It invited guest curators to organize shows and it showcased the work of a number of young artists at the beginning of the careers, including Robert Harms, Lesley Dill and Ronald Gonzalez.
In the following years, veteran artists awarded solo shows included William King, Connie Fox and Arnold Mesches.
[15] Adjacent to the storefront space occupied by EHCCA's gallery was an outdoor garden where sculptors were commissioned to create site-specific installations each summer.
In addition to mounting exhibitions, EHCCA staged special events including premiering performances by Joseph Pintauro; lectures by Joan Jonas, Robert Storr and Eleanor Heartney; and readings by Stanley Moss, Eileen Myles, Kenneth Koch and David Leavitt, among others.
Friedman, former educational director at Guild Hall Museum, Hope Harris, Bill Jensen, artist, educator and Gallery Director Roy Nicholson, Li-Lan, Susana Torruella Leval, poet, critic, and English instructor at Southampton College Robert Long, Freda Mindlin, Frank Wimberley, and Alfonso Ossorio, who founded and ran the Signa Gallery from 1957 to 1960.