Sunday opening at John Slade Ely House

John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art
51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, (203) 624-8055
Extraordinary Facilities
Jan. 19—Mar. 6, 2011
Opening Reception: Sun., Jan. 23, 2—5 p.m.

Press release

Extraordinary Facilities is the first in a series of exhibits in 2011 celebrating the John Slade Ely House’s fifty years of operation, presenting visual arts exhibitions and cultural events to the greater New Haven region. A public reception for the artists will be held on Sun., Jan. 23, from 2—5 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.

Extraordinary Facilities comprises a selection of artists who previously exhibited in curated exhibitions at the Ely House. Media include painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and sculpture. Artists exhibiting were chosen for the facility and command of their art forms, achieving a level of excellence in melding their technique and style to subject matter. The exhibit offers the viewer interested in contemporary art a survey of some of the finest visual artists in the Greater Connecticut region.

Subsequent exhibitions in the series will focus on Conceptual Art, New Media and Digital Art, Art in Context, as well as Traditional Art forms.

Participating Artists:

Marion Belanger, Anna Bresnick, Megan Craig, Phyllis Crowley, Steven DiGiovanni, Nancy Eisenfeld, Anne Doris-Eisner, Leila Daw, Karen Dow, Amanda Durant, Christopher Engstrom, Joan Fitzsimmons, Kathryn Frund, Joseph Fucigna, Josh Gaetjen, Gilles Giuntini, Stephen Grossman, Barbara Harder, Tom Hebert, Lisa Hess, Blinn Jacobs, Jilaine Jones, Clint Jukkala, Richard Kallweit, John Keefer, Mary Kenealy, Nathan Lewis, Sabrina Marques, Christopher Mir, Frank Noelker, Kathi Packer, Liz Pagano, Dorothy Powers, Joseph Saccio, Gerald Saladyga, Susan Sharp, Deirdre Schiffer, Laurie Sloan, Kim Sobel, Susan Classen-Sullivan, Rachael Vaters-Carr, Thuan Vu, Daniel Wilkinson, Peter Ziou