Celebrating faculty & alums in Venice
Dean Pinder and Aki Sasamoto in a conversation on art & academia
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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean Kymberly Pinder, and Assistant Professor and Acting Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture, Aki Sasamoto in Venice. Photos by Miko McGinty '98.
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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean Kymberly Pinder, alongside Assistant Professor and Acting Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture, Aki Sasamoto, traveled to Venice last week to celebrate and support the work of Yale School of Art faculty and alums included in the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
Together with the Yale Alumni Art League, the Yale School of Art hosted a conversation and reception at the Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal on the afternoon of April 21, in which Dean Pinder and exhibiting Biennale artist Sasamoto shared their thoughts on art, exhibiting, and academia.
“As an artist/educator, I really enjoy when the line between people I connect through my art and through academia start to blur,” Sasamoto shared about the event. “Having a frank conversation about art and education in the heart of Venice was the moment when this line dissolved and I felt honest and free.”
Exhibited as part of the Biennale exhibition The Milk of Dreams, Sasamoto’s installation Sink or Float welcomes viewers into a reimagined kitchen space in which snail shells, Command hooks, melamine sponge cubes, and magnifying glasses endlessly glide across air float tables fitted in commercial sinks in a dance of controlled chaos. Among the diagrams and charts above the tables, a question asks “When do you decide to go the other way?”
In addition to Sasamoto, School of Art alumni Felipe Baeza ’18, Ficre Ghebreyesus ’02, Elle Pérez ’15 and Critic in Photography, and Christina Quarles ’16, all have work represented at the Biennele’s 59th edition. The Venice Biennale’s visual identity for the 2022 edition is also based on works by Felipe Baeza ’18.
Also in Venice are prominent Biennale collateral exhibitions featuring alums Stanley Whitney ’72 and Kehinde Wiley ’01. Stanley Whitney: The Italian Paintings is presented by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, and Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence at Fondazione Giorgio Cini. While the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale and The Italian Paintings are both open to the public through November 27, 2022, An Archaeology of Silence closes July 24, 2022.
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Anoka Faruqee appointed Associate Dean
Painting/Printmaking Co-Director begins new role in 2022-23 academic year
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Photo by Danielle DeJesus, Painting/Printmaking MFA '21.
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On April 26, the Yale School of Art was pleased to announce that Co-Director of Graduate Studies in Painting and Printmaking, Anoka Faruqee, has been appointed Associate Dean, filling a position at the School of Art that has been vacant since 2018.
Beginning her new role in the 2022-2023 academic year, Faruqee has been a faculty member in Painting and Printmaking for over a decade and has led the department since her appointment as Director in 2015.
Faruqee’s fellow Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Meleko Mokgosi, will lead the department as its sole director at the start of the new academic year, with Oscar Cornejo continuing in his role as Graduate Coordinator. Faruqee will continue to teach in and outside of the Painting and Printmaking department as Associate Dean, while developing and leading new collaborative administrative priorities and projects.
“I’m excited to work with Dean Pinder, the faculty, staff, and students at the School to fulfill the School’s mission of inspiring and supporting emerging artists and designers,” Faruqee shared of her forthcoming role, “I especially welcome the opportunity to get to know students and faculty in all of the departments, and facilitate meaningful interdepartmental exchange.”
Read more in the School of Art's news item >
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Experience Next Day Soup: 2022 Sculpture MFA Thesis Exhibition
Photo documentation now available!
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Documentation photography by Meghan Olson.
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Spring 2022 thesis exhibitions are continuing apace, and we're excited to share that documentation of the 2022 Sculpture MFA exhibition, Next Day Soup is available via the School of Art's growing exhibitions archive.
Next Day Soup was open to the Yale community from March 28 through April 5, 2022, and featured the work of Jannick Deslauriers, Riley Duncan, Pap Souleye Fall, Cristóbal Gracia, Erik Nilson, and Lucas Yasunaga.
An accompanying website with photo documentation and texts for each artist was created by the exhibition identity designers, Han Gao and Miguel Gaydosh, Graphic Design MFAs ‘22.
Access the exhibition website at nextdaysoup.yaleschoolofart.org >
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Full information about Next Day Soup can be found in the archives here >
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Community field trips continue with visits to NXTHVN and Artspace
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Left: School of Art students, faculty, and staff at NXTHVN, April 14, 2022. Photo taken by a friendly stranger. Right: The School of Art community in dialogue with the New Haven Cultural Equity Plan Co-Creation Team at Artspace, April 25, 2022. Photo by Dean Pinder.
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Dean Pinder’s field trips for School of Art students, faculty, and staff continued this spring with two special trips to New Haven art spaces.
On April 14, Assistant Director of Communications and public art researcher, Lindsey Mancini, led a second public art tour with a walk from Green Hall to NXTHVN. There, NXTHVN 2021 Curatorial Fellow, Jamillah Hinson, continued the art-viewing with a tour of Let Them Roam Freely, a two-person exhibition she co-curated, featuring work by artists Hong Hong and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell.
On the evening of April 25, the School of Art community was invited to attend a special event with New Haven arts leadership at Artspace, with a catered dinner provided by Lazeez Indian Cuisine. Director of Arts and Cultural Affairs for the City of New Haven, Adriane Jefferson, joined with members of the New Haven Cultural Equity Plan Co-Creation Team to share what they learned in creating the first-ever New Haven Cultural Equity Plan.
More trips are planned for the upcoming academic year and beyond, as the School of Art deepens its engagement within the vast New Haven arts ecosystem.
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Alums named 2022 Guggenheim Fellows
Congrats to the seven alums selected as recepients!
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On April 9, the School of Art was pleased to announce that alumni Gary Burnley ‘74, Sam Contis ‘08, Nathaniel Donnett ‘21, Chie Fueki ‘98, Mark Thomas Gibson ‘13, Janice Nowinski ‘87, and Rebecca Soderholm ‘07 are among the 2022 Guggenheim Fellows named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
This year’s fellowships were awarded to 180 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists meticulously selected from nearly 2,500 applicants across the United States and Canada in the Foundation’s ninety-seventh competition. Chosen through a rigorous peer-review process on the basis of both prior achievement and exceptional promise, the 2022 Fellows are drawn from 51 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, 81 academic institutions, 31 states and the District of Columbia, and four Canadian provinces. The 2022 Guggenheim Fellows range in age from 33 to 75 and almost 60 have no full-time college or university affiliation.
Read more in the School of Art's news item >
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