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.
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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Daniel Eugene Photos. Wells is at the center in the striped red button down.
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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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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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Isabella Maddelena, Charlotte Martinez, and Myra Gupta get ready for the movie. Ariel Shearer Photos. A gaggle of children bounced and swayed on stage at Hamden Town Center Park while a crew hurried to inflate a giant outdoor movie screen before sunset. Top 40 tunes rang out over the field as more families arrived, hauling wagons filled with colorful blankets and coolers, nudging their children to join those on stage for the chance to dance and win prizes.
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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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The cast of Hamlet , performances for which run on the Guilford Green through Sunday. Judith L. Barbosa Photo.
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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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Amie Mulungula. His hero, Jay Kemp, is pictured behind him. Karen Marks Photo.
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Sisters Valerie and Beck Doty. Karen Marks Photos.
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"One of those silent heroes." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Kevin Zhen sets the table for Homecooked. Karen Marks Photos.
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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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A detail of the of the illustrations. Karen Marks Photos.
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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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Katie Heinlein: “Each piece had a place...gun control should be more like that." Karen Marks 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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The billboard's next stop? Exit 42 on I-95. Karen Marks Photos.
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Ian Eaton as Bottom, Saluda Camp as Titania and Fairies in Connecticut Free Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream five years ago . Judith Barbosa Photo.
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Prints of Fredrick Douglass' address at the Beinecke. Karen Marks Photo.
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Remaining performances of Cabaret run July 6-8 and 13-15 at Lyric Hall, 827 Whalley Ave. in New Haven's Westville neighborhood. For tickets and more information, click here .Karen Marks Photo.
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Last summer in the Sunken Garden. Photos Courtesy Hill-Stead Museum.
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ConnCAT's Steve Driffin flowing from emcee to poet back to emcee. Karen Marks Photos.
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Bill Kraus in the factory earlier this month. He called his long relationship with the building "A labor of love, sometimes unrequited." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Ash Cruz, who is a published poet, works through what he would depict if he'd been at Stonewall in 1969. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Actor Kelley Knight: . Karen Marks Photos
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New Haven based artist Thabisa at a Central Avenue jam spot. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Dar Williams on her book tour. “I grew up with a downtown and a lot of people grew up with a downtown, and there are all sorts of economic arguments for why it’s so important to have that collection of stores who sponsor little leagues, have apprentices," she said in her talk last Sunday. Photo Courtesy of the artist and her website .
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Artist Kwadwo Adae: “If our mothers, sisters, daughters are oppressed, how are any of us free?” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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“You don’t know how strong you are until you have no choice to be strong,” Bri Lachappelle tells the audience at the beginning of the show. Karen Marks Photos.
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Moses Ingram as Ellei the Butterfly, a character in Allison Miranda's Lost Siblings . Lucy Gellman Photo.
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“I grew up around a generation of people who I, wrongly, thought of as permanent,” Ain Gordon said during an audience talkback Tuesday night. “I just thought they were always going to be there. Many of them also had been … had been seminal in some way, or seemed to be a big deal. And then slowly they were not a big deal. And then slowly, they were no deal.” Paula Court Photo Courtesy International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
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“This has gotten us as an organization to thinking—well, obviously it’s not who we want to be, and what do we have to do to change that?” Thomas Breen Photo.
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Joy Meikle: “Everyone leads, and you have to build from a diverse population.” Karen Marks Photos.
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"In Africa, we dance for nothing!" Joseph Kazadi exclaimed at one point in the show, ushering in dancing to Shakira's "Waka Waka." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Nelson Pinos and Hector Paul Flores Sunday night. “It’s part of who we are, and part of our ethos," said Flores at the event. "We’re not activists, we’re not organizers. We’re musicians, so we want to amplify the work of those at the grassroots when we can.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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“We are all soldiers trying to get our brands out there,” Armada Brewing Co.'s John Kraszewski said earlier this week. “It’s a building that’s housing soldiers. The beeracks. The beer soldiers.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Maybe the first thing that catches you is the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, standing tall on East Rock in the light of a white crescent moon. Or the guitarist beneath its base, her brown hair cascading past her shoulders as she strums, and a flurry of notes fly from the instrument.
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While both National Trails Day and its smaller Connecticut arm have taken place since 1993, this is the first year for the Newhallville Learning Corridor to participate in CT Trails Day. The event was sponsored by New Haven Friends of the Farmington Canal Greenway. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Kiki Lucia looked out onto a sea of young faces. 60 pairs of wide eyes looked back. Red leotard. White gogo boots. Big earrings that caught in the light. A rainbow flag turned superhero cape smoothed out around her arms and shoulders.
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Sarah Fritchey: “Normally, these things are happening during the day, when we’re all at work. These aren’t violent crimes. These are really seeing people urinate in public, sell drugs on the street. We’re seeing this relating to a public health crisis that doesn’t really have an easy solution.” Pictured is Joe Bun Keo's 5 Orange St. installation. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Lucian Addario, Jr. “If you really want to tap into the heart of the neighborhood, I believe their should be some men. Men and women work together to make America better.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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“I always consider the establishment of the Connecticut LGBT Film Festival at Cinestudio to be one of the most important moments in the long history of the theater,” said studio founder James Hanley. All Photos Courtesy of the 31st annual LGBT Film Festival.
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NHPT Preservation Services Officer John Herzan: “Another developer might have decided to tear it down, because it really was a wreck.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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The result of a site visit: the Office of the Arts is allocating state dollars to New Haven's Westville neighborhood to pilot a new Media Arts Workforce Initiative." Of the project, state culture czar Kristina Newman-Scott said “It’s gotta be replicable, it’s gotta feed into some kind of workforce pipeline, there’s gotta be membership in there, and it’s for the community." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Sara Hope Hill: “When a couple of eggs break, you lay some new ones and you really put your heart into it.” Leah Andelsmith Photos.
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Circling Lev runs at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art through May 24. It features the work of William Bailey, Gideon Bok, Turner Brooks, Paul Clabby, Steve DiGiovanni, Denzil Hurley, Clint Jukkala, Joshua Marsh, David Pease, Katy Schneider, Gina Ruggeri, Joel Werring and Pawel Wojtasik. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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After opening last weekend, Neil Simon's Rumors runs this Thursday through Saturday at EBM Vintage downtown. More information on the New Haven Theater Company's website . Photo Courtesy New Haven Theater Company (NHTC).
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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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" I started off in theater as a lot of people do, as an actor. I went to undergrad initially on an acting scholarship. And then I realized that I was the type of actor who was always in my head, always thinking and focusing on the background story of the character. " Above, members of the company of Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Liz Diamond. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018. Prince recently worked on the show.
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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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Is it too soon to think about the weekend? Arts Council Marketing Director Jennifer Gelband offers her top five arts picks for this week, going into next. These come from our member organizations and are also featured in The Arts Council's weekly newsletter. To subscribe to that, click here.
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Tiffany Jones: “To realize that I could experience other people’s cultures through their food … I love experiencing what other people feel to be nostalgic. Doing that through food is doing that in such a fun and gratifying way.” Tagan Engel Photo.
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Sohina Sidhu (background), Hend Ayoub, and James Cusati-Moyer in Kiss by Guillermo Calderón, directed by Evan Yionoulis. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.
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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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Candice is one of the Leeway artists exhibiting at the Clark Memorial Library through next Friday. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Atticus Bookstore and Cafe's new baker Josh Kanter: baker by day, whole grain ninja by night? Lucy Gellman Photos.
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New Sphinx , 2016. All photos courtesy Kyle Kearson.
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A software engineer in Illinois, who called her parents weeping as Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. A college student in New Hampshire who wanted to hear from the other side of the political aisle. A smiling, hatted Vermin Supreme, who didn’t believe despair was the answer.
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On diversity in symphony orchestras, David Amado said “It’s incredibly important. I think that the orchestra should be of the community. I’m not suggesting that every statistic needs to be represented precisely by the orchestra membership, but I do think it has to be represented somehow.” Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Ophelia pushes Hamlet into a lake, and a fish springs up from between the rows of chairs in a school auditorium. King Hamlet explores purgatory on the sprawling, matte floor of a gymnasium, with basketball hoops in the background. Polonius storms locker-lined hallways with a fizzy intercom spewing words above him. Through it all, a troupe of half-muzzled dancers leads the way, transforming school staircases into Elsinore Castle.
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“This is really a true example of what Kevin and I had hoped to build in this storytelling community,” Kevin Walton's wife, Karen DuBois-Walton, had said as the event got underway Monday night. After each story, Walton would return to the front of the room to add questions and moderate for a few minutes. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Louisa de Cossy collects testimonials on Thursday April 5. She and other members of the Nasty Women Testimonials Project will continue collection this Saturday afternoon at the Ely Center. More information here . Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Members of the company of Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Liz Diamond. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.
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Two beef patties, oxtails, rice and peas and cabbage. That’s my standard order when I walk up to the counter at a Jamaican spot. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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A winding, narrow road in snowy Pennsylvania, with a curious inn alongside it. A psychiatric hospital in the sticky New York City Summer of 1965. A small family in Poland or Russia, scrambling to finish cooked oil-flecked, gristly angel meat before midnight.
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In addition to a signature maple chocolate-chip and a now-beloved oatmeal raisin walnut, Cynthia Rae has grown her repertoire to include 84 flavors, including vegan and nonvegan options. The cookies are named after the popular "moon rocks" of the 1970s and 80s. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Clockwise, from top: Connecticut State Librarian Kendall F. Wiggin, David Green of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County, NEMA Director of Engagement Meg Winikates, and Connecticut League of History Organizations Executive Director Laurie P Lamarre. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Actor and writer Kelley Knight at Thursday's The Commons. At the inaugural event last month, she said that she practices her craft because "I’ve found that if I don’t, it will kill me. It’ll kill my soul, it’ll kill my spirit. " Lucy Gellman Photos.
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An Historic was shredding, accordion style. In the front of the room, Brian Slattery produced a scream from his fiddle, bending at the waist as An Historic threw his shoulders and head into the music. Behind them, Chris Cretella lowered his face so close to his guitar that it looked as though he might pull at the strings with his teeth. The band was not even two minutes in, and everyone was sweating.
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Young dancers from Ice The Beef Youth at a march for jobs last year. Thomas Breen File Photo for the New Haven Independent.
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Artist Linda Lindroth is advocating for bringing in new public art to calm traffic at Livingston and Cold Spring Street, where there is a dangerous four-way stop. Camille Ansley wants to see grassroots neighborhood beautification in Cedar Hill. The Neighborhood Public Improvement Funds (NPIP) budget may only be able to cover one. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Netta: “So what I notice, especially in the music scene, sometimes everybody leaves Connecticut. And it shouldn’t be like that. I want to bring pride back to being from here. We did this here. This is just for you and I. This is for us.” Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Rebecca Miller: "If I were going to book something for today , my program would look much different." Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Between January and May of 1999, New Havener Arnold Gorlick renovated the Madison Art Cinemas, making adjustments to the seats, sound quality and appearance that he hoped would bring visitors in in droves. Arnold Gorlick Photo.
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Adae's rendering. Photo courtesy Kwadwo Adae.
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Moon earlier this year at the MLK Day Poetry Slam at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Photo courtesy Moon.
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Alisa Bowens-Mercado and her husband, John D. Mercado. David Sepulveda for the New Haven Independent.
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“When I seroconverted I had a rush of emotions, and the best way to process it for me ended up being painting,” said Jonathan Joseph Ganjian at the opening. Detail of Inside pictured above. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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A fungus floats on a flat black background. Below it are a ball and an infinite loop of yarn. How are they connected?
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Chef Nadine Nelson, founder and director of GlobalLocal Gourmet, at the event. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Lopez: ServSafe, Sofrito, more school. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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On Feb. 27, Durbin and other museum advocates from across the country stormed the Hill to talk to legislators about museum funding. Here's why. Photos courtesy Amy Durbin.
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The 28 pairs of eyes don’t have a starting point.Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Susan Ernst works to intubate her "patient" before it's too late. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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DJ Dooley-O keeps the beat coming. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Ife Michelle Gardin and Steve Fontana. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Terrence Riggins as Kenyatta Shakur and Tamika Pettway as Nina in Sunset Baby. The show runs Feb. 22, 23 and 25, March 1-3 and 8-11 at Collective Consciousness Theatre. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Is it too soon to think about the weekend? Arts Council Marketing Director Jennifer Gelband offers her top five arts picks for this week, going into next. These come from our member organizations and are also featured in The Arts Council's weekly newsletter. To subscribe to that, click here.
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Fatima Rojas' portrait of her daughter on a family hike. "It represents the life, the struggle, the maternity of some of us," she said of the exhibition. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Maafa: Ghosts of the Atlantic II , 48 x 36 in. Acrylic/mixed media on canvas. Photo courtesy WCGMF.
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Dancers from the Wan Chi Ming Hung Gar Institute Dragon and Lion Dance Team stunned during the parade. Toward the end, one scaled a pole to "eat" a head of lettuice. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Neale: This is not what I do. It's who I am. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Westvillian Travis Carbonella, or King of Mardi Gras 2018? Lucy Gellman Photos.
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The transformation, in process. From Daniel Eugene's 2017 NHV Drag .
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On July 11, 1799 the 350-ton merchantman Neptune pulled into Long Wharf with a cargo of Chinese teas, silks, lacquerware, and export porcelain valued at over $280,000. No other sailing vessel of the period would make as much money on a single trip as did this one, constructed at the old Olive Street shipyards and captained by Water Street resident Daniel Greene.
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Lovestruck runs through March 1 at mActivity. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Lana Lesley in FIELD GUIDE created by Rude Mechs. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.
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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 first "Stir The Pot" also included a discussion of Mikki Halpin’s “Practical Activism: If You Want To Do Something, Don’t Do Everything.” The essay is in Julia Turshen’s Feed The Resistance . Thomas Breen Photo.
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Is it too soon to think about the weekend? Arts Council Marketing Director Jennifer Gelband offers her top five arts picks for this week, going into next. These come from our member organizations and are also featured in The Arts Council's weekly newsletter. To subscribe to that, click here.
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Earlier this week, we watched as a once-heralded artistic director was accused of sexual misconduct and swiftly fired from his organization. We watched as a champion of gender equity and fact-finding missions took charge, calculating the organization’s next steps and guiding it through an opening night performance and continued community programming.
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It began with allegations, made over several years, of sexual misconduct in the workplace. It ended with the swift firing of a once-celebrated artistic director. Now Long Wharf Theatre is asking: What does the next chapter look like? What are the institution’s collective steps forward? And how great or small will they be?
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Live music for all ages is returning to Space and Outer Space, after a brief intermission.
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JJ McGlone and Ciara McMillian as P.K. Whylde and Glory “Z” Zico. Yale Cabaret Photos.
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Artist Ana Henriques, with members Shirley Louise-May, Catherine Bailey, and Ann Wiley in the background. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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DeMeo: “It will always be my artistic home, no matter where in Connecticut I live.” Lucy Gellman Photo.
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One of the installations at the event. Stephen Urchick Photo.
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Is it too soon to think about the weekend? Arts Council Marketing Director Jennifer Gelband offers her top five arts picks for this week, going into next. These come from our member organizations and are also featured in The Arts Council's weekly newsletter. To subscribe to that, click here.
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Joy Donaldson: “What were my people given? A form of Christianity—not true Christianity as we know it today." New Haven Museum Photo.
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Pamela Monk Kelley: "We need to learn more about our history.” Lucy Gellman Photo.
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It started with a Tweet. It ended with a semi-Hamiltonian battle. But in the middle there was the question: who actually lays claim to Connecticut's capital? And who should?
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Trish Clark presents at the kick-off event for last year's 48 Hour Film Project New Haven. (Thomas Breen photo)
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John Keefer's "Airstrike" installed at Giampietro Gallery. Stephen Urchick Photo.
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Briana Bellinger-Dawson and Denise Cox role play a customer being followed by a security guard. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Laua Hurwitz, in Koffee?'s commercial kitchen on East Street. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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"There are other times that I’ll go out, and I’ll want to take pictures of people." Monica Bunton Photos.
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John Dankosky interviews Mike Mathis of MGM at the construction site of a resort casino in downtown Springfield, Mass. NEXT Producer Andrea Muraskin records the conversation. Photo by Ryan Caron King for NENC.
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“My ribcage is a hothouse harboring a bloom next to you,” Elizabeth Trojanowski sings on “Still Water,” the opening song to Pageant Dove’s recently released self-titled EP. An acoustic guitar lays down a bluesy flat-seven chord to anchor the twists in the melody, but then goes elsewhere, sounding not quite settled, even when a string section joins in. When the drums emerge, we feel like we’re somewhere. But where is it?
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Zane in the NICU at Yale-New Haven Hospital. JoAnn Marrero Photo.
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Kennya Adams-Martin and Camille Ansley at a "Cedar Hill Paint Party" earlier this year. It was there that they decorated the first little free library. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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An image that Rodgers posted in 2015, when The Space was in financial trouble. Steve Rodgers Photo.
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The pride flag at a vigil and rally for victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Artist Amen Ra puts the final touches on the pop-up. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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A detail of Um Shaham's miniature home, with exposed piping and wire filaments, and a singed car in the background. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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The gallery is now open! Friday, NHPC Director Patrick Dunn released an open call for proposals for six exhibitions in 2018, open to multimedia LGBTQ+ artists from across Connecticut. November, which is Trans Awareness Month, is open only to Transgender artists. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 15. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Max Wolkowitz and George Guidall. T. Charles Erickson Photo.
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Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump's travel ban could take effect, banning immigrants and refugees from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. Because those are all majority Muslim countries, many have called it a backdoor "Muslim Ban." Earlier this fall, we ran this story as part of a triptych in print (here are parts one and two of that) about how recent refugees are growing our creative ecosystem. It felt particularly timely to run.
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Soto advocates for Yale University to become a sanctuary campus at a protest last year. Paul Bass for the New Haven Independent.
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Francesca Fernandez McKenzie and James Udom in the foreground, Sohina Sidhu behind them. Setariki Wainiqolo, Curtis Williams and Sean Boyce Johnson are in the background. T. Charles Erickson Photo.
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Maybe it’s the splatters, thinning out like fingerprints, that catch you from one side of the room and urge you to come closer. A pink line cuts through the left side, canvas ceding to it willingly. It’s a sort of ordered maze, pinks and blues whizzing past each other on their way to somewhere off the canvas.
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Joseph Saccio, Great Striding Woman , Multimedia sculpture. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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Jerod Haynes and Jason Bowen in Native Son by Nambi E. Kelley, adapted from the novel by Richard Wright, directed by Seret Scott. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2017.
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Every year, I fall victim to the December cookie infatuation that sweeps through our country. It doesn't matter that Christmas is not my personal holiday. Any month-long celebration of a food group (Yes! I consider cookies to be a food group!) can't be ignored. Food for me is an expression of love. The beauty and diversity of cookies, and the sheer number that it is possible to bake, make them the perfect vehicle for spreading the love far and wide.
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Salmon with the piece on Wednesday. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Cunningham as Callie and Byron as Sara. SCSU Photo.
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Kids in the ARC's first-grade module: "My House: Design Connections Partnership." ARC Photo.
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Tammy Chapman never imagined that mixing potions in her kitchen would lead her out of the house, and down Audubon Street. Now, she is making the case for skincare products as handmade crafts for a second year in a row.
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Nelson at the James Beard House dinner earlier this fall. A one-woman army, she was tasked with appetizers and cocktails. Copyright Clay Williams for the New York Times, with permission from the photographer.
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Allison McDermott and Rob Grimm. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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The Lineage Group co-founder Malcolm Welfare: We want to elevate black artists. Naomi Santiago photographs.
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Veronica and J.D. are getting a little lovey dovey. In the middle of a high school hallway—lockers to one side, classrooms ostensibly to another—the two link hands and sing, staring into each other’s eyes.
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Hair, demoing the spritz cookies. The evening included both spritz and chocolate chip cookies. Lucy Gellman photos.
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Griggs, Fisher and Herzog (with former director Mary Lou Aleskie) at an A&I event last year. Photo courtesy Festival of Arts & Ideas.
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It wasn’t clear exactly when bar started singing along. One moment, Sinthea Sinatra was really feeling the guitar as it climbed up a four-chord progression. Before her, Ivan Sheth lifted up the microphone, channeling the band 4 Non Blondes.
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The cast and crew jump into their session at Baobab Tree Studios. ITC Photo.
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Diane Brown on her way to receive an "I Love My Librarian" award. Markeshia Ricks for the New Haven Independent.
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A detail from Sooo-z Mastropietro's Boob-Tube. Photo courtesy City Lights.
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Riggins, as Lincoln, and Davis as Booth. The play runs weekends through Nov. 19. Mike Franzman for I Love New Haven Photos.
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Suarez leads the charge. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Reverend Kevin Ewing has spent his life laying down thick, fast-growing roots. Harold Shapiro Photo.
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Bust Op , a one day affair that Saunders said may repeat. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Wisdom in the Orange Street shop last week. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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David Perry, Clarinetist and Founder; Sam Bobinski, Bassist and Marketing Director Yevgeny Yontov, Pianist and Artistic Director. Matthew Fried Photo.
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Judith Ivey and Jane Alexander. T. Charles Erickson Photo.
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If you're jonesing for a cup of coffee in the next time you're in Wooster Square, you may not have to go back downtown. Come November, you can pick it up on 516 Chapel St., where another signature brew was once handed out by the cupful.
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Ana María Rivera-Forastieri and Mario before the packed house. Courtesy Immigrant Bail Fund/Brett Davidson.
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Connecticut contra dance legend Billy Fischer gathered up his microphone’s cable. He waded out into the crowd milling on the dancefloor of the Whitneyville Cultural Commons in Hamden.
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This is a good cartoon. We want your bad cartoons. Seriously. REINALDO GOEYENECHEA for LA VOZ HISPANA.
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Making music is a great way to feel my cultural identity in ways I don’t get from going to a synagogue. I’m always reaching out for new people to play! - David Chevan
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Is it too soon to think of the weekend? Arts Council Marketing Director Jennifer Gelband offers her top five arts picks for this week, going into next. These come from our member organizations and are also featured in The Arts Council's weekly newsletter. To subscribe to that, click here.
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"The queen with no pants" performs at Partners Cafe. Daniel Eugene Photo.
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Before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, a wisp of a girl easing herself into a seat and refusing to budge when a white passenger demanded her place. Sitting her ground for the greater good.
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A still from last year's season at CCT. Courtesy CCT.
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Rendering for Brainwashed . Courtesy Artspace and Zeph Farmby.
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A detail of Maher's piece of "baggage" and accompanying recording. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Soto advocates for Yale University to become a sanctuary campus at a protest last year. Paul Bass for the New Haven Independent.
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A new citywide film festival is seeking to get very nasty — and cede the floor to female and immigrant voices in the process. As Trump repealed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Tuesday, it was making the case for greater diversity and more local voices in Connecticut filmmaking — and hoping to hear from more New Haven artists.
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Andrew Burbank looked out on his fellow Chapel Haven students, staff, and community members.
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The Decemberists perform at College Street Music Hall. Photo courtesy College Street Music Hall.
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Jamison and Johnson as the titular characters in The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet . Mike Franzman Photo.
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Jazz legend Jesse Hameen II with some of the summer fellows. Site Projects Photo.
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Upson pulling CED VideoDiscs at The Archive. (Thomas Breen photos)
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On Thursday night, Elm Shakespeare will open its signature summer show in Edgerton Park, bringing William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet to life for thousands of New Haveners.
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Abduladhim Al-Ani, with Vivian Smith and Herb Mermelstein. Lucy Gellman photos.
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Jim Goldberg, US-1 , 2014. Archival pigment print. © 2017 Jim Goldberg. Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, and Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco
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McComic: Coffee as a sign of things to come/Lucy Gellman Photos
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