This spring ECOCA’s gallery will be filled with works that touch upon the many aspects of our environment and climate change and the anxiety it causes, with artists Lionel Cruet, Sariah Park, Kevin Hernandez Rosa, Yvonne Short & Rebecca West, Hanlyn Davies, Thinking about Water, Water Women, and Nua Collective.
Join us with our special guest, Sharmont “Influence” Little, New Haven’s Poet Laureate as we celebrate Earth Day!
Sunday, April 21, 1-3pm
We will have a drop in art making session using eco-friendly materials
Please join us on April 14th, 12-5, for the Keyhole Workspace Residency Open Studios! Meet artists Ramón Bonilla, Esthea Kim, Adrian Panaitisor, Línda Perla-Giron and Emily Weiskopf and see what they are working on.
Join us for Weird Music Night
Thursday, April 4th, 7:00 pm
Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Curated by John O'Donnell
Featuring Live Performances of Experimental Drone Devotional Darkwave Slippery Synth Soundscape Strange and Slanted Compositions.
Night Farmer is Robert Francis Swords III and John O’Donnell. The duo has intermittently collaborated for 20 years, exploring noise and experimental drone through circuit-bent toys and custom-made recording devices.
Zach Rowden is from the band Tongue Depressor. He explores the acoustic and performative possibilities of the upright/electric bass and violin.
https://zachrowden.bandcamp.com/
Revenge Body is a four-billion-year-old decay worshiper. Devotional darkwave and student astrologers synth with the dark, romantic, and bleak. An undertone of sorrow and forgotten mall parking lots.
Pervert Savant is an anonymous performance artist. He is a part-time shadow worker and student of Karl Young [sic] and Joseph Boys [sic].
Last day to see Stanwyck Cromwell Revival: A Spiritual Journey, Marlon Forrester Skyward Bound, and Avant Colony: Unearthing The Westbrook Gallery
Join us for a Lunch Time Tour for our current exhibitions.
12:00 pm
Come, bring your lunch, look and ask the staff questions! Curator Eric Litke will guide the “Avant Colony: Unearthing the Westbrook Gallery” portion of the tour!
Please join us for a discussion between two generations of Guyanese/American artists, Stanwyck Cromwell and Marlon Forrester, moderated by Andre Rochester.
Bank’s Caribbean Lager, Mauby, and refreshments afterwards!
Andre Rochester is a Fine Artist from the Greater Hartford region of Connecticut. He studied illustration at the University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts and completed his BA in Studio Art at Charter Oak State College. He also earned an MS in Organizational Leadership from Quinnipiac University. Andre makes statements for which words are not enough, highlighting underlying emotions connected to his subjects. It is a combination of portraiture and conceptual works linked by narratives of his own experiences. His art is a tool for healing and a catalyst for connection-letting people know they are not alone.
Andre is an inaugural Artist of Color Accelerate Fellow, partnered with The Amistad Center at Wadsworth Atheneum, Leadership Greater Hartford- 2021 Quest Program Alum, Greater Hartford Arts Council 2022 New Voices Fellow, and 2022-23 National Leaders of Color Fellow- representing CT for the New England Foundation for The Arts.
Andre is a board member at Hartford Art School Endowment, Inc., Wethersfield Academy for the Arts, and the Connecticut Arts Alliance as well as a member Wadsworth Atheneum Community Council and has previously served on the City of Hartford Commission on Cultural Affairs. He is currently the Program Manager at The 224 EcoSpace in Hartford, where he curates exhibits and oversees execution of arts events and programs, including the Artists of Color Accelerate Fellowship. He is also the Art Curator at UConn Health, in charge of a collection of over 2500 works of art across multiple facilities. Andre coaches emerging artists, encouraging them to develop their craft with a focus on professionalism and business acumen. He believes that with every step forward, we must make room for others to join us.
This event is made possible thanks to the support of the Artist Resource Trust Berkshire Taconic Fund. ECOCA’s programs are also made possible thanks to support by Connecticut Office of the Arts, New Alliance Foundation, Wells Fargo, and Friends of John Slade Ely House of Contemporary Art.
Please join us for the second concert at ECOCA in this series put on by New Haven Jazz Underground! Free and open to the public.
February 4, 1-3pm
Join us for the opening reception of
Stanwyck Cromwell REVIVAL: A Spiritual Journey
ECOCA Open Call 2024 goes live on January 25, 2024!
Join us for the opening reception of our off site exhibition One Thing Becomes Another at Perspectives Gallery @Whitney Center. The exhibition is curated by Debbie Hesse.
Featured Artists: Patricia Carrigan, Cynthia Dobie, Ellen Gordon, Lilah Heyman, Janet Warner
There will be an artist talk from 2:30-3pm featuring Lilah Heyman and Janet Warner.
Perspectives Gallery @ Whitney Center: 200 Leeder Hill Drive, South Entrance, Hamden, CT 06517
Paste Modern Collage Workshop
Join us during the closing reception of our current shows January 14th 12-3 with a celebratory collage workshop. Three different artists, Desmond Beach, Lesley Finn and Donald Guevara will lead their own collage stations, highlighting their own take on the artform.
This event is free and open to all, but requires an RSVP.
With Desmond Beach you can forget traditional methods—this workshop goes beyond basic glue and paper, encouraging you to explore innovative collage techniques. Get hands-on with layering textures, manipulating fabrics, and incorporating meaningful objects to add depth to your visual storytelling. Learn to see everyday objects in a new light, finding beauty and meaning in unexpected places. By the end of the workshop, you'll leave with a one-of-a-kind collage that reflects your personal story and captures the essence of your cultural heritage.
Much of the art that Lesley Finn makes explores the relationship between words, images, and mark making. Her mixed media collages often use book pages as a canvas and experiment with the modes and materials of communication, incorporating handwriting and printed text into her compositions. For this workshop, Lesley will teach some approaches to making collages from and with books.
Donald Guevara is of Indigenous Honduran and American German descent and was raised in a first generation Congolese American family. This early introduction into contradiction, change, cultural differences and amalgamation and the complexities of race and gender drive the work that he creates. His current work explores the in-between liminal spaces and combines digital, 2-D and 3-D collage incising and reassembling materials such as basketballs, shoes, magazine ads and trading cards to create glitched bodies and vignettes. He will guide you as you use the process to make revisions with incisions to print-based advertisements in order to cut oneself through the binary.
Join us for the closing reception for A Way Of Seeing Everything & Nothing, Ken Grimes: The Truth Is Out There, Desmond Beach: Threads Of Memory, Andree Brown: Leaves Of Durham and Home: Amartya De, Lesley Finn & Vera Wu.
Consider registering for the free accompanying collage workshop.
Free and open to all ages.
Artist Ken Grimes will be signing copies of his new book Evidence for Contact on Wednesday, November 29. The book signing and book sales are taking place in conjunction with Giving Tuesday and will benefit Fellowship Place.
Join us on Sunday, November 19 at 3pm for a live jazz performance at the Ely Center. This performance features Seldon's Plan. Learn more about the New Haven Jazz Underground.
Join us for the opening receptions of:
A Way of Seeing Everything and Nothing. This exhibition is curated by Something Projects (Suzan Shutan & Howard el -Yasin) and features the work of 23 artists. Learn more.
Ken Grimes: The Truth Is Out There. Grimes’ work focuses on the question of extraterrestrial life, a topic he has been focused on for most of his life due to a series of coincidences which he interpreted as messages from aliens. Learn more.
Desmond Beach: Threads of Memory. Beach’s latest installation, consists of large quilt tapestries and a site specific altar. Beach uses quilting and portraiture as a means to connect with the what it means to be black in America. Learn more.
Andree Brown: Leaves of Durham. Brown’s sculptures are organic, abstract, and influenced by forms she finds outside. Learn more.
Home: Amartya De, Lesley Finn & Vera Wu. This exhibition is a group show featuring work developed during the pilot of our Keyhole Artists in Residence program. Learn more.
The reception will be from 1-3pm followed by artist talks from 3-5pm. The event is free and open to all.
Daniel Recinos
Join us for a closing reception for Three Solo Exhibitions: Brian Stephens, Kit Young & Daniel Recinos.
There will be a musical concert by Makana Medeiros at 12pm and a performance by artist Kit Young at 3pm.
This event is free and open to all, light refreshments will be served.
Join us for a Wednesday Lunch Time Tour of eMOTION and the three solo shows of Brian Stephens, Kit Young and Daniel Recinos. This event is free and open to all.
Join us for a Wednesday Lunch Time Tour of eMOTION and the three solo shows of Brian Stephens, Kit Young and Daniel Recinos. Special artist talk with Kit Young. This event is free and open to all.
Join us for a Wednesday Lunch Time Tour of eMOTION. This event is free and open to all.
ECOCA staff member and artist Aimée Burg present a stop motion workshop for all ages to engage with the show eMotion which explores sequential art in its many forms (books, comics and moving image.)
Learn to use every day materials to create you own sequential story. Stop Motion is a form of animation that brings inanimate materials to life with the use of a camera and many tiny movements!
The collection of videos created will be showcased online and at the front desk for the rest of the eMotion exhibition.
This workshop is free and open to all. This a drop-in event, stop in between the times of 12-3 pm. There will be a light snack provided.
Here you can watch the 30 animations created during our Stop Motion Animation Workshop at ECOCA on October 1, 2023
A special thanks to EcoWorks for providing loose parts materials for the workshop. EcoWorks is a creative reuse center located in North Haven, CT.
Join us for the opening reception of Myth & Magic, curated by Debbie Hesse, at Perspectives Gallery @ Whitney Center, 200 Leeder Hill Drive, South Entrance, Hamden, CT 06517.
There will be an artist talk with Stephanie Lanter & Brian Keith Stephens at 2:30pm followed by a reception 3-5pm.
Featured artist include: Stephanie Lanter, Ellen Schiffman, Connie Newton Stancell, Brian Keith Stephens
Join us for the opening receptions of:
eMOTION , a fresh take on sequential art, with work by rising illustrators and recent graduates and current students from regional fine art programs This exhibition is curated by Xinyi Liu and Rebekah Church. Learn more.
The Connecticut Watercolor Society Autumn Exhibition. The exhibition will be open to all Connecticut water media artists. Learn more about the Connecticut Watercolor Society.
There will be a 3pm tour led by curators Rebekah Church and Xin Yi Li. At 4pm there will be a performance of SHOOT DEAD PIXEL SHOOT by participating artist Pap Souleye. The event is free and open to all, please join us!
Thanks to Katalina’s Bakery, Avery’s Soda, and Olmo Bagelry for their support.
Join us for the closing reception of the exhibition Embodied Knowledge. This event is free and open to all and will feature sweet treats provided by Katalina’s Bakery.
Learn more about this exhibition, here.
Join us for a Wednesday Lunch Time Tour of Embodied Knowledge. This event is free and open to all.
Join us for a Wednesday Lunch Time Tour of Embodied Knowledge. This event is free and open to all.
Join us for a Wednesday Lunch Time Tour of Embodied Knowledge. This event is free and open to all.
Join a guided tour of the historic house that the Ely Center of Contemporary Art calls home as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas and learn about the exhibition Embodied Knowledge which will be on display during the tour.
Please register with the International Festival here for this free tour.
Join a guided tour of the historic house that the Ely Center of Contemporary Art calls home as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas and learn about the exhibition Embodied Knowledge which will be on display during the tour.
Please register with the International Festival here for this free tour.
Join us for a Wednesday Lunch Time Tour of Embodied Knowledge. This event is free and open to all.
Join us for a Wednesday Lunch Time Tour of Embodied Knowledge. This event is free and open to all.
