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LINK TO JOHN LANDINO IN THE ARCHIVE: 1980'S NEW HAVEN ARTISTS UNITED-ONLINE ARCHIVE | Facebook

1980'S NEW HAVEN ARTISTS UNITED-ONLINE ARCHIVE | Facebook

John Landino was very aggressive about getting his images and articles in the archive

when you search his name you get a thread here in this group about his work... https://www.facebook.com/groups/514691815799451/search/?q=john%20landino%20photos

Link to John Landino in the archive

History of New Haven Arts 1987

The Arts Calendar was the predecessor to what became in the following years and decades, New Haven Arts. 

I introduce the history of this publication as a way of sharing how the development of this local Arts Newspaper became a central factor in the development of New Haven as a thriving Arts Community. 

Let me start by sharing the image of this two-sided single sheet poster size publication dated March 1987. 

In 1983-84, I began as a board member of the Arts Council. I was young and quite unknowledgeable about the workings of a non-profit organization. 

At that time I was apprenticing and then co-directing the Papier Mache Video Institute and needed to better understand the organizational workings of a non-profit. PMVI had been a recipient of an early Arts Award from the Arts Council. It made some sense for me to look to that organization for support and development of PMVI. 

I joined the board and then four committees, which committees I am not sure of at this moment. The one committee I was not allowed to every join was the Audubon Street development committee. The rest seemed open to having me join them. 

I believe I spent a year attending board meetings and committee meetings. Bitsie Clark herself a new executive director supported my learning and corrected me as I navigated the closely followed policy and operations guidelines for the organization.

It was about a year later that I was hired onto staff as a PR director. this staff position was offered to me by Bitsie as a result of the success I had with my personal artist organizing work which culminated into the large audience I was able to assemble for the "First Show of 1984" in Nov of 1983 at the Clockworks building on Hamilton Street in New Haven. She herself attended and felt that I could be helpful as a staff member in the office. 

After delivering my first Press Release to the New Haven Advocate, I was informed as to what the job of a PR person was, I realized that I was both uninterested in doing that job and did not believe that type of work was in the best interest of the organization itself. I wanted to form a communications department instead. I wanted to transform the monthly calendar publication into a local informative Arts Paper with a wide free distribution. I envisioned it in stacks next to the several other free monthly alternative publications in highly trafficked local businesses, galleries, and government and office buildings. In my mind this was how we were going to get the message out that New Haven had a thriving local arts community. 

There was a basic problem that needed to be overcome for that to happen. The calender was used as a membership benefit. Once a month these rather expensive 17"x 22"  double-sided printed on glossy paper were printed in small runs and mailed out only to Arts Council Members. The concern was if we made this publication free, why would people join the AC. Membership was an important part of the organization's annual budget.  

It took several years in committee to slowly begin to develop the leadership and the vision to move beyond this thinking and to significantly increase the number of these monthly calendars and begin to make them available to the broader public free of charge. 

This all happened in the formal structure of the communications department. As head of the communications department and former board member, I developed the skills to put a supportive board committee to work towards these goals. With the cooperation and visionary support of Board members Rick Camp (marketing director of First Federal Bank of Connecticut) and artist, photographer, and teacher at Educational Center for the Arts the Communications Department committee was on its way to creating a sustainable direction for the Arts Council's flagship publication, serving local artists and arts organizations.  

The calendar morphed over the years into an important monthly publication with important articles focusing on the local arts community. 

 

WIA First poster for the event. First poster produced to start this decade long local project.

 

DIRECT LINK TO FB/ARCHIVE POST:

This is the poster from the First Women in the Arts, MONTH-LONG, CITYWIDE, CELEBRATION IN NEW HAVEN, CT, USA.

WOMEN IN THE VISUAL ARTS honor INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY (MARCH 8TH)

MARCH 1987-MARCH 1996

was WOMEN IN THE ARTS MONTH in New Haven, Ct, USA

This is the First Poster that was created to ANNOUNCE this nearly DECADE-LONG, MONTH-LONG, CITY-WIDE CELEBRATION.

Poster designed by Judith Seligson '87

All the squares around the perimeter represent the galleries, artists, and arts organizations involved at the start of this Celebration.

This project was funded by FIRST FEDERAL BANK of Connecticut

Technical Assistance was provided by THE Arts Council OF GREATER NEW HAVEN.

WIA CO-FOUNDERS AND DIRECTORS

Ann Langdon and Bev Richey

There are many individuals and organizations to be acknowledged for making this decade-long project the success it was. will do my best...

FIRST-YEAR KICKOFF 1987: PARTICIPATING GALLERIES, ARTISTS, AND ARTS ORGANIZATIONS:

AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER: HOLT

ARTSPACE: GROUP SHOW

CITYARTS: LA PALOMBARA

CITYSPIRIT ARTISTS/NEW HAVEN FOUNDATION: Schmeidel

COMMUNITY GALLERY: Surprise Women

CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP: Cormack and Jacobson

ERECTOR SQUARE GALLERY: International Women Artists

GALLERY JAZZ: Morgan and Ott

GREENE ART GALLERY: Wesser

JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGED: Weinberger

MUNSON GALLERY: "Eighteen Women"

PALACE'S PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: "Miscellaneous Women"

PUBLISHER'S GALLERY: Riroden and Kane

SHOWPLACE GALLERY: Swittlinger and Alexander

SMALLSPACE: M. Fiore

SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY: Crane

STUDIO 27 GALLERY: M.L. Fiore

TOWER ONE GALLERY: Kaftal

WAVE GALLERY: Seligson/Group

New Haven Museum: WIA SPONSOR SPEAKER: Martha Wilson, founder/director of the Franklin Furnace, NYC

Lunchtime Panel: Women Art HIstorians: Buckerrough, Cusick, Raven

Text for AC Members FB post: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1769399433164122/permalink/4596699377100766

In late 1986, in the basement office of the Arts Council on Whitney Ave, this MONTH-LONG, CITY-WIDE CELEBRATION was born. It is thanks to the combined commitment of Bitsie Clark (Executive director of the Arts Council 1984-1997?), Rick Camp, Director of Marketing First Federal Bank of Connecticut, AC Board Member and chair of the AC Communications Committee, and Ann Langdon feminist artist, gallery owner and founding member of the local chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art that this locally focused, internationally connected celebration connected women artists with each other and developed audiences for close to a decade. 

Also special thanks to the AC Communications Department, Beverly Richey( Communications Director), and calendar editor Rebecca Stevens for their start-up and continuous commitment to this project. 

1982 ARTS COUNCIL ARTS AWARDS; The New York Times, Sunday, May 2, 1982 Connecticut Journal

1982 ARTS COUNCIL ARTS AWARDS

THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1982
CONNECTICUT JOURNAL

Mary Hunter Wolf, Murry Sidlin, right and Paul Rutkovsky, recipients of the 1982 awards from the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.

Annual awards of The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, the these three such awards in state, will be bestowed from 4 P.M. to 6:30 P.M. Saturday in the Yale University Art Gallery. Former Mayor Richard C. Lee will preside for the third year as master of ceremonies and Mayor Biagio DiLieto will make the presentations to the four recipients.
     "The production of art in this region is so spectacular," said a spokesman for the council, "that an event of this kind is warranted."
     The program will begin with a violin solo by Paul Kantor, followed by a one-act play titled "The Switchman," written by J.J. Areola and adapted for the stage by D.W. Faulkner.
     For "achievements, services and artistic accomplishments which serve as an inspiration and standard of excellence to the arts community of South Central Connecticut, " as the presentation will read, hand-calligraphed scrolls will be presented to the 21-year old Creative Arts Workshop of New Haven, and to Murry Sidlin, conductor of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.
     Those to be cited for "exceptional growth and for exploring new forms and ideas," are Paul Rutkovsky, 35 year old performance artist and founder of Papier Mache Video Institute, and Mary Hunter Wolf, theatrical director, producer, television editor, actress and former chairman of the State Commission on the Arts, whose career began in 1927.
     A special Laureate Award will be presented to Laetita Pierson for "continuous exemplary service to the the arts in the region." Mrs. Pierson had a significant role in forming the Arts Council, the Audubon Arts Center in downtown New Haven, the Creative Arts Workshop and the program of public plantings by the New Haven Garden Club. She will have a show of her own drawings and paintings at the Creative Arts Workshop, May 14-19.
     The awards ceremony will end with a reception in the Gallery Sculpture Hall. Tickets at $12 must be reserved in advance by calling 772-2788.
   

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