Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 1, 2004|Volume 33, Number 5

Pictured at left is "Priscilla," an image by Chloe Atreya, a School of Medicine student who is among the dozens of Yale artists who will showcase their work.

City-Wide Open Studios festival
celebrates its seventh year

In an event that has become one of the largest of its kind in the nation, some 500 artists -- including Yale faculty, students and staff -- will exhibit, discuss, and, in some cases, demonstrate their art during the annual City-Wide Open Studios (CWOS), held Oct. 5-29 in New Haven.

The University is a sponsor of the 24-day visual arts festival, during which both emerging and established artists show their creations in their own studio spaces and at other city venues. Now in its seventh year, CWOS is presented by Artspace.

This year's CWOS features a record number of artists, a testament to its growing popularity and reputation, according to Helen Kauder, director of Artspace. The Yale-affiliated artists participating are Chloe Atreya, Susan Cole, Terry Dagradi, Howard el-Yasin, Ron Eyerman, Maria Gherasimova, David Gillich, Sharon Hirsh, Clint Jukkala, Jo Kremer, Jessica Kung, Evie Lindemann, Max Miller, Chris Mir, Rob Rocke, Lindsay Rogers, Iris Thompson and Arthur Vitello. (Brief profiles of two of these artists will appear in the Oct. 8 issue of this newspaper.) Dozens of alumni living in New Haven are also participating.

New Haven's CWOS is unique in that the festival provides "alternative spaces" to artists without access to a studio or to those from outside the New Haven area. This year, the temporary installations will be in two New Haven public grammar schools that are soon to be renovated.

CWOS will kick off on Friday, Oct. 8, with an opening reception 5-8 p.m. at Artspace, which is located in the Chamberlain Building -- a Civil War-era furniture factory now operating as an art gallery -- at 50 Orange St. The event will feature live music by the jazz ensemble Goose Lane. All of the participating artists in CWOS have one representative work on display in this main exhibition, making it one of the largest shows in the region devoted to art created in a wide range of media. Here and in other CWOS spaces, viewers will see paintings, drawings, textile pieces, sculpture, pottery, photographs, site-specific installations and more.

The main exhibition will be open daily throughout the festival on the following schedule: Sunday and Monday, noon-5 p.m.; Tuesday 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; and Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Other events will take place on three consecutive weekends.

The first weekend of the festival -- Oct. 9 and 10 -- will feature nearly 80 artists working in their studios and in a dozen small studio complexes across New Haven, Hamden, North Haven and West Haven. The studios are open both days noon-5 p.m. Free guided bike and bus tours will be led by artists, architects and community leaders, and will leave Artspace at noon on both days. Reservations for the tours are encouraged.

The second weekend -- Oct. 16 and 17 -- will feature 100 artists with studios at Erector Square, New Haven's largest studio complex, in what was once the factory that made the A.C. Gilbert Erector Sets. Erector Square is located at 315 Peck St. These studios will also be open noon-5 p.m.

On the final weekend -- Oct. 23 and 24 -- more than 300 artists who have set up studios in alternative spaces will exhibit their work. This year's alternative spaces are the Beecher School, 100 Jewell St. in New Haven (just off Whalley Ave.); the Barnard School, 170 Derby Ave. (at the intersection of Rte. 34 and Ella Grasso Boulevard); and areas of vacant buildings and storefronts around Artspace in the city's Ninth Square. Performances by live bands will also be featured.

CWOS exhibitions are free to the public, but there is a suggested donation of $5 for the Alternative Space weekend.

Artworks at the main exhibition and the artists' studio or exhibition spaces will be available for purchase. Last year at CWOS, exhibition viewers purchased $40,000 in artworks. The previous year, CWOS drew some 15,000 people to the Alternative Space in the Pirelli Building.

Complete details and an official 24-page "Map of the Arts" with all CWOS locations will be available at Artspace and in the Oct. 6 issue of the New Haven Advocate.

In addition to Yale, sponsors of CWOS include the City of New Haven, the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, Southern Connecticut State University, Pfizer and Firehouse12 (a recording studio in Ninth Square).

For further information call (203) 772-2709 or visit the website at www.cwos.org.

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