Exhibition Reviews
KAREN PONZIO: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Open Studios 2024 Begins | October 7, 2024
BRIAN SLATTERY: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artist Tap Into the Roots | Sept 26, 2024
ELENA UNGER: THE ARTS PAPER
Zines Conjure Camaraderie At The Ely Center | Sept 24, 2024
ELIJAH HUREWITZ RAVITCH: YALE DAILY NEWS
Ely Center of Contemporary Art showcases nature, memory and cultural identity in three new shows | Sept 12, 2024
PATRICIA GRANDJEAN: DAILY NUTMEG
Into the Woods | Sept 5, 2024
ABIBA BIAO: ARTS PAPER
Summer Apprentices Shine At Ely Center | August 21, 2024
ELEANOR POLAK: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Weird Music Night Says "Hellooo!" | August 9, 2024
BRIAN SLATTERY: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artists Embrace Change, Trasformation | July 23, 2024
BRIAN SLATTERY: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Photographer Sees America, No Filter | July 16, 2024
BRIAN SLATTERY: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artists Stare Into The Sun, 5/16/24
KAPP SINGER: ARTS PAPER
Water is in the Air May 10, 2024
Periódico El Adoquín
“Sunburnt” de Lionel Cruet en el Ely Center of Contemporary Art en New Haven, Connecticut, May 9, 2024
DONNA DOHERTY: CT INSIDER
Artists Think About Water in New Haven art show. Exhibit has special meaning for Branford artist, May 7, 2024
CLAUDIA FIKS: ARTSCOPE
Guyana-Born, New England Strong: Forrester & Cromwell Elevate New Haven's Ely Center | March 1, 2024
BRIAN SLATTERY: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artists Let In the Light | Feb 13, 2024
KATIE PELLICO & CATHERING SHEN: CONNECTICUT PUBLIC RADIO
'Avant Colony': Celebrating the history of avant-garde art-making in Connecticut | March 18, 2024
BRIAN SLATTERY: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Opens Window to Art Scene's Past | Feb 22, 2024
BRIAN SLATTERY: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Three Artists Follow the Moves | Dec 5, 2023
PATRICIA GRANDJEAN: DAILY NUTMEG
Everything and More | Nov 28, 2023
BRIAN SLATTERY: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artists Show “Everything And Nothing” At Ely Center | Nov 17, 2023
BRIAN SLATTERY: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Solo Artists Band Together at ECOCA | Oct 19, 2023
DAN MIMS: DAILY NUTMEG
Arthouse Flicks | September 28, 2023
BRIAN SLATTERY: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Sequential Artists Break the Frame | September 22, 2023
BRIAN SLATTERY: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artists Seek the Knowledge Within | June 28, 2023
CHRISTOPHER ARNOTT: HARTFORD COURANT
’Embodied Knowledge’ Comes Alive at New Haven’s Ely Center of Contemporary Art | June 22, 2023
BRIAN SLATTERY: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artists Portray The People in Full, January 31, 2023
BRIAN SLATTERY: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Three Artists Push It At The Ely Center
MIRANDA JEYARETNAM : ARTS PAPER
In "Primal Affinities I," Artists Bring The Outside In | December 12, 2022
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artists Go Home And Abroad At The Ely Center | November 17, 2022
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Draws A “Full House” | October 14, 2022
LINDSAY SKEDGELL : ARTS PAPER
Ely Center Block Party Rules The Road | October 4, 2022
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Rocks The Block | October 3, 2022
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Gets Religion | September 20, 2022
AL LARRIVA-LATT : ARTS PAPER
At Ely Center, Artists Summon A Shared Humanity | June 28, 2022
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artists Make The Most Of Life In Ely Center Exhibit | June 28, 2022
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artist Imagines A Future After Climate Change | June 16, 2022
THOMAS BREEN : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Property Roundup: Nonprofit Buys Ely House For $800K | May 26, 2022
ARTFIXDAILY
Amerikrainian Flags by Jay Bright at Ely Center of Contemporary Art | May 25, 2022
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Deal Struck To Save Ely Center | March 25, 2022
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
In Ely Center Exhibition, Artists Explore What Lies Underneath | March 17, 2022
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Races Clock To Buy Ely House | March 2, 2022
MIRANDA LEVINGSTON : BKREADER
This East New York Artist Is Using Diamonds and Jewels to Honor Black Women This Women’s History Month | March 1, 2022
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
John Slade Ely House For Sale — Again | February 28, 2022
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Art Exhibit Makes Compassion A New Year’s Resolution | February 3, 2022
SARAJANE SULLIVAN : CTINSIDER
Lunar New Year celebrations in CT for the Year of the Tiger | February 3, 2022
KATHY CZEPIEL : DAILY NUTMEG
Body Work | February 1, 2022
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artists Take It Uneasy In Ely Center “Solos” Exhibit | January 27, 2022
LUCY GELLMAN : ARTS PAPER
Ely Center Artists Braid Hairstory Into New Exhibition | January 19, 2022
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Exhibit Is A Light In The Dark | December 9, 2021
CHARLOTTE HUGHES : ARTS PAPER
At Ely Center, ECA Students Jump Into New Media | December 6, 2021
KATHY CZEPIEL : DAILY NUTMEG
Above and Below | December 1, 2021
LEAH ANDELSMITH : ARTS PAPER
Ely Center Artists Wake the World | October 12, 2021
LUCY GELLMAN : ARTS PAPER
A Sculptor Conjures Joy On Artizan Street | October 8, 2021
JACQUELYN GLEISNER : CONNECTICUT ART REVIEW
Monthly Roundup | October 6, 2021
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Orders Up Chaos | October 1, 2021
GOTHAM TO GO
Exploring the Artist, Yvonne Shortt and her Hair Stories in Art + Conversation | August 5, 2021
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
ECOCA Show Sees A Future In The Future | July 22, 2021
KATHY CZEPIEL : DAILY NUTMEG
Picking Up Threads | July 13, 2021
JACQUELYN GLEISNER : CONNECTICUT ART REVIEW
Studio Visit: Yvonne Shortt | June 24, 2021
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artists Go Solo At Ely Center | June 17, 2021
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
New Haven Paint And Clay Club Still Paints Life | May 14, 2021
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artist Reaps Harvest Of Empathy | April 21, 2021
KATHY CZEPIEL : DAILY NUTMEG
Physical Therapy | March 31, 2021
GAMZE KAZAKOGLU : YALE DAILY NEWS
New exhibition ‘Embody’ opens in the Ely Center of Contemporary Art | March 19, 2021
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Embodies Pandemic Art | March 12, 2021
KATHY CZEPIEL : DAILY NUTMEG
Solo Six | January 7, 2021
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Not-So-Short Fest Takes The Long View | January 5, 2021
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Goes Solo | December 22, 2020
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Gets Special Delivery | October 9, 2020
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Acts “Now” | October 8, 2020
LUCY GELLMAN : ARTS PAPER
Ely Center Steps Into The Moment | October 5, 2020
KATHY CZEPIEL : DAILY NUTMEG
Messages Received | October 1, 2020
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Photographer Chronicles The City’s Upheaval | July 1, 2020
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Leaps Into Virtual Space | May 6, 2020
LUCY GELLMAN : ARTS PAPER
Ely Center Asks: What Now? | May 4, 2020
SUSAN DUNNE : HARTFORD COURANT
Artists around Connecticut are turning their emotions about the coronavirus pandemic into new works | April 12, 2020
KATHY CZEPIEL : DAILY NUTMEG NEW HAVEN
Works from Home | April 3, 2020
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artist Delivers Message from Kitchen | April 2, 2020
ANDREA VALLUZZO : THE RIDGEFIELD PRESS
Magic and ritual spotlighted in Ely Center’s show | March 6, 2020
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Casts a Spell | March 4, 2020
KATHY LEONARD CZEPIEL : DAILY NUTMEG NEW HAVEN
Messengers | March 3, 2020
KATHY LEONARD CZEPIEL : DAILY NUTMEG NEW HAVEN
In the Club | February 13, 2020
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artists Work Out The Daily Grind | January 30, 2020
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artists Reveal Hong Kong Behind The Headlines | January 28, 2020
SHARON BUTLER : TWO COATS OF PAINT
The Daily | January 12, 2020
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
For Four Artists, It’s a Matter of Perception | December 18, 2019
LUCY GELLMAN : ARTS PAPER
Jazz Where Taps Away the Rain | December 16, 2019
LUCY GELLMAN : ARTS PAPER
'Trans Body II' Stuns, Surprises at Ely Center | November 20, 2019
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Has and Does Not Have an Art Show | November 5, 2019
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Strikes a Climate Nerve | October 30, 2019
KATHY LEONARD CZEPIEL : DAILY NUTMEG NEW HAVEN
Artists in Residence | October 10, 2019
LUCY GELLMAN : ARTS PAPER
New Haven Artists, Orgs Score State Grants | September 2019
VACATION IDEAS #16
25 Best Things to Do in New Haven, Connecticut | August, 2019
MCKENZIE BELISLE : ARTS PAPER
At Ely Center, Artists Dig, Then Dive | May 29, 2019
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Takes to the Sea | May 15, 2019
KATHY LEONARD CZEPIEL : DAILY NUTMEG NEW HAVEN
Body Language | March 26, 2019
LUCY GELLMAN : ARTS PAPER
Listen: Nadine Nelson Finds A Recipe For Self-Care | March 18, 2019
LUCY GELLMAN : ARTS PAPER
“Our Bodies,” With Old And New Eyes | March 13, 2019
WPKN's LIVE CULTURE w/ MARTHA W. LEWIS
ODETTA Gallery and the Ely Center for Contemporary Art | March, 2019
E.A. GORDON : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
The Personnel Are Political | March 13, 2019
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Revisits “Our Bodies, Ourselves” | March 8, 2019
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Keeps its Ear to the Ground | January 31, 2019
KAREN MARKS : ARTS PAPER
Fools, Fossils, And Form At The Ely Center | December 14, 2018
KAREN MARKS : ARTS PAPER
At Ely Center, Artists Unload One By One | October 16, 2018
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Brings In The Big Guns | October 12, 2018
KAREN MARKS : ARTS PAPER
Deconstructing Guns, Reconstructing Art | July 13, 2018
CARLY WANNA : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Eight Weeks Later… | July 27, 2018
CARLY WANNA : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Guns Turned Into Art | July 13, 2018
LUCY GELLMAN : ARTS PAPER
For Lev, A Proper Goodbye | May 21, 2018
DAVID SEPULVEDA : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Posthumous Art Exhibit Expands and Heals | April 26, 2018
EMILY A. GORDON : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
A House of Rooms of Her Own | March 15, 2018
JACQUELYN GLEISNER : ARTS 21
Banner Project Workshop with Aliza Shvarts | March 12, 2018
SUSAN DUNNE : HARTFORD COURANT
'Silence Breakers' At Ely Center Opens On International Women's Day | March 4, 2018
LUCY GELLMAN : ARTS PAPER
“Silence Breakers” Storm The Ely Center | March 9, 2018
DAVID SEPULVEDA : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Taken By Storm | February 12, 2018
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
At Ely Center, The Art Is Only Natural | January 25, 2018
RANDELL BEACH : NEW HAVEN REGISTER
From Bing to Curly, “Sam’s Lounge” has the spirit of Christmas | December 16, 2017
SUSAN DUNNE : HARTFORD COURANT
'Nasty Women Film Fest' In New Haven | October 30, 2017
DAVID SEPULVEDA : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Flag Exhibit Closes With Dignified Burn | August 20, 2017
ZEB MAYER : CT ART BLOG VIDEO
Broad Stripes and Bright Stars: Artists Respond to the Flag | July, 2017
AMANDA AURIANI : ARTS PAPER
Broad Stripes and Bright Stars | July, 2017
COLIN LODEWICK : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely Center Celebrates Precarious Independence | July 4, 2017
DEBBIE HESSE : SEPBLUESNEWS
Debbie Hesse Says Goodbye to NH Arts Council After 15 Years | July 2, 2017
ZACHERY KEETING AND AICHA WOODS : TWO COATS OF PAINT
A Q&A, Art and politics: “Broad Stripes and Bright Stars” in New Haven | July 1, 2017
WPKN's LIVE CULTURE w/ MARTHA W. LEWIS
Interview with Dave Coon: Things that Fly—Flags and Overpasses | June, 2017
STEPHEN J GRANT : HUFFINGTON POST
A Contemporary Art Gallery in New Haven Invites Artists to Reflect on the American Flag | June 14, 2017
LUCY GELLMAN : ARTS PAPER
Onnie Chan: Stand Still. She Dares You | June, 2017
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Solo Acts Take Over Ely Center | May 8, 2017
ALLAN APPEL : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Reborn Ely House Stages “A Funeral” | April 20, 2017
STAFF : NEW HAVEN REGISTER
Onnie Chan readies ‘A funeral...’ at Ely Center | April 21–22, 2017
ARTS ON AIR PODCAST
Women in the Arts: Interview with Dee Roulx (In Grace We Trust featured artist), Rachel Schmidt and Rita Valley | March 2017
WPKN's LIVE CULTURE w/ MARTHA W. LEWIS
Interview with Joe Keo Bun, artist and curator of "Alternative Facts”, part of In Grace We Trust | March 25, 2017
BRIAN SLATTERY : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Art Exhibits Take On Sex And Politics | March 7, 2017
NO POP : LAURA MARSH
Walk through the John Slade Ely House | January 3, 2017
JOHN O’DONNELL
Are Winners Losers? by Sophie Haigney | Nov 15, 2016
RYAN GITTLER : YALE DAILY NEWS
Keep the art, unmatch the game | November 4, 2016
ARTSPACE : MATCH GAME
New work from the Flat Files | October, 2016
LUCY GELLMAN : WNHH COMMUNITY RADIO
project | October 21, 2016
LUCY GELLMAN : I LOVE NEWHAVEN.ORG
Food Porn | October 27, 2016
LUCY GELLMAN : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Food Meets Art Meets Fun | October 26, 2016
LAURA MARSH + PHIL LIQUE
No Pop Lives On “Borrowed Time” by Lucy Gellman | Aug 25, 2016
ALLAN APPEL : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Arts Clubs’ Cry: Help Us With Ely Rent | February 29, 2016
RANDALL BEACH : NEW HAVEN REGISTER
New Haven’s Ely House to gain new life for use by ACES’ educational arts center | February 15, 2016
ALLAN APPEL : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely House Deal Now Officially OK’d | February 3, 2016
ALLAN APPEL : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
ACES/ECA Set To Buy Ely House For $390,000 | January 25, 2016
ALLAN APPEL : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Ely House Deal On Track | November 13, 2015
ALLAN APPEL : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
ECA/ACES Now Plans To Buy Slade Ely House | October 8, 2015
ALLAN APPEL : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Would-Be Rescuers Clash On Ely House’s Future | August 28, 2015
ALLAN APPEL : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
John Slade Ely House Sale Hearing Postponed | August 6, 2015
ALLAN APPEL : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
John Slade Ely House Sale Put On Hold | July 31, 2015
CLAIRE VOON : HYPERALLERGIC
Wells Fargo Moves to Sell Nonprofit Art Space’s Home Out from Under It | July 27, 2015
DOLORES GALL : NEW HAVEN REGISTER
Letter to the Editor: Ely House could remain for artists, art lovers | May 30, 2015
RANDALL BEACH : NEW HAVEN REGISTER
A lively haven for artists will soon go dark and quiet | May 16, 2015
THE 114 NEW HAVEN PAINT AND CLAY EXHIBITION : DAVID SEPULVEDA
A walk through at the last New Haven Paint & Clay Club to be held at the John Slade Ely House | April 15, 2015
PAUL BASS : NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
New Haven’s Ely House, a nonprofit arts venue, closing | March 7, 2015
PAUL BASS : NEW HAVEN REGISTER
John Slade Ely House Closing Its Doors | March 5, 2015
CLAIRE VOON : PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL
Wells Fargo Moves to Sell Nonprofit: Art Space's Home Out from Under It
Remembering our Angel and Champion, Andy Wolf.
A reminder of what New Haven has lost. Paul Bass interviews Andy Wolf in March, 2018.