Congratulations to the Class of 2021
Commencement held Monday, May 24 on Old Campus
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The MFA Class of 2021 celebrates following the commencement ceremony on Old Campus. Photo by Angela Chen, Photography MFA '20.
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The Yale School of Art celebrated its graduating class of 2021 with a commencement address by writer and musician Greg Tate.
The 2021 School of Art commencement took place as part of Yale University’s larger in-person commencement exercises on Old Campus in New Haven on Monday, May 24—held with safety precautions in place including limited attendance, social distancing, and masks.
While all in-person ceremonies were limited to graduating students only, graduates’ families, friends, and members of the public were invited to watch the ceremony live.
The 2021 recipients of the Degree of Master of Fine Arts:
Graphic Design: Herdimas Anggara, Milo Bonacci, Luiza Dale, Bianca Ibarlucea, Furqan Jawed, Harin Jung, Jun Jung, Minhwan Kim, Ana Lobo, Nick Massarelli, Anezka Minarikova, Mengyi Qian, Anna Sagström, Mianwei Wang
Painting/Printmaking: Vamba Bility, Brianna Rose Brooks, David Craig, Danielle De Jesus, Nathaniel Donnett, Leyla Faye, Kate Meissner, Mich Miller, Gabriel Mills, Dala Nasser, Alina Perez, Tamen Pérez, Sara Rahmanian, Jonathan Rajewski, Emma Safir, Chibuike Uzoma, Curtis Welteroth
Photography: Mickey Aloisio, Ronghui Chen, Tarah Douglas, Jackie Furtado, Max Gavrich, Nabil Harb, Dylan Hausthor, Annie Ling, Alex Nelson, Rosemary Warren
Sculpture: Cameron Clayborn, Armando Cortés, Kevin Hernández Rosa, Sae Jun Kim, Diana Sofia Lozano, Hyeree Ro, Amina Ross, Audrey Ryan, Jeenho Seo, Freddy Villalobos, Stella Zhong
Graduates heard addresses from Yale School of Art Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean and Professor of Art Marta Kuzma, invited commencement speaker Greg Tate, and student speaker Amina Ross.
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Fellowships, prizes & awards recipients announced
Congratulations to the 2021 student recipients
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We were unable to host an in-person awards ceremony this May due to COVID restrictions, but that does not diminish the pride we feel in our distinguished 2021 fellowship and award recipients.
Shared with the School of Art community on the day of commencement, the full list of juried and non-juried prizes and fellowships, as well as honorary awards, is available online here.
Congratulations to our 2021 student recipients!
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2021 Open Studios graphic identity by Mengjie Liu and Churong Mao, Graphic Design MFAs '22.
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Spring 2021 was an especially busy semester at the Yale School of Art! In addition to staging the six annual MFA thesis exhibitions, an additional three exhibitions were staged in 32 Edgewood Gallery—all rescheduled from the spring of 2020. These included the second group of the 2020 Sculpture MFAs, who together presented No Deep Kissing in March; the 2020 undergraduate art majors who exhibited their work in Unfinished in April; and finally the 2020 Graphic Design cohort who staged On my way! in May. Over the summer, the 2020 MFA thesis exhibition in Photography will be installed in Green Hall Gallery.
In addition to an unusually full exhibition schedule, the Spring 2021 semester also welcomed more than 50 speakers to campus virtually, and included a reprise of the Photography department's Pop Up Lecture Series, as well as an extension of the Graphic Design Guest Speaker Series. The Painting/Printmaking program also organized a special workshop series open to the School of Art community, which included events like "Ask a Curator" with René Morales from the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and "Ask a Gallerist" with Alia Williams from Jeffrey Deitch and Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels from Jack Shainman.
In April, the School hosted its first-ever virtual Open Studios, in which a series of public online events were held, artists opened their studio spaces to the public via Zoom, and MFA students' work was exhibited as a cohesive whole online, through virtual studios developed in collaboration with each artist. Two virtual 2021 Open Studios events are available to watch in full on YouTube, and the virtual studios will remain online through March 2022. Visit 2021 Open Studios >>
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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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Thank you for being part of our community. During these uncertain times, we've created support funds to help address the School's most pressing needs.
We appreciate your support!
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