Thank you for joining us for 2024 Open Studios!
Over 1,200 folks came to see graduate and undergraduate studios & work
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Jesús Hilario-Reyes and Brenda Barrios, Sculpture MFAs '25, dancing during 2024 Open Studios in the studio of Rafael Villares, Sculpture MFA '24. Photo by Meghan Olson.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for 2024 Open Studios! We were thrilled to be able to welcome over 1,200 people into the School of Art buildings this year to meet with artists, see work, and attend our series of community-led events.
Open Studios events included:
- an activation of the Graphic Design Atrium, kicking off with a reception that included desserts from Lina Bakery, plus a ‘SOY RIZO’ taco cart by Claire Hungerford and Orlando Porras, Graphic Design MFAs '24
- the activation itself included a series of presentations by Graphic Design students plus a risograph printing demonstration by Neeta Patel, Graphic Design MFA '24, and a printing-project-in-process, Invitation' by Sara Duell, Graphic Design MFA '24
- a teach-in hosted in collaboration with the nonprofit Empowerment Avenue and organized by Miye Sugino, Yale College '26, entitled "Artistic Expression Beyond Prison Walls," during which an incarcerated artist, curator, and writer called in to share their work and answer questions;
- Zapateando EN YALE: A performance by Brenda Barrios, Sculpture MFA '23, which began in the artist's studio each day at 3:33;
- an MFA Photo Group Show installed by graduate Photo students in the Pool;
- year three of "Collaborative Community Canvas" by Lindsey Mancini, Assistant Director of Communications, in the Crown Street Courtyard, inviting everyone to contribute to collective drawings and take last year's creations home
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Documentation of 2024 Open Studios. Photos by Meghan Olson.
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With five different sites activated across the School of Art's campus, attendees were welcomed into graduate and undergraduate studios, and also invited to visit the School of Art exhibition that was on view in Green Hall Gallery, the Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition, You Are Now The Host.
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 2025 at yaleart.org/openstudios.
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Documentation of 2024 Open Studios community events. Photos by Meghan Olson.
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Collaboration between Drama & Sculpture leads to innovative installation in The Dome
A weekend exhibition at Yale Schwarzman Center, Moving Sculpture
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Documentation photography and installations-in-progress of Moving Sculpture: A Collaboration Between Sculptors & Projection Designers at Yale Schwarzman Center. Photos courtesy of Ben Hagari, Lecturer in Sculpture.
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Hosted during the weekend of Open Studios and opening the Thursday prior, Moving Sculpture: A Collaboration Between Sculptors & Projection Designers was an activation of an innovative site and the result of collaborations across the university. The exhibition-styled presentation developed out of a workshop organized and led by Wendall Harrington, Professor in Projection Design at the David Geffen School of Drama, and Ben Hagari, Lecturer in the Sculpture department at the Yale School of Art.
Ten students from both departments—Projection Design and Sculpture—were paired together and worked throughout the Spring semester to plan a cohesive installation for The Dome, a unique site located on the third floor of Yale Schwarzman Center.
Dome Sculptors and Theatre Designers CoLAB participants included Nic[o] Brierre Aziz, Sculpture MFA '25, and Ke Xu, Drama '26; Brenda Barrios, Sculpture MFA '25 and Doaa Ouf, Drama '25; Ivana Dama, Sculpture MFA '24 and Christian Killada, Drama '25; Helen Liene Dreifelds, Sculpture MFA '25 and Wiktor Freifeld, Drama '26; Ein Kim, Drama '25 and Marcelline Mandeng Nken, Sculpture MFA '24; and Kyle Stamm, Drama '25.
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Experience DOOM Parts I & II: 2024 Sculpture MFA Thesis Exhibition
Virtual walkthroughs & photo documentation now available!
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Installation view of Part I of the 2024 Sculpture MFA exhibition, DOOM. Documentation photography by Oresti Tsonopoulos.
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Spring 2024 thesis exhibitions continued in March and April with a two-part exhibition by the second-year MFA students in Sculpture. We're excited to share that documentation of the 2024 Sculpture MFA exhibition, DOOM—exhibited in two parts—is available via the School of Art's growing exhibitions archive.
Part I was open to the Yale community from March 1st through 8th, and featured work by Ivana Dama, Y. Malik Jalal, Marcelline Mandeng Nken, Andrew Ordonez, and Rachel Youn.
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Click to launch the 3-D walkthrough of DOOM Part I
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Part II was open to the Yale community March 25th through April 1st, and featured work by Yacine Fall, Elli Fotopoulou, Patrick Henry, Baxter Koziol, and Rafael Villares.
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Installation view of Part II of the 2024 Sculpture MFA exhibition, DOOM. Documentation photography by Alex Munro.
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A series of performances were also hosted as part of both exhibitions staged during the public receptions.
The show's exhibition identity was created by Ken Wenrui Zhao, June Lihua Yu, and Kaming Lee, Graphic Design MFAs ‘24.
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Click to launch the 3-D walkthrough of DOOM Part II
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Full information about DOOM—including more installation photography—can be found in the archives >
You can also learn more about the exhibiting artists on the 2024 MFA thesis website >
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Recapping recent All-School & public events
It has been a busy semester, with lectures, exhibition tours, and more
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Documentation of the All-School lecture by Stephanie Dinkins, March 25, 2024. Photos by Pat Garcia, Photography MFA '24.
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On March 25, the School of Art welcomed Stephanie Dinkins, who delivered an All-School lecture about her participatory and immersive practice. Her work aims to create equitable social and technological ecosystems through public engagement, storytelling, and a hands-on approach to technology.
By anchoring her practice in small data rather than vast quantities of information, Dinkins develops reparative models for AI centered not on instrumentalization but rather on socially driven and culturally sensitive values such as care and attentiveness.
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MFA students and other members of the School of Art community in Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll's studio. Photo by Anoka Faruqee, Associate Dean. Photo below by Ayham Ghraowi, MFA '17.
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When a ladder faculty member takes a leave, they give a presentation of their work. As part of her presentation, Associate Dean Anoka Faruqee invited the School of Art community to her studio—a shared site of collaboration with partner David Driscoll.
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As part of an Interdepartmental Day field trip on the morning of April 3, students travelled up to Woodbridge, Connecticut to visit Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll's studio, where they saw their paintings and learned about their collaborative process—from digital color management to material exploration. Faruqee and Driscoll began their conversation about abstract field painting in 1998, exhibited alongside one another in 2005, and began the moiré series in 2012.
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Documentation of the inaugural public Art & Activism conversation featuring curator Rashida Bumbray joined artist Jamal Cyrus, April 8, 2024. Photos by Vani Bhushan, Photography MFA '25.
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On the evening of April 8, the Yale School of Art hosted our first event in the Art and Activism conversation series. Curator Rashida Bumbray joined artist Jamal Cyrus as both spoke about their practices in the Yale School of Architecture's Hastings Hall.
Art and Activism brings together world-renowned and courageous artists with academic leaders from the arts to converse on societal matters that impact our nation. Thanks to everyone who joined us for this inaugural event!
This program was generously supported by John '87 and Kate Carrafiell. Co-hosted with the Yale School of Architecture.
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Dean Daderko with A.L. Steiner and Amanda Parmer, Critic in Painting/Printmaking, April 10, 2024. Photo by Anoka Faruqee, Associate Dean.
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Two days later, on April 10, we hosted a special Interdepartmental Day event with Dean Daderko, Ferring Foundation Chief Curator at The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM). After a presentation of their long-standing, artist-centric curatorial practice, Daderko joined in conversation with A.L. Steiner, Senior Critic and Director of Galleries and Exhibitions.
Their conversation emphasized their respective commitments to collaborative exhibition-making as a generative, socially-engaged practice. Daderko was also kind enough to bring ephemera from their archive for students to engage with before and after the talk.
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Documentation of the All-School exhibition tour of Sheila De Bretteville: Community, Activism, and Design, with Sheila De Bretteville and John Stuart Gordon, April 17, 2024. Photos by Annie Lin, Project Specialist.
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On the afternoon of April 17, as part of an on-campus field trip to the Yale University Art Gallery, the School of Art community was invited to attend a special exhibition tour and conversation of Sheila De Bretteville's Community, Activism, and Design, accompanied by co-curator of the exhibition, John Stuart Gordon, Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Curator of American Decorative Arts.
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville: Community, Activism, and Design is the first monographic exhibition on this renowned graphic designer, public artist, and educator, whose community-based and politically responsive work champions principles of advocacy and inclusion. In 1990, De Bretteville (BFA 1963, MFA 1964) was named Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design and made the first tenured woman faculty member at the Yale School of Art, where she led the department for three decades and continues to mentor students as a professor.
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BUSAYO brand founder and designer Busayo Olupona and collaborators during the BUSAYO pop-up at More Amour Boutique, April 20, 2024. Photos by Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design.
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As an extension of her engagement with the School of Art after joining us for a panel conversation in February, BUSAYO brand founder and designer Busayo Olupona returned last weekend for a pop-up activation at More Amour Boutique on Chapel Street.
From April 20th through April 27th, BUSAYO's vibrant and limited-edition pieces were available for sale at More Amour Boutique.
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Documentation of the final "Feeding Your Potential" workshop, April 24, 2024. Photo by Dannika Kemp Avent, Director of Sustainable Equity & Inclusion.
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On April 24, the School of Art's series of community Wellness Lunches came to an end. Four sessions were hosted—one each month—during the Spring 2024 semester, each led by accomplished Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Brianne Brathwaite MS, RDN, and focusing on a different aspect of our relationship with food. January's session began by unpacking imposter syndrome alongside a pumpkin soup. February focused on embracing foods without judgement and March's session explored mindful eating.
Last week, the series' final session used mindfulness practices and interactive exercises to explore effective strategies to manage stress and foster a sense of tranquility and harmony. The four-part "Feeding Your Potential" Workshop Series was presented by SoA Office of Sustainable Equity & Inclusion.
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Upcoming 2024 MFA thesis exhibitions
Photography opens this week & Graphic Design is coming up in May
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Exhibition identity for the 2024 Photography MFA Thesis Exhibition by Julio Correa Estrada and Ken Wenrui Zhao, Graphic Design MFAs '24.
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Join us next month to celebrate the final MFA thesis exhibitions of 2024: Photography will be installed April 27th through May 4th, with a public reception on Friday, May 3 from 6–8PM.
Then, the final exhibition of the 2023-2024 academic year is the Graphic Design MFA Thesis Exhibition, open May 13th through May 21st, with a public reception on Saturday, May 18 from 6–8PM.
Yale School of Art’s Spring 2024 receptions are open to the public. During all other gallery hours, exhibitions are only open to the Yale Community (current ID holders) and their invited accompanied guests.
Find all upcoming receptions on our public events calendar here >
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School of Art hosts alums at the Venice Biennale
Celebrating the opening of the 60th International Art Exhibition
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Alums and School of Art staff and faculty in Venice, Italy, April 18, 2024. Pictured from left to right: Nicole Freeman, Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Anoka Faruqee, Associate Dean, Christopher Paul Jordan, MFA '23, Miraj Patel, MFA '23, Pablo Delano, MFA '79, and Miko McGinty, MFA '98.
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On April 18, the Yale School of Art joined with the Yale Alumni Art League, the Yale Alumni Association, and the Yale Center for British Art to host a reception and talk in celebration of the 60th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
Alums and School of Art supporters listened as exhibiting artist Pablo Delano, MFA '79, and Martina Droth, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Yale Center for British Art, had a lively conversation about Delano's work in the Biennale exhibition Foreigners Everywhere.
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"Advanced Video Installation" in Times Square
Student exhibition Doppelgängers screened at 41st St. & 7th Ave.
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Top: The "Advanced Video Installation" class in front of their billboard screening project (work featured by Andrew Ordonez, Sculpture MFA '24. Images courtesy of Ben Hagari, Lecturer in Sculpture. Left: Work by Başak Özsaraç, Yale College '24. Right: Work by Kayla Hawkins, Graphic Design MFA '24.
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All day on Saturday, April 6, for twenty-four hours, work from the course “Advanced Video Installation” screened on billboards in Times Square as a course collaboration with ZAZ10TS.
Taught by Ben Hagari, Lecturer in Sculpture, the intensive project-based class explores the production of video installations and the intersections of such mediums as performance, kinetic sculptures, video and sound. On April 6, the group exhibited Doppelgängers to thousands of people in New York City. Their videos played between commercials on the billboards at the south-east corner of 41st Street and 7th Avenue.
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Left: Work by Nadia Younes, Painting/Printmaking MFA '25. Right: Work by Sam Frésquez, Sculpture MFA '25.
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The screening featured work by graduate and undergraduate students across areas of study: Nydia del Carmen, Yale College '26, Christopher Desanges, Photography MFA '25, Sam Frésquez, Sculpture MFA '25, Kayla Hawkins, Graphic Design MFA '24, Andrew Ordonez, Sculpture MFA '24, Başak Özsaraç, Yale College '24, and Nadia Younes, Painting/Printmaking MFA '25.
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Community news & awards
Congratulations 2024 Guggenheim fellows & faculty, students, & alums!
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On April 11, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the awarding of its 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships to 188 "culture-creators," five of whom are part of the Yale School of Art community: alums Anna Betbeze, MFA ’06, Mike Cloud, MFA ’03, Dylan Hausthor, MFA ’21, Lucas Foglia, MFA ’10, and Ben Hagari, Lecturer in Sculpture.
On April 16, Aperture announced the shortlisted artists for its 2024 Aperture Portfolio Prize, one of whom is current MFA student, Avion Pearce, Photography MFA '24.
In addition to all of these recent accomplishments, last week the American Academy in Rome announced Lex Brown, MFA '17, as a recipient of the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize, Matthew Connors, MFA '04, as a recipient of the Abigail Cohen Rome Prize, and Richard Mosse, MFA '08 as a recipient of the Philip Guston Rome Prize.
Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design and MFA '12, also celebrated the opening of a permanent installation at Yale Schwarzman Center's Dome Gallery entitled RUSUNUNGUKO (liberty / independence / freedom). There was an opening held on April 11, and the work is accessible to the public via the main entrances seven days a week from 8:30AM–6PM when classes are in session.
And on May 9, Aki Sasamoto, Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture, will celebrate the launch of her book Point Reflection, co-published with the Queens Museum and related the artist's current solo exhibition there. Point Reflection follows Sasamoto’s idiosyncratic practice, which draws on performance, dance, installation, video, and linguistic play to test the limits of our knowledge and experience of natural and human phenomena.
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Dean Pinder honored by public art nonprofit
NYC non-profit CITYarts is honoring Dean Pinder at their summer gala
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As part of their 35th Annual Gala Celebration, the New York City non-profit CITYarts will be honoring Dean Kymberly Pinder alongside Robert (Bo) Lauder and Allianz. All funds raised at the Gala will support CITYarts public art programs in 2024, giving youth a voice to express themselves on issues that are important to them.
The event is taking place on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 from 6-9PM at the Altman Building in New York.
Learn more on the CITYarts website >
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