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Last Saturday and Sunday, the 2018 edition of City-Wide Open Studios, a multi-weekend arts festival engaging hundreds of local and regional artists, began with Erector Square Weekend. Art-goers wound their way through the studio complex’s post-industrial labyrinth of irregular rooms, mismatched stairways and occasional dead ends to find resident artists in their own spaces as well as visiting artists in borrowed ones.
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This year’s theme, “Wellbeing,” resonated at Erector Square even though most of the festival’s themed commissions won’t be landing until later in the month. That’s because, in at least a sense or two, CWOS is always about well-being. Attending the festival is probably the best way to gauge the vitality of New Haven’s visual art scene, which is once again earning a clean bill of health.
It’s also a reliable pick-me-up. Viewing so much of interest in so short a time isn’t a cure for disease, but it works wonders against malaise.
City-Wide Open Studios: Erector Square Weekend (October 6-7, 2018)
Erector Square – 315 Peck St, New Haven (map)
Up Next: Private Studios Weekend – October 13 (Westville in Focus) and 14 (Private Studios in Focus)
Written and photographed by Dan Mims.
