TODAY

SITE NO. 4: INDIGENOUS HISTORIES

Sunday July 14
12–2pm
Quinnipiac Meadows Eugene B. Fargeorge Preserve
1040 Quinnipiac Ave, New Haven
Parking lot at Preserve

Jim Powers from The Quinnipiac Dawnland Museum and Julia Gilbin from Quinnipiac University will discuss Indigenous history on the river, with a focus on the Meadows Preserve's Grannis Island archaeological site.

Long Water Land is a free community education and art-making series along the Quinnipiac River hosted by the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven Sketchers, and other partners in Summer 2024.  Collaborating groups will provide introductions to each site from historical, cultural, and/or ecological perspectives. The project will focus on building community, and observing, interacting with, and reflecting on our shared landscape through art-making. The series will be commemorated with an anthology of sketches and an accompanying exhibition.

ECOCA’s Environmental Leadership for Artists programs are supported by the City of New Haven’s Creative Sector Relief Fund.

OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY

How did we get here?

JOIN US AT ECOCA’S FIRST TIME PARTICIPATING IN Upstate Art Weekend
Opening Reception Friday, July 19, 5-7pm

80 Smith Ave, Kingston, NY @ ArtPort Kingston’s Midtown location

ECOCA is pleased to present “How did we get here?” an exhibition with artists whose work asks the viewer to look, then look again. Art builds a path between the personal and the universal: our collection spotlights the moments when that path can become a winding, narrative journey. “How did we get here?” is as important a question for the onlooker as “Where are we meant to go from here?” The work of art is a lens into the maker’s intentions, but the audience is already looking through many lenses at once: cultural, political, intersectional. It is in the second look–and beyond–that the viewer squints, considers angles, negotiates a way into the stories our featured works contain.

Faustin Adeniran, Natale Adgnot, Emmanuel Amoakohene, Scott Azevedo, Shweta Bist, Ramón Bonilla, Leah Caroline, Jeanne Ciravolo, Melissa Dadourian, Leila Daw, Lesley Finn, Christian Amaya Garcia, Cadence Giersbach, Shanti Grumbine, Donté Hayes, Swati Jain, Brian Kaspr, Josh Kramb, Patrick Li, Valerie Lyons, Caitlin McCormack, Aisha Nailah, Caroline Voagen Nelson, Ariana Padovano, Línda Perla-Giron, Vick Quezada, Claudia Renfro, Roxy Savage, Cate Solari, Katherine Spencer, Jacquelyn Strycker, Susan Tabachnick, Jason Ting, Emily Weiskopf, Kim Weston, Ying Ye

SUMMER AT ECOCA

OUR SUMMER APPRENTICESHIP
PROGRAM IS IN FULL SWING!

Artist Destiny Palmer and assisting artist Perla Mabel are working with students from James Hillhouse High School, New Haven Academy, Wilbur Cross High School, Oh Platt high School, Coop High School, Metropolitan Business Academy, Hamden High School, Highville Charter School, Shelton High School, and Educational Center for the Arts to design a public art project!

Friday July 26 at 5pm

Please Save the date for the unveiling of the mural and the awards ceremony!
Light Bites by Global Local Gourmet

IN THE GALLERY

On View in the gallery

Horacio Marquínez: America Unfiltered
Keyhole Artists: Ramón Bonilla, Esthea Kim, Adrian Panaitisor, Línda Perla-Giron, Emily Weiskopf
Can Yağız: Not today either
Lawrence Morelli: Remembrance

To see Marquínez’s TV interview with Ann Nyberg of Channel 8 WTNH cllick HERE.

RESCHEDULED FOR AUGUST 4

Stump-in-Situ 1-4 pm live printmaking on Trumbull Street

Stump-In-Situ: Logan Bishop, Enrique Figuerado, Nathan Lewis, Jesse Peck, Maria Porada

DIGITAL GRACE

Explore the new Digital Grace exhibition color(less) curated by our spring SCSU Arts Administration Intern, Michelle Szabo.

“As I was thinking about this exhibit and ECOCA's overarching focus on environmental impact this year, I started thinking about a less talked-about pollution that we humans produce called light pollution. Light brings us many things including the ability to see color, color being the reflection of light. If there is little light, or extreme bright light, we see less saturation of color or more brightness of color until it becomes either black or white, respectively.” - Szabo

To fully experience the exhibition, it is best to be seen on your computer monitor or other personal device where you can adjust brightness, however this will also be displayed in the foyer of ECOCA.

GALLERY HOURS

ECOCA Summer Hours:
Wed, Thurs & Sun 12-5 pm

ECOCA’s Environmental Leadership for Artists programs are supported by the City of New Haven’s Creative Sector Relief Fund. ECOCA receives support from the City of New Haven, Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Connecticut Humanities, Avangrid, Berkshire Taconic Foundation, Hoffman Foundation, New Alliance Foundation, Wells Fargo, Yale University and Friends of the John Slade Ely House of Contemporary Art. 

Please contact aburg@elycenter.org for more information and high-resolution images.