TODAY

Ceremony for our Summer Apprenticeship Program
Friday, July 26 5pm

Please Save the date for the unveiling of the mural at 5pm!
Light Bites by Global Local Gourmet

Noted painter Destiny Palmer leads the inaugural Summer Apprenticeship @ ECOCA, continuing a 23-year New Haven tradition. Unveiling set for July 26, 5- 7pm. Awards and remarks at 6pm.

This summer, 11 New Haven public high school students are learning the art of mural making, working with New Haven native, Boston-based painter/educator Destiny Palmer.

For three intensive weeks, the students are working together to build out their vision for a mural that reflects their own perspective of the city. Palmers’ murals have been commissioned for numerous sites around Boston.

The students hail from: Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, Hamden High School, Educational Center for the Arts, Hillhouse High School, Highville Change Academy, Metropolitan Business Academy, O.H. Platt High School, New Haven Academy, Wilbur Cross High School, and Shelton High School. This year’s participants are from Coop: Soleil Nelson; from Hillhouse: David Coardes; from Highville: Alivia Patterson; from MBA: Adrian Gonzalez, Dezirae Pollard, Manny Pollard, and Elliana Hunte; from Platt: Solace Khuc; from NHA: Joey Esposito; from Wilbur Cross: River Ferrucci; and from Shelton: Merlin Shallow.

They were also mentored by recent School of the Museum of Fine Art alum painter Perla Mabel Ledesma.

“Every Piece is Part of the Whole” is a 40-foot banner that transforms the façade of the historic Ely Center of Contemporary Art with references to some of New Haven’s most iconic features.

The Banner will remain on view at the Ely Center through fall 2024.

This program is made possible thanks to the support of Dwight Hall at Yale, Yale President’s Public Service Fellowship, and Avant Grid and The Capasso Company. ECOCA’s exhibitions are made possible thanks to support from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, the City of New Haven Department of Cultural Affairs, New Alliance Foundation, Wells Fargo, and individual Friends of ECOCA.

THIS SATURDAY

THIS IS THE FINAL MEET UP OF THE LONG WATER LAND PROJECT!

SITE NO. 6: MARITIME COMMUNITY

Saturday July 27
11am–1pm
Quinnipiac River Park at Pierpont and Front St
Street parking 

Aaron Goode of the New Haven Bioregional Group will discuss the Quinnipiac River Historic District, and the rise, fall, and restoration of the River's oyster fishery. Contemporary artist Nadine Nelson will discuss the social meaning and symbolism of oysters, and lead an additional art activity! Join as we learn and draw together.

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.

If you need a ride or can offer one, please sign up HERE

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

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

Press: Photographer Sees America, No Filter
Artists Embrace Change, Transformation

How did we get here?

Going to Upstate NY this weekend to catch some shows you didn’t make during UPAW? Don’t miss ours!

On view in partnership with ArtPort Kingston July 18 - August 7
80 Smith Ave, Kingston, NY

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

PRESS for “How did we get here?”
From Two Coats of Paint
From Hyperallergic

UPCOMING

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.