TODAY

JOIN US TODAY, Sunday March 23 1-3pm

Impressions and Assemblage with Aluminum and Copper

A printmaking workshop guided by artist Emily Weiskopf

Make a print using metals to celebrate our 10th Anniversary!

Create a work for our Benefit Gala Silent Auction and for yourself!

Free Workshop but please keep in mind ink can be messy so wear appropriate clothing

DEADLINE EXTENDED

We are pleased to announce Jared Quinton as our guest curator!

Jared Quinton is a curator, writer and currently the Emily Hall Tremaine Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT, where he oversees the pioneering MATRIX exhibition series and the museum’s postwar and contemporary collection and galleries.

DEADLINE EXTENDED!!
Open Call 2025

WOW! We are amazed by the quality of submissions that have been coming in!!
We have had some people reach out about extending the deadline- and we have decided to extend it until the end of March! Now due March 30th 11:59pm.

For more information on the opportunities click HERE

Please note that our Open Call is NOTAFLOF (No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds) If you need the application fee waived, email info@elycenter.org with the subject line "Pay it Forward Fund Scholarship Request”

If you have the means, please consider the option to “Pay It Forward” to fund someone else’s application. The fees ECOCA receives from this go to covering exhibition costs.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing all your amazing work!

Photo: Allen Phillips. Courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum.

IN THE GALLERY

Tin There, Done That - photo by Peter Brown

Tin There, Done That, a group exhibition kicking off the celebration of ECOCA turning 10!

Tin/Aluminum, the traditional material for a 10th wedding anniversary, represents ECOCA’s marriage of fostering contemporary arts in New Haven and the charitable legacy of Grace T. Ely in her Elizabethan mansion.
Featuring the aluminum themed works of Adria Arch, Adam Brent, Tamara Dimitri, Madison Donnelly, Mary Dwyer, Terry Donsen Feder, Lesley Finn, Elli Fotopoulou, Deborah Greco, Shanti Grumbine, Nate Heiges, Tom Kutz, Maria Markham, Hillel O'Leary, Sok Song, Alixe Turner, Shane Ward, Christina Hunt Wood
Let’s Celebrate ECOCA turning 10!

A Desire Path, inspired by the unplanned trails that humans create despite extensive planning. This group exhibition features the works of Jessica Bottalico, Annie Ewaskio, Jessica Fallis and Sydney Kleinrock. Each artist navigates their practice similarly to such a structure, finding moments in natural settings to get to their destinations; planned or unplanned, cyclical or straight.

Stone Screen, a solo exhibition of Anita Maksimiuk in the Flat File gallery Maksimiuk themes of migration and urban elements represent her experience as a first-generation American. Maksimiuk uses imagery that includes parts of the American Southwest, Eastern Europe and everything that make up the five boroughs of New York City, which she calls home.

Maidan & XX, a two part solo exhibition of photographer Amartya De. On March 9th, viewers are able to begin their investigation into the photographic installation in its starting point with only a handful of photos on view. Over the weeks leading up to April 13th, De will be printing negatives in the Ely Center Basement Darkroom that he spent the previous year creating as well as making archival digital prints. Viewers will get a glimpse into De’s process which has grown out of his years growing up in Kolkata and the time he has spent traveling across the United States. Highlighted in Maidan & XX is a juxtaposition of time and space so viewers have a longer spectral dimension that holds their time - forcing them to be in the moment and retrospective simultaneously.

Left: A Desire Path; Right: Maidan - photo by Peter Brown

CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF ECOCA

Purchase Your Tickets HERE

GET YOUR TICKETS FOR OUR ECOCA’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT GALA NOW!

Put on your festive, sparkling, and metallic attire and come celebrate with us!

The amazing teams at VINTANTHROMODERN, FASHIONISTA and NOIR VINTAGE COMPANY have put together selections of metallic clothes to help you pick your outfit!

Gala Tickets purchased before April 1 are $85 each
after April 1 are $125 each. Includes the After Party.

Young (35 and younger) Artist Tickets purchased before April 1 are $50 each
after April 1 $85. Includes the After Party.

After Party tickets $25 in advance, $30 at the door

COMING UP @ECOCA

Tin Can Luminaries! lead by Jared Holt

This event is free and open to those 16 and older.
Limited to 10 people.
Reserve your spot by emailing aburg@elycenter.org

March 16, 1 pm

This is the 2nd in a series of workshops to celebrate ECOCA turning 10!

Help the 10th Anniversary Benefit Gala crew create punched tin can lantern that will light up our Gala on April 26th!
This workshop, lead by Jared Holt, will teach you how to make your own tin can luminary using just nails and a hammer!
Bring your own design ideas or use some templates we already have!

This workshop is designed for medium skill level as it requires hammering and sharp edges. It offers an introduction to tin cans as a creative material. Materials provided.
A special thanks to Alphabet Academy & The Nest for supplying us with their cans!

Upcoming @ The Ely Center

March 30, 1-3pm- 10th Anniversary Workshop: Tin Can Luminaries
Help the 10th Anniversary Benefit Gala crew create punched tin can lantern that will light up our Gala on April 26th!
Limited to 10 people. Reserve your spot by emailing aburg@elycenter.org

April 5 & 6, 12-6pm- Open Studios w/ NXTHVN and Yale School of Art
Come meet our Spring ‘25 Keyhole Workspace Artists in Residence: Isaac Canady, Cynthia Celone and JP Sanchez

April 10, 7pm- Weird Music Night

April 132, 2:30pm- Maidan & XX: Amartya De Reception at 2:30pm followed by Elle Perez guiding an artist talk with De for his exhibition at 4:30pm

April 13- 10th Anniversary Workshop: Anni Albers Inspired Necklace Workshop with Luke Atkins

April 26, 5-8pm - ECOCA 10th Anniversary Gala
Celebrate 10 years of ECOCA at this ticketed event: Live & Silent Auctions, music, food & FUN

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Gala volunteers needed!
Want to lend a hand with our gala?

Sign up to volunteer HERE

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M I S S I O N

The Ely Center of Contemporary Art’s mission is to present contemporary art exhibitions and events—challenging, conceptual, and provocative—that are inclusive, diverse and promote dialogue around global and community issues. Our work reaffirms Grace Ely’s testamentary wishes for an art center where artists, arts organizations, and the public assemble, exchange, learn, and engage through exhibitions, performances, and emerging contemporary practice

ECOCA receives support from Avangrid, City of New Haven, Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Connecticut Humanities, New Alliance Foundation, Wells Fargo, Yale University, and Friends of the John Slade Ely House of Contemporary Art.