NEWS: SUMMER 2005

WINTER/SPRING GALLERY HIGHLIGHTS
The Hilles Gallery kicked off the new year with a wonderful two-person show featuring Lola Flash and Meredith Miller, Prizewinners of FACT/FICTION, the 2004 national exhibition juried by Dawoud Bey. Flash displayed large-scale portraits from her ongoing [sur]passing series that examines the relationship between skin color and black identity. Miller, a CAW faculty member, showed work from her series of portraits of obese women that challenge perceptions of femininity and obesity.

The winter CAW Student Show featured a wonderful array of artwork by CAW students working in a variety of media. The Annual Open House and opening reception welcomed visitors into our studios for hands-on demonstrations in photography, printmaking, pottery and more.

Talented high school students from twenty-one area high schools participated in the Third Annual Southern Connecticut Conference Student Arts Expo. Prizewinners were Elizabeth Duffy (1st) [pictured above], Matthew Morello (2nd), Kayte Mooney (3rd), Katherine Roll (4th) and Hajer Ahmed (5th). Honorable mentions were awarded to Elizabeth Brombacker, Michael Ciarlo, Dave Estes, Nate Johnson, and Johnathan Sigworth.

Close to Home: A National Exhibition juried by Jacquelyn Days Serwer, Chief Curator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. brought in work by 49 artists from across the country, exploring ideas and images related to the idea of “home.” Prizewinners Isabel Chenoweth (Hamden, CT) and Isabella Natale (New York, NY) will share a two-person show at CAW in 2006. Honorable mentions were awarded to Trina Badarack (Santa Fe, NM), Alicia Dwyer (Cambridge, MA), Sharon Hunter (New Haven, CT) and Katrin Roos (New York, NY). CAW is proud to note that Honorable Mention Sharon Hunter is the Workshop’s Development Consultant, participant Eileen Eder is a CAW faculty member, and that Prizewinner Isabel Chenoweth and participants Kathryn Frederick and Leslie Kuo are students of the Workshop.

Special thanks to the Gallery Committee, and especially to Chair Diane Svigals, for their time and dedication.

GRIGGS' ELEVEN
In celebration of Tom Griggs’ Eleven years as President of the Board of Directors, CAW hosted a special reception and fundraiser called Griggs’ Eleven on March 31st. Held at the Ilmanen Estate, known for its unusual giant gumdrop-shaped bushes, the evening included a silent auction of artwork by Tom’s fellow board members and the presentation of a proclamation from Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. honoring Tom for his work at CAW.

The event was a tremendous success. Over 170 guests attended, helping to raise over $10,000 for CAW, with another $5,000 going toward the Workshop’s endowment fund.

CAW would like to thank everyone who helped to organize the event, especially Stan Fivekiller, Maria Kayne, Henry Lord, Debby Moore, and Liz O’Conner. We also thank the following board members who donated artwork for the silent auction: Hayne Bayless, Richard Benson, Joyce Greenfield, Maria Kayne, Ann Langdon, Ann Lehman, Henry Lord, David Millen, Georgia Newcomb, and Liz O’Connor. Special thanks also to the Ilmanen Estate, Eder Brothers and Caffe Bravo for their generous contributions.

Monique Lallier and Don Etherington Help Celebrate Bindery's 25th Anniversary
Internationally renowned book artists Don Etherington and Monique Lallier visited the Workshop April 8-10 as part of the 25th Anniversary Celebration of CAW’s Laura K. Lada-Mocarski Book Bindery. Etherington and Lallier taught a workshop on leather inlay and onlay and presented a lecture and slide show about the influences they have had on one another in their differing design binding approaches. Examples of their work were on display in the Creative Works Gallery from April 1 to May 6, 2005.

Download past newsletters:

Annual Newsletter 2004
Annual Newsletter 2003
Annual Newsletter 2002

FACULTY NEWS

Helen Byler: Represented by the George Billis Gallery, New York, NY. Upcoming exhibition: summer group show focusing on the figure, George Billis Gallery, NYC.

Lucienne Coifman: Exhibited in "Weaving at the River," the biennial show of the Handweavers' Guild of Connecticut, April 2005. She received two prizes. Five of her CAW students also participated in the exhibition, and two received prizes. Teach a workshop at Merrimack College, Andover,MA in July 2005.

Anne Culver: Upcoming installation to be featured in Lab II at Arts + Literature Laboratory, New Haven, CT, August 19 - September 25, 2005.

Eileen Eder: Exhibited in the 103rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, New Haven Paint & Clay Club, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT, March 20 – April 10, 2005; and Close to Home: A National Exhibition, CAW Hilles Gallery, April 1 – May 13, 2005.

Anita Griffith: Attended the ACC Baltimore Crafts Show in February 2005. Currently making dedicatory tile mural plaques for Tower One/Tower East, the Jewish Community Council Housing Corporation. Upcoming exhibition: 48th Annual Guilford Handcrafts Exposition, Guilford, CT.

Barbara Harder: Recent exhibitions: Conversation: Barbara Harder & Nancy Eisenfeld, City Gallery, New Haven, CT; Irish Stories, Erickson Davis Gallery, Ivoryton, CT; The Progressive Print Exhibition of The Printmakers of Southern New England, Sue & Eugene Mercy Jr. Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School; In Response, City Gallery, New Haven, CT. Upcoming solo exhibition: Layering Space VI, Art/Place, Southport, CT, September 2005.

Louise Harter: Presented at The Utilitarian Clay Conference, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, September 2004. As one of only 17 presenters, she demonstrated techniques using her kick wheel from home, and spoke on a three-person panel titled “Is There a New American Aesthetic?” She thanks CAW pottery student and curator of the Babylonian Collection at Yale, Ulla Kasten, for her assistance in making her presentation a success.

Lisa Hess Hesselgrave: Painting “Full Moon” was used as the cover image on Cheryl Wheeler’s recently released CD, “Defying Gravity.”

Ann P. Lehman: Hanging 7’x7’ arbor-type sculpture installed at Ansonia Nature Center Pond House; dedication held April 22, 2005.

Corinne McManemin: Flatfile Artist at ArtSpace, New Haven, CT; participated in the ArtSpace 2005 Benefit Auction, April 30, 2005.

Meredith Miller: Exhibited in Lola Flash and Meredith Miller: Prizewinners from FACT/FICTION, CAW Hilles Gallery, January 7 – 28, 2005. Radio interview aired on Morning Edition, National Public Radio WFCR 88.5. Attending the Vermont Studio Center this summer on full fellowship award. Upcoming exhibition: Homer Babbage Library, University of Connecticut, opening in late August 2005.

Connie Pfeiffer: Exhibited in invitational show at Erickson Davis Gallery, Ivoryton, CT, February 2005; and In Response, City Gallery, New Haven, CT, March 2005. Upcoming exhibitions: Invitational Outdoor Sculpture Show, Pequot Library, Southport, CT, weekend of July 14, 2005; Mixed Media, Erickson Davis Gallery, Ivoryton, CT, July 2005; The Fetish Room (solo installation), City Gallery, New Haven, CT, July 2005, Opening reception Friday, July 8, 6-8pm.

Harold Shapiro: Starting a program to teach photography to the homeless with Columbia House. Involved in Factory Direct, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT; one of his images will be on the cover of Art New England.