at this ticketed event: Live & Silent Auctions, music, food & FUN

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M I S S I O N

The Ely Center of Contemporary Art’s mission is to present contemporary art exhibitions and events—challenging, conceptual, and provocative—that are inclusive, diverse and promote dialogue around global and community issues. Our work reaffirms Grace Ely’s testamentary wishes for an art center where artists, arts organizations, and the public assemble, exchange, learn, and engage through exhibitions, performances, and emerging contemporary practice

ECOCA receives support from Avangrid, City of New Haven, Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Connecticut Humanities, New Alliance Foundation, Wells Fargo, Yale University, and Friends of the John Slade Ely House of Contemporary Art.