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.
Kim Weston at City-Wide Open Studios in 2018. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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Judy Sirota Rosenthal Photo. Tom Griggs and Liz Fisher kept the International Festival of Arts & Ideas running through some of its leanest years. Now, they’re preparing to say goodbye.
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Lucy Gellman Photos; all work by the artists in the show. Trans-Cending Art includes artists KC Councilor, Tony Ferraiolo, Jules Larson, Reed Miller, Elliott Grinnell, and Finn Lockwood.
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Remsen Welsh: “It’s a thing where I get transported. There’s a part of her I think I can breathe new life into.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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The portrait installed in Yale's Sterling Memorial Library. Ian Christmann Photo.
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Monte Frank has a routine when he gets into work, or hops on his bike and fastens his helmet for a long ride. He flips through his playlists—there are several—chooses one, and hits shuffle. A little Miles Davis coasts over his headphones. Then some Muddy Waters, B.B. King. The list shuffles forward to the Grateful Dead, then spits out country, Americana, and a little old-school rock.
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A week out from Connecticut’s Nov. 6 election, Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Ned Lamont is reaching into the fond recesses of his memory—not for data or talking points on the state's pension crisis and solutions for statewide debt, but for several well-loved songs that help him relax on the campaign trail.
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Lucy Gellman Photos. A long, dark band of bodies reached around Elm Street, faces visible as it grew longer. Black t-shirts. Raincoats and denim jackets. A few baseball caps. Its members linked hands, rearranged, relinked and walked on. “Keep Nelson home! Keep Nelson home!” they chanted as they fell into formation, lining up by a series of numbers taped to their shirts. 1. 12. 33. 54. 78. 123. 195. 208. 281. Friday afternoon, over 300 sanctuary city advocates, members of Unidad Latina en Acción (ULA), faith leaders and New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) and Yale University students gathered at First and Summerfield United Methodist Church to rally and march for Nelson Pinos, an immigrant who has been seeking sanctuary there since November 30 of last year. Friday marked day 281, or month nine, of his stay inside the church.
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Photo courtesy Xiomarie LaBeija. This is the first installment in 2018’s “Queen Of The Week” series, which we will be running each Friday during Connecticut’s PRIDE celebrations this September. Last year’s installments, in order, profiled #NHVDrag, Robin Banks, Malaya Love Nations, and Tiana Maxim Rose. Xiomarie LaBeija cocked her hips just slightly and put one leg in front of the other. Creamy white leotard. Crinkly gold cape. A corset to keep everything in just so. Brown curls cascaded past her shoulders, caramel at the tips. She had the room on the edge of its seats, and she was just getting started.
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George Corsillo, one half of the Design Monsters team, with the brewery's new tap handles. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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A strip from Hubert's comic. Lucy Gellman Photos. A meteor has hit the New Haven Green. Rocks and grass are flying through the air; flames lick the space’s central fountain and flagpole. Smoke is everywhere. And any humans on site—stopping with their skateboards, running for their buses—are transforming into aliens by the second. They’ve got black, glassy eyes, green skin, and slimy tentacles erupting from their sides. Only one New Havener, a woman named Genesis, doesn’t seem to be affected. That’s not the latest news on the Green, but Kaleo Hubert’s vision for “Star Storm,” a new comic strip that puts New Haven front and center, and tells its story through a Black woman’s eyes. With 10 other high school students, Hubert is one of this year’s Public Art Fellows (PAF) with Site Projects, Inc., a nonprofit that supports and funds public art in New Haven. After working for six weeks weeks with graphic artists Rob Greenberg, Matt Stevens and Amie Ziner, all 11 fellows will have a final exhibition and reception this Sunday at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Festivities run from 2 to 6 p.m. and are free and open to the public. More information is available here.
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Dr. Eddie Henderson was flying through “Surrey With The Fringe On Top.” No sooner had Andrew Kosiba laid the foundation than he was answering with the short, ringing staccato of his trumpet, then longer, full-lunged notes that coasted over the audience. An upright bass, half cloaked in shadow, hummed to life. The most polite of percussion rose to meet it. Somewhere, Miles Davis and Rogers and Hammerstein were clinking cocktail glasses and tapping their toes.
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The artist during a recent interview. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Warren Byrd leaned into the microphone, piano and upright bass slowing to a march around him. Horn and woodwind sounded somewhere in the near distance. A universe away, Impressionist Camille Pissarro was alive and losing his mind on the streets of Paris, vigilant as he trotted through the city’s grimy fifth arrondissement.
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Sculptures by Antonak comprising silk, corn husk, and plastic flowers. Erin Lee Antonak Photo. Healing hats that must be worn to events before they are finished. Installations that have the size and look of movie sets, with no rolling reel of film in site. “Glitch art,” with a spray of colors across the screen like a Nintendo has been kicked until it screams.
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<br /> Ned Lamont has already spoken about the role of arts and culture on eco nomic development. But could he also be the governor who sings? The Democratic hopeful and party-endorsed candidate raised that question inadvertently Wednesday, as he received endorsements from Yale unions UNITE HERE Locals 34 and 35 in New Haven’s Scantlebury Park. A
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Screenshot from Facebook. This is the third piece on the role of arts—rhetoric, photography, film, and media—on the gubernatorial campaign trail. For the previous pieces, click here, here and here. Joe Ganim is standing on a table or stage—you can't quite tell which—in the dusky yellow light of an old building. The ceiling above him is tile, studded with low lights. He’s looking up and out into a crowd, eyes fixed on some point in the distance. Symphonic strings build under him.
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Karima El-Hamraoui and Abir. Lucy Gellman Photos. Abir was performing alchemy in The Hill. Her hands fluttered over a pile of red and white onion, fine salt and flaked sumac coating the slices. She spoke in quiet tones as she worked, recounting bits of information about her children. A family of sunflowers bobbed deferentially in the background.
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Lucy Gellman Photos. More state funding to their nonprofit organizations. Assurances that creative school programs won’t be cut. Better partnerships between organizations who do community-oriented work. A commitment to changing the line item funding formula so money gets spread a little more evenly.
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Image Courtesy Daniel Eugene/Lunch Money Print. At first, you think it’s just another portrait of a building. Green paint on white stucco. Wood against red brick. Howard Avenue stretches out under high-hanging blue sky, grey-fringed clouds. But there he is, in the lower righthand corner: a kid, no more than 12 or 13, popping a wheelie as his bike gleams beneath him. Handlebars up. earbuds in. Mouth open, tongue on its way to sticking out. The sunlight soaks his skin. This is summer, exactly as it’s meant to be.
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Steffon Sampson as Usnavi in Arts In CT's production of In The Heights . The show runs this Friday and Saturday at Wilbur Cross High School.
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Ned Lamont and David Stemerman at Tuesday's forum. Tim Herbst is pictured in the background. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Lamont at ConnCAT: Sometimes it's ok to be a black sheep. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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More public concerts on city greens. New arts funding in urban school districts. A cut to state line item funding to benefit smaller museums that really need the money.
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"One of those silent heroes." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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"We can actually have a roof reconstruction without looking for a hole,” said museum director Sandra Malmquist Wednesday.
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One of Sonique Paige's portraits meant to challenge the media norm. “To the people who are looking from the outside in, I would ask them: Are you ever in a place where you don’t see yourself represented?" she said during the interview. Sonique Paige Photos.
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Reynolds in his office. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Trish Clark at the 48 Hour Film Project kickoff. Thomas Breen File Photo for the New Haven Independent.
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Sylvia and Jason Sobocinski in the cheese shop. “Lots of people loved what was going on here, but I’m, like, so excited that we’re going to do something new and that I get to bring on partners and still keep the same staff,” Sobocinski said earlier this week. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Alasdair Neale photographed downtown in February, when he was visiting New Haven for his audition concert. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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A detail from Heidi Geist's Lost City . Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Shane Baber: “I didn’t see straight men stand up and say ‘this happened to me.’” Lucy Gellman Photo.
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10-year-old twins Ayana and Maquas Baldwin. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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For Troubledclef, the blank walls, untagged skateparks and underpasses didn’t call out immediately. Nor the cans of spray paint, waiting to be opened as they beckoned from convenience store aisles. Nor the sense of brethren-by-graffiti, a motley crew of artists and mischief-makers who would come out in the wee hours of the morning, and finish their work by 4 a.m.
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State Rep. Robyn Porter was one in a packed lineup of speakers to speak at a #SaveSCOTUS rally Tuesday evening. She challenged those at the rally not just to call their legislators, but to reach out to family members and friends in other states and urge them to call their legislators as well. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Chris Murphy: “We have a big fight ahead of us." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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