Arts Paper
As the editorially independent arm of The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, the Arts Paper seeks to celebrate, explore, and investigate the fine, visual, performing and culinary arts in and around New Haven.
32 immigrants and refugees will arrive on the New Haven Green this week, and remain there through August. You won’t be able to ask them their stories though—that will require a literal closer look. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Students at Music Haven, one of the grant recipients, practice on their box violins in fall 2017. The organization received $25,000 for programming for the next fiscal year. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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The cast of Crowns. In an interview with the Arts Paper and the Inner City News earlier this year, playwright Regina Taylor said of the work: "I do find this piece defiant. I do find this piece political. You have an African-American woman at the center of it, and she is being questioned. I see myself as being questioned from the moment that I took my first breath. Sometimes just being is a statement of defiance. Being in this mind and being in this body. Where you stand ... it is a defiant act to breathe, to be, to have your own mind. It is political. " T. Charles Erickson Photo.
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Neville Wisdom pictured outside of his soon-to-be new digs at 1090 Chapel Street. “I want to test the waters of foot traffic," he said in an interview earlier this week. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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“I think I’m with Virginia Woolf,” Paul said as the show opened last month. “I think women do have a different sensibility, and I think they need to be aware of that in their work.” Lucy Gellman Photo.
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“I went from never showing my work to just … putting it out here,” said UNH student Naomi Gashaw. “If Cleveland hadn’t given me the opportunity, I wouldn’t have done it. It let me cross over into being an artist.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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