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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.

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How Clyde Ramos Framed Joe Ganim

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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Is There An Arts Voter?

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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The Artist Formerly Known As “Dap”

Lucy Gellman Photo.

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“Five White Guys” Tells A Story Of What Change Could Be

Ned Lamont and David Stemerman at Tuesday's forum. Tim Herbst is pictured in the background. Lucy Gellman Photos.

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He Won’t Overpromise

Lamont at ConnCAT: Sometimes it's ok to be a black sheep. Lucy Gellman Photos.

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Arts Make It Onto The Campaign Trail

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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Summer Apprentices Pay Homage

Amie Mulungula. His hero, Jay Kemp, is pictured behind him. Karen Marks Photo.

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Deconstructing Guns, Reconstructing Art

Katie Heinlein: “Each piece had a place...gun control should be more like that." Karen Marks Photos.

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100 Rally To #SaveSCOTUS

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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“The Children Of Marsha P. Johnson” Unite

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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