Virtual Open Studios 2021 announced
Join us online Saturday, April 10 & Sunday, April 11
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2021 Open Studios graphic identity by Mengjie Liu and Churong Mao, Graphic Design MFAs '22.
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We're excited to be hosting our annual graduate open studios event virtually for the first time in 2021, with work presented online from the departments of Graphic Design, Painting/Printmaking, Photography, and Sculpture.
At 12:00AM on Saturday, April 10, the 2021 Open Studios digital platform will come online—conceptualized, alongside a special series of virtual programming, in an effort to realize an authentic digital representation of what is traditionally an intimate experience with each MFA students’ work and practice.
Perhaps most directly representative of the in-person event are virtual studio drop-in hours made available at the discretion of each student, "Live on Zoom." Scheduled times during which artists will be available over Zoom in their studios, "Live on Zoom" will allow for members of the public to connect directly to the artists and their studio spaces.
"Live on Zoom" functions as the central element within a broader array of virtual programming scheduled across the weekend of Open Studios. For the developing schedule as it becomes available, subscribe to our public events calendar here >>
To access the 2021 Open Studios platform when it becomes available, visit this year’s website: openstudios2021.yaleschoolofart.org >>
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Sondra Perry named 2021 Presidential Visiting Fellow in Fine Arts
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 On March 4, Professor Marta Kuzma, Dean of the Yale School of Art, announced the appointment of Sondra Perry as the 2021 Presidential Visiting Fellow in Fine Arts, noting, “Any artist whose practice draws from contemporary systems of technology sources from a system coded by inequity."
Photo by Sandy Perry.
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As Presidential Visiting Fellow, Sondra Perry is appointed within the department of Photography, with an extended engagement among each of the School’s departments with respect to interdisciplinary research and studio work. As an artist, Perry’s commitment to net neutrality and ideas of collective production and action involves using open-source software to edit work and leasing it digitally for use in galleries and classrooms, while also making videos available for free online. Perry’s approach has an ethical dimension in that it adheres to the principle of open access, and in doing so, Perry aims to privilege Black life, to democratize access to art and culture, and to offer a critical platform that differentiates itself from the portrayal of Blackness in the media.
Read the full announcement >>
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Spring semester highlights
New faculty, courses, speakers, and more
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Spring 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture posters, presented in chronological order. Poster designs by current MFA students Stella Zhon, Mengjie Liu, Luiza Dale, Sae Jun Kim, Sara Rahmanian, Anezka Minarikova, Cameron Clayborn, Jun Jung, Milo Bonacci, Harin Jung, Hannah Tjaden, Han Gao, and Mike Tully.
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As the Spring 2021 semester progresses, there are a number of curricular highlights deserving of recognition: Sculpture has welcomed scholar Garnette Cadogan as a visiting faculty member to teach a new course, "The Weight of a Line: Walking and the Exploration of Space, Time, and Presence," in which students closely study and create works that use walking to explore and communicate presence—the body in motion as a means and end to thinking about and experiencing space and time—and focus on movement (and it’s cousin, stillness) as a political, poetic, conceptual, narrative, and even whimsical act. Together they look at marks and traces and journeys, installation and video art and performance art, photographs and sculptures and texts, and reflect on how being attentive to the signs of our presence can make us better artists, critics, and viewers. Faculty members in Sculpture, Elizabeth Tubergen and Desmond Lewis, have also organized a four-part lecture series as part of their graduate courses "Publics" and "Outside In," which from February through April is hosting talks with Oscar Rene Cornejo, Onyedika Chuke, Jessica Vaughn, and Natasha Marie Llorens open to the School of Art community.
Graphic Design welcomed Irma Boom earlier this month, while continuing and expanding its Guest Speaker Series with Tauba Auerbach. Newly scheduled talks are coming throughout April: the public virtual series will welcome Antwerp-based designer Ines Cox, artist and educator Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and the London-based design duo Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath (OK-RM) as the spring semester concludes.
In Photography, visiting faculty member Carmen Winant is teaching "What is a Feminist Picture?," in which a special series of guests—Laia Abril, Johanna Fateman, Mierle Lalderman Ukeles, and Legacy Russell—have been invited to give talks open to the School of Art community. There may also be plans to reprise the program's beloved pop-up series, initiated during the Spring 2020 semester in response to the pandemic crisis.
Painting/Printmaking has been using its Common Hour—a shared time of reflection for the cohort and faculty—as a space to invite artists and writers for virtual gatherings also open to the School of Art community. On March 19th, poet and author Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro held a reading in which the same short poems were read aloud by different participants, creating a space of listening and collectivity through a powerful selection of poems. On Friday, the space will welcome artist and poet Daniela Naomi Molnar, whose practice engages the mediums of language, image, and place. In February, curator, art historian, and coordinator of the Hawai'i Contemporary Art Summit, Sara Raza, conducted thesis exhibition reviews for the 2021 MFA candidates in Painting/Printmaking. Artist and filmmaker Cassandra Guan has also joined the department as a visiting faculty member this semester to teach "The Work of Art in the Age of ——, Revisited," a new course expanding the critical vision of Walter Benjamin's essay beyond its historical moment. On April 7th, Guan will be in conversation with Isaac Julien and Mark Nash as part of the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Across the School of Art, twenty virtual artist talks and lectures have been hosted since the semester began in the last week of January, with five of these open to the public and more soon to premiere on YouTube. We're also overjoyed to be hosting the MFA class of 2020's remaining thesis exhibitions this semester, with the first of the shows that had to be cancelled a year ago due to COVID—Sculpture Group 2—recently installed in the gallery space at 32 Edgewood Avenue.
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School of Art alums are invited to submit events and exhibitions to be added to the new School of Art in the World calendar, as well as publications and initiatives to be archived on the wiki.
Members of the public are invited to subscribe to the School of Art in the World calendar, and visit the full wiki archive.
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