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 May 13, 2011
Students interpret “sustainability” with collaborative
exhibit Common Ground: What Matters is the Dream
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, in collaboration with
students of Common Ground High School, presents Common
Ground: What Matters is the Dream, an exhibition in the
Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery, 70 Audubon St., 2nd floor.
The exhibition will be on display during business hours from
Friday, March 25 through Friday, May 13, 2011. A public
reception is scheduled with the student artists for Thursday,
March 31 from 5 to 7 pm.
Curated by Rachel Gilroy, Common Ground: What Matters
is the Dream is an exhibition of multimedia work by student
artists in response to the question: “What is sustainability?”
This project is a collaborative effort within the Common Ground
community to explore how students think and see ecologically.
The resulting visual expressions reveal connections within
Common Ground and between the school and its surrounding communities,
farm and natural ecosystems.
Arts Council intern Molly McKenna visited the school in February
and recorded interviews with the students from Common Ground
High School in New Haven who are looking forward to displaying
their sustainability-focused artwork. Enjoy clips of these
interviews, previewed here. Please don't forget to visit us
at the opening reception to experience the full interviews.
Common Ground is a high school, urban farm, and environmental
education center located at the base of New Haven’s
West Rock Ridge State Park. The school’s mission is
to cultivate habits of healthy living and sustainable environmental
practice among a diverse community of children, adults, and
families.
Rachel Gilroy is the Environmental Leader and Sustainability
Coordinator at Common Ground. She has taken an active role
in creating a powerful learning lab for her students in which
these connections can emerge and thrive. She explains that
“Common Ground is taking a process-oriented approach
to developing students’ connection between the words
‘common ground’ and ‘sustainability’.
The aim is to give them the visual tools to create a method
of compositional thinking and perceiving, to imagine how two-dimensional
designs can be shaped in three-dimensional places, and to
develop an appreciation of our dreams-- for they affect how
we cultivate our world into a place that truly sustains
us.”
For more information about the exhibit, call the Arts Council
at (203) 772-2788.
“Sustainability is about more than just planting
trees, curbside recycling and rescuing wildlife. It is about
transforming politics and community development. Sustainability
challenges assumptions surrounding prevailing orthodoxies
or worldviews of economic growth and materialist values and
implies nothing less than a restructuring of our relationship
to the planet and to all living things”
~Harmonious Living
Photo by Samantha Smith
Photo by Mel Morales
Photo by Mel Morales
Photo by Mel Morales
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.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION Palette
2011 Arts Council Members Show
Dates: July 22-September 16, 2011
Artists’ Reception: Thursday, July 21, 5-7pm
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven is pleased to announce
Palette, the 2011 Arts Council Members Show at the
Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery. We hope you will contribute
your artwork and participate in this exciting event open to
all Arts Council Artist Members. All media welcome. Members
are limited to one entry. To become an Arts Council member,
call (203) 772-2788.
Drop Off: Tuesday, July 12-Friday, July 15, 9am- 5pm
Pick Up: Monday, September 26-Friday, September 30, 9am-5pm Click here
for a submission form
