The Artists' Journal

Artist Elbert Hubbard once said “art is not a thing, it is a way.” For City Gallery artists Susan Newbold, Ruth Sack, and Michael Zack, art has been the way to work through 2020 — a creative process through which to interpret the layers of challenges we’ve all faced over the past year. PERSEVERANCE: THREE ARTISTS WORK THROUGH STRESSFUL TIMES will be on view from January 2 - January 31, Saturday & Sunday, 2PM - 4PM or by appointment. Artists will be in the gallery on January 2 (Michael Zack), January 3 (Ruth Sack), and January 31 (Susan Newbold).Susan Newbold’s...

A Carabiner (ker-ə-ˈbē-nər). Even if you don’t know it by name, you likely recognize it by sight. The carabiner is as essential to rock climbing, as mental health is to our health.  For these reasons, and more, it was fitting to choose the carabiner to link-up with a new mental health movement, Co-Founded by Bear’s Restaurant Group and the Jordan Porco Foundation, Linked 4 Life. “We chose a carabiner because it represents safety and security. With each carabiner we add to our chain, our chain becomes stronger. We become stronger. When we link our carabiners together and take the pledge, we...

Recent events have brought immense social and societal upheaval, to which no one is immune; and people have long looked to art as a way of coping with, expressing, understanding, and escaping from change in the world we live in. The new exhibit at Arts Center East, Coping: Responding through Art, showcases how artists are responding to global issues, from Environmental Awareness and Natural Disasters, to Politics and Government, Racial, Social, and Economic Inequality, Gender Identity and Representation, Mental Health, and more.

Artist Judy Atlas takes the reins at City Gallery in September and brings visitors along on a vicarious adventure in The Landscape, Real and Imagined. The show features a series of paintings from the artist’s travels through the American Southwest last fall, as well as her travels inward during the COVID-19 quarantine. The show is free and open to the public, and runs September 5 - September 27, Saturdays and Sundays from 2 - 4PM or by appointment. Meet the artist on the show’s opening day, September 5 and again on September 26, from 2PM - 4PM. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Modified gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday, 2PM - 4pm or by appointment. Number of visitors limited to 6 at a time. Masks must be worn. For further information please contact City Gallery, 203-782-2489, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

COVID-19 has turned the world upside down. Amidst the initial chaos and uncertainty, heroes have risen. We are truly grateful to those on front lines—first responders, the medical community, grocery store workers, delivery drivers, restauranteurs… the list goes on. It is because of them that we have hope… and know that, united, we can make it through the storm and ultimately sail calmer seas. For me, the upside in all of this is that it is truly wonderful to see communities come together--supporting each other, local businesses and individuals. And, as always, many in the creative community have stepped up—determined to...