The co-directors of Carriage Barn Arts Center will step down from their roles at the end of June, marking the end of a highly successful two-season run that has seen the Waveny-based organization create lively new exhibitions, launch an annual fundraiser and forge strong bonds with local artists and partnerships with businesses and community agencies.
Eleanor Flatow and Arianne Faber Kolb, center, Co-Directors of the Carriage Barn Arts Center (home of the New Canaan Society for the Arts), spoke to Kiwanis members at a 2014 luncheon. They’re flanked here by Kiwanians Jerry Miller and David Hoyle. Photo courtesy of the Kiwanis Club of New Canaan
A posting for the job of executive director, held since June 2013 by New Canaan’s Eleanor Flatow and Arianne Kolb, was listed on FCBuzz one week ago.
Reached by NewCanaanite.com, Flatow and Kolb said they’re committed to Carriage Barn Arts Center for a widely anticipated spring exhibition and fundraiser, as well as Art in the Windows, which will kick off May 30 with “Pop Up Art Day!” downtown.
“We have had two terrific years,” Kolb said.
Board President Serena Gillespie said in an email that the board appreciates all that Flatow and Kolb have done in two seasons and will seek to hire a single full-time director to succeed them.
The Carriage Barn Arts Center/New Canaan Society for the Arts last spring held a hugely popular fundraiser, “A Night in Havana,” that was tied into an exhibition that featured Cuban art.
A new exhibition, “Va Va Vroom! The Art of the Vehicle,” will run April 19 to June 14, with the correlating Monaco Grand Prix Fundraiser (tickets here) scheduled for 7 p.m. on May 16.
Here’s a video from last summer’s fundraiser, “A Night in Havana”: