The Arts Council of Greater New Haven

For the 14th consecutive year, Audubon Arts on the Edge promises a wealth of free, family oriented performances, programs, and hands-on activities.

On Saturday, June 6, from 12-5pm, Audubon Street in New Haven (between Whitney Avenue and Orange Street) will once again be a favorite destination for parents with children... of all ages as the neighborhood’s arts organizations, galleries, and retailers present an afternoon of music, dance, visual arts, spoken word, crafts, educational activities, and more.

Ensembles from ACES Educational Center for the Arts and Neighborhood Music School, along with the Dudley Farm String Band, highlight some of the musical performances scheduled for the daylong event. Also, Neighborhood Music School’s instrument petting zoo will offer visitors a chance to hold the tools of musicians’ trade.

Dance performances and workshops presented by the Shari Caldwell Dance Center, ACES Educational Center for the Arts, and Elm City Dance Collective will also be showcased.

As is tradition, Audubon Street will morph into a winding chalk mural when visitors use the bustling thoroughfare as a community canvas. Art will be everywhere as caricaturists and face painters capture and camouflage faces young and older, and children and parents alike create useable art from recycled products.

From the main stage at Leeney Plaza to a second stage in Park of the Arts (behind Creative Arts Workshop and Neighborhood Music School), Audubon Arts on the Edge will offer something for everyone, from storytelling and puppet shows to fossils and the like from the Peabody Museum of Natural History, science activities from Schooner Inc., foreign-language lessons from Aux Trois Pommes, and drum-making workshops and performances by audience favorite Baba David Coleman.

During Audubon Arts on the Edge, “Eye All Eight” will give art lovers of every generation a chance to experience the Susan B. Hilles Gallery at Creative Arts Workshop, Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery at the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, Studio70 and ArtLab Gallery at ACES Educational Center for the Arts, John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven Museum and Historical Society, Hull’s Fine Framing Gallery, and Koffee on Audubon.

For more information visit www.newhavenarts.org or call (203) 772-2788.
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The Arts Council of Greater New Haven invites you to Big Love: Artists and Social Networking Technology, a panel discussion organized to complement Status Update, an exhibition presented by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven in collaboration with Haskins Laboratories that explores the use of social networking techno...logies in art.

The panel discussion will take place on Thursday, May 14, at 5pm, as part of the artists’ reception for Status Update. The reception is scheduled to take place from 5-7pm at Haskins Laboratories, 300 George St., 9th floor, New Haven, and is open to the public.

Status Update, curated by Debbie Hesse and Donna Ruff, features works by Kevin Van Aelst, Cat Balco, Sharon Butler, Heather Freeman, Greg Garvey, Matt Held, Keith Johnson, Katie Ring, Jeremiah Teipen, Lee Walton, Rachel Perry Welty, and An Xiao. The exhibition is on display at Haskins Laboratories through August 1. Viewing hours are Wednesday through Friday, 10am to 4pm.

Panelists for Big Love: Artists and Social Networking Technology include Sharon Butler, Matt Held, Paddy Johnson, Sharon Kleinman, and An Xiao.

Butler, who organized the panel discussion, is an associate professor in Eastern Connecticut State University’s Department of Visual Arts, and maintains the art blog Two Coats of Paint.

Butler says online social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter represent a “new undefined territory in the art community.”

About the panelists:

Matt Held’s Facebook group, “I’ll have my Facebook portrait painted by Matt Held,” has more than 3,000 members, each of whom hopes to have his or her portrait painted as part of a collection of 200 works.

Paddy Johnson is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work has been published in numerous art journals in this country and abroad. Her blog, artfagcity.com, has been linked to by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Magazine, among others.

Sharon Kleinman, a professor of communications at Quinnipiac University, earned her B.A. degree in English and American literature from Brandeis University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in communication from Cornell University. She is the editor of Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century (2007, Peter Lang Publishing).

An Xiao is a conceptual artist who uses online social networks as her medium. The Guardian’s (London) Ruth Jamieson recently included her in a “who’s who” of the Twitter art world alongside Yoko Ono, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Tate.

For more information about Big Love: Artists and Social Networking Technology, Status Update, and Haskins Laboratories, please call the Arts Council at (203) 772-2788.

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Led by Tony Santore, this workshop for executive directors, finance directors and board members of nonprofit arts organizations will offer suggestions for developing smart and strategic responses to the economic downturn. Learn tips for assessing and responding to financial risk, making revenue and expense projections,... and analyzing cash flow. Santore will offer guidance and tools for practical scenario-planning including reducing costs.

Tony Santore, an accountant with Beers Hammerman, has worked with many nonprofit organizations.

Cost: Free to Arts Council members. Reservation required.




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