A new exhibition to be installed at the Schwarzman Center, “Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven,” will illuminate ongoing research that recovers the essential role of Black people throughout Yale and New Haven history. The exhibition puts back at the center of local storytelling people who have always been central to local history. It celebrates Black community building, resistance, and resilience on campus and in New Haven.

The show will include nearly one hundred images of Yale’s earliest Black students from the 1800s and early 1900s, many of whom had deep New Haven connections. The Schwarzman exhibition will also feature compelling reproductions of photographs of New Haveners who were custodians of Yale. The Luke, Grimes, Creed, Park, and Bassett families, among the many people key to founding and sustaining Yale, will be heralded in the show.

“Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven” will showcase the proposal, made and thwarted in 1831, to build a Black college in New Haven. It will also highlight the successful efforts of Black students in the 1960s to establish the Afro-American Cultural Center and Afro-American Studies at Yale.

This exhibition brings forth knowledge kept alive in archives and memory for many centuries—even when the dominant culture chose to ignore, bury, or forget. It extends the work of the Yale and Slavery Research Project and follows from the exhibition, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale and Slavery,” at the New Haven Museum from February 16, 2024 – March 1, 2025.

The exhibition team includes David Jon Walker ’23 MFA, lead designer, and Michael Morand ’87 ’93 M.Div., lead curator, with Timeica Bethel ’11, Rob Brown, Jennifer Coggins, Tubyez Cropper, Mohamed Diallo ’26, Regina Mason, Hope McGrath, Carlynne Robinson, and Charles Warner, Jr.

The 6-Square Jam Art Exhibit & Sale is a community-wide, all-inclusive art show in which everyone, no matter your level of artistic skill, is invited and welcome to participate.

We invite entries that are 6 inches by 6 inches square (no more than 2 inches thick). Work in any medium you like. Submissions accepted April 1-April 30. See complete rules, instructions and entry form at westvilleartwalk.org under the start your art tab or email criticaldave@frontiernet.net with 6-Square in the subject line.

This exhibit opens May 6 at the Kehler Liddell Gallery in the Westville neighborhood of New Haven. It is part of the Westville Artwalk and is an annual fundraiser for WVRA (Westville Village Renaissance Alliance).

Explore your creativity, make art and, most of all, have fun.

Beginner workshops are perfect for you to grab your friends, grab a drink and come make tiny trees! We’re bringing the awesome art of bonsai out of the hedged in gardens and into the streets! Or at least into your favorite bars/breweries/pubs. Bonsai Bar is a night of fun you don’t want to miss. Learn the fundamental skills and techniques behind the art of bonsai while enjoying a night out with friends! Our teachers will introduce core concepts and guide your experience as you pot, prune, and design your very own bonsai tree! Our Guarantee: These tiny trees are so hardy we guarantee you can keep yours alive, or we’ll replace it.

This workshop will be hosted at Valor Wines. Located in North Haven Connecticut, we are a family owned and operated micro winery with generations of experience in wine making. This nurtured passion allows us to make unique and distinctive wines using grapes from all over the world. It was a long fight to start one of the first micro wineries in CT, and we were excited to finally open our doors in September 2021. Our passion for wine making blends respect for tradition with boundless curiosity for what is possible. We believe knowing your roots can uncork the potential to think outside the bottle. Making us uniquely situated to create one of a kind small batch wines which will invoke both familiar comfort and striking intrigue. Come visit us in our state of the art facility, where industrial meets medieval romance.

Under 21 policy: Please contact Valor Wines for details regarding underage entry

For more about Bonsai Bar and what to expect at our classes, visit our website at: https://bonsaibar.com/products/valor-wines

Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Friday, April 18 (Good Friday); Saturday, April 19 (Holy Saturday); Sunday, April 20 (Easter); Saturday, June 7; Friday, July 4 (Independence Day); Thurday, November 27 (Thanksgiving); Wednesday, December 24 (Christmas Eve); and Thursday, December 25 (Christmas Day).

Many crèches, the three-dimensional representation of the Nativity scene, feature a diversity of settings and stable designs — the most common of which is an open-front wood structure. However, many artisans model their crèches after buildings and landscapes that are native to their homelands.

This exhibit includes a variety of crèches that showcase different examples of stables and mangers. In addition, it also highlights a handful of works whose settings have been customized for the figures they contain. One of these is the Neapolitan, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, by Cantone and Costabile of Naples, Italy. In addition, a brand-new crèche will be featured in this exhibit: The Nativity at New Haven's St. Mary’s Church, designed by US-based Navidad Nativities, Inc., with figures made in Italy by Original Heide.

March 22 – September 7, 2025 | Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Friday, April 18 (Good Friday); Saturday, April 19 (Holy Saturday); Sunday, April 20 (Easter); Saturday, June 7; and Friday, July 4 (Independence Day).

Separated by 2,781 miles and on two different continents, Iraqi and Nigerian Christians share similar stories of persecution. From 2014-2018, portions of Northern Iraq were under the control of the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and many religious minorities, including Christians, experienced persecution and violence as a result. In the northern and central portions of Nigeria, violence towards Christians and other minority groups has also increased in recent years at the hands of Boko Haram and other groups. 

The Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center is honored to share the stories of those displaced in Iraq and Nigeria through Among the Persecuted and Displaced — a collection of photographs taken by Stephen Rasche. The Knights of Columbus has sponsored some of Rasche’s work in both countries, bringing to light the atrocities inflicted on those persecuted for their faith.

Learn more: https://www.michaelmcgivneycenter.org/exhibits/among-the-persecuted-and-displaced/

Chair seated exercise class for seniors. Relax the mind, body and soul through gentle chair seated exercise using the breath via zoom.

This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 27 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12-4 p.m. View event site for full details.

Raised in the Eastern Orthodox faith, contemporary Bulgarian artist Svetlozar Parmakov is deeply familiar with its visual lexicon. Through his virtuosic, free-style draftsmanship he both references and reimagines Orthodox iconography, reclaiming its significance for a modern-day viewer. Parmakov applies his signature, free-style technique of hand-engraving and hand-coloring unglazed porcelain, a fine white ceramic material, to creating religious icons, paintings, and decorative vessels, all rendered with intricate detail and shimmering in muted silvers and golds.

In addition to the titular painting, Noah’s Garden, the exhibition features icons of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and saints such as St. George and St. Nicholas, paintings of natural scenes as well as bowls, platters, and vases with elaborate, allover geometric and vegetal patterns. Intimate in scale and meant to be appreciated up close, even handled, the works on view engage the senses, solicit sustained attention, and invite reflection. The delicately outlined and interlocking forms, together with the resplendent hues, recall stained-glass windows, but also a broader cross-cultural history of East-West artistic influences and exchange.

Parmakov’s art transcends time and technology further to draw on his homeland’s rich cultural heritage. His porcelain creations reactivate the magnificent ceramic production that flourished in the 9th and 10th centuries CE around the first two Bulgarian capitals of Pliska and Preslav located in the northeastern part of the country, where Parmakov spends his summers and fires his works. Besides their use for architectural ornamentation and luxury tableware, ceramics were utilized in the local icon painting tradition with ceramic icons ranging in size, shape, subject matter, and purpose. Through his choice of material and imagery, Parmakov recovers the splendor and impact of Bulgaria’s medieval decorative ceramic arts which have reached us largely in fragmentary state and gives us ways to encounter them whole again.

Artist’s Statement:

An enchanted world of porcelain, replete with filigree and fantasy. A dynamic, luminous space of plants, animals, and ornamental designs, all permeated by God’s presence. Works of art created through a unique process in a distinctive style, glowing in silver, gold, and platinum.

I would define my style as “decorative realism.” Ornamentation is foundational for my work, and I constantly expand and enrich my repertoire of decorative motifs. I seek to show that the ceramic medium transcends the applied arts, that it exists in the realm of the fine arts and that it can serve a spiritual purpose. I would be happy if the light with which my works are suffused touched the viewers’ souls.

-Svetlozar Parmakov, January 2025

Free and open to the public.

Exhibition curated by Liliana Milkova.

All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday,March 26 at 5 p.m.

We are excited to announce that the ISM will be linking its exhibitions to the Smartify app. The app is available as a free download from the App Store and Google Play, or you can access content through the Smartify webpage at app.smartify.org. The Smartify app will allow you to directly scan artworks that are on display, as well as QR codes that are placed around the exhibition, to receive more information. You will also be able to save your favorite artworks and share them to social media.

Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza

Photo: Svetlozar Parmakov at work on Noah’s Garden (porcelain, 2025). Photo credit: Svetlozar Parmakov.

Instructed by Annie Sailer

39 Putnam Ave, Floor 2, Hamden, CT

From the 1890s until his death in 1906, Cézanne continued to live a solitary and hugely productive life. He painted Provençal scenes in an ever-broader, summarizing style, aided by studies in watercolor. He returned to ambitious figural subjects that had occupied him intermittently for years: groups of nude bathers in landscapes, local men playing cards, even subjects from classical antiquity. His last portraits, almost all of local people, are full of sober empathy. Solo exhibitions in Paris in 1895 and 1907 finally revealed to the public, and to younger artists, the greatness of his work. Pablo Picasso remarked that, thereafter, “Cézanne’s influence gradually flooded everything.” Henri Matisse called him “father of us all.” 

Generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund and the John Walsh Lecture and Education Fund. 

Attend in person in the Gallery’s Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall or virtually on Zoom. No registration required for in-person attendance. The doors to the lecture hall open at 12:30 pm. Space is limited. 

Registration required for virtual attendance; to register, visit https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_n9I83GRmSaOD8i-5zLItXQ. On Zoom, closed captions will be available in English. All lectures will be filmed and archived to the Gallery’s YouTube channel.  

Learn more about the lecture series.

Join us for a CAPTIVATING journey through the world of photography, where moments are not just frozen in time but come alive right in your hands. Learn to tell stories through image making. Gain a mentor, free camera equipment and more. Take control of the camera you possess. Learn how to sustain yourself as a fine art photographer and commercial photographer. Learn to shoot like the pros!

In Person at Ely Center of Contemporary Art

Join us for a captivating journey through the world of photography, where moments are not just frozen in time but come alive right in your hands. Learn to tell your stories through image making. Gain a mentor, free camera equipment and more.

Take control of the camera you possess. Learn how to sustain yourself as a fine art photographer & commercial photographer. Learn to shoot like the pros.

Join us for a captivating journey through the world of photography, where moments are not just frozen in time but come alive right in your hands. Learn to tell your stories through image making. Gain a mentor, free camera equipment and more.

Take control of the camera you possess. Learn how to sustain yourself as a fine art photographer & commercial photographer. Learn to shoot like the pros.

Imagine a future you are excited to live in, that you can't wait to get to. If it's difficult, you're not alone. Dystopic visions of the future dominate popular culture, but what if we empower each other with hope by letting ourselves dream? That's why Yale Planetary Solutions is launching Sci X Sci-Fi, a new conversation between those crafting visions and building worlds with those innovating and inventing.

Science fiction author and science journalist Annalee Newitz will lead a panel discussion on what it will take to create a thriving, sustainable future for all – in cities new and old – and pathways for technology and creativity to combine to make that vision a reality. This event, which is free and open to the public, will take place at the New Haven Free Public Library and conclude the first edition of the Yale Planetary Solutions Sci X Sci-Fi series and will be followed by light refreshments.

Register here.

Learn more about Sci X Sci-Fi and see the full schedule: https://planetarysolutions.yale.edu/news/imagine-write-invent-and-build-sustainable-future-sci-x-sci-fi-march-31-april-3

🎨 Unlock Your Child’s Creativity at The Giggling Pig! 🖌️

Looking for the perfect art class for your child? The Giggling Pig offers engaging, age-appropriate programs designed to nurture creativity, build skills, and encourage self-expression in a fun and supportive environment!

✨ Beginner Class (Ages 4-6) – 1 Hour

Introduce your little artist to the fundamentals of art! Through guided instruction, kids explore blending, composition, and different techniques while having fun and developing their unique style.

🎭 Intermediate Class (Ages 7-9) – 1.5 Hours

A deeper dive into creativity! Students work more independently, experimenting with clay, watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, and more. They’ll learn composition, values, and color theory while creating detailed artwork.

🎨 Advanced & Junior Advanced (Ages 8-16) – 2 Hours

Designed for pre-teens and teens, this class allows students to explore their artistic passions at their own pace. From composition and shading to blending and detailed projects, this class is perfect for young artists looking to grow.

📅 Classes held weekly—pre-registration required! Weekly attendance encouraged but not required.

💰 Class packs available for savings opportunities!

Join us at The Giggling Pig, where imagination comes to life! 🌟

📍 Reserve your child’s spot today!

In The Dance, photographer Joel Furtek presents photos of wildlife, motorsports, rowing, and aviation to explore the rhythms around us. He plays with scale and sampling to highlight the relationships between movement and rest, power and calm, potential and kinetic energy. Vivid color and stark contrast run throughout the exhibit.

The artist’s opening reception with refreshments will be held from 5-7PM on Thursday, April 3 at the New Haven Lawn Club; the exhibit is open to the public from 9AM-5PM seven days a week through June 15.

What’s the difference between cement and concrete? What do all of the letters mean on the bags of mortar? Why are my bricks cracking after they’ve been just been repointed?

Join New Haven Preservation Trust and MakeHaven for this workshop which is intended to introduce homeowners and DIYers to basic concepts of masonry repair for older buildings including selection of appropriate tools, products, and methods for the job. Attendees will gain confidence in tackling simple projects around the house – or evaluating the credentials of a professional masonry firm hired for more complex work. A variety of examples featuring rubble stone, brick, and block construction methods will guide discussion. 

This program is intended for a general audience with no prior knowledge or experience needed. Thanks to a partnership with MakeHaven and the New Haven Preservation Trust, this will be a free event!

Please kindly RSVP so that we can provide enough seating in the upstairs classroom. In the event that you register and are unable to attend this session, please notify administration@nhpt.org as soon as possible so that we can make your spot available to somebody else.

Instructor: Oliver Gaffney

You must click below and REGISTER to attend at:

https://www.makehaven.org/civicrm/event/info?id=397&reset=1&reset=1

Scroll to the bottom of the page and complete the information under Register (gray box) and hit submit. You will receive an acknowledgement by email. Questions? Email info@makehaven.org

Internationally renowned historian, writer, filmmaker, playwright, and activist Dr. Marcus Rediker will present, “Rethinking the Amistad Story” at the New Haven Museum (NHM), on Thursday, April 3, 2025. Reception at 5:30 pm., program at 6 p.m. Registration is required for the free program and available here. The program will stream live on Facebook and later be shared on the NHM YouTube channel.

This is a rare local opportunity to meet the historian whose work transformed the understanding of the Amistad revolt and was central to the recent re-interpretation of the permanent New Haven Museum exhibit, “Amistad: Retold,” which opened in 2024. Rediker will discuss who the African rebels were, how they waged the uprising, and what the ordeal meant to them. He will explore the legacies of the Amistad Revolt as a powerful example of resistance to oppression that was, as he says, a “deeply human affair about real people, under real circumstances, making life-and-death decisions in real time.” 

The local history of Amistad will also be discussed: what happened in the interactions between the Amistad Africans and the mostly white abolitionists in the New Haven jail; how the two groups together built a local and diverse social movement to support the legal battle; and how groups like the Amistad Committee subsequently kept the history of the event alive in popular memory. 

Learn basic metalsmithing for making jewelry, developing new skills, or strengthen existing ones. Weekly demonstrations introduce tools and techniques required for working with nonferrous sheet metal and wire. Demonstrations may include sawing, filing, cold-connecting, soldering, surface embellishment, forging, shaping, fold forming, finishing, and patina coloring.

The tuition for this class includes a fee of $40 for basic materials provided by CAW.

New Haven, CT — "Once on This Island" is a captivating musical that tells the enchanting story of Ti Moune, a young girl from the Caribbean who embarks on a journey of love and self-discovery. Set against the backdrop of a vibrant island, the tale weaves together themes of hope, sacrifice, and the power of love, as Ti Moune defies social boundaries to pursue her heart's desire. With infectious rhythms and heartfelt melodies, this production invites audiences to experience the magic of storytelling through music and dance.

Once on this Island runs April 3rd - April 4th at New Haven Academy (444 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511). Performances take place Thursday and Friday at 7:35pm, and Saturday at 11:05am & 7:35pm. Appropriate for middle school students and above. The production features a full band of both NHPS students & professional musicians, all led by the incomparable Kevin James - NHPS Graduate (Music Director) and is choreographed by the incomparable - Ms. Carissa Kee - another NHPS graduate.

Tickets are $15 (adults) / $7 (students) IN ADVANCE and $20 (adults) / $7 (students) AT THE DOOR  (there is a small service charge attached to all online orders). For more information visit www.nhadrama.org . To book tickets at Will Call, call our box office Monday - Friday 2:45pm - 7:00pm (203) 444-7269. To book online, visit www.nhadrama.org  

Join us for a mesmerizing journey into the art of laser lantern making! Bring your unique design ideas to life as you learn the ins and outs of utilizing a laser cutter to intricately craft your lantern masterpiece. In this hands-on class, you'll not only design and cut your lantern but also master the basics of wiring to bring your creation to life with a warm, radiant glow.

What to Expect:

This workshop invites participants to unleash their creativity by designing and crafting a personalized lantern. Bring your own design or create one on the spot; either way, you'll discover the magic of using a laser cutter to precision-cut your lantern's intricate patterns. As the finishing touch, you'll delve into the world of basic wiring to illuminate your lantern, creating a captivating masterpiece that reflects your unique design sensibilities.

This class takes place over two consecutive Thursdays:

April 3rd - Lantern design

April 10th - Laser cutting, LED lighting inclusion

Skills You'll Acquire:

- Laser Cutter Proficiency: Master the art of using a laser cutter, from setting up your design on the computer to executing precision cuts. Explore tips and tricks for optimal results.

- Design Fundamentals: Understand the principles of creating a design suitable for laser cutting, ensuring your lantern reflects your artistic vision.

- Material Selection: Gain insights into selecting the right materials for your lantern, considering both aesthetic and functional aspects.

- Basic Wiring Techniques: Learn the essentials of basic wiring, enabling you to illuminate your lantern with confidence. Understand how to connect LEDs or other lighting elements safely.

- Safety Protocols: Acquire knowledge about safety protocols when using a laser cutter, ensuring a secure and enjoyable crafting experience.

Who Should Attend:

This workshop welcomes creative enthusiasts of all levels. Whether you're a seasoned designer or a first-time crafter, the workshop is designed to cater to your artistic aspirations.

What's Provided:

All necessary materials and equipment, including access to a laser cutter, will be provided. Bring your design ideas and let your imagination run wild!

Instructor:Sean Bender

You must click below and REGISTER to attend at:

https://www.makehaven.org/civicrm/event/info?id=417&reset=1&reset=1

Scroll to the bottom of the page and complete the information under Register (gray box) and hit submit. You will receive an acknowledgement by email. Questions? Email info@makehaven.org

A new exhibition to be installed at the Schwarzman Center, “Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven,” will illuminate ongoing research that recovers the essential role of Black people throughout Yale and New Haven history. The exhibition puts back at the center of local storytelling people who have always been central to local history. It celebrates Black community building, resistance, and resilience on campus and in New Haven.

The show will include nearly one hundred images of Yale’s earliest Black students from the 1800s and early 1900s, many of whom had deep New Haven connections. The Schwarzman exhibition will also feature compelling reproductions of photographs of New Haveners who were custodians of Yale. The Luke, Grimes, Creed, Park, and Bassett families, among the many people key to founding and sustaining Yale, will be heralded in the show.

“Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven” will showcase the proposal, made and thwarted in 1831, to build a Black college in New Haven. It will also highlight the successful efforts of Black students in the 1960s to establish the Afro-American Cultural Center and Afro-American Studies at Yale.

This exhibition brings forth knowledge kept alive in archives and memory for many centuries—even when the dominant culture chose to ignore, bury, or forget. It extends the work of the Yale and Slavery Research Project and follows from the exhibition, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale and Slavery,” at the New Haven Museum from February 16, 2024 – March 1, 2025.

The exhibition team includes David Jon Walker ’23 MFA, lead designer, and Michael Morand ’87 ’93 M.Div., lead curator, with Timeica Bethel ’11, Rob Brown, Jennifer Coggins, Tubyez Cropper, Mohamed Diallo ’26, Regina Mason, Hope McGrath, Carlynne Robinson, and Charles Warner, Jr.

The 6-Square Jam Art Exhibit & Sale is a community-wide, all-inclusive art show in which everyone, no matter your level of artistic skill, is invited and welcome to participate.

We invite entries that are 6 inches by 6 inches square (no more than 2 inches thick). Work in any medium you like. Submissions accepted April 1-April 30. See complete rules, instructions and entry form at westvilleartwalk.org under the start your art tab or email criticaldave@frontiernet.net with 6-Square in the subject line.

This exhibit opens May 6 at the Kehler Liddell Gallery in the Westville neighborhood of New Haven. It is part of the Westville Artwalk and is an annual fundraiser for WVRA (Westville Village Renaissance Alliance).

Explore your creativity, make art and, most of all, have fun.

Are you looking to improve your throwing skills? Seeking to center your clay and yourself? Do you need a hand with hand building?

This class offers an opportunity to work towards your goals in clay and further your individual projects with differentiated instruction.

Wear clothes that can get dirty and closed toe shoes.

Pottery tool kits are available for sale in the studio for $27. Cash or check only. Firing fees are $3/pound. Cash or check only.

Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours on a first-come, first-served basis.

This one-man comedic show, adapted from a full-length comedy which won the Neil Simon Festival New Play Contest, centers on Kevin Beeker, a guy who wants to tell the audience why he missed his dad’s retirement party twelve years earlier. Equipped with anecdotes of how his crazy family drove him away, this one man show deliciously and entertainingly portrayed by playwright Kevin Daly, discovers that maybe he’s been looking at it the wrong way. Maybe it’s not about whose fault it is-- and it’s more about the time that was lost while he was busy blaming others. A humorous look at life full of zany situations that we find ourselves in and poignant look towards a hopeful future as we learn and grow along the way, this production is a must see!

March 22 – September 7, 2025 | Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Friday, April 18 (Good Friday); Saturday, April 19 (Holy Saturday); Sunday, April 20 (Easter); Saturday, June 7; and Friday, July 4 (Independence Day).

Separated by 2,781 miles and on two different continents, Iraqi and Nigerian Christians share similar stories of persecution. From 2014-2018, portions of Northern Iraq were under the control of the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and many religious minorities, including Christians, experienced persecution and violence as a result. In the northern and central portions of Nigeria, violence towards Christians and other minority groups has also increased in recent years at the hands of Boko Haram and other groups. 

The Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center is honored to share the stories of those displaced in Iraq and Nigeria through Among the Persecuted and Displaced — a collection of photographs taken by Stephen Rasche. The Knights of Columbus has sponsored some of Rasche’s work in both countries, bringing to light the atrocities inflicted on those persecuted for their faith.

Learn more: https://www.michaelmcgivneycenter.org/exhibits/among-the-persecuted-and-displaced/

Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Friday, April 18 (Good Friday); Saturday, April 19 (Holy Saturday); Sunday, April 20 (Easter); Saturday, June 7; Friday, July 4 (Independence Day); Thurday, November 27 (Thanksgiving); Wednesday, December 24 (Christmas Eve); and Thursday, December 25 (Christmas Day).

Many crèches, the three-dimensional representation of the Nativity scene, feature a diversity of settings and stable designs — the most common of which is an open-front wood structure. However, many artisans model their crèches after buildings and landscapes that are native to their homelands.

This exhibit includes a variety of crèches that showcase different examples of stables and mangers. In addition, it also highlights a handful of works whose settings have been customized for the figures they contain. One of these is the Neapolitan, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, by Cantone and Costabile of Naples, Italy. In addition, a brand-new crèche will be featured in this exhibit: The Nativity at New Haven's St. Mary’s Church, designed by US-based Navidad Nativities, Inc., with figures made in Italy by Original Heide.

This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 27 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12-4 p.m. View event site for full details.

Raised in the Eastern Orthodox faith, contemporary Bulgarian artist Svetlozar Parmakov is deeply familiar with its visual lexicon. Through his virtuosic, free-style draftsmanship he both references and reimagines Orthodox iconography, reclaiming its significance for a modern-day viewer. Parmakov applies his signature, free-style technique of hand-engraving and hand-coloring unglazed porcelain, a fine white ceramic material, to creating religious icons, paintings, and decorative vessels, all rendered with intricate detail and shimmering in muted silvers and golds.

In addition to the titular painting, Noah’s Garden, the exhibition features icons of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and saints such as St. George and St. Nicholas, paintings of natural scenes as well as bowls, platters, and vases with elaborate, allover geometric and vegetal patterns. Intimate in scale and meant to be appreciated up close, even handled, the works on view engage the senses, solicit sustained attention, and invite reflection. The delicately outlined and interlocking forms, together with the resplendent hues, recall stained-glass windows, but also a broader cross-cultural history of East-West artistic influences and exchange.

Parmakov’s art transcends time and technology further to draw on his homeland’s rich cultural heritage. His porcelain creations reactivate the magnificent ceramic production that flourished in the 9th and 10th centuries CE around the first two Bulgarian capitals of Pliska and Preslav located in the northeastern part of the country, where Parmakov spends his summers and fires his works. Besides their use for architectural ornamentation and luxury tableware, ceramics were utilized in the local icon painting tradition with ceramic icons ranging in size, shape, subject matter, and purpose. Through his choice of material and imagery, Parmakov recovers the splendor and impact of Bulgaria’s medieval decorative ceramic arts which have reached us largely in fragmentary state and gives us ways to encounter them whole again.

Artist’s Statement:

An enchanted world of porcelain, replete with filigree and fantasy. A dynamic, luminous space of plants, animals, and ornamental designs, all permeated by God’s presence. Works of art created through a unique process in a distinctive style, glowing in silver, gold, and platinum.

I would define my style as “decorative realism.” Ornamentation is foundational for my work, and I constantly expand and enrich my repertoire of decorative motifs. I seek to show that the ceramic medium transcends the applied arts, that it exists in the realm of the fine arts and that it can serve a spiritual purpose. I would be happy if the light with which my works are suffused touched the viewers’ souls.

-Svetlozar Parmakov, January 2025

Free and open to the public.

Exhibition curated by Liliana Milkova.

All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday,March 26 at 5 p.m.

We are excited to announce that the ISM will be linking its exhibitions to the Smartify app. The app is available as a free download from the App Store and Google Play, or you can access content through the Smartify webpage at app.smartify.org. The Smartify app will allow you to directly scan artworks that are on display, as well as QR codes that are placed around the exhibition, to receive more information. You will also be able to save your favorite artworks and share them to social media.

Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza

Photo: Svetlozar Parmakov at work on Noah’s Garden (porcelain, 2025). Photo credit: Svetlozar Parmakov.

Photographer Phyllis Crowley asks CAN YOU FREE A MIND? in this new exhibit at City Gallery. Her latest collection of work will be on view from April 4 - April 27, with a Reception and Artist Talk on Sunday, April 6, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. The artist will also be in the Gallery on Sunday, April 27 to meet with visitors and answer questions. City

Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are

Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City

Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

Join us on the first Friday of the month for a one-hour, in-person tour of the Leslie P. and George H. Hume American Furniture Study Center at the Collection Studies Center, Yale West Campus. See more than 1,300 examples of American furniture and clocks from the 17th century to the present in this facility, which opened in 2019, as well as an outstanding collection of contemporary wood art.  

Registration required.

🎨 Unlock Your Child’s Creativity at The Giggling Pig! 🖌️

Looking for the perfect art class for your child? The Giggling Pig offers engaging, age-appropriate programs designed to nurture creativity, build skills, and encourage self-expression in a fun and supportive environment!

✨ Beginner Class (Ages 4-6) – 1 Hour

Introduce your little artist to the fundamentals of art! Through guided instruction, kids explore blending, composition, and different techniques while having fun and developing their unique style.

🎭 Intermediate Class (Ages 7-9) – 1.5 Hours

A deeper dive into creativity! Students work more independently, experimenting with clay, watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, and more. They’ll learn composition, values, and color theory while creating detailed artwork.

🎨 Advanced & Junior Advanced (Ages 8-16) – 2 Hours

Designed for pre-teens and teens, this class allows students to explore their artistic passions at their own pace. From composition and shading to blending and detailed projects, this class is perfect for young artists looking to grow.

📅 Classes held weekly—pre-registration required! Weekly attendance encouraged but not required.

💰 Class packs available for savings opportunities!

Join us at The Giggling Pig, where imagination comes to life! 🌟

📍 Reserve your child’s spot today!

Inaugurated in 1867, Street Hall—today part of the Yale University Art Gallery—housed the first collegiate school of art in the country. Its curriculum permitted students from a variety of disciplines to sketch from live models and original works of art. Take part in this centuries-old practice by joining us for an evening of guided sketching. Generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund. 

Open to all ages and levels of drawing experience. Materials will be provided. 

***Multi-Day Event-4 week workshop****

Embark on a journey into the world of 3D design with our "Mastering SOLIDWORKS: Fundamentals of 3D Part Modeling" workshop. SOLIDWORKS stands as the industry standard for 3D design, and this workshop is your gateway to unlocking its vast potential. Whether you're charting a course for a STEAM career or simply eager to dive into the realm of 3D modeling, this fundamentals module is tailored for those new to 3D solid modeling.

What to Expect

In this hands-on four-week workshop, you’ll learn the essentials of creating 3D parametric models in SOLIDWORKS. Through a combination of engaging lectures, guided demonstrations, and hands-on tutorials, you’ll build a strong foundation in 3D modeling, culminating in the creation and 3D printing of your own part files.

📅 Schedule: This class meets four consecutive Fridays, from March 14 – April 4, 2025. (8 total hours of instruction)

Skills You'll Acquire:

🔹 2D Sketching & Constraints – Learn to create fully constrained 2D sketches, the foundation of 3D solid models. Understand key sketching techniques and constraints for accurate designs.

🔹 3D Solid Modeling – Convert 2D sketches into precise 3D models using fundamental SOLIDWORKS tools.

🔹 Feature Editing & Refinements – Apply rounds, chamfers, and other treatment features to enhance the form and functionality of your designs.

 Creating Hole Features – Learn how to add different hole types and understand their applications in real-world designs.

🔹 Advanced 3D Features (Time Permitting) – Explore swept and lofted features to expand your modeling capabilities.

Who Should Attend

This workshop is ideal for:

✅ Beginners who are new to 3D modeling and want to learn SOLIDWORKS.

✅ Students, professionals, and hobbyists looking to develop technical design skills.

✅ Anyone interested in 3D printing and parametric modeling.

What’s Provided & Requirements

🔹 Participants must bring a laptop with SOLIDWORKS installed.

🔹 A limited number of laptops are available for loan—please email events@makehaven.org in advance if you need one.

***Join us and bring your 3D design aspirations to life!

Instructor: Matthew Burke

You must click below and REGISTER to attend at:

https://www.makehaven.org/civicrm/event/info?id=336&reset=1&reset=1

Scroll to the bottom of the page and complete the information under Register (gray box) and hit submit. You will receive an acknowledgement by email. Questions? Email info@makehaven.org

On Friday, April 4th at 6PM New England Brewery sets the stage for camaraderie and unforgettable music, all to benefit this year’s Folk Festival and Green Expo.

On stage to support this fund raiser:

Benny Mikula CT singer song writer, better known as the Lone Gnome and member of the Alpaca Gnomes, is a compelling acoustic performer. His soulful lyrics are passionate and touching and is electric energy brings it all home. He is well known and loved by his audiences.

Lara Herscovitch CT singer song writer, poet, performer gem and a CT State Troubadour from 2009-2010. She leads with authenticity, integrity, humor and heart,reflecting  courage, authenticity, adventure, healing, love and loss, the hero’s journey, faith and freedom in her performances. She is also the band leader of the Highway Philosophers trio.

Pierce Campbell also a CT State Troubadour 2007-2008, has a long and varied musical history as a songwriter and solo performer. He is equally comfortable playing jazz, rock and role and performing as a solo artist. Pierce fronts the bands The Kerry Boys, The Exrtas and 60’s Satisfaction.

 For 32 years the not for profit CT Folk, has presented this a free festival bringing spirited emrging and more established musical performers to the crown jewel of New Haven’s park system, Edgewood Park in Hamden. The Green Expo turns 20 this year and has been a penultimate resource for environmental knowledge, couched in the spirit of fun, especially for kids in the Green Kids Zone.

Join us and sit back and enjoy a great night of music while sipping one of NEBCO’s famous brews. The best part is knowing you will be supporting the 2025 CT Folk Festival and Green Expo. We can not do it without you! Save the date Sept 6th 2025.

For tickets through Eventbrite https://bit.ly/ctfolkfest

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. is an electrifying tribute celebrating the music of the legendary Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. This concert experience takes audiences on a journey of love, tragedy, courage, and triumph. Featuring a live band and supreme vocalists, come experience a night of music by one of the greatest artists of all time.

The concert features all your favorite hits in one evening, including "Natural Woman,” “Think,” “I Knew You Were Waiting for Me,” “Chain of Fools,” “Respect,” and many more. You’ll be out of your seat and dancing in the aisles as you lose yourself in the music that inspired a generation.

Edgewood Afterschool Drama Club presents Willy Wonka, Jr. at Hill Regional Career High School April 4th, 5th, and 6th.

Tickets are available at edgewood-drama.ticketleap.com

Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. “Dust” for wind ensemble and brass quintet by Jennifer Jolley, feat. Seraph Brass (all-female quintet).

● Jennifer Jolley wrote “Dust” in reflection of her time in Lubbock, TX, when she served on the faculty at Texas Tech University School of Music. During periods of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, she took long drives and immersed herself in the landscape, climate, and history of the vast state. From high plains, to rolling prairies, to verdant grasslands, from being caught in brief, intense hail showers and dust storms and the scorching sun, she came to know Texas through its ambient and tactile qualities. As she puts it, “Texas is extreme in that way, in every way. It’s immense and intimate, precarious and nurturing, vital and violent all at once.”

Seraph Brass was founded by trumpet soloist Mary Elizabeth Bowden (Yale School of Music M.M. 2006) with a mission to showcase the excellence of women brass players and highlight musicians from marginalized groups, both in personnel and in programming. In addition to performances and residencies, Seraph performs as a 10-piece ensemble, as soloists with symphony orchestras and wind bands, and in collaboration with other chamber artists. Seraph Brass performs a diverse body of repertoire, ranging from original transcriptions to newly commissioned works and core classics. More information on Seraph Brass (https://www.seraphbrass.com/)

● Viet Cuong wrote “Deciduous” after his father’s death, comparing the experience of grief and healing to the cycle of life, where there is the loss of one’s ‘leaves,’ after which the leafless winter eventually is followed by a spring.

● “Second Suite in F for Military Band” by Gustav Holst is based on English folk songs and dance. Each of its four movements possesses its own distinctive character—from slow and tender to lively and complex—ending with a resetting of the well-known tune ‘Greensleeves.’

Other music: “The Other Side Silence – Finale” (Stephen Roberts), “Like an Altar with 9000 Robot Attendants” (Ryan Lindveit), “Stand the Storm” (Julian Work), “Frozen Flame March” (T. C. Duffy)

New Haven, CT — "Once on This Island" is a captivating musical that tells the enchanting story of Ti Moune, a young girl from the Caribbean who embarks on a journey of love and self-discovery. Set against the backdrop of a vibrant island, the tale weaves together themes of hope, sacrifice, and the power of love, as Ti Moune defies social boundaries to pursue her heart's desire. With infectious rhythms and heartfelt melodies, this production invites audiences to experience the magic of storytelling through music and dance.

Once on this Island runs April 3rd - April 4th at New Haven Academy (444 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511). Performances take place Thursday and Friday at 7:35pm, and Saturday at 11:05am & 7:35pm. Appropriate for middle school students and above. The production features a full band of both NHPS students & professional musicians, all led by the incomparable Kevin James - NHPS Graduate (Music Director) and is choreographed by the incomparable - Ms. Carissa Kee - another NHPS graduate.

Tickets are $15 (adults) / $7 (students) IN ADVANCE and $20 (adults) / $7 (students) AT THE DOOR  (there is a small service charge attached to all online orders). For more information visit www.nhadrama.org . To book tickets at Will Call, call our box office Monday - Friday 2:45pm - 7:00pm (203) 444-7269. To book online, visit www.nhadrama.org  

A new exhibition to be installed at the Schwarzman Center, “Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven,” will illuminate ongoing research that recovers the essential role of Black people throughout Yale and New Haven history. The exhibition puts back at the center of local storytelling people who have always been central to local history. It celebrates Black community building, resistance, and resilience on campus and in New Haven.

The show will include nearly one hundred images of Yale’s earliest Black students from the 1800s and early 1900s, many of whom had deep New Haven connections. The Schwarzman exhibition will also feature compelling reproductions of photographs of New Haveners who were custodians of Yale. The Luke, Grimes, Creed, Park, and Bassett families, among the many people key to founding and sustaining Yale, will be heralded in the show.

“Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven” will showcase the proposal, made and thwarted in 1831, to build a Black college in New Haven. It will also highlight the successful efforts of Black students in the 1960s to establish the Afro-American Cultural Center and Afro-American Studies at Yale.

This exhibition brings forth knowledge kept alive in archives and memory for many centuries—even when the dominant culture chose to ignore, bury, or forget. It extends the work of the Yale and Slavery Research Project and follows from the exhibition, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale and Slavery,” at the New Haven Museum from February 16, 2024 – March 1, 2025.

The exhibition team includes David Jon Walker ’23 MFA, lead designer, and Michael Morand ’87 ’93 M.Div., lead curator, with Timeica Bethel ’11, Rob Brown, Jennifer Coggins, Tubyez Cropper, Mohamed Diallo ’26, Regina Mason, Hope McGrath, Carlynne Robinson, and Charles Warner, Jr.

A Family Variety Show featuring Magic, Stage Illusions, Juggling, and Acrobatics with performers from the likes of Cirque du Soleil, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey!

Don't miss this incredible spectacle and terrific family entertainment at the Legacy!

"Amazing Juggling... Elegant Acrobatics... Breathtaking"

​-Nuvo Magazine, Indianapolis, IN

Happens on the following Dates:

• Apr 5, 2025, 10:00am to 11:00am Timezone: EDT
• Apr 5, 2025, 1:00pm to 2:00pm Timezone: EDT

The 6-Square Jam Art Exhibit & Sale is a community-wide, all-inclusive art show in which everyone, no matter your level of artistic skill, is invited and welcome to participate.

We invite entries that are 6 inches by 6 inches square (no more than 2 inches thick). Work in any medium you like. Submissions accepted April 1-April 30. See complete rules, instructions and entry form at westvilleartwalk.org under the start your art tab or email criticaldave@frontiernet.net with 6-Square in the subject line.

This exhibit opens May 6 at the Kehler Liddell Gallery in the Westville neighborhood of New Haven. It is part of the Westville Artwalk and is an annual fundraiser for WVRA (Westville Village Renaissance Alliance).

Explore your creativity, make art and, most of all, have fun.

🎨 Unlock Your Child’s Creativity at The Giggling Pig! 🖌️

Looking for the perfect art class for your child? The Giggling Pig offers engaging, age-appropriate programs designed to nurture creativity, build skills, and encourage self-expression in a fun and supportive environment!

✨ Beginner Class (Ages 4-6) – 1 Hour

Introduce your little artist to the fundamentals of art! Through guided instruction, kids explore blending, composition, and different techniques while having fun and developing their unique style.

🎭 Intermediate Class (Ages 7-9) – 1.5 Hours

A deeper dive into creativity! Students work more independently, experimenting with clay, watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, and more. They’ll learn composition, values, and color theory while creating detailed artwork.

📅 Classes held weekly—pre-registration required! Weekly attendance is encouraged but not required.

💰 Class packs available for savings opportunities!

Join us at The Giggling Pig, where imagination comes to life! 🌟

📍 Reserve your child’s spot today!

March 22 – September 7, 2025 | Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Friday, April 18 (Good Friday); Saturday, April 19 (Holy Saturday); Sunday, April 20 (Easter); Saturday, June 7; and Friday, July 4 (Independence Day).

Separated by 2,781 miles and on two different continents, Iraqi and Nigerian Christians share similar stories of persecution. From 2014-2018, portions of Northern Iraq were under the control of the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and many religious minorities, including Christians, experienced persecution and violence as a result. In the northern and central portions of Nigeria, violence towards Christians and other minority groups has also increased in recent years at the hands of Boko Haram and other groups. 

The Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center is honored to share the stories of those displaced in Iraq and Nigeria through Among the Persecuted and Displaced — a collection of photographs taken by Stephen Rasche. The Knights of Columbus has sponsored some of Rasche’s work in both countries, bringing to light the atrocities inflicted on those persecuted for their faith.

Learn more: https://www.michaelmcgivneycenter.org/exhibits/among-the-persecuted-and-displaced/

Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Friday, April 18 (Good Friday); Saturday, April 19 (Holy Saturday); Sunday, April 20 (Easter); Saturday, June 7; Friday, July 4 (Independence Day); Thurday, November 27 (Thanksgiving); Wednesday, December 24 (Christmas Eve); and Thursday, December 25 (Christmas Day).

Many crèches, the three-dimensional representation of the Nativity scene, feature a diversity of settings and stable designs — the most common of which is an open-front wood structure. However, many artisans model their crèches after buildings and landscapes that are native to their homelands.

This exhibit includes a variety of crèches that showcase different examples of stables and mangers. In addition, it also highlights a handful of works whose settings have been customized for the figures they contain. One of these is the Neapolitan, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, by Cantone and Costabile of Naples, Italy. In addition, a brand-new crèche will be featured in this exhibit: The Nativity at New Haven's St. Mary’s Church, designed by US-based Navidad Nativities, Inc., with figures made in Italy by Original Heide.

Calling actors, writers, artists, and filmmakers. Join this free, hands-on, fast-paced, collaborative filmmaking experience. You’ll walk away with sharpened skills, new connections, and a wrapped short film. All levels of experience are welcome! You’ll meet other creatives, form teams, and by the end of the day, you’ll have made a short film.

What to expect:

- We start at 10 AM and the beginning is the most important part of the day. Even if you can’t stay for the whole event, be there at the start.

- No experience required. This is about building skills, having fun, and creating together. You may be paired with people at different skill levels, and that’s part of what makes it great!

- Driving to other locations may be required.

- How long does it last? The event runs until the films are done—but expect to stay for at least four hours. Just be sure to communicate to your team when you have to leave.

What to bring:

- Your ideas!

- Some simple camera, audio, or light gear, if you have it and want to use it (but it’s not required).

- Your own packed lunch, and snacks, or plan to grab food during the meal break. (Meals are not provided.)

Come be part of New Haven’s Filmmaking Day—let’s make movies together!

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New Haven, CT — "Once on This Island" is a captivating musical that tells the enchanting story of Ti Moune, a young girl from the Caribbean who embarks on a journey of love and self-discovery. Set against the backdrop of a vibrant island, the tale weaves together themes of hope, sacrifice, and the power of love, as Ti Moune defies social boundaries to pursue her heart's desire. With infectious rhythms and heartfelt melodies, this production invites audiences to experience the magic of storytelling through music and dance.

Once on this Island runs April 3rd - April 4th at New Haven Academy (444 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511). Performances take place Thursday and Friday at 7:35pm, and Saturday at 11:05am & 7:35pm. Appropriate for middle school students and above. The production features a full band of both NHPS students & professional musicians, all led by the incomparable Kevin James - NHPS Graduate (Music Director) and is choreographed by the incomparable - Ms. Carissa Kee - another NHPS graduate.

Tickets are $15 (adults) / $7 (students) IN ADVANCE and $20 (adults) / $7 (students) AT THE DOOR  (there is a small service charge attached to all online orders). For more information visit www.nhadrama.org . To book tickets at Will Call, call our box office Monday - Friday 2:45pm - 7:00pm (203) 444-7269. To book online, visit www.nhadrama.org  

Explore the galleries with our free, self-guided activities, designed to help visitors look more closely at art and enjoy their time together in the museum. On hand are activity sheets, sketchbooks, and pencils, as well as felt and yarn kits that you can either bring into the galleries or take home. Stop by our table in the lobby, and try as many as you’d like!  

This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 27 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12-4 p.m. View event site for full details.

Raised in the Eastern Orthodox faith, contemporary Bulgarian artist Svetlozar Parmakov is deeply familiar with its visual lexicon. Through his virtuosic, free-style draftsmanship he both references and reimagines Orthodox iconography, reclaiming its significance for a modern-day viewer. Parmakov applies his signature, free-style technique of hand-engraving and hand-coloring unglazed porcelain, a fine white ceramic material, to creating religious icons, paintings, and decorative vessels, all rendered with intricate detail and shimmering in muted silvers and golds.

In addition to the titular painting, Noah’s Garden, the exhibition features icons of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and saints such as St. George and St. Nicholas, paintings of natural scenes as well as bowls, platters, and vases with elaborate, allover geometric and vegetal patterns. Intimate in scale and meant to be appreciated up close, even handled, the works on view engage the senses, solicit sustained attention, and invite reflection. The delicately outlined and interlocking forms, together with the resplendent hues, recall stained-glass windows, but also a broader cross-cultural history of East-West artistic influences and exchange.

Parmakov’s art transcends time and technology further to draw on his homeland’s rich cultural heritage. His porcelain creations reactivate the magnificent ceramic production that flourished in the 9th and 10th centuries CE around the first two Bulgarian capitals of Pliska and Preslav located in the northeastern part of the country, where Parmakov spends his summers and fires his works. Besides their use for architectural ornamentation and luxury tableware, ceramics were utilized in the local icon painting tradition with ceramic icons ranging in size, shape, subject matter, and purpose. Through his choice of material and imagery, Parmakov recovers the splendor and impact of Bulgaria’s medieval decorative ceramic arts which have reached us largely in fragmentary state and gives us ways to encounter them whole again.

Artist’s Statement:

An enchanted world of porcelain, replete with filigree and fantasy. A dynamic, luminous space of plants, animals, and ornamental designs, all permeated by God’s presence. Works of art created through a unique process in a distinctive style, glowing in silver, gold, and platinum.

I would define my style as “decorative realism.” Ornamentation is foundational for my work, and I constantly expand and enrich my repertoire of decorative motifs. I seek to show that the ceramic medium transcends the applied arts, that it exists in the realm of the fine arts and that it can serve a spiritual purpose. I would be happy if the light with which my works are suffused touched the viewers’ souls.

-Svetlozar Parmakov, January 2025

Free and open to the public.

Exhibition curated by Liliana Milkova.

All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday,March 26 at 5 p.m.

We are excited to announce that the ISM will be linking its exhibitions to the Smartify app. The app is available as a free download from the App Store and Google Play, or you can access content through the Smartify webpage at app.smartify.org. The Smartify app will allow you to directly scan artworks that are on display, as well as QR codes that are placed around the exhibition, to receive more information. You will also be able to save your favorite artworks and share them to social media.

Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza

Photo: Svetlozar Parmakov at work on Noah’s Garden (porcelain, 2025). Photo credit: Svetlozar Parmakov.

Photographer Phyllis Crowley asks CAN YOU FREE A MIND? in this new exhibit at City Gallery. Her latest collection of work will be on view from April 4 - April 27, with a Reception and Artist Talk on Sunday, April 6, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. The artist will also be in the Gallery on Sunday, April 27 to meet with visitors and answer questions. City

Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are

Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City

Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

Instructed by Annie Sailer

39 Putnam Ave, Hamden CT

Edgewood Afterschool Drama Club presents Willy Wonka, Jr. at Hill Regional Career High School April 4th, 5th, and 6th.

Tickets are available at edgewood-drama.ticketleap.com

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck’s Ernest Cole: Lost and Found is a 2024 documentary chronicling the life and work of Ernest Cole—one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa. Cole’s early pictures were shocking at the time of their first publication, revealing to the world Black life under apartheid. He fled South Africa in 1966 and lived in exile in the United States, where he photographed extensively in New York City as well as the American South, fascinated by the ways this country could be at times vastly different from, and at other times eerily similar to, the segregated culture of his homeland. During this period, he published his landmark book of photographs denouncing apartheid, House of Bondage, which, while banned in South Africa, cemented Cole’s place as one of the great photographers of his time, at the age of 27. After his death, more than 60,000 of his 35-millimeter film negatives, formerly thought to have been lost, were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm. Telling his own story through his writings, the recollections of those closest to him, and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film is a reintroduction of a pivotal Black artist to a new generation. Generously sponsored by Jane P. Watkins, M.P.H. 1979. 

Offered in conjunction with the exhibition David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive. Exhibition co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Yale University Art Gallery, in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid. 

Come join us for an evening filled with laughter and wit. Comedian Crystal R. Emery debuts at the Bregamos Community Theatre! In Crystal's past life, she has been a filmmaker, storyteller, and a renowned speaker. This new book in her life starts her career as a stand-up comedian. On January 21, 2025 Michelle Buteau invited her to do an opening set for her show at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York. Crystal captivated the audience with her humor, wit, and storytelling. Now, she is bringing her talents home to New Haven. Don't miss this evening of entertainment and laughter. Get your tickets today!

Edgewood Afterschool Drama Club presents Willy Wonka, Jr. at Hill Regional Career High School April 4th, 5th, and 6th.

Tickets are available at edgewood-drama.ticketleap.com

New Haven, CT — "Once on This Island" is a captivating musical that tells the enchanting story of Ti Moune, a young girl from the Caribbean who embarks on a journey of love and self-discovery. Set against the backdrop of a vibrant island, the tale weaves together themes of hope, sacrifice, and the power of love, as Ti Moune defies social boundaries to pursue her heart's desire. With infectious rhythms and heartfelt melodies, this production invites audiences to experience the magic of storytelling through music and dance.

Once on this Island runs April 3rd - April 4th at New Haven Academy (444 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511). Performances take place Thursday and Friday at 7:35pm, and Saturday at 11:05am & 7:35pm. Appropriate for middle school students and above. The production features a full band of both NHPS students & professional musicians, all led by the incomparable Kevin James - NHPS Graduate (Music Director) and is choreographed by the incomparable - Ms. Carissa Kee - another NHPS graduate.

Tickets are $15 (adults) / $7 (students) IN ADVANCE and $20 (adults) / $7 (students) AT THE DOOR  (there is a small service charge attached to all online orders). For more information visit www.nhadrama.org . To book tickets at Will Call, call our box office Monday - Friday 2:45pm - 7:00pm (203) 444-7269. To book online, visit www.nhadrama.org  

Everyone is invited to celebrate our Studio 4 Year Anniversary!

Saturday April 5th

At 57 Olive St. New Haven CT 06511

Free parking at Conte West Hills Magnet School

This will be a fun filled and memorable evening of music & dancing!

It all begins at 830pm with a complimentary Bachata class to warm up the dance floor.

Next, DJ Baila Con Gusto will mix a soundtrack including new and classic hits for all the salseros, bachateras, and everyone in between.

Throughout the night there will be complimentary snacks, beverages and surprise guest performances from talented dancers across CT.

There will also be a fun & friendly Jack & Jill contest with a prize for the winners.

The theme is fancy, tropical, and fun for all levels and backgrounds of dancers!

Beginners are welcome, and veteran dancers appreciated.

A dance partner is not required to participate, but bringing a friend or a few is always more fun!

Pay in person, online, Venmo @bailabaila17, Cashapp $bailabaila17 or Zelle.

Call or text 203-440-6777 for more info

También hablo español!

Kickstart your Sundays the right way at Dockside Brewery! Join us for breakfast at the bar or enjoy our delicious offerings to-go via UberEats, DoorDash, & GrubHub from 10am-12:30pm! Indulge in mouthwatering breakfast flatbreads, scrumptious sandwiches, & fresh avocado toast. Don’t miss out!

A new exhibition to be installed at the Schwarzman Center, “Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven,” will illuminate ongoing research that recovers the essential role of Black people throughout Yale and New Haven history. The exhibition puts back at the center of local storytelling people who have always been central to local history. It celebrates Black community building, resistance, and resilience on campus and in New Haven.

The show will include nearly one hundred images of Yale’s earliest Black students from the 1800s and early 1900s, many of whom had deep New Haven connections. The Schwarzman exhibition will also feature compelling reproductions of photographs of New Haveners who were custodians of Yale. The Luke, Grimes, Creed, Park, and Bassett families, among the many people key to founding and sustaining Yale, will be heralded in the show.

“Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven” will showcase the proposal, made and thwarted in 1831, to build a Black college in New Haven. It will also highlight the successful efforts of Black students in the 1960s to establish the Afro-American Cultural Center and Afro-American Studies at Yale.

This exhibition brings forth knowledge kept alive in archives and memory for many centuries—even when the dominant culture chose to ignore, bury, or forget. It extends the work of the Yale and Slavery Research Project and follows from the exhibition, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale and Slavery,” at the New Haven Museum from February 16, 2024 – March 1, 2025.

The exhibition team includes David Jon Walker ’23 MFA, lead designer, and Michael Morand ’87 ’93 M.Div., lead curator, with Timeica Bethel ’11, Rob Brown, Jennifer Coggins, Tubyez Cropper, Mohamed Diallo ’26, Regina Mason, Hope McGrath, Carlynne Robinson, and Charles Warner, Jr.

🎤🎶 Sunday Night Karaoke at Dockside Brewery! 🍻

Unleash your inner rockstar every Sunday from 7-10 PM at Dockside Brewery! Whether you're a shower singer or a stage pro, grab the mic, sip on a cold brew, and belt out your favorite tunes with friends.

Great drinks, good vibes, and unforgettable performances—see you Sunday! 🎶🍻🎤

The 6-Square Jam Art Exhibit & Sale is a community-wide, all-inclusive art show in which everyone, no matter your level of artistic skill, is invited and welcome to participate.

We invite entries that are 6 inches by 6 inches square (no more than 2 inches thick). Work in any medium you like. Submissions accepted April 1-April 30. See complete rules, instructions and entry form at westvilleartwalk.org under the start your art tab or email criticaldave@frontiernet.net with 6-Square in the subject line.

This exhibit opens May 6 at the Kehler Liddell Gallery in the Westville neighborhood of New Haven. It is part of the Westville Artwalk and is an annual fundraiser for WVRA (Westville Village Renaissance Alliance).

Explore your creativity, make art and, most of all, have fun.

March 22 – September 7, 2025 | Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Friday, April 18 (Good Friday); Saturday, April 19 (Holy Saturday); Sunday, April 20 (Easter); Saturday, June 7; and Friday, July 4 (Independence Day).

Separated by 2,781 miles and on two different continents, Iraqi and Nigerian Christians share similar stories of persecution. From 2014-2018, portions of Northern Iraq were under the control of the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and many religious minorities, including Christians, experienced persecution and violence as a result. In the northern and central portions of Nigeria, violence towards Christians and other minority groups has also increased in recent years at the hands of Boko Haram and other groups. 

The Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center is honored to share the stories of those displaced in Iraq and Nigeria through Among the Persecuted and Displaced — a collection of photographs taken by Stephen Rasche. The Knights of Columbus has sponsored some of Rasche’s work in both countries, bringing to light the atrocities inflicted on those persecuted for their faith.

Learn more: https://www.michaelmcgivneycenter.org/exhibits/among-the-persecuted-and-displaced/

Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm with free parking and admission EXCEPT Friday, April 18 (Good Friday); Saturday, April 19 (Holy Saturday); Sunday, April 20 (Easter); Saturday, June 7; Friday, July 4 (Independence Day); Thurday, November 27 (Thanksgiving); Wednesday, December 24 (Christmas Eve); and Thursday, December 25 (Christmas Day).

Many crèches, the three-dimensional representation of the Nativity scene, feature a diversity of settings and stable designs — the most common of which is an open-front wood structure. However, many artisans model their crèches after buildings and landscapes that are native to their homelands.

This exhibit includes a variety of crèches that showcase different examples of stables and mangers. In addition, it also highlights a handful of works whose settings have been customized for the figures they contain. One of these is the Neapolitan, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, by Cantone and Costabile of Naples, Italy. In addition, a brand-new crèche will be featured in this exhibit: The Nativity at New Haven's St. Mary’s Church, designed by US-based Navidad Nativities, Inc., with figures made in Italy by Original Heide.

This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 27 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12-4 p.m. View event site for full details.

Raised in the Eastern Orthodox faith, contemporary Bulgarian artist Svetlozar Parmakov is deeply familiar with its visual lexicon. Through his virtuosic, free-style draftsmanship he both references and reimagines Orthodox iconography, reclaiming its significance for a modern-day viewer. Parmakov applies his signature, free-style technique of hand-engraving and hand-coloring unglazed porcelain, a fine white ceramic material, to creating religious icons, paintings, and decorative vessels, all rendered with intricate detail and shimmering in muted silvers and golds.

In addition to the titular painting, Noah’s Garden, the exhibition features icons of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and saints such as St. George and St. Nicholas, paintings of natural scenes as well as bowls, platters, and vases with elaborate, allover geometric and vegetal patterns. Intimate in scale and meant to be appreciated up close, even handled, the works on view engage the senses, solicit sustained attention, and invite reflection. The delicately outlined and interlocking forms, together with the resplendent hues, recall stained-glass windows, but also a broader cross-cultural history of East-West artistic influences and exchange.

Parmakov’s art transcends time and technology further to draw on his homeland’s rich cultural heritage. His porcelain creations reactivate the magnificent ceramic production that flourished in the 9th and 10th centuries CE around the first two Bulgarian capitals of Pliska and Preslav located in the northeastern part of the country, where Parmakov spends his summers and fires his works. Besides their use for architectural ornamentation and luxury tableware, ceramics were utilized in the local icon painting tradition with ceramic icons ranging in size, shape, subject matter, and purpose. Through his choice of material and imagery, Parmakov recovers the splendor and impact of Bulgaria’s medieval decorative ceramic arts which have reached us largely in fragmentary state and gives us ways to encounter them whole again.

Artist’s Statement:

An enchanted world of porcelain, replete with filigree and fantasy. A dynamic, luminous space of plants, animals, and ornamental designs, all permeated by God’s presence. Works of art created through a unique process in a distinctive style, glowing in silver, gold, and platinum.

I would define my style as “decorative realism.” Ornamentation is foundational for my work, and I constantly expand and enrich my repertoire of decorative motifs. I seek to show that the ceramic medium transcends the applied arts, that it exists in the realm of the fine arts and that it can serve a spiritual purpose. I would be happy if the light with which my works are suffused touched the viewers’ souls.

-Svetlozar Parmakov, January 2025

Free and open to the public.

Exhibition curated by Liliana Milkova.

All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday,March 26 at 5 p.m.

We are excited to announce that the ISM will be linking its exhibitions to the Smartify app. The app is available as a free download from the App Store and Google Play, or you can access content through the Smartify webpage at app.smartify.org. The Smartify app will allow you to directly scan artworks that are on display, as well as QR codes that are placed around the exhibition, to receive more information. You will also be able to save your favorite artworks and share them to social media.

Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza

Photo: Svetlozar Parmakov at work on Noah’s Garden (porcelain, 2025). Photo credit: Svetlozar Parmakov.

Photographer Phyllis Crowley asks CAN YOU FREE A MIND? in this new exhibit at City Gallery. Her latest collection of work will be on view from April 4 - April 27, with a Reception and Artist Talk on Sunday, April 6, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. The artist will also be in the Gallery on Sunday, April 27 to meet with visitors and answer questions. City

Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are

Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City

Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

We invite families to join us for folktales, myths, and exciting stories from around the world that highlight objects in the collection and inspire children of all ages to view art in new ways.  

Meet by the couches in the Gallery lobby.  

Edgewood Afterschool Drama Club presents Willy Wonka, Jr. at Hill Regional Career High School April 4th, 5th, and 6th.

Tickets are available at edgewood-drama.ticketleap.com

Elm City Consort and the Schola Antiqua choir of St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church explore musical depictions of separation in secular and sacred music by Josquin and his Franco-Flemish contemporaries. Learn more on the Elm City Consort website.

A new exhibition to be installed at the Schwarzman Center, “Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven,” will illuminate ongoing research that recovers the essential role of Black people throughout Yale and New Haven history. The exhibition puts back at the center of local storytelling people who have always been central to local history. It celebrates Black community building, resistance, and resilience on campus and in New Haven.

The show will include nearly one hundred images of Yale’s earliest Black students from the 1800s and early 1900s, many of whom had deep New Haven connections. The Schwarzman exhibition will also feature compelling reproductions of photographs of New Haveners who were custodians of Yale. The Luke, Grimes, Creed, Park, and Bassett families, among the many people key to founding and sustaining Yale, will be heralded in the show.

“Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven” will showcase the proposal, made and thwarted in 1831, to build a Black college in New Haven. It will also highlight the successful efforts of Black students in the 1960s to establish the Afro-American Cultural Center and Afro-American Studies at Yale.

This exhibition brings forth knowledge kept alive in archives and memory for many centuries—even when the dominant culture chose to ignore, bury, or forget. It extends the work of the Yale and Slavery Research Project and follows from the exhibition, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale and Slavery,” at the New Haven Museum from February 16, 2024 – March 1, 2025.

The exhibition team includes David Jon Walker ’23 MFA, lead designer, and Michael Morand ’87 ’93 M.Div., lead curator, with Timeica Bethel ’11, Rob Brown, Jennifer Coggins, Tubyez Cropper, Mohamed Diallo ’26, Regina Mason, Hope McGrath, Carlynne Robinson, and Charles Warner, Jr.

The 6-Square Jam Art Exhibit & Sale is a community-wide, all-inclusive art show in which everyone, no matter your level of artistic skill, is invited and welcome to participate.

We invite entries that are 6 inches by 6 inches square (no more than 2 inches thick). Work in any medium you like. Submissions accepted April 1-April 30. See complete rules, instructions and entry form at westvilleartwalk.org under the start your art tab or email criticaldave@frontiernet.net with 6-Square in the subject line.

This exhibit opens May 6 at the Kehler Liddell Gallery in the Westville neighborhood of New Haven. It is part of the Westville Artwalk and is an annual fundraiser for WVRA (Westville Village Renaissance Alliance).

Explore your creativity, make art and, most of all, have fun.

New and experienced students will focus on making pottery on the wheel. Start by using methods of wedging, centering, hand and finger positioning for raising a vessel, and positioning one's body for dealing with a mass of clay on the wheel. Demonstrations will cover the importance of trimming techniques and various forming processes. Wear clothes that can get dirty. Pottery tool kits are available for sale in the studio for $27. Cash or check only. Firing fees are $3/pound. Cash or check only. Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours on a first-come, first-served basis.

This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 27 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12-4 p.m. View event site for full details.

Raised in the Eastern Orthodox faith, contemporary Bulgarian artist Svetlozar Parmakov is deeply familiar with its visual lexicon. Through his virtuosic, free-style draftsmanship he both references and reimagines Orthodox iconography, reclaiming its significance for a modern-day viewer. Parmakov applies his signature, free-style technique of hand-engraving and hand-coloring unglazed porcelain, a fine white ceramic material, to creating religious icons, paintings, and decorative vessels, all rendered with intricate detail and shimmering in muted silvers and golds.

In addition to the titular painting, Noah’s Garden, the exhibition features icons of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and saints such as St. George and St. Nicholas, paintings of natural scenes as well as bowls, platters, and vases with elaborate, allover geometric and vegetal patterns. Intimate in scale and meant to be appreciated up close, even handled, the works on view engage the senses, solicit sustained attention, and invite reflection. The delicately outlined and interlocking forms, together with the resplendent hues, recall stained-glass windows, but also a broader cross-cultural history of East-West artistic influences and exchange.

Parmakov’s art transcends time and technology further to draw on his homeland’s rich cultural heritage. His porcelain creations reactivate the magnificent ceramic production that flourished in the 9th and 10th centuries CE around the first two Bulgarian capitals of Pliska and Preslav located in the northeastern part of the country, where Parmakov spends his summers and fires his works. Besides their use for architectural ornamentation and luxury tableware, ceramics were utilized in the local icon painting tradition with ceramic icons ranging in size, shape, subject matter, and purpose. Through his choice of material and imagery, Parmakov recovers the splendor and impact of Bulgaria’s medieval decorative ceramic arts which have reached us largely in fragmentary state and gives us ways to encounter them whole again.

Artist’s Statement:

An enchanted world of porcelain, replete with filigree and fantasy. A dynamic, luminous space of plants, animals, and ornamental designs, all permeated by God’s presence. Works of art created through a unique process in a distinctive style, glowing in silver, gold, and platinum.

I would define my style as “decorative realism.” Ornamentation is foundational for my work, and I constantly expand and enrich my repertoire of decorative motifs. I seek to show that the ceramic medium transcends the applied arts, that it exists in the realm of the fine arts and that it can serve a spiritual purpose. I would be happy if the light with which my works are suffused touched the viewers’ souls.

-Svetlozar Parmakov, January 2025

Free and open to the public.

Exhibition curated by Liliana Milkova.

All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday,March 26 at 5 p.m.

We are excited to announce that the ISM will be linking its exhibitions to the Smartify app. The app is available as a free download from the App Store and Google Play, or you can access content through the Smartify webpage at app.smartify.org. The Smartify app will allow you to directly scan artworks that are on display, as well as QR codes that are placed around the exhibition, to receive more information. You will also be able to save your favorite artworks and share them to social media.

Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza

Photo: Svetlozar Parmakov at work on Noah’s Garden (porcelain, 2025). Photo credit: Svetlozar Parmakov.

Photographer Phyllis Crowley asks CAN YOU FREE A MIND? in this new exhibit at City Gallery. Her latest collection of work will be on view from April 4 - April 27, with a Reception and Artist Talk on Sunday, April 6, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. The artist will also be in the Gallery on Sunday, April 27 to meet with visitors and answer questions. City

Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are

Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City

Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

Explore and develop designs for relief, intaglio, and monotype printmaking in this hands-on course.

Class time will focus on creating original designs and concepts as students experiment with print plate substrates, including Corian®, Tetra-Pak®, vinyl records, and various recycled and found materials. Examples of different print styles will be shared to illustrate these techniques.

This course is suitable for beginners and advanced students alike.

Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours.

Tuition for this class includes a fee of $20 for basic materials provided by CAW.

A new exhibition to be installed at the Schwarzman Center, “Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven,” will illuminate ongoing research that recovers the essential role of Black people throughout Yale and New Haven history. The exhibition puts back at the center of local storytelling people who have always been central to local history. It celebrates Black community building, resistance, and resilience on campus and in New Haven.

The show will include nearly one hundred images of Yale’s earliest Black students from the 1800s and early 1900s, many of whom had deep New Haven connections. The Schwarzman exhibition will also feature compelling reproductions of photographs of New Haveners who were custodians of Yale. The Luke, Grimes, Creed, Park, and Bassett families, among the many people key to founding and sustaining Yale, will be heralded in the show.

“Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven” will showcase the proposal, made and thwarted in 1831, to build a Black college in New Haven. It will also highlight the successful efforts of Black students in the 1960s to establish the Afro-American Cultural Center and Afro-American Studies at Yale.

This exhibition brings forth knowledge kept alive in archives and memory for many centuries—even when the dominant culture chose to ignore, bury, or forget. It extends the work of the Yale and Slavery Research Project and follows from the exhibition, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale and Slavery,” at the New Haven Museum from February 16, 2024 – March 1, 2025.

The exhibition team includes David Jon Walker ’23 MFA, lead designer, and Michael Morand ’87 ’93 M.Div., lead curator, with Timeica Bethel ’11, Rob Brown, Jennifer Coggins, Tubyez Cropper, Mohamed Diallo ’26, Regina Mason, Hope McGrath, Carlynne Robinson, and Charles Warner, Jr.

The 6-Square Jam Art Exhibit & Sale is a community-wide, all-inclusive art show in which everyone, no matter your level of artistic skill, is invited and welcome to participate.

We invite entries that are 6 inches by 6 inches square (no more than 2 inches thick). Work in any medium you like. Submissions accepted April 1-April 30. See complete rules, instructions and entry form at westvilleartwalk.org under the start your art tab or email criticaldave@frontiernet.net with 6-Square in the subject line.

This exhibit opens May 6 at the Kehler Liddell Gallery in the Westville neighborhood of New Haven. It is part of the Westville Artwalk and is an annual fundraiser for WVRA (Westville Village Renaissance Alliance).

Explore your creativity, make art and, most of all, have fun.

Beginner workshops are perfect for you to grab your friends, grab a drink and come make tiny trees! We’re bringing the awesome art of bonsai out of the hedged in gardens and into the streets! Or at least into your favorite bars/breweries/pubs. Bonsai Bar is a night of fun you don’t want to miss. Learn the fundamental skills and techniques behind the art of bonsai while enjoying a night out with friends! Our teachers will introduce core concepts and guide your experience as you pot, prune, and design your very own bonsai tree! Our Guarantee: These tiny trees are so hardy we guarantee you can keep yours alive, or we’ll replace it.

This workshop will be hosted at New England Brewing Co. We here at NEBCo started brewing beer with one guiding force; passion (Okay, two forces. We also wanted to see if we could actually make beer that we wanted to drink). That initial, passionate drive is still deeply rooted in each one of us today. And it will stick around as we continue to brew our beer, hopefully growing into one of the best and most respected craft breweries in New England. We strive for the highest quality beer experience by following some basic, simple, core values.

Under 21 policy: Please contact New England Brewing Co. for details regarding underage entry

For more about Bonsai Bar and what to expect at our classes, visit our website at: https://bonsaibar.com/products/new-england-brewing-co

Develop your pottery skills as you focus on wheel-throwing techniques in stoneware and porcelain.

Lessons will cover both functional and decorative pottery with emphasis on classical forms as we know them. Students will be shown how to apply glazes and/or oxide washes to achieve desired results, such as combining glaze colors and the application of wood ash to create unexpected effects on their work. Wear clothes that can get dirty.

Pottery tool kits are available for sale in the studio for $27 and firing fees are $3/pound. Cash or check only.

Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours on a first-come, first-served basis.

Learn basic metalsmithing for making jewelry, developing new skills, or strengthen existing ones. Weekly demonstrations introduce tools and techniques required for working with nonferrous sheet metal and wire. Demonstrations may include sawing, filing, cold-connecting, soldering, surface embellishment, forging, shaping, fold forming, finishing, and patina coloring.

The tuition for this class includes a fee of $40 for basic materials provided by CAW.

This exhibition will be on view at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Miller Hall at 406 Prospect Street, New Haven from March 27 - May 7 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12-4 p.m. View event site for full details.

Raised in the Eastern Orthodox faith, contemporary Bulgarian artist Svetlozar Parmakov is deeply familiar with its visual lexicon. Through his virtuosic, free-style draftsmanship he both references and reimagines Orthodox iconography, reclaiming its significance for a modern-day viewer. Parmakov applies his signature, free-style technique of hand-engraving and hand-coloring unglazed porcelain, a fine white ceramic material, to creating religious icons, paintings, and decorative vessels, all rendered with intricate detail and shimmering in muted silvers and golds.

In addition to the titular painting, Noah’s Garden, the exhibition features icons of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and saints such as St. George and St. Nicholas, paintings of natural scenes as well as bowls, platters, and vases with elaborate, allover geometric and vegetal patterns. Intimate in scale and meant to be appreciated up close, even handled, the works on view engage the senses, solicit sustained attention, and invite reflection. The delicately outlined and interlocking forms, together with the resplendent hues, recall stained-glass windows, but also a broader cross-cultural history of East-West artistic influences and exchange.

Parmakov’s art transcends time and technology further to draw on his homeland’s rich cultural heritage. His porcelain creations reactivate the magnificent ceramic production that flourished in the 9th and 10th centuries CE around the first two Bulgarian capitals of Pliska and Preslav located in the northeastern part of the country, where Parmakov spends his summers and fires his works. Besides their use for architectural ornamentation and luxury tableware, ceramics were utilized in the local icon painting tradition with ceramic icons ranging in size, shape, subject matter, and purpose. Through his choice of material and imagery, Parmakov recovers the splendor and impact of Bulgaria’s medieval decorative ceramic arts which have reached us largely in fragmentary state and gives us ways to encounter them whole again.

Artist’s Statement:

An enchanted world of porcelain, replete with filigree and fantasy. A dynamic, luminous space of plants, animals, and ornamental designs, all permeated by God’s presence. Works of art created through a unique process in a distinctive style, glowing in silver, gold, and platinum.

I would define my style as “decorative realism.” Ornamentation is foundational for my work, and I constantly expand and enrich my repertoire of decorative motifs. I seek to show that the ceramic medium transcends the applied arts, that it exists in the realm of the fine arts and that it can serve a spiritual purpose. I would be happy if the light with which my works are suffused touched the viewers’ souls.

-Svetlozar Parmakov, January 2025

Free and open to the public.

Exhibition curated by Liliana Milkova.

All are welcome to join us for an opening reception for this art exhibit on Wednesday,March 26 at 5 p.m.

We are excited to announce that the ISM will be linking its exhibitions to the Smartify app. The app is available as a free download from the App Store and Google Play, or you can access content through the Smartify webpage at app.smartify.org. The Smartify app will allow you to directly scan artworks that are on display, as well as QR codes that are placed around the exhibition, to receive more information. You will also be able to save your favorite artworks and share them to social media.

Contact: Anesu Nyamupingidza

Photo: Svetlozar Parmakov at work on Noah’s Garden (porcelain, 2025). Photo credit: Svetlozar Parmakov.

Photographer Phyllis Crowley asks CAN YOU FREE A MIND? in this new exhibit at City Gallery. Her latest collection of work will be on view from April 4 - April 27, with a Reception and Artist Talk on Sunday, April 6, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. The artist will also be in the Gallery on Sunday, April 27 to meet with visitors and answer questions. City

Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Gallery hours are

Friday - Sunday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., or by appointment. For more, contact City

Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.

Arts in Mind is a free monthly program for individuals with Young-Onset Alzheimer’s or in the early stages of memory loss, along with their care partners. This online program connects close looking at art from the Gallery’s collection with art-making opportunities. Art supplies used during the session may include pencils, colored pencils, markers, crayons (oil pastels), watercolor set, sketch pad, copy paper, and notebook.  

Closed captions will be available in English.

Registration required; to register, or for more information, contact the Gallery’s Education Department at yuag.education@yale.edu or 203.436.8831.

The artist and poet Jim Dine is joined in conversation by Freyda Spira, the Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings, along with the Yale-educated printmaker Daniel Clark, Dine’s longtime collaborator. The discussion centers on the current installation Jim Dine “This is Me,” a selection of works on paper from Dine’s larger gift to the museum, and explores the artist’s long, varied, and incredibly productive career, with a special focus on his forays into the collaborative process of printmaking. Introduction by Stephanie Wiles, the Henry J. Heinz II Director. Generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund. 

Join us for a CAPTIVATING journey through the world of photography, where moments are not just frozen in time but come alive right in your hands. Learn to tell stories through image making. Gain a mentor, free camera equipment and more. Take control of the camera you possess. Learn how to sustain yourself as a fine art photographer and commercial photographer. Learn to shoot like the pros!

In Person at Ely Center of Contemporary Art

Join us for a captivating journey through the world of photography, where moments are not just frozen in time but come alive right in your hands. Learn to tell your stories through image making. Gain a mentor, free camera equipment and more.

Take control of the camera you possess. Learn how to sustain yourself as a fine art photographer & commercial photographer. Learn to shoot like the pros.

Join Yale Consort for a service of Lutheran Vespers. For at least the last eighteen centuries, some formula for prayer at the end of the day has been part of the Christian tradition. Though we don’t know precisely what the earliest Vespers looked or sounded like, certain themes have endured, including confession, gratitude, and light. Through the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, we explore these ancient traditions.

Free and open to the public. This service will feature Bach's church cantata Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12.

Due to the off-campus nature of Yale Consort events, they will not be livestreamed. We invite you to join us in person as you are able.

Yale Consort, a newly formed professional vocal ensemble conducted by Professor James O’Donnell and sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, provides high quality choral music for a series of evening services in local parishes and chapels.

For full information and schedule, see the ISM's Yale Consort page.

Instructed by Annie Sailer

39 Putnam Avenue

Hamden, CT 06517

Are you looking to improve your throwing skills? Seeking to center your clay and yourself? Do you need a hand with hand building?

This class offers an opportunity to work towards your goals in clay and further your individual projects with differentiated instruction.

Wear clothes that can get dirty and closed toe shoes.

Pottery tool kits are available for sale in the studio for $27. Cash or check only. Firing fees are $3/pound. Cash or check only.

Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you are fascinated with little things and have a love of detail, making miniature books is for you!

Students will make a variety of same sized books in miniature with a paper box to hold them. Bindings will include 3 soft cover pamphlet variations, a hardcover pamphlet, and a hardcover exposed sewing with pages precut from discarded books. After this class you may be inspired to make larger and more complicated books!

Intermediate students may substitute more complex book structures or continue work on individual projects.

Enrollment in this class includes one 3 hour monitored open bench session a week.

Tuition for this class includes a fee of $8 for basic materials provided by CAW.

Embark on a creative journey into the world of stained glass with our beginner-friendly workshop. Learn the renowned "Tiffany" method, encompassing designing, cutting, grinding, foiling, and soldering techniques to craft your own unique glass panel. This hands-on class is tailored for beginners, offering step-by-step guidance to ensure everyone masters the essential skills. By the end of the workshop, each participant will proudly take home their completed stained glass creation.

What to Expect:

Explore the fundamentals of stained glass using the "Tiffany" method. Learn to design, cut, grind, foil, and solder glass pieces into a cohesive panel. Receive expert guidance and demonstrations throughout the entire process.

Skills You'll Acquire:

Master the art of precision cutting and grinding glass. 

Gain proficiency in foiling and soldering techniques.

Understand design principles specific to stained glass.

What's Provided:

All necessary materials and tools, including a variety of glass types and colors.

Expert instruction and support from experienced stained glass artists.

Who Should Attend:

Ideal for beginners curious about stained glass artistry.

Perfect for anyone interested in learning a traditional craft technique.

No prior experience required—all skill levels welcome.

***THIS IS A 6 SESSION WORKSHOP, MEETING ON TUESDAYS IN APRIL & MAY:***

                APRIL 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 & MAY 6

Instructor: Timothy Cowan

Workshop Ticket Fee:

Standard Ticket: $194.00

Makehaven Members: $165.00

You must click below and REGISTER to attend at:

https://www.makehaven.org/civicrm/event/info?id=419&reset=1

Scroll to the bottom of the page and complete the information under Register (gray box) and hit submit. You will receive an acknowledgement by email. Questions? Email info@makehaven.org