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Advice From the Arts Council
Photo Arts Collective Meeting
Canvases for Cancer
Comedy and Tragedy
"On the Spiritual in Art" Reception
See Photographs by Joy Bush
Rockless Volume at FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery
Photo Exhibit at Paul Mellon Arts Center
See Artwork by Judith Gay and Rosemary Serfilippi
The Horowitz Piano Series
Performances at Best Video
NHSO Presents "The Story of Babar"
Mary Mary at the Shubert Theater
January Events at the Funky Monkey Cafe & Gallery
Scenes and Songs at the Paul Mellon Arts Center
Belly Dance Event in Hamden
Contemporary Dance Classes at ECA
Elm City Dance Collective Classes
Hamden Art League to Host Lily Kok-Forbush
Milford Arts Council Brainstorm Session
Learn More About Project Storefronts
Elena Delvecchio Rusnak Dance Education Scholarship
Spectrum Gallery Call for Artists
Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency Program
City of New Haven Call to Artists
Artspace Seeks Exhibition Curator
Audition Notice
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Advice From the Arts Council
Let the Arts Council staff help you find exhibition space/opportunities,
performance/rehearsal space and develop new ways to promote your work or creative
events and activities. Debbie Hesse, the organization’s director of artistic services and
programs, will be available for one-on-one appointments. To schedule an appointment call
203-772-2788 or email [email protected]. Walk-ins are also welcome.
January 8 & 15, 1-4pm
John Slade Ely House, 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven
Photo Arts Collective Meeting
Join us this Thursday Jan 8th at 7pm for The Photo Arts Collective 1st guest speaker of
2015 - Monique Atherton. Born in Japan and raised in the US, Europe and Asia, Monique
is currently based in West Haven, CT. She is an artist working primarily in the medium of
photography. She is particularly interested in exploring themes of human nature such as
madness and intimacy and is also interested in exploring microcosms that exist within our
daily lives.
Her work has been shown in across the United States and abroad. In early 2013 she was
an artist-in-residence at The Wassaic Project in upstate New York and was a grant
recipient from chashama in New York. In order to further her practice, Monique began her
candidacy for an MFA in photography at the Yale School of Art in the fall of 2014.
This Thursday, Monique will discuss her past work and her recent projects in the New
Haven area.
Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whitney Avenue, New Haven
[email protected]
Canvases for Cancer
Shake off the winter blues—come on out, see friends,
meet new people, buy art and support a worthy
cause; you will feel better—promise!! A great way to
bring in 2015….
Anne Doris-Eisner, "Threatening"
Canvases for Cancer is an exhibition and silent
auction fundraiser that will help raise money for
cancer research. The project is organized by Katro
Storm, New Haven artist and longtime member of the
Visual Arts Advisory Group (VAAG) at the Arts
Council of Greater New Haven. Katro has been
thinking about doing this event for many years, as he
lost a close family member to cancer and wants to
enlist other artists and community members to help
fund research to fight cancer.
The show and silent auction will take place at John Slade Ely House of Contemporary Art
on Sunday, January 18 from 2-5pm. Work will be on view from January 14- 18. (W-F,
11-4) All proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Association and donations will be
made directly to the organization via credit card at the gallery. All transactions are final.
Party and bidding will take place from 2-4pm and payment donations can be made from 45pm. For more information please contact Debbie Hesse at [email protected].
Want to donate artwork? Entry forms can be downloaded here.
Comedy and Tragedy
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents
Comedy and Tragedy in the Sumner McKnight Crosby
Jr. Gallery, 70 Audubon Street, 2 FL, New Haven. The
exhibition is curated by Tony Juliano and features
artwork by Amie Ziner, Audrey Kantrowitz, Edward R.
Shaw, Janet Croog, Jesse Richards, and Kimberly
Van Aelst. Comedy and Tragedy will be on view from
January 13th to February 27th. A public reception
will take place on January 15 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Comedy and Tragedy explores the strange
intermingling of comic and tragic themes in art,
society, and daily life, leaving viewers to decide for
themselves what comedy and tragedy really are. The
show’s curator is artist Tony Juliano, whose own
artwork explores the themes and moods found in the
show. Tony says, “I found myself interested in artists
such as Edvard Munch and Francis Bacon, who
produce a personally symbolic art that has a touch of Janet Croog
humor in a very dark disturbing way, like my own art. I’ve brought together Connecticut
artists whose themes include humor, sadness, whimsy, and death.”
Curator Tony Juliano quotes Charlie Chaplin’s “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up,
but a comedy in long-shot” as an apt motto for the show.
For more information about Comedy and Tragedy please contact Debbie Hesse at the
Arts Council, (203) 772-2788 or [email protected].
"On the Spiritual in Art" Reception
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents
On the Spiritual in Art, a group show at
Perspectives…The Gallery at Whitney Center, 200
Leeder Hill Drive, Hamden. The exhibition is
curated by Debbie Hesse and features artwork by
Colin Burke, Leah Caroline, Jessica Cuni, Kathryn
Frund, Kayla Kirsch, Eva Lee, Evie Lindemann,
Gerald Saladyga and Aicha Woods. On the
Spiritual in Art will be on view from November 15,
2014 – February 15, 2015.
A public reception will take place on Saturday,
January 17, 2015 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
2-2:30: Whitney Center Resident Talks
2:30: Jessica Cuni
Jessica Cuni
2:45: Eva Lee
3:15: Create a Mandala. Evie Lindemann and students from Albertus Magnus Art Therapy
Program will lead informal workshop. All are welcome
For more information on this exhibition please contact curator Debbie Hesse via email at
[email protected] or by calling (203) 772-2788.
Perspectives…The Gallery at Whitney Center, a gallery exhibit in partnership with the Arts
Council of Greater New Haven and Whitney Center, is located at 200 Leeder Hill Drive,
Hamden. The gallery features regional artists in group and thematic shows. Hours are
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4 to 7 p.m., and Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m.
See Photographs by Joy Bush
Caravaggio's Toys
Photographs by Joy Bush
January 9 - January 30, 2014
Artist Reception: January 10th, 6-8 pm
Caravaggio’s Toys pays homage to the idea of collecting as a social phenomena.
Photographing these objects as if each had the status of a relic, I approach them with the
seriousness that Baroque painters would have given to the subjects of their portraits. With
the employment of chiaroscuro lighting and the placement of each toy in the camera's
frame, I give larger than life importance and seriousness to these stuffed, lowbrow figures.
The series extols the quality of light in the photographic image while maintaining a lively
subtext of humor.
DaSilva Gallery
899 Whalley Avenue, New Haven, CT
W-Th 10-5:30 F-Sat 10-5
www.JoyBushPhotography.com
Rockless Volume at FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery
FRED.GIAMPIETRO Gallery, 1064 Chapel Street, New Haven
January 10 - February 21, 2015
Opening Reception is Saturday, January 10, 6-8pm
Rockless Volume
Zachary Keeting & Anahita Vossoughi
with works by Loren Myhre
A sculpture of disorientation. A painting of flux.
Anahita Vossoughi transforms and transfigures grotesque juxtapositions into an art of
destabilization. She builds bodies in-between, self-aware of their inherent social and
cultural contradictions, their limitations and vulnerabilities. She torques her materials,
combines found objects with traditional processes, and is a modification maximalist. Often
referencing body parts, her sculptures have a pronounced pull towards our own physical
and psychological space. They are wrapped, pinched, cut and carefully off-balanced.
Perched out on limbs, sprawled out on floors, balancing and posing, these bodies call into
question accepted notions of harmony, excess, and beauty. Each form is a spectacle of
ornamentation: from silicone to prosthetics to jewelry to rouge. Odd juxtapositions are a
redirection tactic to look here, think there. The forms challenge us to reevaluate what a
body is, what it can be, what it should be.
Zachary Keeting’s paintings swirl and clatter. They’re down in the orchestra pit under the
timpani, and watching quietly from the back of a cafe. Multiple moving parts vie for
prominence, some garish some tender. He punches, scrapes, shakes, blots, pours, and
stains. The surfaces are physical, riddled with overt gesture, yet built slowly. They’re
improvisational, yet each image refers to a specific life-situations, to specific people. His is
striving for an art of realistic complication, of crosscurrents and contradictions, group
energy. He admires chaotic Robert Altman scenarios: overlapping voices, overlapping
thoughts, overlapping desires. This is an art of more. More complexity, more concealment,
more fluidity, more radical balance. Multiple personalities in every scene, brave with
generosity.
Rockless (without rocks, between reckless and raucous) Volume (three-dimensional
space, mind-space, loudness).
Who is volume and who is rockless? Both Vossoughi and Keeting are temporally
aligned.They approach the substance of life from very different directions, with clear
unique sensibilities. Here is their show.
Photo Exhibit at Paul Mellon Arts Center
The Paul Mellon Arts Center will stage an exhibition of photos from the Choate Rosemary
Hall’s Archives upon the occasion of the School’s 125th Celebration, from January 6
through March 7. The Arts Center is located on the campus of Choate Rosemary Hall in
Wallingford, Connecticut. The gallery is open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. when school is in
session, and is free of charge.
This year’s milestone offers an opportunity for our community to reflect upon the
extraordinary achievements and impact of our ‘school upon the hillside’ during its first 125
years. From the experimental and unconventional educational ideas of its earliest
founders to its present day position as a global leader in secondary school education, The
Choate School, Rosemary Hall, and now Choate Rosemary Hall have proven to be a
place conducive to bold risk-taking and innovation, as well as character formation and
academic endeavor.
Our campuses, here in Wallingford and in Greenwich, have been home to exceptional
students, faculty, and staff over the last 125 years and our buildings are just as much a
defining element of the Choate Rosemary Hall legacy as those who have passed through
them. As we examine the history of these structures, we also celebrate the lives they have
helped shape.
See Artwork by Judith Gay and Rosemary Serfilippi
"Road Less Taken" by Judith Gay, watercolor
The Madison Art Society is happy to present the work of Clinton artist Judith Gay and
Northford artist Rosemary Serfilippi. Their beautiful watercolors and oils are on exhibit at
the Madison Town Hall, 8 Campus Road in Madison, CT during the months of January
and February. The show is open to the public and can be viewed during normal business
hours.
Judith Gay is a local artist, residing in Clinton. As her mother was an accomplished
painter, Judith was exposed to this craft at an early age. During her early adulthood, she
painted mostly portraits using pastels. Judith chose a career in school psychology which
left her little time to practice her art. After retiring six years ago, she renewed her interest
in painting, but this time with watercolors. “I love the translucency, spontaneity and
portability of watercolor, which make it perfect for plein air painting. I also love those
“happy accidents” that occur when one color bleeds into another.
Rosemary Serfilippi, a Northford artist, has had a lifetime interest in art. After retiring from
teaching and interior decorating, Rosemary has had the time to pursue her interest.
Painting in oils, she draws on her experience teaching literature and working as a Master
gardener and interior decorator for her subject matter. Her cats also frequently provide
inspiration. "Cats seem to constantly 'pose' assuming that I'll want to paint them again and
again- and they are right."
The Horowitz Piano Series
The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents a recital by Yale faculty
member Peter Frankl featuring the music of Beethoven and Schumann.
Beethoven: Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major, Op. 26
Schumann: Humoreske, Op. 20
Schumann: Waldszenen, Op. 82
Beethoven: Sonata No. 26 in E-flat major, Op. 81a, "Les Adieux"
Wednesday, January 14 at 7:30 pm
Where: Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall
Where: Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall
470 College Street (corner of Wall Street), New Haven
Tickets: Start at $13, Students $7
Info: 203 432-4158 | music.yale.edu
Performances at Best Video
Dr. Caterwaul's Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps
Best Video Performance Space
1842 Whitney Ave. Hamden, CT
(203) 287-9286
Sun., Jan. 11, 2 PM, $7 admission
Lecture: "How to Read a Film—Four by Hitchcock: "Strangers on a Train"
Mark Schenker, Dean of Academic Affairs in Yale College and frequent lecturer on film
and literature topics at venues throughout Connecticut, presents four lectures on the films
of Alfred Hitchcock on successive Sunday afternoons in January. On Jan. 11, Schenker
will explore “Strangers on a Train” (1951), with Robert Walker as one of Hitchcock’s most
impressive villains. The lectures—with accompanying clips—will address aspects of the
individual works, characteristics of Hitchcock’s art, and ways that participants can be
better “readers” of film. The remaining lectures will be delivered Jan. 18 and 25.
Wed., Jan. 7, 8 PM, $5 cover
Singer-Songwriters: Cristina Harris, Patrick Dalton
Cristina Harris is a singer, musician and songwriter who mixes her haunting vocals with
intelligent song writing. Her music will resonate with listeners who are fans of artists like
Cat Power, Tori Amos, and Kate Bush. A founding member of The Proud Flesh, Patrick
culls from the murky corners of American popular song to amalgamate a sound all his
own.
Thurs., Jan. 8, 8 PM, $5 cover
Bluegrass: Ragweed
One Yale grad student, and four contractors with high school diplomas sounds like an
unpredictable mix. Experienced pickers all, their shared love of bluegrass and wide
ranging musical tastes make for an entertaining live show.
Fri., Jan. 9, Two shows: 7 and 8:30 PM, $5—Advance Tickets strongly suggested
Dr. Caterwaul's Cadres of Clairvoyant Claptraps play "The Music of Twin Peaks"
Eclectic world music/folk band Dr. Caterwaul’s Cad., Jan. 9. Due to high demand, the
group is performing two shows—at 7 and 8:30 PM—that evening to accommodate
everyone who may wish to attend. Composed by Angelo Badalamenti, the music featured
in the series and film combines elements of film-noir style cool jazz, dream pop, and
shimmering ambient in a tapestry that is a significant part of the show’s style.
NHSO Presents "The Story of Babar"
THE STORY OF BABAR, THE LITTLE ELEPHANT
Saturday, January 10, 2015, 2:00pm, Davis Street
School, New Haven
Sunday, January 11, 2015, 2:00pm, Shelton
Intermediate School, Shelton
Featuring: New Haven Symphony Orchestra pianist
William Braun; Really Inventive Stuff, guest artists:
Michael Boudewyns and Sara Valentine, actors
Program: Francis Poulenc: The Story of Babar, The
Little Elephant
FREE Admission
Really Inventive Stuff
Mary Mary at the Shubert Theater
Mary Mary
January 9, 2015, 8:00pm
The groundbreaking duo of Erica Campbell and Tina
Campbell broke through in 2000 with the pioneering
crossover hit “Shackles (Praise You).” This charttopping sister act comes to the Shubert Theatre for
an unforgettable evening of music and inspiration.
Shubert Theater and Box Office, 247 College Street,
New Haven CT
203.562.5666
shubert.com
SHUBERT BOX OFFICE HOURS: Mondays thru Fridays 9:30am – 5:30pm, Saturdays
10:00am – 3:00pm. Open prior to all performances
January Events at the Funky Monkey Cafe & Gallery
Friday, 1/9, 7 pm: Kate Themel fiber Artist, Reception with complimentary wine and
appetizers
Saturday, 1/10, 7 pm: Coombs Quintet, Jazz Fusion $5
Friday, 1/16, 7 pm: Alice Limoges $7 listen!
Saturday, 1/17, 7 pm: Johnny Neon, folk, rock
Friday, 1/30, 8 pm: Stand Up Comedy $15 reservations required, call (203) 439-9161
Saturday, 1/31, 7 pm: Harris Brothers Balkan Band, Roma Gypsy music $5
The Funky Monkey Cafe & Gallery
130 Elm Street, Watch Factory Shoppes
Cheshire, CT 06410
(203) 439-9161
www.thefunkymonkeycafe.com
Scenes and Songs at the Paul Mellon Arts Center
As part of Choate Rosemary Hall’s 125th Celebration,
the Paul Mellon Arts Center will present Scenes and
Songs on Friday, January 9, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. The
Arts Center is located on Christian Street in
Wallingford. Parking is free.
The program features Rebecca Faulkenberry ’03
(Broadway roles include – Mary Jane Watson from
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (2011); Sherrie from
Rock of Ages (Original Broadway Production, 2009 &
Rebecca Faulkenberry
National Tour, 2010) and Sharpay from High School Muscial (West End London
Production, 2008). She will be joined by other alumni from the stage and screen including
Stephen Bogardus ’72, Barrie Kreinik ’03, Betsy Lippitt ’05 and rising stars Sophie
Faulkenberry ’11 and Charlie Calotta ’13.
Tickets: Adults: $20. For tickets, group rates, and more information, contact the box office
at (203) 697-2398 or order online at www.choate.edu/boxoffice
Belly Dance Event in Hamden
Please join us at The Space Ballroom in Hamden, CT for a very special show featuring
some of Connecticut's reigning belly dance artists! To Dream A Little Dream dares us to
set our sights high and focus on a world that limits us only in our own imaginations.
Tickets available at http://dreamalittledream.bpt.me/
Featuring the creative dance talents of: Aleathea, Diana Saylor and Elm City Shimmy,
Elisheva, Kelvia, Tava, Zahra, And your hostess, Joy
Date: Thursday, January 15t h
Time: Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm
Cost: $15 online, or $20 at door
Where: The Space Ballroom, 295 Treadwell St, Hamden, CT
Enjoy some craft beers or wine with friends during our show!
www.joysyoga.com
www.theouterspace.net
Contemporary Dance Classes at ECA
CONTEMPORARY DANCE CLASSES
Mondays, 6:00-7:30
Instructor: Pamela Newell
Musician: Bob Bergner
Winter Session: January 12 through March 16, 2015
(No classes: Jan 19 and Feb 16)
Educational Center for the Arts
The Arts Hall
55 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT
$15/class 8 classes/$80
For info: (203) 777-5451, ext. 14202 (203) 823-9228 [email protected]
Please join us!
Elm City Dance Collective Classes
Winter 2015 Classes
January 6th through April 26th
Open Company Class / Advanced Technique
Intermediate Contemporary
Beginning Club Fusion
Advanced Contemporary
Check out all the details at http://www.elmcitydance.org/classes/
Hamden Art League to Host Lily Kok-Forbush
Local artist and brush painter Lily Kok-Forbush will be the
guest artist at the upcoming meeting of the Hamden Art
League on Tuesday, January 13, 2015. In An Introduction to
the Joy of Brush Painting, Kok-Forbush will speak about the
history of Chinese brush painting and will give
demonstrations of the various implements used and how to
set up to paint in this method. She will demonstrate how to
paint the four traditional subjects - bamboo, chrysanthemum,
plum blossom, and mountain orchid, as well as various
leaves, plants, animals and landscapes utilizing this ancient
art of ink and brush.
Lily Kok-Forbush
Lily holds a BA degree from Beloit College, MS from
Southern Connecticut State University, has studied at the
Maryland Art Institute, and was a Studio Potter at Creative
Arts Workshop in New Haven for 15 years. A member of the
Connecticut Watercolor Society, Kok-Forbush exhibits in the
Northeast and in the Netherlands and has won several
awards for her work. Teaching experience includes public
schools, Creative Arts Workshop and private classes.
The meeting will be held in the Social Hall of the Miller Memorial Library Senior Center,
2901 Dixwell Avenue, Hamden, CT, on Tuesday, January 13th. Coffee and conversation
begins at 7:00 pm, followed by a brief business meeting at 7:15 and the artist demo at
7:30. Free and open to the public. Note: If the Library is closed due to inclement weather,
the meeting will be cancelled. For more info on Hamden Art League, visit
www.hamdenartleague.com
Milford Arts Council Brainstorm Session
Brainstorm Session at Milford Arts Council, Center for the Arts
40 Railroad Avenue, Milford, CT
January 15, 2015 at 6 pm
Let your voice be heard. Is there something you’d like to see, hear or experience? This is
your opportunity!
Open to: students, artists, musicians, residents, members and anyone interested in being
involved in the Milford Arts Council.
For information, call us at 203-878-6647 or go to www.milfordarts.org
Learn More About Project Storefronts
Project Storefronts Info Sessions!
Jan 13 7pm at Make Haven, 266 State St. New Haven
Jan 24 5:30pm at Ele-Mar, 99 Shelton Ave, New Haven
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-Storefronts/147318158621818
Elena Delvecchio Rusnak Dance Education Scholarship
Connecticut Dance Alliance presents the ELENA DELVECCHIO RUSNAK DANCE
EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP
Elena was a passionate dancer, dance educator and advocate, and before she passed
away she let us know that she wanted to leave an annual scholarship for a student who
wished to become a dance educator, and for CDA to manage the administration of the
award. We are so very happy to remember her in this way and so, with her daughter Cate,
we are proud to announce this generous scholarship for the first time.
The $1,000 annual scholarship award is for undergraduate students who will be
Connecticut high school seniors in the coming academic year, or current college students
entering their freshman, or sophomore year at a Connecticut college or university. The
scholarship will be administered by the Connecticut Dance Alliance which will assist in the
management of the award and the selection of the awardee.
To qualify, applicants must be (or will be) majoring in dance or dance education, or must
be pursuing an education degree with a cross endorsement in dance, with intentions of
pursuing a career in dance education.
Applicants must submit:
* A video showing you performing a piece (3 minutes or less) that showcases your
technique and dance style. It does not have to be original choreography.
* A two-part essay - The first part should explain your passion for dance and your plan to
pursue a career as a dance educator. The second part should explain your video
submission and why you chose the piece you are presenting.
* Two letters of recommendation
Please be sure to include your email address with your application. Once your application
is received, you will receive an email invitation to a Dropbox link from
[email protected]. You will then be able to upload your video submission to a
priviate Dropbox account via this link for the committee to view.
If you have any questions/concerns about the uploading process, please contact
Catherine Craig at [email protected]
The deadline for submissions is February 13th, 2015
Essays and letters of recommendation should be sent electronically to
[email protected]
Non-electronic video and application submissions must be received by February 13th,
2015 and should be sent to: Catherine Rusnak-Craig, 119 Dix Road, Wethersfield, CT
06109
The winner of the scholarship will be contacted no later than April 10th, 2015.
Spectrum Gallery Call for Artists
Spectrum Gallery is calling for artists to submit work to A Show of Hands - The Fiber Arts
exhibit running January 23- March 15, 2015. The Gallery is looking for artists who use
plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to create fine art and practical or decorative objects. To
submit, please visit www.spectrumartgallery.org/artist-submission-form. Deadline is
January 10.
For more information, contact Barbara Nair at [email protected]. 61 Main
Street, Centerbrook CT. Art exhibits are organized by the Arts Center Killingworth at
Spectrum Gallery. Arts Center Killingworth (ACK) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt
organization focused on the development and presentation of the visual and performing
arts on the Shoreline of Connecticut and beyond. ACK supports amateur and professional
artists by organizing exhibits and concerts, and offering classes, intensives, workshops
and Summer Camps for adults, teens and children.
Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency Program
Are you or someone you know an outdoor enthusiast
and a visual artist? If so, the Chilkoot Trail Artist
Residency Program might be a great opportunity for
you!
This unique artist residency, in partnership with the
National Park Service and Parks Canada, is a chance
to hike the historic Chilkoot Trail from Alaska into
Canada and make art.
Photo Credit: Jessica Auer & Andreas Rutkauskas,
2014.
Artists are encouraged to apply online at:
http://yukonartscentre.com/programs/chilkoot_trail_artist_residency_program
The deadline is fast approaching! All submissions must arrive by February 1st, 2015.
City of New Haven Call to Artists
City of New Haven Percent for Art invites artists to register for an upcoming opportunity!
New Haven’s Percent for Art program (est. 1981) requires that one percent of the city's
costs for new and renovated municipal buildings be put towards the purchase of a
commissioned artwork.
New Haven was the first city in Connecticut to enact such legislation. The program has
commissioned over thirty artworks by many of the area’s most talented and inventive
artists, for the City’s public schools, fire stations, parks, libraries, and other public buildings
and spaces.
This upcoming year, Percent for Art will be looking to commission its next site-specific
public artwork for the Helene Grant School being renovated on Goffe Street.
Artworks are chosen through a committee process. The committee reviews the Artist
Registry and chooses three finalists. These finalists are then invited to create site-specific
proposals.
To submit to the Artist Registry, send the below to [email protected] by
January 15, 2015:
1.) Artist Statement, CV, Biography in 1 PDF
2.) 5 images of past work (images must be: JPG, TIFF or PNG; 2MB 5MB) – or – 1 video
clip (clips must be: 1 minute or less; .mov format) + 4 images of past work
3.) Image List (Title, Date, Media, Dimensions)
Artists working in all media are invited to submit.
All artists are eligible, however, preference is given to local and regional artists,
particularly Connecticut-based artists and those working in the New England region.
For more information about the program, visit: http://www.cityofnewhaven.com and for
more information about registering, contact Liz AntleO’Donnell, Percent for Art
Coordinator, @ [email protected].
Artspace Seeks Exhibition Curator
Artspace New Haven is inaugurating a program designed to support the conceptualization
of a fourteen week exhibition in the Artspace galleries, which will take place from
December 2015 - February 2016. A group of professional artists and art practitioners that
make up our Visual Arts Committee (VAC) will review the applications. The winning
applicant will have support from me and the rest of the incredible staff at Artspace to see
the project through from beginning to end. We welcome proposals with an experimental
spirit and encourage applicants to take risks, think critically, or explore a new curatorial
framework. The exhibition budget will be $5,000, and may be broken down in a number of
ways.
Applicants may apply online through our website. Here's the link:
http://artspacenh.org/opportunities.asp?id={2739BB6D-F797-4B16-8853-F23A9B7358FE}
Audition Notice
On the heels of their successful first run in June 2014, the North Haven Rep Theater
announces auditions for the Spring 2015 edition of their Cabaret Seires.
The North Haven Rep Theater Cabaret Series is an intimate evening of theatrical song
and celebration. The group is looking to assemble a cast of 6-8 performers to pull from
personal song portfolios. This production is seeking quality in performance, song
selection, and overall presentation. It is to be a full length cabaret performance- to include
your stories in song selection, as told by you.
Auditions will be held by appointment only on Tuesday, January 20th from 6:30pm-9pm
at St. John's Church in North Haven (3 Trumbull Place, North Haven, CT). If you are
interested and unable to attend, please contact the director, James Mase at
[email protected], or 203-687-9660 immediately for alternative consideration (if
available).
This production is seeking quality in performance ability, song selection and overall
presentation. At the request of the director, this production requires an existing song
repertoire of at least two complete songs, and exceptional musicianship.
Please come prepared with songs from your existing repertoire that meet the following
criteria, including a meaningful introduction for each song:
-one theatrical selection pre-1968
-one theatrical song from American musical theater post-1968
The performance dates will be February 28th at 7pm and March 1st at 2:30pm.
Rehearsals will be held February 3rd, 6th, 20th and 27th in the evenings. Specific times
and locations of rehearsals will be communicated to those accepted to perform and
required to attend.
For more information, please visit www.northhavenreptheater.org or contact James Mase:
[email protected], 203-687-9660.
To sign up for an appointment, please visit:
www.SignUpGenius.com/go/20F0949ADAA23A6FB6-spring
Another Octave Accepting New Members
Calling all women who love to sing. We are pleased to announce that Another Octave is
open to new members! Any female singers who are interested in joining should attend an
open rehearsal on one of the following dates: January 13 and 27, or Feb 3 and 10 at
7pm at 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden, CT. Must be able to sing on key. No music
reading ability necessary. Come with your love of choral singing, and join a great group of
women.
Founded in the fall of 1989, Another Octave: Connecticut Women's Chorus celebrates its
choices and experiences through the power of music. Open to all women, the chorus
performs an eclectic repertoire, including standard concert pieces as well as traditional
and contemporary music which reflects women's lives. Members come from varied
backgrounds and lifestyles, and bring with them differing degrees of musical training.
Together, the group works for musical excellence, and performs for the pleasure of their
audiences and themselves. Visit www.anotheroctave.org for more information.
Join Another Octave for a Worm Composting Workshop
Jock Robie of Mainely Worm Bins will lead a vermiculture workshop on SATURDAY,
JANUARY 10. Learn how to use friendly earthworms as an ecologically sound, costefficient and odorless way to break down kitchen waste into soil amendments that will
MAKE YOUR GARDEN LUSH AND PRODUCTIVE. A single worm bin can prevent 70
pounds of food waste per year from entering a landfill by recycling it back into the earth.
Event includes the instruction, the worms, building time, and even lunch! -- all for $50.
Event is limited to 20 participants.
Saturday, January 10 from 9:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Where: Unitarian Society of New Haven | 700 Hartford Tpke. | Hamden, CT
Register: www.anotheroctave.org
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