Thursday, May 14, 2026, 5:30-9 pm 915 Whitney Avenue
Food & Drink | Art Auction | Live Music
Tickets are available online and at the door.
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A fundraiser supporting community partnerships, scholarships, and the apprentice program.
Thursday, May 16, 2024, 5:30-9 pm 915 Whitney Avenue Food & Drink | Art Auction | Live Music Tickets are available online and at the door.
Light guides civilizations, fuels scientific breakthroughs, and inspires cultural evolution. Its impact—both visible and unseen—remains woven into the fabric of life.
In 1937, the A.C. Gilbert Company purchased the American Flyer model train company. The company had been struggling, but A.C. Gilbert Co. made them successful again by improving the model offerings and marketing them with the rest of their engineering educational toys.
Every year from Thanksgiving to late January, visitors can experience the A.C. Gilbert Train Display, a beloved annual tradition. A four-track model featuring Gilbert American Flyer trains is on display and available for you to drive your own train.
In 1937, the A.C. Gilbert Company purchased the American Flyer model train company. The company had been struggling, but A.C. Gilbert Co. made them successful again by improving the model offerings and marketing them with the rest of their engineering educational toys.
Every year from Thanksgiving to late January, visitors can experience the A.C. Gilbert Train Display, a beloved annual tradition. A four-track model featuring Gilbert American Flyer trains is on display and available for you to drive your own train.
Christine was born in Manila, Philippines and moved to New Haven at age nine where she grew up and developed a lasting connection to the community. She attended Northeastern University in Boston, earning a degree in Human Services with a concentration in Education. Her career has included early childhood and school-age education, summer programming, staff development, program planning, and nonprofit leadership.
Artist Talk: October 14th from 7-8PM
Join us for a panel discussion with the artists.
Fantasy Game Night
Location: 920 Whitney Avenue, Hamden, CT
Reception (Open Studios): October 10th from 1-7PM & October 11th from 1-6PM
Special Viewing: October 14th from 5-6:30PM
Artist Talk: October 14th from 7-8PM
Exhibition Viewing by appointment. Please call 203.777.1833 or email manager@eliwhitney.org to schedule a viewing.
Vick Quezada (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist exploring Indigenous-Latinx histories and contested lands, particularly the U.S.-Mexico Border. Using ceramics, sculpture, and performance, they merge Indigenous knowledge, queer histories, ecologies and Rascuache—a Nahuatl term embodying survival and liberation through repurposed objects. Quezada’s work confronts and subverts Western archaeological frameworks, reclaiming Indigenous narratives and reimagining futurity through a lens of freedom.
Louise Mandumbwa Manela (b. 1996, Francistown, Botswana) is an artist working in painting, printmaking and drawing to explore ideations of home, figurative and botanical works. Her practice is a counter mapping endeavor examining the ranging registers or memory through material exploration, the illegible image and failed translation. Her works revisits sites of both familial and diasporic history and appends them with affect and the anecdotal.
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