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.

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.

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

This isn’t your grandma’s Easter Egg Hunt—unless your grandma is a thrill-seeker who climbs trees for candy! 🌳🐰

Join us for an Easter Egg Hunt in the Trees, where the Easter Bunny has taken things to the next level—literally. He’s ditching the bushes and hiding eggs way up high!

Your mission? Spot the eggs with your eyes as you climb and score a sweet treat at the end. Just remember, the hunt is free, but you’ll need a climbing ticket—because these Easter Bunny went all out hiding these eggs in the trees! 🚀🥚

Happens on the following Dates:

Apr 11, 2025, 3:00pm to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 12, 2025, 10:00am to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 13, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 14, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 15, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 16, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 17, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 18, 2025, 10:00am to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 19, 2025, 10:00am to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 20, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

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, Floor 2, Hamden, CT

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

🎨 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!

Since the late 1990s, Sarah Sze has developed a signature visual language that challenges the static nature of sculpture and painting. Sze draws from Modernist traditions of the found object, dismantling their authority with dynamic constellations of materials that are charged with flux, transformation, and fragility. Captured in this suspension, her immersive and intricate works question the value society places on objects and images and how objects and images ascribe meaning to the places and times we inhabit. 

Coinciding with the explosion of information of the 21st century, Sze’s work simultaneously models and navigates the ceaseless proliferation of information and imagery in contemporary life. Her encyclopedic installations and paintings unfold like a series of experiments that construct intimate systems of order—precarious ecologies in which material conveys meaning and a sense of loss. In this talk, Sze discusses her artistic practice. Introduction by Stephanie Wiles, the Henry J. Heinz II Director, Yale University Art Gallery. The talk will be followed by a Q&A, moderated by Maria De Los Angeles, M.F.A. 2015, Critic and Interim Director of the Painting/Printmaking Program, Yale School of Art, and Kern Samuel, M.F.A. 2020, Lecturer and Graduate Coordinator of the Painting/Printmaking Program, Yale School of Art. Organized in partnership between the School of Art and the Gallery. Generously sponsored by the School of Art’s John and Kate Carrafiell Dean’s Resource Fund and the Gallery’s Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund. 

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1969, Sze lives and works in New York. She represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2013 and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003. Sze received a B.A. from Yale University in 1991 and an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1997. She is currently a faculty member in the School of the Arts at Columbia University. 

The artist has exhibited in museums worldwide, and her works are held in the permanent collections of prominent institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; among many others. Sze has also created public works for the High Line in New York, the city’s Second Avenue Subway Station, and the new LaGuardia Airport. 

Yale Schwarzman Center invites the community to experience The Gift, an interactive event in which participants gather in a music-filled Commons to explore an all-ages illustrated book inspired by the astrophysics research of Dr. Natalie Gosnell. This unique program, presented in multiple languages—English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, as well as a tactile version accompanied by an English audio description—connects astrophysics research to poignant universal themes of loss, transformation, and renewal.

The event is free and open to the public, taking place on April 17, 2025, from 6:00p.m. to 9:00p.m. in Commons, located within Yale Schwarzman Center. Admission is on a rolling basis, and while the experience is expected to last approximately 15 minutes, readers are invited to engage at their own pace. This program is suitable for all ages, but participants 12 years and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Calling all artists, doodlers, and creative minds! Sketchbook Social is a laid-back, welcoming space where you can draw, sketch, and share ideas with fellow creatives—whether you work on paper, digitally, or in any other medium. Bring your sketchbook, tablet, or favorite tools and enjoy a relaxed, judgment-free atmosphere to create, experiment, and connect.

No matter your skill level, this is a space to get inspired, swap tips, and enjoy the creative process together. Join us for some fun, fresh ideas, and great company—because art is better when shared.

You must click below and REGISTER to attend at:

https://www.makehaven.org/civicrm/event/info?id=451&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

Celebrate Easter with a fun and creative candle-making experience at Elm City Social! Join us for an evening of crafting, cocktails, and cozy vibes as you create your own custom-scented candles in this Easter-themed workshop.

About the Venue:

Located in the heart of New Haven, CT, Elm City Social is a lively cocktail bar with a vintage speakeasy vibe, delicious drinks, and a welcoming atmosphere—making it the perfect spot for a festive candle-making night!

Event Details:

📅 Date: April 17th, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
💲 Price: $52 plus Eventbrite fees (Includes your first drink!)

What’s Included:

✔️ Supplies to create two 8oz soy candles (Please note: We do not offer a one-candle option—each ticket includes materials for two candles per person).
✔️ A selection of spring & Easter-inspired scents to choose from.
✔️ Step-by-step guidance from our candle-making experts.
✔️ Your first drink is included with your ticket! Enjoy a delicious craft cocktail or beverage from Elm City Social.
✔️ A fun and relaxed setting with access to amazing food and additional drinks available for purchase.

What to Expect:

🐣 Choose from a variety of fresh, floral, and sweet Easter scents to personalize your candles.
🐣 Learn the art of candle-making in an interactive, social setting.
🐣 Sip on a complimentary drink while crafting something special.
🐣 Take home two beautiful candles, perfect for decorating your home or gifting!

Additional Notes:

• Tickets include supplies for two candles per person; no single-candle option is available.
• Drinks and food will be available for purchase from Elm City Social’s menu.

Important Information:

🔹 Refund Policy: Refunds are available up to 7 days prior to the event.
🔹 Late Arrivals: Please arrive on time—arrivals later than 20 minutes may miss key instructions.

Reserve Your Spot:

Spaces are limited, so grab your ticket now and celebrate Easter with a unique, hands-on experience at Elm City Social!

✨🐰🌷 Sip, Create & Celebrate Easter with Candle-Making! 🌷🐰✨

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 immersive concert-style tribute show re-creates the amazing journey shared by the folk-rock duo, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. It tells the story from their humble beginnings as Tom & Jerry to their incredible success as one of the best-selling music groups of the ‘60s to their dramatic split in 1970. Using state-of-the -art video projection, incredible lighting and a full live band, The Simon & Garfunkel Story is a moving and powerful concert featuring all the hits including "Mrs. Robinson," "Cecilia," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Homeward Bound" and many more. The show culminates with the pair's famous “The Concert in Central Park” reunion in 1981 which had more than half a million fans in attendance.

Bring your instruments, your voices and your ideas. Take turns and share while keeping it simple. We follow bluegrass jam rules, but we don't restrict ourselves to Bluegrass, as log as everybody can join in! Feel free to bring lead sheets. Free and open to the public.

DAY ONE

Opening Keynote Event

Thursday, April 17th

7:00-9:00pm

Loria 351, 190 York Street

“Making Lemonade”: In Conversation with Kahlil Joseph, principal director of Lemonade (2016)

Featuring a director’s cut screening of Lemonade plus rare footage as well as clips from his critically-acclaimed new film, 

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

DAY TWO

Day-long Symposium

Friday, April 18th—10am-8pm

HQ L01, 320 York

“I Was Born Free”: Beyoncé, Black Feminisms & 

Popular Music Culture in the 21st Century

Featuring roundtables, keynote critical conversations 

and “critical karaoke” sessions. 

Haptic Sense

17 Apr

07:00

Acoustic duo. Join us for live music!

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.

DAY ONE

Opening Keynote Event

Thursday, April 17th

7:00-9:00pm

Loria 351, 190 York Street

“Making Lemonade”: In Conversation with Kahlil Joseph, principal director of Lemonade (2016)

Featuring a director’s cut screening of Lemonade plus rare footage as well as clips from his critically-acclaimed new film, 

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

DAY TWO

Day-long Symposium

Friday, April 18th—10am-8pm

HQ L01, 320 York

“I Was Born Free”: Beyoncé, Black Feminisms & 

Popular Music Culture in the 21st Century

Featuring roundtables, keynote critical conversations 

and “critical karaoke” sessions. 

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 isn’t your grandma’s Easter Egg Hunt—unless your grandma is a thrill-seeker who climbs trees for candy! 🌳🐰

Join us for an Easter Egg Hunt in the Trees, where the Easter Bunny has taken things to the next level—literally. He’s ditching the bushes and hiding eggs way up high!

Your mission? Spot the eggs with your eyes as you climb and score a sweet treat at the end. Just remember, the hunt is free, but you’ll need a climbing ticket—because these Easter Bunny went all out hiding these eggs in the trees! 🚀🥚

Happens on the following Dates:

Apr 11, 2025, 3:00pm to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 12, 2025, 10:00am to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 13, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 14, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 15, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 16, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 17, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 18, 2025, 10:00am to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 19, 2025, 10:00am to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 20, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

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 the Public Humanities Working Group on Friday, April 18 for “Detained Dreams: A Dialogue on Migrant Mass Incarceration” in HQ 276.

Our panel will include Brianna Nofil (Assistant Professor of History, College of William & Mary), Elliott Young (Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College), and Harold Solis (Legal Director, Make the Road New York) in conversation with Alicia Schmidt Camacho (Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University).

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP at bit.ly/DetainedDreams and contact jackie.gagne@yale.edu with any questions.

🎨 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!

Welcome to The Yale Artists Cabaret Pop-Up! Join us for a night of creativity and entertainment at The Table & Gallery. Get ready to experience a showcase of talent from Yale's finest artists, including music, dance, poetry, and more! This in-person event promises to be a night to remember, filled with laughter, emotion, and inspiration. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to support emerging artists and immerse yourself in a world of artistry. Grab your friends and come join us for an unforgettable evening!

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.

🎨 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!

This isn’t your grandma’s Easter Egg Hunt—unless your grandma is a thrill-seeker who climbs trees for candy! 🌳🐰

Join us for an Easter Egg Hunt in the Trees, where the Easter Bunny has taken things to the next level—literally. He’s ditching the bushes and hiding eggs way up high!

Your mission? Spot the eggs with your eyes as you climb and score a sweet treat at the end. Just remember, the hunt is free, but you’ll need a climbing ticket—because these Easter Bunny went all out hiding these eggs in the trees! 🚀🥚

Happens on the following Dates:

Apr 11, 2025, 3:00pm to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 12, 2025, 10:00am to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 13, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 14, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 15, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 16, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 17, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 18, 2025, 10:00am to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 19, 2025, 10:00am to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 20, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

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.

Join us for a free Earth Day event filled with delicious food and valuable information! There will be a short presentation on the impacts of climate change for people of color in Greater New Haven, followed by a discussion about disaster preparation for your household and community. We’ll finish with a free buffet-style lunch from CaribeSoul.

Don’t miss this chance to eat, learn, and celebrate Earth Day!

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

Introducing The “We Got Something To Say” Interactive Art & Fashion Show. From Remnants of Conflict to SUBLIME Expressions. In collaboration with CLo The SUBLIME and Gains Entertainment & Multimedia, SUBLIME by CLo debuts the “Remnants of Conflict” Collection—transforming upcycled military garments, once tied to war and imperialism, into statements of resilience, reflection, and beauty. Exploring transformation and renewal while giving new life to materials that once served a different purpose.

From 2:30 PM – 7:30 PM at New Haven City Hall, this free interactive art and fashion show is a space for creativity, community, and dialogue. More than just a runway, it’s an immersive experience where art and fashion meet social consciousness, urging us to reimagine how we engage with our communities and build solidarity with our neighbors. In times of uncertainty, connection, and collective action are necessary for the oppressed to thrive. Featuring electrifying performances, interactive community art, informational vendors, and live artistry, this event invites you to be an active participant where art, fashion, activism, and community connection come together to address the future.

🎤 Open Mic & Patch Party 🎨

Join us for a night of self-expression, creativity, and community! Bring your own patches and jackets to customize your look while enjoying an open mic featuring poetry, music, and storytelling.

🗓 Saturday, April 19, 2025

📍 151 Orange St, New Haven, CT 06510

⏰ 6:00pm-10:00pm

Express yourself on the mic, swap or sew patches, and connect with others in a space where art and voice come together.

| 🎨 DIY patch station | 🎤 Open mic sign-up on arrival

Come for the art, stay for the vibes!

Taps at Yale is thrilled to announce “Tappy Birthday: A

30th Anniversary Show,” scheduled for Saturday, April 19th, 2025, at 6 PM and 9 PM in the Off-Broadway Theater.

This special performance invites all Taps at Yale alumni to New Haven to celebrate the organization’s 30th birthday alongside current Taps company members. Interested alumni are welcome to join Taps’ 2024-2025 company on stage for the Shim Sham and other pieces. A welcome reception will also be hosted in the theater between performances.

True Trooper Entertainment presents Turn Up Bingo's "Giddy Up Turn Up." Grab your favorite cowboy boots and ten gallon hat and come turn up... Texas Style... AGAIN!!! This is a Texas themed event. There will be plenty of line-dancing and sing-a-longs throughout the event. One of CT's finest, DJ Diamond Dee", will be playing your favorite Hip Hop and R&B jams throughout the event. It's being hosted by "Big B Energy." Turn Up Bingo is welcoming a special guest DJ Jimmy Jam “The Green Monster.” This Turn Up event will have you wanting more. Terminal 110's kitchen will open throughout the event offering some of their delicious food items. A full-service bar will be available with some amazing drink specials. No cash prizes will be awarded, but there will be some great prizes to win. Make sure you take the Pictuready 360 video booth for spin before bingo. Come celebrate your birthday or special occasion with us. VIP and bottle service is available too. You don't want to miss this event!!!

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.

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!

This isn’t your grandma’s Easter Egg Hunt—unless your grandma is a thrill-seeker who climbs trees for candy! 🌳🐰

Join us for an Easter Egg Hunt in the Trees, where the Easter Bunny has taken things to the next level—literally. He’s ditching the bushes and hiding eggs way up high!

Your mission? Spot the eggs with your eyes as you climb and score a sweet treat at the end. Just remember, the hunt is free, but you’ll need a climbing ticket—because these Easter Bunny went all out hiding these eggs in the trees! 🚀🥚

Happens on the following Dates:

Apr 11, 2025, 3:00pm to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 12, 2025, 10:00am to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 13, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 14, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 15, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 16, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 17, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 18, 2025, 10:00am to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 19, 2025, 10:00am to 8:00pm Timezone: EDT

Apr 20, 2025, 10:00am to 6:00pm Timezone: EDT

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.

🎤🎶 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! 🎶🍻🎤

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.

🔥 Skip the swiping—come meet real, local singles in person! 🔥

If you’re tired of the same old routine, this is your chance to mix things up, meet new people, and have fun putting yourself out there! Our speed dating events make it easy and natural to spark connections—without the pressure of a full date.

🍸 The night starts with a casual mingle & mixer—grab yourself a drink to loosen up those nerves (no longer included, but still encouraged) and chat before the dating rounds begin.

💬 Not great at starting conversations? No worries! Because we’ve got you covered with icebreaker questions to kick off each round. Plus, there’s a lovely, high-energy host there to hype you up, keep the energy high, and ease any nerves!

✨ As the night progresses, remember the room might be buzzing with loud and exciting chats! So while it might be a bit hard to hear your date... Embrace the noise! Because it's part of the fun and lively atmosphere that Sips & Sparks fosters at each event.

And as the bell rings to signal the end of each round, you’ll rotate to meet someone new in an atmosphere filled with positive energy and excitement. You’ll get to meet everyone in the room in a fun, relaxed way.

⏳ Arrive 15–30 minutes early to settle in! We start right on time, and late arrivals may not be accommodated.

💖 How it works:
✔️ After each speed date round, you’ll select friend, date, or none on a simple matching system.
✔️ If there’s a mutual match, we’ll send you each other’s contact info the next day!
✔️ No smartphone? No problem—we’ve got paper match forms too.

✨ Remember: This event is all about active listening, learning, and exploring connections. While many people do meet someone special, the key to enjoying this experience is letting go of expectations and focusing on meeting new people, discovering common interests, and seeing where things go.

It’s about building confidence, sharpening your social skills, and being open to the possibility of a new friendship or even a romantic connection—but don’t go in expecting one.

What you can expect is to take actionable steps toward meeting new people, because you definitely won’t find your match staying home alone. 💪

📲 Follow us on Facebook & Instagram (@sipsandsparks) for event updates, sneak peeks, and surprise promo codes! 🎉

Disclaimers: The age range specified for this event is intended as a general guideline and recommendation. We will not turn away any participant based on age or gender and will not be verifying such information at the event. Note that we do not perform background checks on any participants. Similarly to most other dating platforms, it is your responsibility to perform your own due diligence on any individuals you choose to meet with. Our primary goal is to create an inclusive, comfortable, and enjoyable environment for all attendees. Sips and Sparks reserves the right to postpone or cancel any event that does not have enough participants registered. Although this rarely occurs, if it does, you would be given the option to either receive a refund or transfer your ticket to a different event.

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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.

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.

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 Yale Consort for a service of Choral Evensong, focused on music, readings, and quiet contemplation. Through hymns, psalms, canticles, and reflections, the centuries-old tradition of Choral Evensong invites us to come together in stillness and prayer.

Free and open to the public.

View Yale Consort event page

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.

Contact: Clifton Massey

Instructed by Annie Sailer

39 Putnam Avenue

Hamden, CT 06517

An Earth Day celebration of gardens and pollinators! Milkweed seedling giveaway, garden swap, seed starting, model beehive, crafts, community garden representatives, live music with guitarist Cliff Schloss & more This program is generously funded with support from the Greater New Haven Green Fund.

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

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.

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.

You decide – explore multiple printmaking techniques and processes or deepen your practice in one area. Use etching, drypoint, woodcut, linocut, monotype, transfer prints, paper lithography, polymer plate lithography, collagraph, silk aquatint, transfer prints, or Chine-collé. Learn new techniques or connect printmaking to other artistic media.

Includes one 3-hour practice session per week during monitored practice hours.

The tuition for this class includes a materials fee of $20 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.

Create an artist book using the concept of home as inspiration.

The book can explore a real or imagined home, the structure and architecture of a house, housing-related political issues, a psychological space, or anywhere your creativity leads.

Participants will be guided in designing pages—whether blank or filled with text, collage, painting, or drawing—before assembling them into a book that physically resembles a house.

Exercises will help generate content, and a tour of a university artists’ book collection will offer further inspiration.

A small amount of work outside of sessions may be needed to complete the book.

Throughout the process, all fundamental bookbinding skills will be taught.

No experience is necessary.

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

Join me for the opening of MOTHER BROWN, GOLD FIELDS, AND WILD HONEY, my exhibition showcasing two decades of my groundbreaking wet clay performance practice. This immersive exhibition features an extensive collection of my performance prints, videos, and behind-the-scenes footage, offering a rare glimpse into my creative process behind these physically and emotionally intense works.

Date: April 23, 2025

Location: Golf Cove (336 State St, North Haven, CT)

Time:

Session 1 - 3:30pm

Session 2 - 6:00pm

Join us for our new event, Virtual Golf & Games at Golf Cove’s Virtual Golf & Multisport Arcade for an evening filled with thrilling games, laughter and unforgettable fun!

Join as individual players or join as a team with others! 3 ways to join in the fun:

1. Patron: Socialize and play a variety of table games, pool or more! Note: Does not include virtual games.

2. Virtual Golfer:  Love golf? Spend two hours on the golf simulator!

3. Virtual Player:  Explore ALL of the games that Golf Cove has to offer, including: Golf, Field Goal Frenzy (Football), Quarterbacks, Zombie Dodgeball and more!

Copy and paste the following link to register:

News & Events - Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater New Haven

Sponsor packages are available to support this event and other initiatives.  Sponsor packages are designed to fit all budget levels and can be customized. Email Jennifer Ricker at jricker@bgcgnh.org for more information.

Join us for a fun and creative evening at Sip & Paint! Enjoy a relaxing atmosphere as you sip on your favorite drink and unleash your inner artist by hand-painting your own beautiful wine glass. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced painter, this event is perfect for all skill levels!

🎨 What’s Included?

✅ Two Wine Glasses
✅ All Painting Supplies
✅ Step-by-Step Guidance from Art Studio of Connecticut Instructor - Julie Scalora

📌 Event Highlights:

✨ Guided painting session with unique designs
✨ Fun, social atmosphere – great for friends, date night, or solo creativity
✨ Take home your hand-painted wine glass
✨ Photo opportunities & social media sharing

📢 Additional Notes:

• Dress Comfortably: Aprons will be provided, but wear something you don’t mind getting a little paint on!
• Arrive Early: Seating is first-come, first-served.
• No Experience Needed: Just bring your creativity and a good vibe!

Veteran book arts expert Gisela Noack brings her many years of skill and experience in restoration and conservation to students working on their own advanced bookbinding or restoration projects.

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

This class will take place in a studio accessed by a flight of stairs. For any accommodations please send a confidential email to registrar@creativeartsworkshop.org

Veteran book arts expert Gisela Noack brings her many years of skill and experience in restoration and conservation to students working on their own advanced bookbinding or restoration projects. Enrollment in this class includes one 3-hour monitored open bench session per week. This class will take place in a studio accessed by a flight of stairs. For any accommodations please send a confidential email to registrar@creativeartsworkshop.org

After nearly two decades at the helm of Woolsey Hall, Maestro William Boughton conducts his final concert as the Music Director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Carlos Simon’s “Holy Dance” opens the program with its evocation of “joyous dancing, spontaneous shouting, and soulful singing” found in the worship services of predominantly Black churches. Former Yale Symphony Orchestra cellist Henry Shapard returns as the soloist in Elgar’s rhapsodic and haunting Cello Concerto, written as a response to the devastation of World War I. Maestro Boughton concludes the season and his tenure as Music Director of the Orchestra with Holst’s The Planets, the interstellar masterpiece that finds its legacy in the music of countless sci-film films and its enthrallment of generations of listeners with its evocation of the celestial bodies: cosmic and dramatic in scale, transcendent and picturesque in its portrayal of the beyond.

Carlos Simon - "Holy Dance" from Four Black American Dances

Sir Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto

Gustav Holst - The Planets

The 24/25 Woolsey Series is generously supported by the Daniel Feller ’74 Yale Symphony Endowment Fund in Honor of John Mauceri (Music Director 1968-74).

Join us at Old Heidelberg Bar inside Graduate by Hilton New Haven every Wednesday at 7:30 PM for Big Boy Trivia! Get your game faces on and be ready to compete!

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.

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.

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, Floor 2, Hamden, CT

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

Possible Futures is excited to celebrate Autism Acceptance month with art activist and design educator, Jennifer White-Johnson, with a talk and signing of their new publication, Knox Rox! Jen will be in conversation with co-founder of Homie House Press, Adriana Monsalve. 

More about the work:

Autistic joy, KNOX ROXS, a Retrospective is a publication that is advocating acceptance for the beauty of nuerodiversity and breaking the stigma of racialized Autism through documentation and text that follows one very special boy; Knox, A 5-year old black Autistic child.

Autism is a beautifully complex cognitive, invisible disability that we are honored to represent in this book. Jennifer White-Johnson, mother to Knox, has made it her creative passion to dive into the complexities of Knox’s neurodiversity. Often the neurodiverse community is excluded from artistic narratives and creative spaces, we are excited to embrace this groups complexities as we continue to embrace our own. This project comes together with her own personal art practice of photography that she uses as a means to allow herself to not be afraid to let the world in and allow for her son’s story to become a force for healing.

More about Jen:

Jen White-Johnson (she/they) is a Black and Puertorriqueña, disabled and neurodivergent art activist and design educator. Jen uses zines and collages to explore the intersection of race, disability, and care work, emphasizing redesigning ableist visual culture. Jen’s heart-centered and electric approach to disability advocacy bolsters these movements with invaluable currencies: powerful dynamic art and media that all at once educate, bridge divergent worlds, and builds a future that mirrors her Autistic son’s experience.

Jen has presented her disability justice activist work and collaborated with brands and art spaces across print and digital media, such as Coachella and Adobe. Her work has been featured in AfroPunk, NPR, and Juxtapoz Magazine, among other publications. Jen’s work is also permanently archived at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Smithsonian National African American Museum of History and Culture. Jen has an MFA in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she teaches design. She lives in Baltimore, MD, with her husband and 12-year-old son, Knox.

More about Adriana:

Adriana Monsalve (she /they) is an artist, educator, cultural worker and collaborative publisher working (mostly) in the photobook medium. Along with Caterina Ragg, Monsalve is co-founder of Homie House Press, a radical cooperative platform that challenges the ever-changing forms of storytelling with image and text.

Within her photographic practice, Monsalve is an archivist and visual communicator who produces in-depth stories on identity through the nuances in between race, gender, and immigrant adjacent experiences.

Within her cultural work as a collaborative publisher, she holds space for and with underrepresented communities through the multidisciplinary platform of Homie House Press (HHP); a cooperative playground where fotos become books, a safe space for secret stories and an open house for honest content that meets at the intersection of personal, political, and poetic. She is rigorously pushing towards finding ways for photographers and publishers to cultivate the capacity for care and tenderness within structures that actively work against their manifestations. She defines intimacy as the experience of being genuinely seen, heard, and held by another person or group of people.

More about Homie House Press:

Homie House Press is a collaborative publishing house founded by Caterina Ragg and myself, based in Baltimore, MD and Milan, IT. We focus on storytelling at the intersection of personal, political, and poetic. We center QTBIPOC and non-binary artists at an international level. We are for the redistribution of wealth as a form of reparations in our lifetime. We seek to publish work that pushes against the traditional art world at large and showcases restorative work made within community. We make art for survival. More specifically, we are challenging the way photography and text has traditionally been used within the mainstream medium of photojournalism. We are making space for the photographers of the future. We honor and uplift emerging talent, and we aim to make it possible and accessible for QTBIPOC artists to be published and take their work outside of the digital realm and make it something tangible and archival to be passed down to future generations.