Arts Council of Greater New Haven Blog

Our 2025 Top 10

Alisa's House of Salsa  |  Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Collective Consciousness Theatre  |  Elicker Administration  |  Festival Puertorriqueño  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  New Haven Board of Alders  |  New Haven Public Schools  |  Unidad Latina en Acción Lucy Gellman, Abiba Biao, Jarelis Calderon, Nelani Mejias & Shaunda Holloway | December 31st, 2025

Adae Fine Art Rings In 20 Joyful Years

Arts & Culture  |  Black-owned businesses  |  Culture & Community  |  East Rock  |  Education  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  Visual Arts  |  Youth Arts Journalism Initiative Jarelis Calderon | October 6th, 2025

In West Rock Park, A New Mural Hits A Home Run

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  Public art  |  West Rock Lucy Gellman | August 20th, 2024

Kwadwo Adae with the mural. Lucy Gellman Photos.

On Grand Avenue, “Las Flores De Esperanza” Spread A Mental Health Message

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Fair Haven  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  Public Health  |  Public art Anna Fountain | November 16th, 2023

Artist Kwadwo Adae. Anna Fountain Photos.

Queer Heroes Appear At Elm City Montessori

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Education & Youth  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  LGBTQ  |  New Haven Schools  |  Visual Arts Lucy Gellman | May 5th, 2023

Orchids Bloom Over Sylvan Avenue

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Education & Youth  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  Public art  |  The Hill  |  housing Lucy Gellman | August 18th, 2022

Young Hands Help Orchid Mural Bloom In The Hill

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  Public art  |  The Hill Lucy Gellman | August 8th, 2022

At ConnCAT, Kwadwo Adae Makes The Walls Sing

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  ConnCAT  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  Newhallville  |  Painting  |  Science Park  |  Visual Arts Lucy Gellman | July 6th, 2022

At HSC, Memorial Mural Helps Students Heal

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Education & Youth  |  High School in the Community  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  New Haven Public Schools  |  Public art  |  Visual Arts Lucy Gellman | February 24th, 2022

HSC freshman freshman Tioana Williams. Lucy Gellman Photos.

Dr. Bouchet Finds A Home On Henry Street

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Community Heroes  |  Dixwell  |  Education & Youth  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  Public art  |  Squash Haven Lucy Gellman | September 13th, 2021

Artist-Activists Weave A New Future

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  Raven Blake  |  Yale Peabody Museum Arturo Pineda | January 19th, 2021

New Mural Brings Black Joy To Bassett Street

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Black Lives Matter  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  Newhallville  |  Public art Lucy Gellman | September 21st, 2020

Artspace (Re)Presents 50 Years Of Black Liberation

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Artspace New Haven  |  COVID-19  |  Ice The Beef  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  Visual Arts Arturo Pineda | July 28th, 2020

Kwadwo Adae Paints Protest through Portraiture

Artspace New Haven  |  COVID-19  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  New Haven Free Public Library  |  Visual Arts Rachel Ababio | July 20th, 2020

Sparrows Take Flight On Division Street

Arts, Culture & Community  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  Newhallville  |  Public art  |  Visual Arts Lucy Gellman | September 25th, 2019

Adae Fine Art Heads To State Street

Arts & Culture  |  Could Be Fund  |  East Rock  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  Visual Arts Lucy Gellman | June 19th, 2019

“This Is Our Artwork”

Arts & Culture  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  Newhallville  |  Public art  |  Visual Arts Lucy Gellman | October 10th, 2018

Women’s Empowerment Served À La Mode

Arts & Culture  |  Hamden  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  New Haven  |  Newhallville  |  Public art Lucy Gellman | July 12th, 2018

10-year-old twins Ayana and Maquas Baldwin. Lucy Gellman Photos.

"Empowered" Crew Gets To Work

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Feminism  |  Hamden  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  New Haven  |  Newhallville  |  Public art  |  Visual Arts Lucy Gellman | June 19th, 2018

Artist Kwadwo Adae: “If our mothers, sisters, daughters are oppressed, how are any of us free?” Lucy Gellman Photos.

Newhallville Mural Draws Multiple Viewpoints

Arts & Culture  |  Economic Development  |  Hamden  |  Highwood  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  New Haven  |  Newhallville  |  Public art Lucy Gellman | May 31st, 2018

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.

Newhallville Mural Pushes Ahead

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Economic Development  |  Hamden  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  Neighborhoods  |  New Haven  |  Newhallville  |  Public art  |  Womb fire Lucy Gellman | May 15th, 2018

Newhallville Mural Lifts Off, With Strings Attached

Arts & Culture  |  Economic Development  |  Hamden  |  Kwadwo Adae  |  New Haven  |  Newhallville  |  Visual Arts Lucy Gellman | March 13th, 2018

Adae's rendering. Photo courtesy Kwadwo Adae.