Alva Greenberg

Alva Greenberg is an Independent Art Curator, collector and philanthropist with a deep commitment to the arts and to the welfare and education of children. A 1974 graduate of Kenyon College with a degree in Drama, she founded and edited a weekly newspaper in Old Lyme, CT from 1974 to 1978. In 1997 she opened the ALVA Gallery in New London, CT where it flourished for a decade. She did this while simultaneously making a significant commitment to the redevelopment of downtown New London by purchasing and rehabilitating four buildings and co-creating a Saturday Market at the waterfront. In 2016 Ms. Greenberg returned to curating.

Ms. Greenberg currently serves on the boards of the Gimbel Foundation, French American Museum Exchange (FRAME), Romare Bearden Foundation and the Connecticut Arts Foundation. She is also an Emeritus member of the Kenyon Review and the Child and Family Agency of Southeastern CT. Past boards include the Florence Griswold Museum, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and Arttable. In 2006 she was a recipient of the Eugene O’Neill Center’s “25 of Connecticut’s most Uncommon Women” award and in 2018 she received the State of Connecticut Governor’s Patron of the Arts award.