Enjoy an intimate 3-course dinner hosted by some of New Haven’s most esteemed artists in their private studios at 14 Gilbert Street, a former print factory. Surrounded by artwork in progress, you’ll have the unique opportunity to hear the artists discuss their ideas and process. Choose from one of five studios—several studios will only be open for this experience. After the meal, everyone will convene for dessert and a champagne toast down the hall at the Westmount Group Furniture Workshop, owned and operated by our former Board Member Jeff Carter.
Each dinner features local and seasonal cuisine inspired by bright flavors, colors, and textures prepared by Small Kitchen Big Taste. Preview the menu, here.
Martin Kersels & Brent Howard have shared a large space over many years. Kersels’s work is installation-based and incorporates performance, sculpture, photography and video. He is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture at Yale School of Art. His objects and projects have been exhibited at museums both nationally and internationally, including the 1997 Whitney Biennial, the Centre Pompidou, MOCA Los Angeles, the Museum Tinguely, Kunsthalle Bern, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. A survey of his work, Heavyweight Champion, was organized and exhibited by the Tang Museum in 2007 and the Santa Monica Museum of Art in 2008. Brent Howard is a Critic and Lecturer in the Graduate Sculpture program at Yale and directs the Sculpture, Wood, and Metal shop there. He has recently exhibited at the Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, NoPop (New Haven) and the Gowanus Studio Space. In addition to his own work, he has served as fabricator for such artists as Michelle Lopez, Nari Ward and Louise Bourgeois.
Artspace is marking City-Wide Open Studios 20th year just as the State of Connecticut’s grant funds have evaporated and the National Endowment for the Art’s immediate future is in peril. We are turning to you, our friends, to help support our festival at a watershed moment. Please join us!
Libations provided by Stony Creek Brewery, Esperto Wine, and Mionetto Rose & Brut Champagne.
Event Co-Chairs: Artspace Board Members Marion Belanger, Cathy DeMeo and Jane Lubin.