Thank you for joining us for 2023 Open Studios!
Over 1,100 folks turned out to see graduate and undergraduate studios & work
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Bottom left: A photograph by Charlie Gleberman, Yale College '23, seen on a stool. Bottom right: The studio of Alex Taranto, Yale College '23.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for 2023 Open Studios! We were thrilled to be able to welcome over 1,100 people into the School of Art buildings this year—a new record!—to meet with artists, see work, and attend our series of community-led events.
In addition to utilizing all five of our buildings on campus (36 + 32 Edgewood, 353 + 341 Crown, and 1156 Chapel), this was the first year that Open Studios included a satellite project through a Graphic Design pop-up at 1 Broadway. MFA students in Graphic Design created window installations, offered prints, and exhibited work in a new space that entirely reimagined what had formerly been a Patagonia store near the center of downtown New Haven.
Open Studios events included:
- Studio walkthroughs with Victoria Martinez, Painting/Printmaking MFA ‘20 and Climate Engagement Fellow for the Art in Cities Initiative, in her studio in Osborn Memorial Laboratories;
- a Pierogi Cart staged by Claire Hungerford, Graphic Design MFA ‘24, and Baxter Koziol, Sculpture MFA ‘24;
- BENT, a performance by Gabriela Rassi, Painting/Printmaking MFA ‘23, accompanied by William Bartholomew and Ziggy Coffey;
- a talk by Christopher Pullman, Senior Critic in Graphic Design, who screened a series of short motion design videos from recent MFA students in the Graphic Design Prelim program;
- a "Collaborative Community Canvas" staged by Lindsey Mancini, Assistant Director of Communications, in the Crown Street Courtyard that invited everyone to contribute to collective drawings on paper and canvas;
- and the Video Room, an all-weekend screening of short experimental films by MFA students from all departments.
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Top three photos: Graphic Design pop-up at 1 Broadway. The first image depicts a window installation by Xinyi Liu, Graphic Design MFA '24. Bottom left: the Collaborative Community Canvas. Bottom right: The studio of Michael Wang, Yale College '23.
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With six different sites activated across New Haven, attendees were welcomed into graduate and undergraduate studios, and also invited to visit three School of Art exhibitions: the 2023 Photography MFA thesis exhibition, Fair Game, in Green Hall Gallery, the Potluck, an exhibition of undergraduate student work in 341 Crown Street, and This Design is Very Human in 32 Edgewood Gallery, which featured work from the course “Interactive Design and the Internet: Software for People,” taught by Rosa McElheny, Graphic Design MFA ‘19.
If you weren't able to join us in person (or if you'd like to revisit work you saw over the weekend!), a full archive plus artwork pages of work by Open Studios participants will be available through at least March 2024 at yaleart.org/openstudios.
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Open Studios photos by Annie Lin, Project Specialist, Lindsey Mancini, Assistant Director of Communications, and the daughter of Benjamin Donaldson, Senior Critic in Photography and MFA '01, and Lisa Kereszi, Senior Critic in Photography, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and MFA ‘00.
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Recapping recent public events
Thanks to all who came to our public panels and lectures this semester!
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Documentation photography by Ryan Caron King.
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In artist Vick Quezada's powerful lecture on March 29, the interdisciplinary artist shared how their practice explores liberation through an approach that is rooted in queer and Indigenous knowledge, histories, and aesthetics.
Drawing on an Aztec-Nahuan religious doctrine that affirms a “two spirit” tradition, Quezada makes the Latinx and Indigenous transgender body visible through history, trauma, and pleasure. A Rascuache Chicanx artist who repurposes and stylizes found objects, Quezada exemplifies the extent to which Rascuache engineering is not just a skill, but a lifestyle and a practice of liberation. In queering the archaeological, Quezada desires to offer an understanding of gender and sexuality outside of the dominant narratives and create an alternate world of erotic power and joy.
Following a presentation of work, Quezada was in conversation with the Goldsmith Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, Margaret Ewing.
Sponsored by the Yale Center for the Study of Race Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, theYale School of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery.
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Documentation photography by Pat Garcia, Photography MFA ‘24.
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In the faculty panel, "Art, Research & Teaching," hosted on April 5 as part of Interdepartmental Day, core faculty at the School of Art shared the projects and work they created while on recent sabbaticals.
Moderated by Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design and MFA '12, participating faculty members included Gregory Crewdson, Director of Graduate Studies in Photography and MFA '88, Martin Kersels, Professor in Sculpture, Marta Kuzma, Professor, Meleko Mokgosi, Director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking, and Aki Sasamoto, Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture.
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Documentation photography by Avion Pearce, Photography MFA ‘24.
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In an all-school "Life After Yale" panel on April 12, also hosted as part of Interdepartmental Day, alums of the MFA program returned to share their work and offer advice to current students—many of whom are graduating next month!
The moderated discussion was led by Anoka Faruqee, Associate Dean and Professor of Painting/Printmaking and YC '94, and included panelists Hangama Amiri MFA '20, Yenwei Liu MFA '12, Florencia Escudero MFA '12, and Genevieve Gaignard MFA '14.
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Documentation photography by Andina Marie, Photography MFA ‘24.
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On April 13, alum of the Painting/Printmaking program Natalie Ball, MFA '18, returned to the Yale School of Art for a public conversation about ancestral memory, land, and identity with Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf (Eastern Shoshone, Hidatsa, and Mandan), the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Associate in Native American Art and Curation and Yale University Presidential Visiting Fellow.
Sponsored by the Yale University Art Gallery’s Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund, the Yale School of Art, the Department of the History of Art, the Yale Peabody Museum, the Yale Group for the Study of Native America, and the Yale Native American Cultural Center.
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Top photo: Four panelists alongside Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf & current MFA students in Painting/Printmaking. Top + left photo by Maria De Los Angeles, Critic and Assistant Director of Painting and Printmaking, MFA '15. Bottom right photo by Daniela Gomez Paz, Painting/Printmaking MFA '23.
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On April 14, four alums of the Painting/Printmaking program returned for a program-specific "Life After Yale" panel.
Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski MFA '19, Natalie Ball MFA '18, Nicholas Steindorf MFA ’14, and Danielle De Jesus MFA' 21 talked about their post-Yale transition, studio practice, and careers in a conversation moderated by Maria De Los Angeles, Critic, Assistant Director of Painting/Printmaking, and MFA '15. Each panelist offered a short narrative presentation about their practices, followed by guided conversation and Q&A.
Sponsored by the Painting/Printmaking department, Yale University Art Gallery, the Native American Cultural Center, the Yale Department of the History of Art, and the Traphagen Alumni Speakers Series, and the Yale College Office of Student Affairs.
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Join us for a special public event on May 3
Happening in 36 Edgewood Ave. and followed by a community reception
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Poster design by Lobbin Liu, Graphic Design MFA '24.
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On Collaboration: Qween Jean + Ryan McGinley in Conversation
Wednesday, May 3
1:15-3PM
36 Edgewood Ave., Room 204
New Haven, CT
On Collaboration, a conversation between Ryan McGinley and Qween Jean, will detail how their artistic collaboration intersects with their independent practices, specifically how Qween Jean worked with other artists in organizing the Stonewall Protests in Brooklyn during the summer of 2020, and Ryan McGinley was one of a group of photographers documenting the protests. Since 2020, McGinley continues to document protests, community gatherings, retreats, and the mutual aids of Qween Jean’s organization Black Trans Liberation. Ryan McGinley and Qween Jean collaborated on the recent publication of Revolution is Love by Aperture.
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Qween Jean is a New York City based Costume Designer who has designed over 50 shows and counting. She has fully committed her voice to the advocacy of marginalized communities, emphasizing Black Trans people.
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Ryan McGinley is a New York–based photographer. His early photos displayed the unseen intersection of Skateboard and Graffiti culture with a strong Queer focus. Currently he incorporates TGNC activists in fashion shoots and advertising campaigns, and publications.
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Co-sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, the Trowbridge Art Lecture Foundation Fund, and the Yale School of Art's Undergraduate Studies and Interdepartmental Day.
📅 Full information on the calendar >
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Upcoming Undergraduate exhibitions: Is there any way to not lose access at all and Annexed
Opening May 12 in both Green Hall Gallery and 32 Edgewood Gallery
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Exhibition identity by Marshall Barg and Rudd Fawcett, Yale College '23.
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Undergraduate Thesis Exhibitions:
May 12–22, 2023
Is there any way to not lose access at all
Green Hall Gallery, 1156 Chapel Street
Student curator: Hannah Neves Chaves
Annexed
32 Edgewood Gallery
Student curator: Flores Espinosa Fraga
Public opening in both locations on Friday, May 19 from 6 to 8PM
The undergraduate thesis exhibitions will close out the Spring 2023 gallery calendar with a presentation of work by graduating seniors in Yale College. Staged across both of the Yale School of Art's exhibition spaces—Green Hall Gallery and 32 Edgewood Gallery—the exhibitions will feature work by Alex Taranto, Anasthasia Shilov, Anna Zhang, Avery Mitchell, Catherine Webb, Charlie Gleberman, Diego Miró-Rivera, Dora Pang, Doruk Eliacik, Ellika Edelman, Emme Zhou, Flores Espinosa Fraga, Hannah Neves Chaves, Jack Li, Jacob Feit Mann, John Sedrak, Josephine Shin, Kelly Zhou, Linna Yao, Marshall Barg, Megan Graham, Michelle Li, Rosa Chang, Rudd Fawcett, Samantha Trimboli, Serena Cheng, Seyma Kaya, Thais Shephard, Yuri Bong, and Michael Wang.
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Yale School of Art's Spring 2023 receptions are open to the public. All visitors must be fully vaccinated and boosted. Proof of vaccination/booster is required. Masks are strongly recommended and may be required in the galleries at the discretion of the school during receptions based on capacity and visitor policies.
During all other gallery hours, exhibitions are only open to the Yale Community (current ID holders) and their invited accompanied guests.
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Congratulations to alums & faculty named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows & Rome Prize Winners
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On April 5, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to 171 exceptional individuals, three of whom are part of the Yale School of Art community: Tammy Nguyen, MFA '13 and recent Visiting Artist at the School; Curran Hatleberg, MFA '10 and former Visiting Artist; and Pao Houa Her, MFA '12 and Critic in Photography.
On April 24, the American Academy in Rome (AAR) announced the winners of the 2023–24 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. Included in this year's cohort of Rome Prize Winners in Visual Arts are Estefania Puerta Grisales, MFA '18, winner of the Philip Guston Rome Prize, and Mike Cloud, MFA '03, winner of the Jules Guerin Rome Prize. In addition, the Terra Foundation Affiliated Fellowship was awarded to Lan Tuazon, MFA '02. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities.
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