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.
From left: Jeremiah Craggett as Jeremiah Black, Jonah Craggett as Johan Black, Brandon Hutchinson as Alfira, and Gail Staggers as the narrator performing the first episode of the audiodrama “Haus of Black” at NXTHVN. Aster Rhys Photos.
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Yaira Matyakubova introduces storyteller and artist Toto Kisaku. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Lucy Ann Hurston is an author and niece of Zora Neale Hurston. Danielle Campbell Photos.
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New Haven and Hartford jazz icons and future musical legends unite at NXTHVN for Black History Month. Mindi Rose Englart photos.
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"Shining Light on Truth" at the New Haven Museum. Photos Kapp Singer.
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Melanie Tohom Cruz sings Sam Cook's "A Change is Gonna Come." Kapp Singer photos.
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Kids at the “Black Inventors Who Made the Stuff Around Us” workshop at the Ives Main Library on Saturday. Photos Kapp Singer.
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Top photo: Kim West0n. Bottom photo: Fethi Meghelli and Weston in front of “Man with Oud” by Palestinian artist, Mohamed Saleh Khalil, during the opening reception of "Made Visible: Origins in Belonging at Creative Arts Workshop. Mindi Englart Photos.
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Frank Mitchell, Fiona Vernal, and Camesha Scruggs (from left to right) discuss the impact of African American Connecticut Explored at the New Haven Museum on Thursday. Photos Kapp Singer.
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On the left: Jamel Shabazz' "Father's Day" (1990) and "Honoring The Ancestors." Right: Katrina Goldburn's Lucretia Was Here, 1638 series.
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Sun Queen and her goddaughter, Ka'meya Ingram. Ingram's sweatshirt is part of Sun Queen's "Black Girls Are Sunshine" brand. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Ryan Sands, William Frank Mitchell, and Jesse Hameen II. Delores Greenlee, the daughter of Monterey owner and proprietor Rufus Greenlee, joined virtually. Marie Sanford Photos.
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Detail, Jasmine Nikole, “The Present Is The Future.” Made Visible: Freedom Dreams runs at Creative Arts Workshop through March 18. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Matt Fried Photos. Courtesy of the Yale School of Music.
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Greater New Haven NAACP President Dori Dumas, Professor Gary Ford, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, and Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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The 28 pairs of eyes don’t have a starting point.Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Still from Madeline Anderson's 1970 documentary I AM SOMEBODY.
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