Lani Asuncion is our brand new City-Wide Open Studios Associate Producer. If you have any questions or need help with any aspect of City-Wide Open Studios, Lani can help. Her email address is lani@artspacenh.org. 1. What drew you to New Haven? If you could change one thing about the community, what would it be? I first […]

On behalf of Artspace, a non-profit contemporary art gallery in downtown New Haven, Matt Maleska, its Board Chair, is pleased to announce the addition of five new members to its Board— Marion Belanger, Jessica Labbe, Helen Kauder, Beka Sturges, and Paul Taheri— effective July 1, 2016. Marion Belanger is a photographer based in Guilford currently […]

Tambira Armmand joined the Artspace team as Director of Community Engagement. Tambira has been a long time community volunteer organizer/planner and enjoys connecting people and organizations to create activities that showcase a vibrant and thriving New Haven. She has been a volunteer organizer/planner of Cluefest New Haven, with The Group That Has No Name, TGWNN, […]

New Haven Independent 6/21/158; Slattery, Brian. Pictures Meet Sound  “There’s a green box, flattened, framed, and hanging on the wall. Next to it is an enormous wad of crumpled yellow paper, also flattened and framed. Not far away, another flattened box has the word India printed on it. What is the intention of the artist? […]

Ifeanyi Awachie recently joined the Artspace team to begin a new poetry initiative, under a planning grant from Connecticut Humanities. Ifeanyi is a Nigerian-American writer and curator of contemporary African arts and culture festival AFRICA SALON. A graduate of Yale University, Ifeanyi founded AFRICA SALON while working as a presidential fellow on the Yale Africa Initiative. With […]

The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University is pleased to announce the acquisition of the archives of Artspace, New Haven’s vibrant non-profit organization for contemporary art. Artspace is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, and the archive will preserve its legacy of connecting contemporary artists, local audiences, and community resources. Artspace will deed […]

Artspace one of 64 National Endowment for the Arts Our Town projects selected nationwide We are proud to announce that Artspace is the recipient of a NEA Our Town grant in support of this year’s City-Wide Open Studios “GAME ON!” The Our Town grant program supports creative placemaking projects that help to transform communities into lively, beautiful, […]

Julie Bernblum is an attorney and partner at the Real Estate firm of Bernblum and Bernblum, which is headquartered in downtown New Haven. She joined the Artspace Board in 2015. What excites you about the evolution of Ninth Square and how is Artspace making a difference. What is Artspace’s role in the community? I remember […]

4/28/2016, CRG@CGP. “The Modern Equivalent of Jim Crow”: Arresting Patterns and the Fight to End Police Brutality

Artspace’s exhibition Arresting Patterns will travel to Philadelphia to the African American Museum in Philadelphia. The exhibition runs April 21- September 11 and will expand to include work by Felandus Thames,  Martine Syms, and the anonymous Philadelphia artist Avtomat Kalashnikova. Several public programs are planned over the course of the summer: An opening reception takes place on May 5th. A Town Hall & […]

I began as the PR Coordinator at Artspace right at the start of CWOS 2013. If you received an email, an invitation, a tweet or a Facebook post from Artspace in the last two and a half years, I probably had a hand in it. I also handle some small design projects and help with all […]