Join Artspace and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Connecticut for an interactive event exploring the boundaries between internal and external experiences in indoor and outdoor spaces. Inside Outside will begin with a panel followed by tactile activities for event attendees to visualize how we access indoor and outdoor spaces and what our bodies need to
Join Artspace New Haven for a workshop with artist Kiara Matos. The workshop will be a hands on experience, in which participants will have the opportunity to experiment and understand the ceramic making process. The first part will focus on approaches towards hand shaping using 3 different techniques coil, pinching, slabs or a combination of
Join Artspace New Haven and artist Bruno Smith for a candle-making workshop. Wax is one of the most elastic art-making materials. When heated, it becomes a liquid that surrounds or contains a form. As it cools, it solidifies and takes the shape of whatever it touches. We will look at different modes of making a
Join Artspace New Haven and artistic duo Aeron Bergman & Alejandra Salinas for a lecture within their series “The Commons: towards reclaiming collective power.” Artist duo Bergman and Salinas will discuss capitalism, using their work and research as case-studies on the assumptions of values such as privatization, and competition. The artist lecture “Against the General
Join Artspace New Haven and artistic duo Aeron Bergman & Alejandra Salinas for a lecture with Professor Emeritus of Community & Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The freedom to access and use seeds is being rapidly eroded as the "gene giants" of the corporate world extend their power. With global imposition of various
Join Artspace New Haven and Common Ground’s and artistic duo Aeron Bergman & Alejandra Salinas a seed workshop, which will introduce children to examples of collaboration between plants and animals in nature, leading to a discussion of sustainable, whole system agriculture. Kids will be given a packet of seeds to plant in the spring, and
Join Artspace New Haven and artistic duo Aeron Bergman & Alejandra Salinas for a lecture with Dr. Vishwas Satgar. In “The Last Great Dispossession—Climate Justice and the Commons,” Dr. Satgar explores how the eco-cidal logic of capitalism has not only enclosed the commons in the heartlands and peripheries of capitalism, over 500 years, through private
*This program has changed from in-person to Zoom, please register at the link below. Join Artspace New Haven and artistic duo Aeron Bergman & Alejandra Salinas for a lecture with Ronaldo “Rony” Lec Ajcot (Kakchiquel, Mayan) of the IMAP Institute of Mesoamerican Permaculture concerning food security in Central America. The Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute (Instituto Mesoamericano
Join Artspace New Haven for an in-person lecture with Yale University Professor of Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment and a Professor at Yale Law School, Gerald Torres. Dr. Torres’s lecture addresses the neo-liberal moment that defines our current predicament as it imagines the imperatives of the market can be used to
Join Artspace New Haven for an in-person poetry reading with Sky Hopinka and Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves concerning ecological poetics. Greaves will present “Reading Flowers in the Fractal Meadow: bouquet poetics, editorial cosmology, and the euphoria of backmatter.” “Ecological Poetics: A Reading with Sky Hopinka and Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves” is part of the series
Join Artspace New Haven for a ceramic workshop with artist Kiara Matos. The workshop will be a hands on experience, in which participants will have the opportunity to experiment and understand the ceramic making process. The first part will focus on the approach towards hand shaping using 3 different techniques coil, pinching, slabs or a
Join Artspace New Haven for a food preservation workshop with Chef Steve Roberts. Bring your own veggies or make some of ours and share some with your neighbors! Every culture in the world has developed its own methods of preservation and we will demonstrate practices from all over the world. Come out and learn how
Join us for the opening reception of still processing, Artspace New Haven's first iteration of The Short Shift micro-residency and pop-up exhibition by The Unlearning Collective. Curated by Laurel McLaughlin and Gabriel Sacco, the exhibition will feature paintings, video works, performances, drawings, and writings by collective members Renée Bouchard, Julie Graves Krishnaswami, and Matthew Gernt, surrounding