Color Accelerate News Today

Fellow and new program manager for the Accelerate program Andre Rochester said that the biggest highlight of the program for him was affirming his dream of becoming a full-time artist.

Newly-minted Greater Hartford Arts Council CEO the Rev. Shelley Best said she believes the arts industry must be transformed to better represent the region’s rich diversity. That would attract new artists, tap into a new customer base and let those who might have been looking in from the outside feel they too can be part of Greater Hartford’s thriving arts scene.