Golf Anyone?

Artspace announces New Haven’s first Artist-designed outdoor mini-golf installation at “The Lot,” on lower Chapel Street between Church and Orange Streets. This installation is a full, playable 9-hole mini golf course which will be open to the public for play during gallery hours for only $5 a game. Each hole in the course has been designed and created by a local artist. In opening this installation to public participation and play, Artspace strives both to support and promote local artists, and to bring engaging, world-quality art to the streets and citizens of New Haven. Those interested in playing on the course may find more information regarding rules, materials, and procedures, online at artspacenh.org/galleries/the_lot.
 

The 9 artists selected by Artspace to create their own participatory mini golf art for the installation are Ian Applegate, Heather Bizon, Silas Finch, Matt Feiner, Rocko Gallipoli, Willie Hoffman, Linda Lindroth, MakeHaven, and Dana Scinto. Ian Applegate is new media artist, born and raised in New Haven. Heather Bizon is an artist and architect practicing in New Haven, whose work explores perceptual and spatial experience through installation, new media, architecture and animation. An accomplished sculptor, Silas Finch works with found and broken objects to create his pieces. His awards include the Most Innovative Table Design award at the 8th Annual Flavors of Connecticut, and the Mollie & Albert Jacobson Award for Sculpture. Matt Feiner, cycling advocate and owner of the Devil’s Gear Bike Shop, is also a prominent New Haven artist whose art includes installations, collages, and found object mixed media work. Inspired by carnival culture, West Haven artist Rocko Gallipoli uses mixed media to represent pop cultural and historical objects. Owner and craftsman of Playable Studios, New Haven carpenter Willie Hoffman designs and creates beautiful and original furniture for all ages. The architect-artist-builder collaborative of Linda Lindroth, Craig Newick, and Jeff Carter have reprised Jasper Smiles for this public setting. Lindroth’s work has been displayed across the US, Canada, and Europe, and has received numerous Artists Fellowships and design awards.  MakeHaven is a cooperative workplace in downtown New Haven for artists and other collaborative creators working in a range of fields, including mechanics, electronics, crafts, digital art, biology, and woodworking. Dana Scinto is a New Haven-based artist whose works are vividly colorful and range from furniture and other decorative interior objects to fine art.

This is one of 4 public projects made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and is also supported by an Arts Catalyze Placemaking grant from the CT Office of the Arts.   A full history of the Lot and the exhibitions which Artspace has organized, in partnership with the City of New Haven and the Town Green Special Services BID there can be found on our Wikipedia page, wikipedia.org/wiki/Artspace.  Read the Yale Daily News blog for more information on the creation of this site.