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.
After a fortnight’s-long closure for construction, the Institute Library opened its doors to the public again last week for a series of events, including a jazz night, a poetry reading, and Saturday’s “Collage & Closing” farewell to Panreality, an exhibition curated by Maxim Schmidt (pictured at left, with Chelsea Rowe’s “The bathtub on 18th avenue") which had been running in the library’s Gallery Upstairs since April 8.
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Some of Jerry Montoya's post-it notes, on display at Color Local in Erector Square through April 24. Solé Scott Photos.
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The artist at Naumann Gallery. Eamon Linehan (Free Artist Production) Photos.
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Stefania Munzi Watercolor.
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"He Was Only Five," which is oil on canvas and stands at 24 x 24. Lee Massaro Photo.
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Ava Orphanoudakis with her own work. Solé Scott Photo.
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Top: Faisal Saleh. Lucy Gellman Photo. Bottom: Nabil Anani, In Pursuit of Utopia #7, 2020. The piece now hangs in Edinburgh. Photo courtesy Ziad Anani, Zawyeh Gallery.
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The artist Jihyun Lee, whose show Interstice is one of several running at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art (ECoCA) through December 18. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Annie Sailer in her Erector Square studio during City-Wide Open Studios in October 2021. Charlotte Hughes File Photo.
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Kun-Yong Kim and her daughter, teen card contest winner Jessica Park. Kim, who immigrated from Korea, now works in a genetics lab at Yale. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Dario Mohr, Aimée Burg, Lauren Flaaen, and Diana Abouchacra. Jarelis Calderon Photos.
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In the midst of barren landscape, a stretch of long, winding road disappears into the horizon and sunset, engulfed in a bursting sun. Where it leads, no one knows: it is surrounded by red, muddy earth, the ground cracked and uneven. As color stretches across the canvas, a viewer’s eye gravitates towards the middle, where a roaring, red ball of fire seems to stare right back.
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A copper “specimen box” encases an old whiffle ball bat. The plastic of the tip of the bat is torn, revealing a hollow interior. At the lip of the gash, dirt, like dried blood, coats the yellow plastic skin.
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Emiliano Cáceres Manzano Photos. The photo below, of Suzan Shutan in her studio, is contributed by the artist.
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Exoskin by Kim Hahn and Ja-Young Hwang. Ruby Szekeres Photos.
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Preservation; Safekeeping. Emiliano Cáceres Manzano Photo.
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Prey Drive, from SomethingProjects and artist Ashton S. Phillips, runs through June 22 at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Peter R Brown Photos.
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Lynda Stannard’s painting “Lids Closed." Lucy Gellman Photos; all work by ArtShip artists.
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Top: Ruba Al Behery (sketch by Amal Abu Hussain), "Palestinian henna party حفلة الحنة الفلسطينية". Bottom: A traditional Palestinian embroidery sampler woven by Nawal Ibrahim Al-Ahmad (on blue background) and a "Hellenistic Rooster" inspired by the Marisa Tomb Paintings and embroidered by Alia Abu-Rabia. Lucy Gellman Photos; all art by refugee artists in the Palestinian History Tapestry Project.
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Sherill Baldwin Photos.
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Cosmic Pond. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Awilda Sterling-Duprey: Aesthetics of dis-order. Photo by Chris Gardner. Courtesy of NXTHVN.
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Kari Coyle, Harry Coyle, and Jackie Gaudioso-Levita. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Susan Climard's rendering of her godsons, Emanuel and Elijah. Nelani Mejias Photos.
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Liah Sinq's work comes from her altar series. Sunlight & Candlelight runs at CT State Gateway through Oct. 4.
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Stitching the Revolution runs through August 25, 2024, at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury. Jacquelyn Gleisner Photos.
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“The View from Here: Accessing Art Through Photography” runs through Nov. 22. at the Yale Schwarzman Center. Pictured in focus in Julie Hajducky's "From Here." Lucy Gellman Photos; all artwork by student artists.
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Exquisite River at the Ely Center for Contemporary Art. Photos Kapp Singer.
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Sculpture by Taina Jackson. Photos Kapp Singer.
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Kelly Bigelow Becerra during a Zoom call with the Arts Paper.
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Sheila Levrant de Bretteville: Community, Activism, and Design runs through June 23 at the Yale University Art Gallery. Photos Kapp Singer.
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Dillon: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (left) and Tamara Torres (right) by Grace Graupe-Pillard.
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Trina Mace Learned speaks at the opening of Alchemy of Art: Ann P. Lehman and Creative Arts Workshop in December 2023. File photo Kapp Singer.
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New Haven Academy dance students perform at the Winter Arts Showcase. Photos Kapp Singer.
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Tony Kosloski's "Equation of Death" at 51 Chestnut St. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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The Art of the Palestinian Thobe runs through the end of this year. Pictured is a thobe from the collection of artist Renate Ghannam, who first encountered the garments through her husband's family. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Jamiah Green Photos. The words crawl in every direction across the figure’s coffee-colored skin, marking her arms and exposed torso in neat black lettering. It’s not a big deal, reads a phrase that stretches up her shoulder. You are the kind of woman your father would have thrown away, state three lines of text by her right breast, hovering just over the nipple. Which lifetime hurt you so bad? asks a sentence on her left arm.
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A page from Vie Privée et Criminelle d'Antoine-François Derues. Kapp Singer Photos.
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From the blog post "Balagan in Twaneh, July 15, 2023." Text and Photographs by Margaret Olin.
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The artist Darnell “Sain’t” Phifer. Abiba Biao Photos.
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Esthea Kim's cube and two photocollages from the artist Ed Gendron. Blocks and Bridges: World Building in New Haven runs Sept. 25 to Oct. 29 at Creative Arts Workshop at 80 Audubon St. in New Haven. Kapp Singer Photos.
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Demeree Douglas, Jade Streater, Nox Amore, Alana Ladson, Akosua Aidoo and Kaelynne Hernandez. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Barongozi last year at the Folk Fest he and Jisu Sheen mounted at Havenly. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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Edmund “B*Wak” Comfort in his studio at 300 Whalley Ave. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Javier Villatoro, who also performs music under the moniker Ene de Nadie. Kamini Purushothaman Photos.
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Ricardo Gutiérrez, "Metanoia Phase 2, Acrylic on canvas. The artist installed the pieces at Olive & Wooster to display the new series, entitled Through My Eyes, for this reporter. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Ward 14 (Fair Haven) Alder Sarah Miller with the artist Perez, Wanda Vargas, and her son Mateo. Danielle Campbell Photos.
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From left to right: Charlie Rich, Rania Das, IfeMichelle Gardin, Thabisa Rich, Dr. Hanan Hameen-Diop, Kim Weston and Malakhi Eason. Lisa Kaston Photos.
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Detail, Susan Clinard, Holding Memory. Lucy Gellman Photo; all work is by artists in the show.
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Mosa Sadat and Laila Mohammadi with their daughter, Lea. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Artist Joe St. Pierre. Kiomi Rincon Photos.
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Judy Sirota Rosenthal, who has been taking photographs of New Haven for decades. Photos courtesy of Aiyah Josiah-Faeduwor.
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Patricia C. Vener, who stepped in to help organize when polymer clay artist Nancy Nearing needed an extra set of hands. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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From left to right: Illustrator Jean Marie Sanchez, Mermaid Margo Jones, Tierra Soap Co. maker Addy Reyes Ramos, and the YMCA's Erin Kelly. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Dganit Zauberman, Field of Vision, 2018. Her exhibition, Land in Flux runs at Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel (BEKI), 85 Harrison St., through June 14 of this year. Corey Schmidt Photo.
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Curatorial fellows Cornelia Stokes and Kiara Cristina Ventura. Abiba Biao Photo.
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Shenkarr Davis and Taekyung Bennett. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Constance LaPalombara painting in Tuscany. Photo courtesy Susan LaPalombara. The third photo in this article is also courtesy Susan LaPalombara.
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Cynthia Beth Rubin's Ciliates in the Circular Void, 2020 (in foreground). Her 2020 Drawing Ciliates into Old Cairo Text is pictured at the far left. Lucy Gellman Photos; all artwork by Cynthia Beth Rubin.
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Kelly Clark, “Immersed,” at Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville. Light, the gallery's seventh annual juried show, runs through March 12. Juliette Lao 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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Owner Hazel Lebron during Saturday's grand opening. Corey Schmidt Photos.
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6th Dimension runs Jan. 28 through March 9, 2023 at the Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London. Pictured is the artist illformative's Adam 9.0. JOËL Cintron Photos.
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Jisu Sheen on a recent Friday. Lucy Gellman Photos; all artwork by Jisu Sheen.
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Ryan Minezzi and Mahari Kerrison. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Anthony Murrell of Black Goat Milk Clothiers. Kayla Yup Photos.
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In foreground: Ruby Gonzalez Hernandez’ “A Myth In My Heart, A Stake In Your Hand." Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Steven DiGiovanni, Untitled (chasm); Greg Slick The Lives of Others 7 and The Lives of Others 17; Donna Forma, Freeing The Mind. Miranda Jeyaretnam Photos.
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Artist Kathleen DeMeo at an opening of the show last week. Abiba Biao Photos.
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Sculptor Robert Taplin and artist Ridha Ali. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Mitchell Rembert with the in-progress carving of his parents. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Installation view, To Dissolve into the Hydrocommons, One Drop at a Time. The exhibition, from New York based artist sTo Len, runs in the Seton Gallery at the at the University of New Haven through December 9. Photos by Jessica Smolinski courtesy of Seton Gallery.
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Antonius-Tín Bui's installation becomes the centerpiece of Băng Qua Nước: Across Land, Across Water, which runs at Creative Arts Workshop through Nov. 23. The show is curated by Yale University fourth year Ivy Vuong. Miranda Jeyaretnam Photos.
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Michael Peterson and Jason Friedes. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Isaac Bloodworth in June 2020, at the installation of his work Black Kid Joy at City Hill in New Haven. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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Installation shot of the exhibition. Chris Gardner Photos Courtesy of NXTHVN.
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Detail, Susan Clinard's Wishing Tree. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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All artwork by students; Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Lucy Gellman Photos; all artwork by Jisu Sheen, Kulimushi Barongozi, and Sita Sunil.
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Marc Quinn: History Painting +, fourth-floor gallery installation, courtesy of the artist and Yale Center for British Art. Richard Caspole Photo.
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Semi-Semi Dikoko with David Sepulveda and Aleta Staton at the Arts Awards in December 2012. Judy Sirota Rosenthal Photo with permission from the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.
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The class on College Street. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Work by the artist Scott Schuldt in Decoys & Mimics. The show, curated by artist Martha Lewis, runs at the Institute Library in downtown New Haven through Sept. 22. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Larry Morse and Jane Gilman Fleischner. Their joint exhibition,“In Need of More Light," runs at the Mitchell Branch Library through August 30. Abiba Biao Photos.
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The Game of Chess. All artwork by Magdalena Fin. Al Larriva-Latt Photos.
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HSC freshman freshman Tioana Williams. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Installation View Dyschronics, Artspace New Haven, February 11–April 16, 2022. Photo: Jessica Smolinski.
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Photographer Herve Locus at The Devil's Gear Bike Shop last Friday. Store co-owner Johnny Brehon said he hopes to do pop-ups every few weeks going forward. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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David Sepulveda. Jadan Anderson Photos.
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Members of the rally. Adrian Huq Photos.
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Damien Hirst’s In and Out of Love (Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays) © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd., in Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center’s Collections, an exhibition on view at the Yale Center for British Art, October 1, 2020-December 31, 2021. Photo: Richard Caspole, Yale Center for British Art.
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Detail, Caroline Harman’s painting Principles of Uncertainty. Both Solos and #WIP run at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art through Nov. 14. Leah Andelsmith Photos.
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Martha Friedman's work is in conversation with the history and process of mummification. Lucy Gellman Photos; all work by the artists.
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Artist Martha Savage holds up her signature "timecards:" mixed media cards that are often composed to portray larger societal issues such as racial injustice, access to health care, and the Covid-19 pandemic. Raquel Burgess Photos; the second photo is by Martha Savage of her timecards.
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Installation view of Exposed Secrets: Marjorie Gillette Wolfe / Secrets Exposed: Kate Henderson at Kehler Liddell Gallery. Jacquelyn Gleisner Photos.
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Alyssa Thomas, a rising freshman at Metropolitan Business Academy, with the artist Aime Mulungula. Mulungula graduated from Hill Regional Career High School in June and is headed to the University of Connecticut in the fall. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Marsh in her home, which is also her studio, on a recent Monday. Lucy Gellman Photo.
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The artists Martha Willette Lewis and Marion Belanger. Ivy Fan Photos.
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Detail, Lunar Volvelle. Monica Ong Photo.
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Kate Henderson's Mitochondrial Eve. Olivia Gross Photos.
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The artist on SCSU's campus. Isabel Chenoweth/SCSU Photo.
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10-year-old Emanuel Diaz, who came out to paint last Saturday. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Noé Jimenez painting one of the four images that make up the street mural on Central Avenue. Arturo Pineda Photos.
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Excessive Use by Vanessa Giraldos. Photo Courtesy of the New Haven Pride Center.
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Melissa Sands, the art teacher at the school formerly known as Christopher Columbus Family Academy (CCFA), on a video lesson with retired CCFA teacher, Carmen Conyer interpreting. Screenshot courtesy of Sands.
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A member from Unidad Latina en Acción prepares some of the filling to go into the skeleton's costume. Contributed Photo.
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Sara Zunda, Growth. Giclee Print. Images courtesy of Bailout Gallery.
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Kim Weston at City-Wide Open Studios in 2018. Lucy Gellman File Photo.
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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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The portrait installed in Yale's Sterling Memorial Library. Ian Christmann Photo.
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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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The artist during a recent interview. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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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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Sisters Valerie and Beck Doty. 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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A detail of the of the illustrations. Karen Marks Photos.
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A detail from Heidi Geist's Lost City . Lucy Gellman Photos.
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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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Joy Meikle: “Everyone leads, and you have to build from a diverse population.” Karen Marks 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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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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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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“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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New Sphinx , 2016. All photos courtesy Kyle Kearson.
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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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Adae's rendering. Photo courtesy Kwadwo Adae.
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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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Susan Ernst works to intubate her "patient" before it's too late. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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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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Lovestruck runs through March 1 at mActivity. 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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John Keefer's "Airstrike" installed at Giampietro Gallery. Stephen Urchick Photo.
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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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Zane in the NICU at Yale-New Haven Hospital. JoAnn Marrero 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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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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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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Salmon with the piece on Wednesday. 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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A detail from Sooo-z Mastropietro's Boob-Tube. Photo courtesy City Lights.
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Bust Op , a one day affair that Saunders said may repeat. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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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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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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Andrew Burbank looked out on his fellow Chapel Haven students, staff, and community members.
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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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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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