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Orchid Gallery

Through an annual Open Call for Visual Artists Orchid Gallery showcases artworks by early-career artists of color from the Greater Haven Area. Orchid Gallery - a partnership between ConnCORP and The Building Fund (BLDG FUND), invests in marginalized creative entrepreneurs and makes art accessible to the general public.

Partnership with The Bldg Fund

This partnership strengthens the local arts ecosystem while amplifying the voices and visions of regional artists of color.

Current Exhibitions

Liminal Landscapes: On View from October 9, 2025 – January 9, 2026

Featuring artworks by Kwadwo Adae, Zajah Divine, Yasmin Essafi, Rebecca Fowke, Louise Mandumbwa, and Benita Nnachortam, Liminal Landscapes explores the layered experiences of diasporic life—its distances between home and homeland, memory and reality, loss and transformation.


Through photography, painting, printmaking, and assemblage, Connecticut-based artists of African origin or descent reflect on migration, displacement, and belonging. Their works move fluidly between the personal and political, embracing liminality as a space of power, healing, and self-definition.


Landscapes is organized by Orchid Gallery’s curator-at-large, nico w. okoro.

Past Exhibitions

Origins

Mythmakers

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Artists: Howard el-Yasin, Kaelynne Hernandez, Christopher Paul Jordan, Jasmine Nikole, and Jason Ting


Focused on conceptual pieces to deepen discussions around identity in contemporary art. Curated by nico w. okoro.

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Mythmakers

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Artists: Syd Bell, Demeree Douglas, Clymenza Hawkins, Ebony B. Mckelvey, and Alexzandria Robin


Celebrated Black womanhood and challenged toxic beauty standards. Curated by

 nico w. okoro.

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Mythmakers

Mythmakers

Mythmakers

Artists: Jahmane West, Sophie Harpo, Chris Jones, Vijor McCray, and Miguel Ángel Mendoza Melchor


Explored mythmaking as a tool of creation, disruption, and survival. Curated by nico w. okoro.

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Orchid Gallery

496 Newhall St, Hamden, CT 06517, USA

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09:00 am – 05:00 pm

The Building fund

Our Partnerships

The Building Fund is an innovation platform that scales concepts into projects and projects into movements, brick by brick. Powered by New Haven’s fearless artists, entrepreneurs, and neighbors, The Building Fund is equal parts strategic consultancy and cultural engine for the mobilization of community ideas. Founded in 2020, The Building Fund boasts a growing portfolio of high-impact, cross-sector initiatives serving partners of the global majority, while connecting them to a broad range of networks, opportunities, and resources. 

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