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.
Chris Barnard (BA Yale, 1999, MFA USC, 2005) is a conceptual painter concerned with the aesthetics of privilege, scholarship and the great American myth. His most recent body of work depicts magnificent interiors of institutions that house fine art and sanctuaries of higher education. Prior to this, Barnard has used bucolic skies as props for nullifying the horrors of human violence and war. He has had recent shows at Fred Giampietro Gallery, Luis De Jesus Gallery (Los Angeles) and at Connecticut College, where he teaches and is the recipient of the Susan Eckert Lynch Fellowship. HIs work has been discussed in the LA Times, Hyperallergic and the Chicago Tribune.
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.