Yale Daily News

With live musical performances and cupcakes arranged to spell “378” at City Hall, New Haven celebrated its birthday on Wednesday.

April 28, 2016

Amidst colorful paintings, knit and metal works and a variety of ceramic pieces, a bird and button covered hat is on display at Creative Arts Workshop, a nonprofit community art school on Audubon Street. The hat — one of about 20 that will be auctioned off in May — is awaiting its runway debut.

April 21, 2016

This spring, artists from around the world will have the opportunity to create in the Elm City through Artspace’s eighth annual Artist-in-Residence program.

April 13, 2016

Cries of “no justice no peace; no racist police” and “hands up to the sky; we doing this for Akai” rang out across the rainy New Haven Green on Saturday afternoon. A group of approximately 40 CT residents, Yale students and members of 28-year-old Akai Gurley’s family gathered to protest Gurley’s shooting, which occurred at the hands of NYPD Officer Peter Liang on Nov. 20, 2014 in Brooklyn.

April 4, 2016

Colorfully beaded earrings sparkled on a burlap cloth in the gallery room of Ezra Stiles College on Sunday. Unpaired and distinct, the earrings stood together in their representation of the more than 1,181 Native women and girls who have been reported missing or murdered in Canada since 1980.

April 4, 2016

Up to 16 New Haven high school students can explore gender identity this summer through art mediums, ranging from painting to poetry, thanks to a summer apprenticeship program run by Artspace, a nonprofit contemporary art gallery in New Haven.

March 31, 2016

Perceptions of safety and community satisfaction in the Elm City are on the rise, but inequality remains intractable, according to a recent study conducted by local nonprofit analytics group DataHaven.

March 29, 2016

Casts of trees, black-and-white photography and colorful paintings were the focus of a human rights-themed talk at the Yale University Art Gallery on Thursday.

March 11, 2016

After indulging in stuffed clams, salmon and salads prepared by Hillhouse High School culinary students Monday afternoon, four New Haven alders met with roughly 30 students, teachers and school board members to informally review the school’s year-and-a-half year old academy program.

March 8, 2016

On Wednesday night, an audience of approximately 60 Yale students, faculty members and New Haven residents watched a video of all the lines spoken by people of color throughout the entire Harry Potter series. Although the movies span nearly 20 hours, the clip took less than five minutes.

February 25, 2016

It was not scenes of death and destruction but images of colorful mosques, smiling strangers and family dinners that New Haven artist Mohamad Hafez discussed in his Sunday talk about his Syria-inspired art.

February 22, 2016