Dye & Bleach House Community Gallery
Hours: Saturdays from 10:00am to 12:00pm and by Appointment
EXHIBIT:
“As Real As It Gets”
Photographs by Steve Veilleux
ON DISPLAY SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2025
Curated By Alison Abramson Kaufman
ARTIST STATEMENT:
The early part of this century has been an intriguing period for me. It’s been a time of growth and discovery, a resurgence of two passions from my youth. Writing and Photography, for me are simply different portions of the spectrum. Poetry, especially, offers visual intensities, which are strong and sensual in their own right, but which offer emotional introspection to anyone listening. Photography too, stimulating to the senses, but offers its own invitation for the spirit to soar. So this exhibition celebrates our inclination to create, to play, to alter the way we see..
STEVE VEILLEUX has lived in North Grosvenordale, Connecticut for 12 years and has been active as a writer and photographer during his time here. Hr has participated in a number of programs in the town of Putnam, contributing art to First Fridays, Fire and Ice, Fairy Door and Garden exhibits, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the northeast CT Art Guild. His photography has been exhibited at the Silver Circle Gallery (Natural Rhythms Exhibit solo show), in Thompson (Portrait of an Artist) and most recently at Putnam’s Corridor Gallery (A Cacophony of Greys). He can be seen regularly at area Poetry venues, and has been a featured reader for Poets at Large, and the Slightly Offbeat Poets He currently hosts the Dye and Bleach House Poetry Series here in this very gallery, contributing again to the spread of the Arts in the area.
For 5 years, Steve led a cooperative online venture, entitled One Hundred Days. This involved an international group of artists, who were invited to post their work every day, often on the basis of a prompt. As a group, their work was featured at a gallery in Colorado, where one of the members lives, and featured again for the month of March 2023.
The Dye & Bleach House Community Gallery
156 River Rd, Willington, CT
For more info or to submit artwork, contact:
Alison Abramson Kaufman at alik@ec-chap.org.
The Dye & Bleach House Community Gallery represents a platform for local and regional visual artists to display their original works for public viewing at no cost to the artist. This unique collaborative model allows for artist participation in show design, installation, and supervision.
The Community Gallery derived its name from its historical roots. The physical space that houses the Gallery was once the ground floor of the Dye & Bleach House for the Gardiner Hall Jr Company from 1916 to 1954.
It was here where millions of yards of cotton thread were processed and colored before being spooled for domestic and international distribution.
Each show in the Dye & Bleach House Community Gallery will be on view for the duration of 4 to 8-weeks. Artists are chosen by EC-CHAP and curated to pair with the work of other artists or groups of artists whose work complements one another. We welcome submissions by students or community groups and encourage everyone to visit the gallery. We hope for this Community Gallery will bring awareness to the talent within our regional communities.
If you are interested in learning more about the Dye & Bleach House Gallery, and opportunities to display your work, please contact us. Email: info@ec-chap.org or call: 518-791-9474. The Dye & Bleach House Community Gallery is located at The Mill Works, 156 River Road, Willington, CT.