This year’s City-Wide Open Studios festival explores the theme Older, But Younger, featuring 13 commissioned projects that mobilize intergenerational collaborations between artists who seek to explore a range of topics related to the questions longevity, renewal, where memory resides, and how it might be passed from one person to the next. Many of these artists live in the […]

Once again for City-Wide Open Studios 2019 Older But Younger, Artspace has invited curators for each festival weekend to visit select artists in their studios or exhibition spaces. Every participating artist will be considered for a studio visit. Our current lineup of 2019 Curators include: Sarah Baker, Benjamin Chaffee, Connie H. Choi , Eva Mayhabal Davis, Alva […]

Alexis Robbins, tap and contemporary choreographer and Artistic Director of kamrDANCE, is looking for 3-4 tap dancers with at least 1-2 years of rhythm tap experience for her upcoming project Generations of Rhythm, commissioned by Artspace for their annual City-Wide Open Studios festival. This performance piece is designed for 6-7 dancers and will be 25 minutes long.

Registration begins today, July 1, and ends on September 1 at 11:59pm.

Connecticut’s leading forum for visual artists returns to New Haven each fall. City-Wide Open Studios invites the public to embrace the arts—and to learn more about the creative processes of visual artists—by visiting hundreds of artists in studio and temporary spaces across New Haven. City-Wide Open Studios 2019 Theme is: Older But Younger Want to […]

Each year, Artspace proposes a prompt to focus our creative energies and excitement around the production of our annual City-Wide Open Studios festival. Over the past four years, this word or phrase has mobilized a series of artistic interrogations around a topical issue that impacts our daily lives, lived environments, and the legacies we inherit, […]

Grand Opening Reception at Artspace: Friday, October 5, 5-8pm Erector Square Weekend: Saturday, October 6 + Sunday, October 7 Westville + Private Studios Weekend: Saturday, October 13 + Sunday, October 14 Alternative Space Weekend at 410 West Campus Drive, West Haven: Saturday, October 27 + Sunday, October 28

As we integrate “fact-checking” into the way we consume social media and the news, we face a dilemma: what do we do when we know we are being lied to? The 20th annual City-Wide Open Studios takes this uneasy question as a point of inquiry into four weekends of art-looking.  Artspace invites artists to submit […]

We are counting down the 19 days until the start of the 19th annual City-Wide Open Studios with the 19 things new for this year’s edition, GAME ON! #1 on our countdown to City-Wide Open Studios, it all starts with a party! Join us TONIGHT from 5-8pm for the opening reception for City-Wide Open Studios GAME […]

We are counting down the 19 days until the start of the 19th annual City-Wide Open Studios with the 19 things new for this year’s edition, GAME ON! #2 on our countdown, tomorrow night as part of our opening reception festivities there will be an obstacle course on Orange Street. From 5-8pm, obstacle course on Orange […]

We are counting down the 19 days until the start of the 19th annual City-Wide Open Studios with the 19 things new for this year’s edition, GAME ON! #3 on our countdown is The City-Wide Open Studios Official Map & Guide which has now hit the streets. Plan your weekends with maps of each neighborhood, […]

We are counting down the 19 days until the start of the 19th annual City-Wide Open Studios with the 19 things new for this year’s edition, GAME ON! #4 on the countdown are two Game On commissions inspired by basketball – Competitive Volume by Christie DeNizio and Urban Totems by Gordon Skinner. A nod to David Hammons’s […]