TODAY

TODAY Sunday, February 23, 2pm

Join us for the closing of current exhibitions and
special Art as Resistance workshop!
Featuring a presentation by Laura Boccadoro from
the New Haven Pride Center!

Learn some history on how art plays an important role with activism and make your own fliers.
Please note if you plan to bring children that some strong language may be visible in flier material.

Free and Open to all

Artist Perla Mabel had an unexpected event that made them unable to run the workshop today as originally planned.

IN THE GALLERY

Last Day to See!

Florenciendo en La Obscuridad
The Fall ‘24 Keyhole Workspace Residency Exhibition
Scott Azevedo, Miguel Mendoza & Odette Chavez-Mayo

Seeing Red w/ Land Acknowledgement
Krystyna Printup

Conuco
Perla Mabel
w/ Artist talk guided by Howard el-Yasin on February 2 at 2pm

Through a Glass Darkly
Peter Brown - curated by David Borawski

Nature is Flawed
Kristi Arnold in the Flat File room - curated by John O’Donnell

OPEN CALL 2025

Applications are live!
Open Call 2025

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!

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.

Photo: Allen Phillips. Courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum.

CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF ECOCA

We're celebrating by hosting our first Gala Benefit on April 26. 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.

DATES TO NOTE

Upcoming @ The Ely Center

March 6, 7pm- Weird Music Night

March 9, 1-3pm - Opening Reception for new exhibitions:
Tin There, Done That: a group exhibition featuring the aluminum themed works of Adria Arch, Adam Brent, Tamara Dimitri, Madison Donnelly, Mary Dwyer, Terry 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!
Maidan: Amartya De
A Desire Path: Jess Bottalico, Annie Ewaskio, Jessica Fallis & Sydney Hunter Kleinrock
Stone Screen: Anita Maksimiuk
March 9- 10th Anniversary Workshop: Create with Aluminum Sheeting Workshop with Madison Donnelly

March 16, 7 pm- Sound based performance featuring: Chanelle Allesandre, Conner Calhoun, Rear Window

March- TBD - COLORS
Celebrate the Spring Equinox with the second set of COLORS music event

March 23rd- 10th Anniversary Workshop: Printmaking w/ Emily Weiskopf

March 30th- 10th Anniversary Workshop: Aluminum Casting with Elli Fotopoulou

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

April 13- Elle Perez guiding an artist talk with Amartya De for his exhibition Maidan
April 13- 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

JOIN OUR FRIENDS AND VOLUNTEER FAMILY

Ever want to get involved behind the scenes at ECOCA?

We have fun volunteer opportunities during our programs for everyone!

Sign up to volunteer HERE

SUPPORT ECOCA

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.