Overview
Launched in the Spring of 2026, Artists’ Bloc is a New Haven-based artist collective and culture club, encouraging cooperative approaches to cultural production and engagement, while ensuring equitable partnerships between artists and arts organizations in our region. Founded in direct response to The Building Fund’s 2025 Artists’ Needs Assessment, Artists’ Bloc cultivates creative collaboration, expression, and growth in an arts ecosystem marked by inaccessibility, isolation, and scarcity.
Mission
Together, we mobilize the power of our collective voice into the production of culturally responsive exhibitions, programs, and public art projects that reflect our shared values and priorities. We pool our shared knowledge, labor, and networks to make space for creative risk, collective learning, and the heightened community impact of our work.
Membership Benefits
Artists’ Bloc memberships include unlimited access to:
professional development workshops
exhibition and programming opportunities
the incubation and production of large-scale projects
a professional resources and opportunities list
networking events and engagement opportunities, like curated mixers for artists/collectors, Sunday dinner, and culture club outings to arts organizations and cultural events in the region
Source/Material, its artist-powered learning environment, and library rentals and programs
Membership Fees & Donations
Artists’ Bloc memberships have a suggested fee of $10/mo. Click HERE to submit your interest and here to sign up for an artist membership
For pay-what-you-wish memberships, please email the@bldg.fund
Membership Sponsorship
To sponsor an artist membership, click below to make your tax-free donation to The Building Fund through our fiscal sponsor, The Arts Council of Greater New Haven. Your support will directly connect regional artists to these essential professional resources and opportunites.
Active Opportunities
We are actively enrolling founding Artists’ Bloc members, who will:
have immediate access to the above benefits
play an active role in shaping membership benefits moving forward
be eligible for consideration for three active, public art commissions, ranging from large scale murals in Dixwell to smaller scale, site-specific installations in Hamden. (All three projects begin May 1st, 2026 and open to the public in mide-June.)
To express your interest and receive more information, email the@bldg.fund at the link below.