SATURDAY

Join us today, September 21 @ 3pm to help celebrate the Fall Solstice with social artist Nadine Nelson.
Create personal mandalas, contemplating the circles in nature from cells to galaxies. This Sanskrit symbol of wholeness and harmony encourages reflection on health, sustainability, and our place in nature’s cycles. Through this therapeutic process, we inspire unity and environmental awareness in ourselves and our community.
Free and open to all!

PHOTOBOOK MINI FAIR

Join us for a full day of artist talks, book signings, and workshops, all FREE and open to the public. This Sunday, September 22nd, 11am-7pm, at 51 Trumbull Street.

Featured Books: Marianne Bernstein: Theatre of the Everyday, Adger Cowans: Adger, Benjamin Donaldson, Ottilie Leete, and Lisa Kereszi: IN, Daniel Eugene: Metro North Secrets, Laura Wexler and Peter van Agtmael: Magnum America, William Earle Williams: Their Kindred Earth, Ruth Lauer Manenti: I Imagined It Empty

Schedule for the Day

• 11 -11:50am, Amartya De will be in conversation with Art Historian/ECOCA Board Member Prof. Kishwar Rizvi.

• 12:00-12:50pm. IN, Benjamin Donaldson, Ottilie Leete, and Lisa Keresziin conversation with writer Cindy House

• 1-1:50pm. Magnum America, Prof. Laura Wexler, Susan Meiselas and Peter van Agtmael in conversation

• 2-2:50pm I imagined It Empty, Ruth Lauer Manenti with Atefe Moeini, Yale Photo MFA First Year

• 3-3:50pm Their Kindred Earth, Prof. William Earle Williams in discussion with book contributor/historian Frank Mitchell

• 4-4:50pm Adger, Adger Cowans in dialogue with Independent Curator/Artist Shaunda Holloway

• 5-5:50pm Theatre of the Everyday, Marianne Bernstein in dialogue with Art Historian Anne Higonnet

• 6-6:50pm Metro North Secrets, Daniel Eugene—stay for beer & wine
  
  12-1pm, 3-5pm: Zine Making with Amartya De

IN THE GALLERY

Forest Bathing

Forest Bathing is a group exhibition curated by Alex Santana, selected from Ely Center’s 2024 Open Call.

Featured Artists: Austin Bryant, Lauren Cardenas, Adrian Martinez Chavez, Kim Kyne Cohen, Carolina Cuevas, Melissa Dadourian, Jen DeLuna, Sebastián Cole Galván, Alondra M. Garza, Donté K. Hayes, Kristen Heritage, Sunnie Liu, Jo Lobdell, Marie-Josè, Sebastián Meltz-Collazo, Robert Mirek, Nadine Neslon, Julia Oldham, Vick Quezada, Jacoub Reyes, Samnang Riebe, Raphaela Riepl, Linda Sok, Loretta Violante, Aura Xuanyi Wang, Ying Ye

Mesoma Onyeagba

A new MFA graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago presents her first solo exhibition. Mesoma’s work delighted New Haven audiences in the Embodied Knowledge 2023 Open Call exhibition.

Flat File: Stump In Situ

After the City’s Tree Warden ordered five magnificent Sycamore trees on Trumbull Street to be cut due to disease,  printmakers reclaimed the  remaining stumps with eco-friendly woodcuts and public art. With Logan Bishop, Nathan Lewis, Enrique Figured, Jesse Peck and Maria Posada.

OPEN STUDIOS 2024

New Haven Open Studios
Audubon Arts District
October 5 & 6, 12-5 pm

Our Fall ‘24 Keyhole Workspace Residents will have their studios open to the public for New Haven Open Studios- come see what they are up to! This residency runs for 4 months and a culminating exhibition of their work will open in January!

Miguel Mendoza | Odette Chavez | Scott Azevedo

We are also joining forces with Creative Arts Workshop for the month of October! 8 Artists from our 2024 Open Call were chosen to participate in a CAW/ECOCA exhibition and residency collab for New Haven Open Studios! These artists have studio space on the second floor of the CAW gallery as well as a group exhibition on the first floor, curated by David Borawski, a member of our Curatorial Advisory Committee.
Creative Arts Workshop is located at 80 Audubon Street - around the corner from us!

Marquis Brantley | Linda Colletta | Danielle Giroux | Maria Markham
Dana Simmons | Omar Muqbil | Ksam Rekam | Jean-Pierre Solis-Sánchez

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