Comment on Storm’s Brush Brings Rembert Back To Newhallville by Tessa Marquis
The view from the sidewalk on Bassett near Shelton. Katro Storm sat on a scaffold 15 feet high outside of Lincoln-Bassett School Monday morning as he painted the nose of a friend, mentor, and fellow New Haven artist who taught him that “it was OK to have country roots” — and that it’s important to paint regular people, and not just celebrities. “He convinced me to paint my own story,” Storm said about the late Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Winfred Rembert, who lived on Newhall Street and carved leather masterpieces of his life in the Jim Crow South that earned national renown.
- ▪The view from the sidewalk on Bassett near Shelton.
- ▪Katro Storm sat on a scaffold 15 feet high outside of Lincoln-Bassett School Monday morning as he painted the nose of a friend, mentor, and fellow New Haven artist who taught him that “it was OK to have country roots” — and that it’s import
- ▪“He convinced me to paint my own story,” Storm said about the late Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Winfred Rembert, who lived on Newhall Street and carved leather masterpieces of his life in the Jim Crow South that earned national renown.
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The view from the sidewalk on Bassett near Shelton. Katro Storm sat on a scaffold 15 feet high outside of Lincoln-Bassett School Monday morning as he painted the nose of a friend, mentor, and fellow New Haven artist who taught him that “it was OK to have country roots” — and that it’s important to paint regular people, and not just celebrities. “He convinced me to paint my own story,” Storm said about the late Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Winfred Rembert, who lived on Newhall Street and carved leather masterpieces of his life in the Jim Crow South that earned national renown. Storm is currently working on a double-portrait mural of Rembert and his beloved wife Patsy on the Bassett Street side of the Newhallville public school.
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