ECOCA Open Call 2024 goes live on January 25, 2024!

Join us for the opening reception of our off site exhibition One Thing Becomes Another at Perspectives Gallery @Whitney Center. The exhibition is curated by Debbie Hesse.

Featured Artists: Patricia Carrigan, Cynthia Dobie, Ellen Gordon, Lilah Heyman, Janet Warner

There will be an artist talk from 2:30-3pm featuring Lilah Heyman and Janet Warner.

Perspectives Gallery @ Whitney Center: 200 Leeder Hill Drive, South Entrance, Hamden, CT 06517

Paste Modern Collage Workshop

Join us during the closing reception of our current shows January 14th 12-3 with a celebratory collage workshop. Three different artists, Desmond Beach, Lesley Finn and Donald Guevara will lead their own collage stations, highlighting their own take on the artform.

This event is free and open to all, but requires an RSVP.

With Desmond Beach you can forget traditional methods—this workshop goes beyond basic glue and paper, encouraging you to explore innovative collage techniques. Get hands-on with layering textures, manipulating fabrics, and incorporating meaningful objects to add depth to your visual storytelling. Learn to see everyday objects in a new light, finding beauty and meaning in unexpected places. By the end of the workshop, you'll leave with a one-of-a-kind collage that reflects your personal story and captures the essence of your cultural heritage.

Much of the art that Lesley Finn makes explores the relationship between words, images, and mark making. Her mixed media collages often use book pages as a canvas and experiment with the modes and materials of communication, incorporating handwriting and printed text into her compositions. For this workshop, Lesley will teach some approaches to making collages from and with books. 

Donald Guevara is of Indigenous Honduran and American German descent and was raised in a first generation Congolese American family. This early introduction into contradiction, change, cultural differences and amalgamation and the complexities of race and gender drive the work that he creates. His current work explores the in-between liminal spaces and combines digital, 2-D and 3-D collage incising and reassembling materials such as basketballs, shoes, magazine ads and trading cards to create glitched bodies and vignettes. He will guide you as you use the  process to make revisions with incisions to print-based advertisements in order to cut oneself through the binary.