A "BFD" As Farmington Canal Opens Its Final Stretch

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Downtown  |  Environment  |  Public art Lucy Gellman | May 12th, 2025

At 28, ArtWalk Celebrates Creative Community

Arts & Culture  |  Artwalk  |  Westville  |  Westville Renaissance Arts (WRVA) Lucy Gellman | May 12th, 2025

Top: The vendor market. Bottom: Rachel Alderman and her 12-year-old son Jonah, who won the duck race last year. This year, he entered four ducks but suffered the crushing agony of defeat.

Columbus Monument Finds A New Home

Columbus  |  Museums  |  Public art  |  Robert Greenberg  |  Wooster Square Lucy Gellman | May 9th, 2025

Columbus is lifted out of Wooster Square Park in June 2020. Lucy Gellman File Photo.

How A T-Shirt Contest Centered Community

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Design  |  East Rock  |  New Haven Free Public Library Lucy Gellman | May 8th, 2025

NEA Cuts Hit New Haven Hard

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Arts For Learning CT  |  Culture & Community  |  International Festival of Arts & Ideas  |  Long Wharf Theatre  |  Music Haven  |  Yale Rep Theatre  |  Yale University  |  Yale University Art Gallery Lucy Gellman | May 7th, 2025

Top: Anne Cubberly's Giant Puppets at the 2024 International Festival of Arts & Ideas, which lost $65,000 of NEA grant funding. Bottom: Young cellist Amiel "AJ" Johnson, a sixth grader at Nathan Hale School and a student at Music Haven. Lucy Gellman File Photos.

W.E.B. Launches Inaugural Neighborhood Festival

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Community Gardens  |  Culture & Community  |  Goffe Street Armory  |  International Festival of Arts & Ideas  |  Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hills Lucy Gellman | May 6th, 2025

Patricia Bellamy-Mathis. Lucy Gellman Photos.

Fair Haven Day Shines On In Third Year

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Fair Haven  |  Fair Haven School  |  International Festival of Arts & Ideas Lucy Gellman | May 5th, 2025

Chamber Orchestra Puts Student Soloists In The Spotlight

Arts & Culture  |  Co-Op High School  |  Culture & Community  |  Education & Youth  |  Fair Haven School  |  Mauro Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School  |  Music  |  New Haven Chamber Orchestra Lucy Gellman | May 5th, 2025

Anthony Akambe, a student soloist with the New Haven Chamber Orchestra. Lucy Gellman Photos.

In Budget Hearing, Teachers Give A Master Class On Schools Funding

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Education  |  Education & Youth  |  New Haven Board Of Education  |  New Haven Public Schools  |  Politics Lucy Gellman | May 2nd, 2025