Arts News

New Haven, Conn. (January 30, 2026) – The movie “Hidden Figures” has shown there are many aspects of history that remain unknown. Dr. Ainissa Ramirez will share inventions that were created by Black inventors—from the light bulb to the mailbox to the ice cream scoop—during her presentation, “Black Inventors Who Made the Stuff Around Us,” at the New Haven Museum on Thursday, February 12, 2026, at 6 p.m. Preceded by a reception at 5:30 p.m. Register here. The NH250 event is fre

Photo courtesy of Guilford Art Center Guilford, CT — Guilford Art Center (GAC) will open registration for its Summer Youth Program early this year, beginning January 26, 2026. Designed for ages 5–12, GAC’s art camp program offers art classes in painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, mixed media, sewing and more—all taught by experienced, professional teaching artists in a supportive and inspiring environment. The program will run in weekly half day or full day sessions from

Photo: (clockwise from left) High School in the Community teachers Barbara Greenwood, Georgia P. Kaytis, Charlotte Hilton, Matt Borenstein, 1975. Credit: Barbara Greenwood. New Haven, Conn. (January 26, 2026)– Teachers. Social workers. Secretaries. When we think of women in the labor movement, these occupations may not come to mind. Yet in New Haven and elsewhere, women in white-collar and “pink-collar” jobs broke new ground in the 1970s and ’80s by organizing and demanding