CATALYST for the ARTS Capacity-Building Program will Allow Arts Organizations to Develop Sustainable Models in New Landscape and Promote Collaboration Even in the best of times, Greater Hartford arts organizations of all sizes face challenges to generate enough revenue to sustain their programming. With the [...]
Free Center (Rich and Zoe of the CO:LAB team) has partnered with Futuro Media and Kamora's Cultural Corner on the Hartford Community Podcast Lab. A project of Futuro Media, the Community Podcast Lab was piloted in Boston in the fall of 2018. Partnering with local [...]
CO:LAB Senior Designer, Karla Pámanes has joined the Board of Directors for AIGA Connecticut. AIGA is a national design organization with chapters across the country, we're very happy to have her representing design for the Connecticut chapter! She'll be taking on the role of Communications [...]
Over the weekend, Rich spoke at the Design + Diversity Conference. The conference explores proactive ways to make the design industry more diverse. Rich spoke about public/private collaboration in design for social impact.
From June 9 - June 12, Rich and Zoe led an equity workshop and three-day course titled Wonder and Crisis: Ethics at the Intersection of Creativity and Community for Nomad/9, the Interdisciplinary MFA program at the University of Hartford. We opened up the course to community members [...]
On Saturday, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art held the opening for an exhibit featuring Rich’s Portraits from a Place of Grace. The project captures images and stories of community members from the historically black neighborhoods in Virginia Beach. Residents and visitors are able to [...]
