Quick Takes: No Strings Attached
West Hartford film studio Elmwood Productions makes movies starring a cast of puppets for a strictly grown-up audience.
Dislocations
Sculptor and architect Mohamad Hafez uses detailed miniatures to create a visual lament about the Syrian war.
Barry Blitt: I’m Just Trying to Make Myself Laugh
Connecticut illustrator Barry Blitt tackles politics in general and the Trump era in particular with New Yorker covers and more.
Gone Sewing
Connecticut entrepreneur Heather Devin puts her own spin on children’s clothing with her business Gone 2 Quonnie.
Hartford’s Mural Man
Architect, artist, and community advocate Jason Farquharson has a vision for Hartford and it involves painting the city.
A Room With Her View
Photographer Pola Esther inhabits the life of Ruth Ann Brown Coxe in a new exhibit at the Florence Griswold Museum.
Leslie Giuliani: Genre-Defying Art
Connecticut artist Leslie Giuliani defies description. Is she a printmaker, painter, weaver, rug hooker? All of the above?
Taking Aim at Hartford
Street photographer Erik Williams highlights a gritty, vibrant Hartford in a new Real Art Ways exhibit.
She’s on Fire
Musician Laini Marenick leaves her job as a therapist to record her first LP, Wandering, with Laini and the Wildfire.
Suite & Spicy
Carolyn Paine keeps a busy schedule from coast to coast, but each year brings her Nutcracker Suite & Spicy home to Hartford.
Your Turn, My Turn, Our Turn
Performance architecture artists Ward Shelley and Alex Schweder explore how where we live affects who we are and how we act.
Five Questions With … Azua Echevarria
Five Questions With…Azua Echevarria, an outspoken artist, maker, and healer in Connecticut who wants to raise everyone’s energy.
The Strange Ways of Alex Dakoulas
For Alex Dakoulas of Strange Ways, pins, pennants, & patches are more than accessories. They’re a complex expression of self.
BL&D Interview: Hartford Symphony Music Director Carolyn Kuan
Take magazine loves to share, and so does Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner. Here’s their interview with HSO director Carolyn Kuan.
Recording Off the Beaten Path in Bridgeport
Tarquin Studios’ Peter Katis helps everyone from Trey Anastasio to Dispatch and Mates of State find perfection on their albums.
Take Q&A: Joshua Jenkins—demuerte Co-founder
A chat with Joshua Jenkins, one of the creatives behind Hartford menswear label demuerte, which was featured in Take’s print issue.
Shakespeare at Center Frame
New Haven filmmaker Stephen Dest steps out of the way to center the complex story of actor Henry Green in a new documentary.
Taken: The Negus X BL&D Block Party
A double Dutch contest, live music, and DJs got the crowd jumping at The Negus × BL&D Block Party in Hartford.
Quick Takes: Hidden Riches
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, tucked away in a historic, colonial Connecticut town, is worth the trip.
Making Space
With an interest in construction & a love for timber, Gray Organschi Architecture is reshaping the New Haven’s landscape & beyond.
Arien Wilkerson Gallery
A few standouts from Take Magazine‘s photo shoot with Hartford dancer Arien Wilkerson that we couldn’t fit into print.
Bill Vollers Design: A Far Away Aesthetic
Bill Vollers had been creating his art form for years before realizing its roots were based on a traditional Japanese belief.
Arien Wilkerson Uncut
Interview outtakes from Hartford performer Arien Wilkerson that our writer wished he could’ve fit into our October/November 2017 print issue.
Fuzzy Baby Ducky You’re the One
Colorful cans and bright brews from New England Brewing Company connect with IPA fans eager to pop open Fuzzy Baby Ducks IPAs.
Master of Puppets
John Bell, director of UConn’s Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, is just one reason shows like Avenue Q remain popular.
Transitioning from Books to Stage
Connecticut novelist Harriet Scott Chessman takes on a piece of Vietnam history, the My Lai Massacre, in an opera.
AZTRO Boy
Arien Wilkerson is fueled by his blackness, queerness, and desire to bring the language of movement to Hartford’s North End.
The Man Behind the Curtain
Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero is one reason Hartford’s TheaterWorks has been a star in regional theater in New England.
#TakeAction: Power Move
Connecticut Director of Culture Kristina Newman-Scott on the need for relevance, equity, access, and diversity in the arts.
To Die For
The minimalist clothing of De Muerte in Hartford, Connecticut serves monochromatic fashion that’s both subtle and new.
All That Jazz
Connecticut saxophonist Mike Casey is an anomaly in the contemporary jazz world—he’s a musician who’s making it on his own terms.
Forms in Conflict
New Milford sculptor Chris Plaisted finds beauty in contrasting material and examining forms of conflict.
All Eyes on Qua
New Haven, Connecticut prodigy abstract projectionist painter Qua uses performance and scale to compose the magically surreal.
The Pithy Musical Chaos of Space Camp
With short, loud tracks and nuanced queer politics, Space Camp occupies a space in New England hardcore all their own.
What Jonathan Siksay Did on his New Album
Connecticut singer/songwriter Jonathan Siksay serves up his distinctive music in his upcoming debut album, What I Did Last Night.
Busy as Bees
Formed just a year ago, New London, Connecticut’s The BeeKeepers are creating a buzz in the bluesy folk music world.
Saving Cult Classics in Connecticut
Connecticut’s Vinegar Syndrome saves the grittiest exploitation flicks from oblivion, one cult movie at a time.
American Art Reconsidered
America’s first museum dedicated to American art recently got an unlikely new director: Min Jung Kim, a native of South Korea.
The Passions of Judith Thorpe
Connecticut photographer Judith Thorpe on the female body, religious iconography, and her life behind a camera.
Paper and Light
Madison, Connecticut, artist Shelby Head harnesses her rich technical skill to uplift everyday materials into new possibilities.
Paper and Light
Madison, Connecticut artist Shelby Head harnesses her rich technical skill to uplift everyday materials into new possibilities.
Hartford’s Star Painter
Influenced by transcendentalists and Carl Sagan, Connecticut artist Jason Werner creates immersive paintings of the night sky.
An Accident of Time
New Haven digital media artist Johannes DeYoung takes on absurdist storytelling and the poetic capacity of time-based media.
A Life in Recipes
Jacques Lamarre brings his latest play—the first punk-rock, lesbian, Jewish catering show—to TheaterWorks in Hartford.
Connecticut’s Merry Prankster
Connecticut conceptual multimedia artist Bob Gregson prefers to make his art with the help of total strangers.
Hard Luck, Good Times
The Hard Luck Horseshoe Revue mixes old-school bingo and live music to create a great way to spend a night out in Connecticut.
Life is Gross
Casey Spectacular paints, performs, and writes to illuminate how our specific histories inevitably inform personal mythology.
The Good Stuff
Breakfast Lunch and Dinner created the Know Good Market to help Hartford-area businesses reach the audience they deserve.
Sacred Stones
Hartford designer Toni Johnson, founder of Rework Creative, channels the divine to create jewelry that attunes the soul.