Lucy Gellman Photo.īefore Saturday, she and Stewart outlined buildings, trees, and a line for grass with a sort of paint-by-numbers format.
Top: A collage of Saturday and Sunday's work, courtesy of the Colorful Mural Project. Her art studio is where his high school bedroom once stood. They include Novak’s father’s childhood home on Avon Street, where she is now living. The design is based on homes and buildings that were in the neighborhood prior to urban renewal, as well as many that still occupy State Street. Saturday, State and Bradley Street residents came out to paint, many making new friends and reconnecting with neighbors in the process. “I’m always humbled by the people who show up.” “It feels amazing,” said BSBC founder and owner John Martin. New Haveners have been campaigning for better underpass lighting as a public safety measure since 2017. Last week, the DOT surprised painters by installing new LED lights in the underpass. For the past three weeks, artists and community members have prepared the space by power-washing and priming the walls. The project, which has received financial backing from the community and the Could Be Fund, has been ready and fully funded since 2019. After two years of waiting for approval from the Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT), artists have finally been able to bring the project to fruition. Saturday and Sunday, volunteers came out to work on the long-awaited State Street Colorful Mural Project, a collaboration among the Bradley Street Bicycle Co-Op (BSBC), Arts For Learning Connecticut, the Upper State Street Association (USSA) and local artists Alex Novak and Anika Stewart. Artist Anika Stewart scurried between stations, refilling trays with thick red, yellow and green paint. Just a few yards down, Elm and Mulberry trees shot up from the pavement with record speed.
Ten-year-old Haviland Hawthorne lifted her sunshine-colored brush to the underpass, and began to fill in the wall of a yellow house. Haviland Hawthorne and Ramya Subramanian.
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