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Brian Slattery |
Oct 14, 2024 8:46 am
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Sculptor Susan Clinard, as New Haven Open Studios comes to West Haven.
Victor Smith: "If my heart had not been broken, if I had not been in so great distress, if I had not decided to express my hurts through my paintings, I probably would never have been discovered."
Inside Susan Clinard’s Gilbert Street studio on Sunday afternoon, the West Haven space was full of New Haven faces.
People chatted in the corners among the sculptures. One viewer shared a long moment with a figure in a boat. People exchanged waves and hugs. It was all part of New Haven Open Studios’s second weekend, which encompassed Amplify the Arts in East Rock, but reached to the Gilbert Street studios in West Haven as well, where artists threw open their doors — as they will again next weekend, Oct. 19 and 20, in Erector Square and MarlinWorks, and in Westville, NXTHVN, and elsewhere the weekend after that, Oct. 26 and 27.
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Lisa Reisman |
Jul 5, 2024 9:34 am
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UNH film student Elisa Broche (second from right) with her family in Honduras.
Elisa Broche won’t be at Saturday’s premiere of her new documentary about Newhallville community activist Marcus Harvin at the University of New Haven.
That’s because the 19-year-old student filmmaker is back in her home city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras — doing everything she can to raise enough money to return to West Haven to complete her studies.
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Lisa Reisman |
May 30, 2024 9:31 am
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Susan Clinard with beribboned figure in new West Haven studio.
When New Haven-based sculptor Susan Clinard moved from her longtime digs at the barn at the Eli Whitney Museum to a studio in West Haven earlier this year, she brought along with her hundreds of people — sculptures of people, to be precise, made of wood, clay, wire, and found objects.
“I’m always looking for materials to speak about the many things I want to speak about, but above all our common experience,” she said at a recent, well-attended open studio at her new space in the Gilbert Street Studios.
