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.

Hank Paper	Sharon Hirsh

CURRENT EXHIBITION
Through May 22, 2009

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents Spectra 2009 in the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery (formerly Small Space Gallery) at 70 Audubon St., 2nd floor. The exhibit takes place from Thursday, March 19 through Friday, May 22, with an artists’ reception on Friday, March 20, from 5 to 7 pm. The public is invited to attend.

Spectra 2009 is the annual members show of the Photo Arts Collective, an Arts Council program whose mission is to cultivate and support a community of individuals who share an interest in photography, through workshops, lectures, exhibitions, portfolio reviews, group critiques and special events.

Spectra 2009 includes photographs by Joe Azoti, Christopher Beauchamp, Joy Bush, Penny Cook, Rod Cook, Jim Fiora, Bob Giannotti, Kenneth Hanson, Sharon Hirsch, Art Johnson, Roy Money, Dana Osborn, Maryann Ott, Archie Stone, John Weinland and Marjorie Wolfe.

Ott, who sits on the Photo Arts Collective’s Steering Committee, said Spectra 2009 is an “incredibly diverse” collection of work that features color and black-and-white photography, analog and digital photography, and alternative and traditional processes.

“This particular show … is probably our strongest,” Ott said.

The Photo Arts Collective, Ott said, is “a place for people who share a passion for photography to gather,” collaborate, talk, learn, share and debate. Open to Arts Council members, the Photo Arts Collective meets the first Thursday of each month at the Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven.

For more information about Spectra 2009, the Photo Arts Collective and the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery, please call the Arts Council at (203) 772-2788.

Dana Osborn	Ken Hanson

UPCOMING EXHIBITION/CALL TO ARTISTS

Cellutations, an exhibition of cell-phone art.
June 1-July 10

Send your image(s) to: cellutations@gmail.com. Be part of this unique art show, whose submissions could come from anywhere in the world.

From the Urban Dictionary:
"1. Cellutations
slang for cell phone
Call me on the cellutations"

Share your cell phone screen captures during this intriguing show, which will be on display from June 1 to July 10.

It’s easy: Capture. Share.

This is an exhibition of instantly captured moments in time — fleeting scenes frozen by, and shared through, technology.

One click, two clicks, and impulse becomes art on display among other frozen moments.

Share the scenes you've captured, a reaction you've preserved, your surroundings from the window of a moving car.

Here's how it works:

E-mail your image and we'll print and hang it in the gallery. Selected submissions will also be posted on the Arts Council's Web site and/or blog.

Works will not be for sale and will be replaced as the show evolves.

E-mail dhesse@newhavenarts.org if you've got any questions.

Cynthia Weaver	Rebecca Miller	Michael Morand	Martha Lewis

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.