Announcing Lonnie Holley & Mourning [A] BLKstar in Concert
Public tickets for the January 18 concert are now available!
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Join us just after we return from winter break for a special event the School of Art is cohosting in collaboration with Yale Schwarzman Center:
Born in Jim Crow-era Birmingham, Alabama in 1950, Lonnie Holley was the seventh of 27 children—and at age four was taken from his mother and traded for a bottle of whiskey. He fled abusive foster parents, was hit by a car (and declared brain dead) and was later sent to Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children—a “slave camp” by any other name. Holley’s work, born out of struggle, hardship—and more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity—manifests itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, filmmaking, and music.
Register now to experience, in the words of The Guardian, one of “the 30 artists to see live before you die.” Holley is accompanied by the multi-generational, multi-gender, genre-non-conforming amalgam of Black culture known as Mourning [A] BLKstar—an Afrofuturist collective that wraps live instrumentation and hip-hop production around cosmic stories of apocalypse and survival.
This event is part of the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media (CCAM) Sound Art Series and is presented by Yale Schwarzman Center in partnership with CCAM; Yale School of Art; Yale School of Music; and the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration.
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Tunji Adeniyi-Jones joins Painting/Printmaking as part of Print Catalyst program
Program alum returns to share his practice & create a print in real time
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Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, MFA '17, at work with graduate and undergraduate students in the Crown Street printshop as the Fall 2023 Print Catalyst. Photos by Alexander Valentine, Critic in Painting/Printmaking and Printshop Coordinator.
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At the end of November, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, MFA '17, returned to the School of Art to spend three days in residence with graduate and undergraduate students as the Painting/Printmaking department's annual Print Catalyst. Adeniyi-Jones collaborated with James Pettengill of Wingate Studio on the print created as part of his Print Catalyst residency.
The Print Catalyst program invites artists to campus to work with students in the SoA printshop, and over a two or three day period, the artist produces a print in their medium of choice—woodcut, etching, litho, screenprint—in real time. Sutphin Family Senior Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Lisa Hodermersky, at Yale University Art Gallery also collaborates in hosting the visiting artist, and the final print, sometimes accompanied by the matrix and edition proofs, is acquired by the Gallery for its permanent collection. A session is also hosted in the Duffy Study Room for Prints and Drawings at the Gallery, at which the visiting artist identifies prints in the collection for deeper study and discussion with a group of graduate and undergraduate printmakers.
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Established in the 1990s by Professor Emerita Rochelle Feinstein, the Print Catalyst program has welcomed Glenn Ligon, Lisa Yuskavage, Nicole Eisenman, Enrique Chagoya, Suzanne McClelland, Terry Winters, B. Ingrid Olson, Marie Watt, and Rose Salane among others.
Tunji Adeniyi-Jones’s paintings emerge from a perspective of what the artist describes as "cultural addition, combination and collaboration." His practice is inspired by the ancient history of West Africa and its attendant mythology, and by his Yoruba heritage. His boldly colored paintings are set within a flat, shallow space located in modernist abstraction, and his characters and forms are repeated and re-worked in multi-panel paintings which depict figures in small groups or pairs, invoking the ritualized repetition integral to ceremonial processes.
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Save the date for Spring 2024 thesis exhibitions & Open Studios
Join us January through May to see and celebrate student work
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Installation view of the 2023 Painting/Printmaking MFA Thesis Show Group 1, a signal urgent but breaking. Documentation photography by Allison Minto, Photography MFA ‘20.
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Join us January through May 2024 to see and celebrate student work! Save the date for our public thesis receptions and Open Studios event, hosted during the following dates throughout the upcoming Spring 2024 semester:
Painting/Printmaking Group 1
January 20–30, 2024
Public reception: Friday, January 26 from 6–8PM
Painting/Printmaking Group 2
February 7–17, 2024
Public reception: Friday, February 9 from 6–8PM
Sculpture Group 1
March 1–8, 2024
Public reception: Friday, March 1 from 6–8PM
Sculpture Group 2
March 25–April 1, 2024
Public reception: Friday, March 29 from 6–8PM
Undergraduate Show
April 12–19, 2024
Public reception: Wednesday, April 17 from 6–8PM
🎉 2024 Open Studios 🎉
Saturday, April 13 & Sunday, April 14, 2024
Photography
April 27–May 4, 2024
Public reception: Friday, May 3 from 6–8PM
Graphic Design
May 13–21, 2024
Public reception: Saturday, May 18 from 6–8PM
Spring 2024 exhibition receptions are open to the public. During regular gallery hours, the gallery space is open only to members of the Yale community (current ID holders) and invited, accompanied guests.
Visit the exhibitions webpage on the wiki at art.yale.edu/exhibitions and our public events calendar at yaleart.org/publicevents for more information as it becomes available.
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Celebrating Miami Art Week with ICA Miami
MFA program alums & friends of the School come together
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Top: Dean Pinder with event hosts John A. Carrafiell ‘87BR, PU’20 and Kate Carrafiell PU’20. Bottom left: Group picture with event guests. Bottom right: Pictured from left to right, Alex Gartenfeld, Kate Carrafiell, and Dean Pinder.
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On Friday, December 9, fifty Yale alums and friends of the Yale School of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami gathered at the home of John and Kate Carrafiell to celebrate Miami Art Week.
Dean Kymberly Pinder and Alex Gartenfeld, Irma and Norman Braman Artistic Director at ICA Miami, gave remarks about the importance of supporting emerging artists by providing education and a space for experimentation. Kate Carrafiell shared, "We support young artists because the creative, the imaginative, the experimental, the courageous, the individuals, the rule breakers, the dreamers have the power to lift our spirits and inspire us all."
The School of Art looks forward to returning to Miami in 2024 and hosting our traditional alumni breakfast, alongside other opportunities for alums and friends of the School to come together and celebrate each other's successes.
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Sheila Levrant de Bretteville: Community, Activism, and Design opens in February
Upcoming YUAG exhibition celebrates professor & former director
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Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Women in Design: The Next Decade, 1975. Diazotype. Courtesy of Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.
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In February, the first monographic exhibition on the renowned graphic designer, teacher, and artist, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville—Professor and former Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design—opens at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville: Community, Activism, and Design
February 16 – June 23, 2024
De Bretteville, who has long championed principles of advocacy and inclusion through her community-based and politically informed work, is well known for her contributions to the field of feminist design and education. In 1971 she created the first women’s design program at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and in 1973 she cofounded, with the artist Judy Chicago and the art historian Arlene Raven, the Feminist Studio Workshop and the Woman’s Building, a center in downtown Los Angeles dedicated to women’s culture.
The rich array of materials on view in the exhibition is drawn from de Bretteville’s personal archive and highlights pivotal moments in her multifaceted and trailblazing career. Included are early designs for promotional materials for Yale University Press and the Italian manufacturer Olivetti, posters and broadsheets that blend word and image to advance woman-focused initiatives, and photographs and models of public art installations, which have not been examined collectively until now. These public projects, which reflect not only her ongoing engagement with the feminist movement but also her commitment to such issues as immigration and racial equity, are located in New York, New Haven, Boston, and Los Angeles as well as in Hong Kong and Yekaterinburg, Russia.
De Bretteville served as director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design from 1990 to 2022 and is the first woman at the Yale School of Art to be awarded tenure. This monographic exhibition reinforces her role as a quiet leader and visionary role model who has shaped a new generation of graphic design.
Full information on the exhibition webpage >
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Experience the Fall Undergraduate Exhibition
Photo documentation now available in the archives!
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Installation images of the Fall Undergraduate Exhibition, The host will let you in soon. Photos by Andina Marie Osorio, Photography MFA ‘24.
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Documentation of the third and final Fall 2023 exhibition—the Undergraduate Show, entitled The host will let you in soon—is now available!
Open to the Yale community November 13 through December 8, 2023, the Fall Undergraduate Exhibition featured work by Alana Liu, alexander laurent rubalcava, AM, Cate Roser, Chiara Hardy, Cleo Maloney, Dora Pang, Ellika Edelman, Ethan Shim, Eunice Kiang, Hannah Foley, Jacob Feit Mann, Kaci Xie, Kaia Mladenova, Karela Palazio, Leo Je-Eon Lee, Lily Campbell, Mazie Wong, Megan Graham, Mikiala Anuhea Ng, Nathan Puletasi, Olivia Marwell, Stephanie Wang, Talia Tax, Tilman Phleger, and Whitney Blue Toutenhoofd.
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The exhibition identity for The host will let you in soon was created by the student design group, Zoom Corporation.
Find full information about the exhibition in the archives here >
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Welcome new staff members!
Staff support continues to strengthen across the School of Art
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Photos from this year's holiday party.
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As support for School of Art staff continues to strengthen, we're excited to welcome four new staff members joining us in new and reenvisioned roles across the School:
Robin Sarno is our new Financial Team Lead who began her role in the Business Office on October 30. This new role reimagines what had previously been the Senior Administrative Assistant for Financial Affairs, and Robin has over thirty years of experience at Yale. Previously, Robin led a team at the university's Parking Office and before that, led the accounting team at Yale Shared Services. She brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience with financials and university policies and procedures.
On December 4, Ramona Milardo-Ward joined as the new Senior Administrative Assistant supporting the Dean’s Office. In this new role, Ramona will support Dean Pinder and Associate Dean Anoka Faruqee, assisting with Student Opportunities, Interdepartmental Day, and other all-school initiatives. Ramona brings years of experience working with students and faculty at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas. She recently relocated to Connecticut with her family and is excited to join the team at the School of Art.
Finn Henry is the latest addition to the Dean's Office, as the Project Coordinator for CARE, DEI, and Community Projects—a new role provided by the president’s office to support expanding DEIB programming for the School and the university. Finn will begin her new position on January 2 and she'll be working closely with Director for Sustainable Equity and Inclusion, Dannika Kemp-Avent on DEI programming, while also supporting Dean Pinder and the Yale Committee for Art Recognizing Enslavement (CARE). A musician and Connecticut native, Finn joins us from the International Festival of Arts & Ideas where she worked as Hospitality Manager.
Finally, Elizabeth Landau will begin January 2 as the first full-time Assistant Director of Development and Alumni Relations. In this inaugural role, Liz will focus on alumni engagement, stewardship, and increasing philanthropy to the School of Art's annual fund. Liz is currently the Assistant Director of Development and Alumni Affairs at the Yale School of Music. Her fundraising career spans over a decade in the arts and higher education, with prior roles in Central Development at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, and MASS MoCA. She is thrilled to join SoA and return to the art world, marking a full-circle moment in her career.
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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.
School of Art alums are also encouraged to apply for a new residency in Istanbul with 10__12 Gallery. Open only to Yale MFA and BA alums—classes of 2023 and earlier—the 10__12 Summer Artist Residency is a six-week program and the deadline to apply is March 8, 2024.
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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