EVENTS AT THE ELY
Opening Reception: Keyhole Residency, Forget Me Knot
Join us on July 24th for the Opening Reception of the 2026 Cohort of Keyhole Artist shows and Lauren Be Dear’s Forget Me Knot solo exhibition
Summer Apprenticeship Program Celebration
The Ely Center for Contemporary Art (ECOCA) invites you to the Summer Apprenticeship Program Opening Reception and Award Ceremony!
Opening Reception & Award Ceremony
Location: 162 James Street, New Haven, CT 06513
Time: July 24th - 6:00 PM
What:
Student artwork exploring safety and identity in New Haven
An award ceremony celebrating the participants
Poetry by New Haven Poet Laureate Yex Diaz
Complimentary catering from HARVEST
We hope to see you there!
Closing Event- July 5 @ 7pm
Close out current exhibitions with an evening filled with Audio/Visual Performances, Improve and Discussions!
Organized by Kit Young
July 5, 7-9pm
Free and Open to All
Stop Motion Workshop
Come to our FREE stop motion workshop!
All materials will be provided, all you need to do is download the free app "Stop Motion Studio" on your phone to record your stop motion creation.
All ages and experience levels welcome!
ECOCA at IRIS’s America 250 Celebration
We will be at the Art Exhibit and Craft Fair hosted by IRIS at their America 250th celebration!
The event will be on July 3, from 10am to 2pm. It will take place at The Parish House of United Church at 323 Temple Street, New Haven CT.
Join us at our table where we will make a New Haven community history quilt!
Artist Talk: where is the human in this place, Moderated by Roderick Ferguson
Join us on July 2 for an artist talk about our show, ‘where is the human in this place’. It will be moderated by Roderick Ferguson.
The talk will take place on Zoom at 5:30 PM Eastern Time. A link to the Zoom call will be provided the day of the talk on the page for ‘where is the human in this place’.
It will also be recorded and uploaded to Youtube for viewing after the talk is over.
Roderick A. Ferguson is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University. He is also faculty in the Yale Prison Education Initiative as well as the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute/Yale National Initiative. He is the author of One-Dimensional Queer (Polity, 2019), We Demand: The University and Student Protests (University of California, 2017), The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (University of Minnesota, 2012), and Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota, 2004). He is the co-editor with Grace Hong of the anthology Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (Duke University, 2011). He is also co-editor with Erica Edwards and Jeffrey Ogbar of Keywords of African American Studies (NYU, 2018). He is the 2020 recipient of the Kessler Award from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS). His book In View of the Tradition: Black Art and Radical Thought will be released Fall 2026.