Lucy Gellman

1 week ago | newhavenarts.org | Lucy Gellman

Nelson at the Ives Main Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library. This week, he'll be presenting some of his work at the Trinity International Hip Hop Festival in Hartford. Lucy Gellman Photo. The little boy—later, we’ll learn that his name is Franklin—pedals forward on his bike, eyes fixed on the horizon. He is focused, determined; his mouth hangs open, as if he’s about to shout something into the air. His hands, fingers gently rounded, grip the handlebars.

1 week ago | newhavenarts.org | Lucy Gellman

Top: Suarez lights two candles for Roya Mohammadi, who would have turned 32 years old on April 16. Bottom: A message to Mohammadi from one of the attendees. Lucy Gellman Photos. The messages hung from the branches of a redbud tree, fluttering among the small, coral-colored blooms. You should be here, read one. We will continue to work for your justice, read another. On a third nearby, in neat Farsi characters: 'Til forever, your name will not leave my lips.

1 week ago | theinnercitynews.com | Lucy Gellman

Lucy Gellman, Editor, The Arts Paper newhavenarts.org Students at the t Talented and Creative Youth Camp, run through the Monk Center for Academic Enrichment and Performing Arts at Davis Street School in upper Westville in 2021. Both organizations have received CT Humanities funding in past years. App Singer + Lucy Gellman File Photos. Summer youth jazz initiatives and city-wide celebrations of the literary arts. Exhibition materials and museum study days on how the past informs the present.

2 weeks ago | newhavenarts.org | Lucy Gellman

Tahj Robinson. Lucy Gellman Photos. Second grader Tahj Robinson plunked out three notes on a piano, the keys singing beneath his fingertips. At first, all he heard was the even, familiar hum of an A, the sound hanging low in the room. Then there was a D, round and resonant, like it had just been waiting for the right fingers. Tahj beamed, and went back to A, then jumped to C. On the other side of the keyboard, teacher Vicki Kirkland nodded approvingly. “What does that sound like?” Kirkland asked.

2 weeks ago | newhavenarts.org | Lucy Gellman

Candles and photos at a vigil for Gayle in 2021, following her death. Contributed Photo. In the days and weeks and months after Camryn “Mooka” Gayle passed away, her mother Elizabeth Robinson made a promise to her baby girl. I got you, Mooka, Robinson said as she laid her child to rest. I got you. It became a refrain, there as she collected signatures, reached out to city officials, and made appeals to safeguard her daughter’s memory. Don’t worry. I will fix it. I got you.