Monthly Roundup
Kate Bae, "Possible, Between and Together", 2019. Wave Hill, New York. Acrylic, canvas, cardboard, chairs, desk, fiberglass, nylon strings, and wood. Dimensions variable. | source
Real Art Ways Announces the Winners for the 2021 Real Art Awards
Six artists will receive $2,500 and a solo show at Real Art Ways in Hartford as part of the 2021 Real Art Awards. The six winners are Kate Bae (New York, NY); Heather Heckel (Massapequa, NY); Merik Goma (New Haven, CT); Joe Bun Keo (Hartford, CT); Elizabeth Flood (Hamilton, NY); and Deep Pool (Queens, NY).
See more information about the awards including past winners here and related coverage about Bun Keo: Q&A with Joe Bun Keo | Review: Silence Like Lasagna
Artspace Appoints Reggie Woolery as Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs
Beginning June 1, Reggie Woolery becomes the Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs at New Haven’s Artspace. Woolery has worked as the Director of Education at Charles H. Museum of African American History in Detroit since October 2019. His film and video programs have appeared in the Images Festival Toronto, The Brooklyn Museum, Artists Space, and American Film Institute.
AR comes to New Haven’s Ninth Square
As part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, artist Marc Pettersen has a project called Here’s Another Story, which offers viewers the opportunity to see the buildings and public art in New Haven’s Ninth Square in a different light. Using a free app called Eyejack, viewers then download or click the QR code for the project. With a cellphone as a viewing device, Ninth Square’s street art and murals become animated.
Yale Center for British Art Opens
The YCBA opens to the public on June 4th, as highlighted in a recent New York Times article. The Center will be open on Fridays, from noon to 7 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays, from noon to 4 pm. More information including how to reserve a timed ticket here.
Closing Soon
Through June 6 | Stephen Maine: Cupcake Uptake and the Cloud of Unknowing
Furnace: Art on Paper Archive is Kathleen Kucka’s new space in Falls Village. The gallery’s first show is a collection of works by Stephen Maine, an artist and writer based in West Cornwall. Maine’s recent series on Hyperallergic explored artists living with art during the pandemic.
Through June 26 | W.E.B. DuBois, Georgia & His Data Portraits & Theaster Gates: Lights of Progress
Two exhibitions at New Haven’s Artspace —W.E.B. Du Bois, Georgia, and his Data Portraits and Theaster Gates: Lights of Progress — highlight and respond to data visualizations from the Civil Rights activist detailing the living conditions of Black Americans living in Georgia. Read Lucy Gellman’s review in the Arts Paper.
Opening
Opening June 5 | David Borawski at No Fly Zone
No Fly Zone is a new popup space in Suffield, Connecticut. Conceptual artist David Borawski will show new works at this show through the month of June with hours on Saturdays from 6-9 p.m. Contact snffbx@gmail.com for the exact location.
Opening June 6 & 18 | Leonardo Drew: Two Projects
Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum brings the work of Connecticut-born artist Leonardo Drew to two sites for this show. On the Front Lawn opening on the 6th, Drew will present an interactive sculptural landscape. Inside the museum’s main lobby, Drew has planned a site-specific installation — an “explosion” in the words of the artist.
Opening June 7 | Hugo McCloud: from where i stand
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum will mount the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, continuing through January 2, 2022. Works in the show are from 2014 to 2021, a transformative period that includes experimental abstraction to figurative painting. Touching on notions of class and identity, Hugo McCloud’s works often incorporate unconventional materials such as single-use plastic bags. Watch Aldrich Exhibitions Director Richard Klein and McCloud in conversation on YouTube here.
Opening June 8 | Monica Ong: Planetaria
The Gallery Upstairs at The Institue Library in New Haven presents Planetaria. For this summer exhibition, Monica Ong combines astronomy, printmaking, and meditations on family into her visual poetry. Ong is a recipient of a 2021 Connecticut Artist Fellowship, and her book Silent Anatomies (2015) was selected by the United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo as the winner of the Kore Press First Book Award in poetry.
Ongoing
Through Aug 22 | Roots to Benevolence
This exhibition displays the work of NXTHVN’s Inaugural Apprenticeship Program. With paintings, drawings, digital art, music, and writing, the show documents a challenging year for five New Haven teenagers while marking the beginning of their careers.
Through Sept 12 | A Face Like Mine
The Mattatuck Museum collaborated with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on this exhibition which celebrates 100 years of African American figurative art. The show comes from a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional partnership formed by the MFA as part of the Art Bridges + Terra Foundation Initiative. Read my review in the New Haven Arts Paper here.
Through Oct 24 | Jennifer Wen Ma: An Inward Sea
At the New Britain Museum of American Art, An Inward Sea is an exploration of utopia, dystopia, and the human condition through Ma’s installation-based works.
Events
International Festival of Arts & Ideas | Ongoing
Check out the roster of public programs for the festival on their website.
Artists in Conversation: Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA) | Fri, June 18, 12 p.m.
The Yale Center for British Art continues its at-home artist talk series with Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA), artist, in conversation with Martina Droth, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Center. More information here.
Juneteenth Celebration at The Amistad Center | Sat, June 19, 6 p.m.
Register The Amistad Center for Art & Culture's 2021 Virtual Juneteenth Celebration here.
Opportunities
Jobs
Part-Time, Temporary Positions with the Arts & Ideas Festival, New Haven, CT
Visual Arts Coordinator & Curator, Barnard College, NY
High School Art Teacher, Common Ground School, New Haven
Museum Assitant, Fairfield University, Fairfield
Executive Assistant to the Director, New Britain Museum of Art
Art Preparator, Wesleyan University, Middletown
Visitor Services and Operations Manager, Creative Art Workshop, New Haven
Second Look — Summer Reading Lists
For this writer, summer brings a bit of a reprieve once the academic year has ended. It’s usually a good time for me to catch up on reading. To that end, I started a series of book recommendations this time two years ago. Check out the Summer Reading Lists here.
Interested in participating this summer? Read the call here.
The Monthly Roundup is a list of curated events, exhibitions, and opportunities published near the beginning of the month.
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