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Arts Council of Greater New Haven www.newhavenarts.org april 2013 Art + Science SiteProjects Yvette Mattern For a full schedule of events, visit www.nightrainbownewhaven.com Arts Council of Greater New Haven newhavenarts.org The Arts Council is pleased to recognize The Arts Paper. the generous contributions of our business, In this Issue April 2013 corporate and institutional members. Executive Champions Business Members 4 Artists Next Door The Arts Paper is published by the Arts Council of The United Illuminating Brenner, Saltzman & 6 Arts Council Sounds Off Greater New Haven, and is available by direct mail through Company/Southern Wallman, LLP membership with the Arts Council. Connecticut Gas Cheney & Company 8 Meet the Reintegrate Teams For membership information call 203-772-2788. Yale University Duble & O’Hearn, Inc. 12 April Calendar Giampietro Gallery Senior Patrons 16 Bulletin Board To advertise in The Arts Paper, call Bobbi Griffi th Griswold Home Care First Niagara Bank at the Arts Council. United Aluminum Corporation 18 Top 5 Art/Science TED Talks Knights of Columbus 19 Member Organizations Arts Council of Greater New Haven L. Suzio York Hill Companies Thank you, also, to 20 Arts Council Programs 70 Audubon Street, 2nd Floor Odonnell Company our foundations and New Haven, CT 06510 Webster Bank government agencies. Phone: 203-772-2788 Corporate Partners The Community Foundation Fax: 203-772-2262 AT&T for Greater New Haven Firehouse 12 Email address: [email protected] Connecticut Arts Endowment Fusco Management Company On the web: www.newhavenarts.org Fund The Lighting Quotient DECD/CT Offi ce of the Arts People’s United Bank STAFF Director of Development Emily Hall Tremaine Wiggin and Dana & Marketing Foundation Executive Director Yale-New Haven Hospital Julie Trachtenberg The Ethel & Abe Lapides Cynthia Clair Business Patrons Foundation Communications Manager Director of Finance Albertus Magnus College The George A. and Grace L. Amanda May Soonil Chun Jewish Foundation of Greater Long Foundation Executive Director of Artistic New Haven The Josef and Anni Administrative Assistant Services and Programs Lenny & Joe’s Fish Tale Albers Foundation Winter Marshall Debbie Hesse Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects NewAlliance Foundation Coordinator of Pfi zer Director of Membership Community Programs The Wells Fargo Foundation & Advertising OluShola A. Cole The Werth Family Foundation Bobbi Griffi th Design Consultant Editor, The Arts Paper Russell Shaddox David Brensilver Quicksilver Communication BOARD OF DIRECTORS On the cover: Presented by Site Projects, Charles Kingsley President Yvette Mattern’s Night Rainbow / Global Kenneth Lundgren Robert B. Dannies, Jr. Rainbow New Haven will illuminate New Terry Maguire Haven from April 24 to April 27. Photo Vice President Jocelyn Maminta courtesy of Site Projects. Page 10 James Alexander Josh Mamis Second Vice President Thomas Masse Lois DeLise Frank Mitchell Eileen O’Donnell Treasurer Bill Purcell Kevin Tobias David Silverstone Secretary Dexter Singleton Mark Potocsny Ken Spitzbard Richard S. Stahl, MD Directors Daisy Abreu Wojtek Borowski Honorary Members Lindy Lee Gold Frances T. “Bitsie” Clark Mandi Jackson Cheever Tyler SiteProjects The Arts Council of Greater New Haven promotes, advocates, and fosters opportunities for artists, arts organizations, and audiences. Because the arts matter. Yvette Mattern In the next issue ... The May 2013 issue of The Arts Paper will focus on the world of fashion. Amanda May will “sound off” on the Zeitgeist Films documentary Bill Cunningham New York. In an effort to reduce its carbon foot- print, the Arts Council now prints The Arts Paper on more environmentally friendly paper and using soy inks. Please read and recycle. For a full schedule of events, visit www.nightrainbownewhaven.com April 2013 3 working in the sciences and math,” Hank quotes Arabolos as say- Arts Paper Letter from the editor ing. Also featured in this edition of The Arts Paper is an article by ad and In this edition of The Arts Paper we explore the intersection of Amanda about Night Rainbow / Global Rainbow New Haven, an art and science, where it exists in the Greater New Haven region. installation by Yvette Mattern that Amanda explains “will consist of calendar We’re particularly excited to share details of a compelling project seven laser beams projected from the top of East Rock Park.” called Reintegrate: Enhancing Collaborations in the Arts and Sci- Amanda tells us in her piece that Night Rainbow, which is deadlines ences. being presented by the imaginative folks at Site Projects, can be The deadline for adver- As the Arts Council’s communications manager, Amanda May, described as “an angular interpretation of a natural rainbow” or as tisements and calendar list- explains in her feature story, “the project began in September “a light installation, a sculpture, ephemeral art, land art, and/or ings for the May 2013 issue 2012 with a widely distributed request for proposals that attracted public art.” of The Arts Paper is Monday, 42 submissions from artist/scientist teams. An independent panel This month’s edition of The Arts Paper will introduce readers to March 25, at 5 p.m. The of artists and scientists awarded $10,000 grants to teams whose the Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra – an ensemble whose instru- deadline for the June 2013 projects met a variety of criteria, including an emphasis on the col- mentalists work, study, and teach at the Yale School of Medicine edition of The Arts Paper is laborative process.” – and will recommend a handful of pertinent and fascinating “TED Monday, April 29, at 5 p.m. In Amanda’s piece, you’ll meet the seven Reintegrate teams and Talks.” Calendar listings are for learn about the projects on which they’re working. And I’ve taken the opportunity – given the theme we’ve assigned Arts Council members only The Arts Council’s executive director, Cindy Clair, points out that this edition of our publication – to say a few words about Hungarian and should be submitted “the impetus behind Reintegrate is the strength of creativity in composer Béla Bartók fascination with the Fibonacci series and online at newhavenarts. both the arts and sciences in our region.” the golden mean, and how he used those mathematical principals org. Arts Council members Fittingly, this edition of The Arts Paper was produced in conjunc- to enhance the beauty of the folk tunes he explored in his extraor- can request a username tion with the Arts Council’s Reintegrate project, which in turn was dinary music. and password by sending an made possible by a pilot Creative Placemaking grant from the Con- As I mentioned in this column last month, we’re pleased to be e-mail to amay@newhaven- necticut Department of Economic and Community Development’s taking steps toward reducing our carbon footprint by using soy inks arts.org. The Arts Council’s Offi ce of the Arts. and more environmentally responsible paper in producing this online calendar includes In his Artists Next Door feature, Hank Hoffman introduces read- publication. And we encourage you to recycle these pages once listings for programs and ers to John Arabolos, a professional interior designer and artist-in- you’ve fi nished reading the stories thereon. At that point, we hope events taking place within residence at the University of New Haven’s Department of Visual you’ll look forward to the May edition of The Arts Paper, which will 12 months of the current Arts whose “interest in the interplay of art and science,” Hank’s explore New Haven’s fashion scene. date. Listings submitted by story explains, “dates back to his undergraduate days at the Hart- the calendar deadline are ford Art School and post-graduate work at the Pratt Institute in the included on a monthly basis 1970s.” Sincerely, in The Arts Paper. “For me, after conceptual art, there hasn’t been much of any- David Brensilver thing I’ve considered a real movement in art except for people Editor, The Arts Paper What’s going on? Ask ANDI Download our app for iPhone or Droid at newhavenarts.org/andi/ 4 April 2013 Artists Next Door Pattern recognition John Arabolos’ scientifi c method of depicting nature Hank Hoffman and juxtapositions. With business partner Harold Meth, Arabo- los and Pfi ster founded Image Terrain to market the software to John Arabolos is not a scientist, but he strives to think like fi ne artists, textile designers, photographers, and commercial one when creating his art. For the past 15 years, Arabolos artists interested in generating their own designs and patterns. has created mesmerizing photographic imagery – early on “In science there are some basic principles that are uni- by hand, more recently with digital technology – based on a versal and symmetry is one of them,” says Arabolos, who is a combination of natural, organic images and mathematical professional interior designer and artist-in-residence at the and scientifi c principles (chaos University of New Haven’s Depart- theory, in particular). ‘I’ve always been fascinated ment of Visual Arts. The photographic results are Symmetry, Arabolos notes, is provocative abstractions. The by the way nature works. It woven into the fabric of everyday large-scale images tug viewers’ seems to me there is enough perception. We see it when we curiosity in two directions: puz- look in the mirror each morning; it zling over the details and marvel- there for an artist to spend is intrinsic to the design of auto- ing how their juxtaposition creates mobiles and most other iconic mysterious patterns. Or, as Arabo- his lifetime investigating.’ products. Yet, when we look at our los says in an interview at his home natural surroundings, the seeming studio, “When dealing with a sense of scale and proportion, randomness may cause us to misread complexity as a lack of the big picture is the small picture and vice versa.” order.