New Haven
A Year Of Reckoning In The Arts
by | Dec 22, 2023 10:11 am
Karen Ponzio Photo
Ceschi Ramos, triumphant at a good night for rap music at the Space Ballroom in December.
Organizational chaos. Art spaces closing their doors. And new collectives of artists forming to take matters into their own hands.
For many in the arts scene, the year 2023 was a time of transformation — some of it painful, but much of it promising. The roots of that pain reached back into the past few years, into the pandemic shutdown, but beyond it as well. In artists healing, the chance has opened up to build something better, that lasts well into the future.
