SUMNER MCKNIGHT CROSBY JR. GALLERY
Formerly Small Space Gallery

Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery, a program of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, is located at the Arts Council offices at 70 Audubon Street, 2nd floor. The gallery features regional artists in group and thematic shows. Hours are 9am to 5pm, Monday through Friday.


CURRENT EXHIBITION
Through November 10, 2011

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, in conjunction with the Alzheimer’s Resource Center of Connecticut, presents Being Present, an exhibition in the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery, 70 Audubon St., 2nd floor. The exhibition will be on display during business hours from September 23 through November 10. A public reception is scheduled for Wednesday, October 12, 2011 from 3-5pm.

Being Present is an exhibition of prints and paintings by Connecticut artists living with Alzheimer’s. Featured artists of the Alzheimer’s Resource Center of Connecticut have used their art and their creations to express themselves and manage their illness. These artists are creative and inspiring individuals. They all live with Alzheimer’s disease or another related dementia, but they are all able to express themselves through various artistic mediums. Some of these artists reside at the Alzheimer’s Resource Center, either in an assisted living community or one of four skilled nursing communities.

Being Present allows the artists to utilize and draw upon their unique talents in an artistic process and environment that helps find hope and courage. The freeing process of the process allows the artists to explore their inner strengths and triumphs.

The Alzheimer’s Resource Center is a nonprofit organization that provides a specialized source of research, information and health care. Since 1990, the Center has done pioneering work studying dementia and caring for people with Alzheimer’s disease. By sharing innovative approaches with family care providers, other organizations and professionals, the Center promotes a new standard of enlightened dementia care.

For more information contact the Arts Council at 203-772-2788.

Stephanie Casner

Artists' Opportunity
If you would like to be considered for an exhibit at Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery, please send images, résumé and bio to: Arts Council of Greater New Haven, 70 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT 06510. For more information, call Debbie Hesse at 203-772-2788 or email dhesse [at] newhavenarts.org.

Past Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery (formerly Small Space Gallery) Exhibits
Who I am on the Inside
Cellutations
Hang-ups
Heavy Metal
Visions in Light
Spectra 2010
Through Nick's Eyes
Working/Drawing
Red Alert
planet/hospital
Small Works, Big City
New Americana
Common Ground: What Matters is the Dream
Spectra 2011
Palette

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