Featuring Joy Bush, Jennifer Davies, Esthea Kim, Tom Peterson

In July, City Gallery hosts the group exhibit TEXTURES AND ELEMENTS featuring work by Joy Bush, Jennifer Davies, Esthea Kim, and Tom Peterson. The multi-disciplinary show runs July 7 - July 30, with an opening reception on Saturday, July 8, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Combining work in photography, fiber art, sculpture, and painting, the artists together create an observant meditation on the details in our surroundings — the abstractions, the patterns, the colors, the illusions.

Bush’s photographs of “Shadows and Runes” are the accidental and spontaneous abstractions which perplex and fascinate her. “Inevitably, something that might easily have gone unnoticed shows itself, becomes important, and rearranges the familiar,” she says. “These small wonders become an ideogrammatic language unto themselves.”

For fiber artist Davies, the physical world of rich textures and patterns is the source of her artmaking: the rhythm of tree bark, the flower shapes of lichen, or the lacy edges of a wave seeping into sand. “In recent years,” she says, “my awareness of these beauties has been sharpened by the environmental peril that surrounds us. I feel a more urgent need to highlight them.”

For Kim, the textures in her paintings “are, objectively, the particles, the fibers, the strands and the organic forms: also a twinkle of the movement, the air, and the wind,” and “the elements then take my gaze away toward the infinite reveries and the unseen.” The result is a stunning presentation of illusions, lively compositions, interpretations, and abstracts.

Peterson’s photographs for this exhibit were taken while walking in industrial neighborhoods that had been in a state of urban decay. As he explains “I've imaged myself discovering small pieces of abstract art, while focusing on vibrant color with an emphasis on texture.”

TEXTURES AND ELEMENTS is free and open to the public, and will be on view July 7 - July 30. Artists will also be in the gallery July 16 (Bush), 22 (Davies), 28 (Kim), and 30 (Peterson). City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are Friday - Sunday, 12pm - 4 pm, or by appointment. For further information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Joy Bush is a fine art photographer based in Hamden, CT. Her work was recently featured in Unbeatable Women at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, CT (2022), and HOME VIEWS at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts. (2021). Her photographs have appeared in Fraction Magazine (2023), The Village Voice, The New York Times, Connecticut Review, and many other publications. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibits nationally and internationally galleries including the International Center for Photography (NYC), Mattatuck Museum, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Copley Society (Boston, MA), Drawing Rooms (NJ), Garrison Art Center (NY), Umbrella Arts (NYC), the Westport Arts Center, and Artspace (New Haven, CT). Bush is represented in the permanent collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Monetfiore Hospital (Bronx, NY), the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Yale Medical Group Art Place, and private collections.

Jennifer Davies graduated from RISD and the Rome Honors Program. Trained as a painter, she has pivoted to fiber, making paper by hand. Group shows include the Fuller Craft Museum, Flinn Gallery, and Fiberart International. Solo shows were at City Gallery, and Museum of Papermaking. She is a member of North American Hand Papermakers and Surface Design Association. In 2012 she was awarded a Connecticut Artist Fellowship Grant. Her work appears in several Fiber Arts books, such as L’art du fil by Marie Madeleine Masse, and Wall Art, a Schiffer publication. In recent years, she has completed commissions for hotels, cruise ships, and residences.

Esthea Kim is an interdisciplinary artist integrating sculpture, installation and painting. Her works represent a captured notion from memories and express the sensed and theorized through fading and poetic imagery in a visually succinct way. Transposed from her perception, her painting transfers atmospheric vastness into repeated gestural brushstrokes and built up textures. While fleetingly capturing light in-between layers, these brushstrokes combine with hard-edged elements, condensing infinite views and the unseen into a single flattened composition. Esthea’s sculptural objects and installations are industrial yet organic. Focusing on the inherent qualities of materials, she expands the use of prefabricated and utilitarian items into more organic forms.

Tom Peterson is a documentary and fine arts photographer from Hamden, Connecticut. He has committed himself to developing photographic portfolios of various urban themes.

FINANCE AND DATABASE ASSOCIATE

Your perspective fuels our mission-driven work at United Way of Greater New Haven. We are committed to building a team that is inclusive across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and lived experience. As an organization, we are committed to addressing systemic racism and injustice in our community, our partnerships, and our practices.

Who Are We Looking For?

Are you a goal-oriented problem solver who enjoys working with data and numbers? Do you have outstanding attention to detail and organizational skills?  Do you want your work to help create positive change in our community?

United Way of Greater New Haven (UWGNH) is seeking a Finance & Database Associate who is comfortable with deadlines, numbers and databases to support the Finance and Fundraising Teams.  You will provide general finance support, record gifts in the donor database and participate in database maintenance projects.  This is a full-time hourly position that includes benefits with a salary range of $20-$23/hour.

What You'll Do

• Provide general support to our Finance Team, assisting with monitoring grant expense, providing data entry support into accounting software for vendor payments, responding to inquiries from vendors, donors and partners, filing finance documents and assisting with the annual audit.

• Record gifts in the database in a timely and accurate manner that conforms with United Way's accounting standards and donor stewardship best practices. This includes responsibility for cash receipt functions such as depositing incoming checks, preparing cash deposits, recording bank EFT receipts, processing credit card statements, and supporting the month end receipts and revenue reconciliation process utilizing reporting from the CRM database.

• Work closely with the Database and Operations Manager to support ongoing data maintenance that is critical to stewarding donors and monitoring fundraising efforts. 

• Generate reports from the CRM database (Salesforce) and financial systems to ensure accurate recording of gifts as well as perform periodic vetting of non-profit agencies who receive funds through United Way’s Donor Choice program.

Requirements

• Associates Degree in Business, Finance or Accounting preferred
• Good numerical ability
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office 365 Applications
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills
• Ability to multi-task and ability to prioritize, plan and coordinate responsibilities
• Demonstrate good communication and interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with databases - Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platforms and experience with Salesforce is a plus
• Experience or willingness to work in cross-functional settings to support multiple people or departments

In accordance with organizational policies, this position requires a criminal background check as a condition of employment.

About United Way

United Way of Greater New Haven brings people and organizations together to create solutions to Greater New Haven’s most pressing challenges in the areas of Education, Health, and Financial Stability grounded in racial and social justice. We tackle issues that cannot be solved by any one group working alone. We operate according to these organizational values.

This position will work in our New Haven office and staff currently work in a hybrid environment with expectation to be in the office a minimum of 3 days/week.

United Way is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To apply:  www.uwgnh.org/careers

Job Announcement! Come work at the Peabody Museum as Assistant Director of Visitor Experiences and Special Events

Reporting to the Director of Finance and Administration of the Yale Peabody Museum, the Assistant Director will develop a visitor-centric strategy that successfully engages a full range of Museum constituents, from first-time visitors to top supporters with the objective of increasing visitation, affinity and philanthropic support for the museum. To this end, the Assistant Director is responsible for initiating, managing, and developing events both at the Museum and off-site venues, supporting Museum programming; identifying operational solutions across all visitor services activities, verifying that Staff, often the first point-of-contact for visitors, set a welcoming and positive tone; and managing the Museum’s retail operations.

Directly supervises and trains Visitor Services (including front desk) and Museum retail Staff. Responsible for envisioning and implementing improvements to event and visitor-oriented systems, methods, practices, and procedures, especially as the Museum prepares to open as an admission-free institution for the first time in 2024.  Successful candidates will demonstrate a keen sense of customer service and good humor, enjoy being part of a team, and have excellent communication skills.

At the Yale Peabody Museum we are working on Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion institutional priorities so that we can learn to better serve our communities, amplify marginalized voices and perspectives, and create a welcoming and inclusive environment for all. The ideal candidate will be ready to share their experience with and interest in contributing to this work. Please address in your cover letter how Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion relate to your professional experience and goals.

Apply here: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partnerid=25053&siteid=5248&PageType=JobDetails&jobid=1576080

Application will close next week!

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New Haven, Conn. (June 12 2023) – The Community Fund for Women & Girls is helping women start businesses and advance in their careers with its 2023 Pathways to Economic Success for Women grant awards. The grants provide a total of $190,000 to ten Greater New Haven nonprofit programs offering job-skills training, entrepreneur coaching and other services focused on helping improve economic security for local women.

“The Fund created Pathways to Economic Success for Women in direct response to the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economic security of working women," said Christine Kim, Chair of the Community Fund for Women & Girls. "With these grants, we are supporting important programs in the community that improve the lives of women and their families. We are grateful for their work.” Continue reading here.