Kevin Yang and Fany Kuzmova’s “New Haven, Revisited” featured in New Haven Arts Paper

Kevin Yang, with students Destiny White, Jeremy Thames and Deandre Watt. Lucy Gellman Photos.
May 21, 2024

Kevin Yang and Fany Kuzmova’s 2023–24 Environmental Humanities grant project, “New Haven, Revisited,” received a write up in the New Haven Arts Paper by journalist Lucy Gellman:

High schooler Treazure Alexander looks to the side, her arms pulled back behind her head. Gold hoops dangle from her ears, low enough that they brush a goldenrod-hued sweatshirt. On the shelf behind her, pez-colored bags of potato chips and popcorn glow in the bright, artificial light. She is completely statuesque, frozen in time.
 
In another universe, this might be a gallery in the Louvre or Victoria & Albert, reserved for Greco-Roman sculptures. But this is The Marketa on Temple Street, more Jamel Shabazz than a stuffy hall of marble and stone…
 
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Public Humanities Grant