Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 6, 2000

Volume 29, Number 5

Artists welcome studio visitors
in expanded annual event

Yale artists will once again open their creative spaces to the public and show off their works in the annual City-Wide Open Studios, which has been expanded this year to three consecutive weekends.

Now in its third year, City-Wide Open Studios is the largest event of its kind on the East Coast, and one of the largest in the nation. Over the course of the event, some 300 visual artists will exhibit their works in their own studios or in "alternative studios," spaces donated by New Haven landlords for the event. Artists represent Greater New Haven, the Valley, Fairfield County and the shoreline areas of the state.

As one highlight of the event, Yale artists will welcome the public into their studios at the newly opened School of Art building and the renovated School of Architecture as part of City-Wide Open Studios and Yale's campus-wide open house in celebration of the University's 300th birthday.

"The growth in the number of artists involved, and the number of sites that are open for the event made it necessary to expand to a multi-weekend format," says Helen Kauder, an organizer of the event. "This year, it will be possible for visitors to focus on a different neighborhood each weekend. And artists also will have the opportunity to visit studios and see what is happening around town. They now have two additional weekends when they themselves are not in their studio [and can] join the tour."

An opening reception for the event will take place on Friday, Oct. 6, 5-8 p.m. at the Chamberlain Building, 77 Crown St., in the historic Ninth Square district. The Chamberlain Building will also be the site of the City-Wide Open Studios main exhibition, which features the work of every participating artist. Works of art on display there will be for sale. The main exhibition will be open daily noon- 5 p.m. Oct. 6-21 (noon-8 p.m. on Oct. 12). A "Map of the Arts," showing all studios and sites for City-Wide Open Studios, will also be available at the main exhibition.

The first weekend of the event, Oct. 7 and 8, will focus on artists and alternative spaces in downtown New Haven. The second weekend, Oct. 14 and 15, will feature artists working in residential neighborhoods, including West Haven, Westville, the Dwight neighborhood of New Haven and Fair Haven. Guided bike and bus tours of neighborhood artists' studios and local attractions will also be offered, and there will be a special one-hour tour for children.

The third weekend, Oct. 21-22, will focus on Yale artists from the School of Art, 1156 Chapel St., and School of Architecture, 180 York St. In addition, artists will also show installations at the New Haven Colony Historical Society and in spaces on Whitney Avenue, courtesy of Yale's Office of University Properties. A cluster of graphic design studios run by Yale alumni will be open adjacent to the School of Art.

A complete listing of City-Wide Open Studios events will appear in a future issue of The New Haven Advocate.

The public is invited to attend a closing reception on Oct. 21, 5-8 p.m., at untitled (space), 220 College St. The reception coincides with the opening of Foreign Bodies, an exhibition curated by Marianne Bernstein exploring the intersection of art and medicine, which is mounted in collaboration with the Yale Program for Humanities in Medicine.

In addition to Yale, alternative spaces for City-Wide Open Studios have been made available by the Ninth Square Partnership LP, the Smoothie Building/Accord Properties, State Garden Restaurant, 99 Ninth Square LLC, Loricco Towers Association, New Haven Colony Historical Society, C.A. White, Sallato Properties/Sandy's Place, New Haven Coliseum, New Haven Parking Authority, Erector Square, the Yoga Studio, Artistic Beauty Salon and the Chapel Square Mall.

City-Wide Open Studios is a program of Artspace, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting and nurturing local artists. The event is funded by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Greater New Haven Community Foundation, the Carolyn Foundation and Friends of Artspace. Major support has also been given by the City of New Haven's Office of Cultural Affairs, New Haven Savings Bank, Laticrete, United Aluminum and Yale.

For further information, call (203) 772-2709, email info@cwos.org or visit the City-Wide Open Studios website at www.cwos.org.

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