Please join us on Thursday, May 29, 2025, at 6 PM for a conversation between the NXTHVN Cohort 06 artists, Kwamé Azure Gomez, Christopher Paul Jordan, Baris Gokturk, and Kristy Hughes, and NXTHVN Founder and President, Titus Kaphar. This event is presented in conjunction with The Things Left Unsaid, a group exhibition by NXTHVN Cohort 06, on view from May 8 through June 21, 2025, at the gallery’s 291 Grand Street location.
NXTHVN is a national arts model that empowers artists and curators through education and access to avibrant ecosystem. Supported by intergenerational mentorship, cross-sector collaboration and local engagement, NXTHVN accelerates the careers of the next generation and fosters retention of professional art talent while helping catalyze New Haven into a world-class, sustainable arts community.
Founded by Titus Kaphar and Jason Price, NXTHVN offers one of the only Fellowships that unites curators and artists, furnishing them with fundamentals to thrive in their practice. During the course of the program, Curatorial Fellows receive a $45,000 stipend and Studio Fellows receive a $35,000 stipend for the Fellowship year, 24-hour access to dedicated work and/or studio space and subsidized on-site housing. The program culminates in a group exhibition at a prominent gallery, situating Fellows squarely in the art world.
Titus Kaphar is an artist who cuts, bends, sculpts, and mixes the work of Classic and Renaissance painters, creating formal games and new tales between fiction and quotation. He is the recipient of the distinguished Jacob Lawrence Fellowship, a 2015 Creative Capital Grant, and the 2016 Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Grant. His work is included in the collections of The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Seattle Art Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art, among others. In 2014, TIME magazine commissioned Kaphar to create a work of art in response to protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Kaphar’s work has been reviewed in the New Yorker, the Huffington Post, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Forbes. Kaphar received a BFA from San Jose State University and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. Kaphar lives and works in New Haven with his wife Julianne and their sons.
The event is free and open to the public.