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Why Federally Funded Art?

CETA Remembered: At the Intersection of Public Art and Public History

Rethinking the Lotus Bowl at Auction

When Public Art Made the Walls Talk

Path of the World, Richard C. Lee gymnasium high school, summer 1977. It’s a riot of color and design, a range of faces representing every human emotion from happiness to concern. The city swirls behind the people, the perspective almost creating a sense of vertigo. And the people’s hands reach out to us still…

“Community Mural Program Remembered”

In early 2017 New Haven's Q" House on Dixwell Avenue was imploded to make way for a new community center. Inside that long-abandoned Modernist building were two murals painted almost forty years ago. They were the last survivors of a small but productive community mural program run for a handful of years in the late 1970s by the City of New Haven with federal funds…

New Haven’s Vast Public Art Is Often Unseen

Here Comes the Story of a Stray Dog Named Stubby, World War I Hero from New Haven

Compatible with his Cerebral Organization

This Dog Had a Sensibility

The Scene They Left Behind