Community workshops tackle the job of a working artist
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Posters for Spring 2022 workshops. Left: Financial Literacy Workshop poster by Junyi Shi, Graphic Design MFA ‘23. Right: Adobe Premiere Workflow Workshop poster by an anonymous MFA student.
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While thesis exhibitions continue apace, the Spring 2022 semester is especially busy with a series of new all-school workshops tackling the job of a working artist. Intended solely for the SoA community so that MFA students and undergraduate art majors can receive specific feedback and guidance from experts—with subjects including grant applications, financial literacy, and how to work best in Adobe Premiere—these workshops kicked off in January and continue both in person and online throughout the spring semester.
In the spring of 2021, the Painting/Printmaking faculty organized a similar series of workshops that the department was kind enough to open to the community, and the level of student, faculty, and staff engagement revealed a deep-seated need for conversations with experts working in the field. These online workshops simultaneously served to demystify the curatorial and commercial processes that follow the making of art, and connected students directly with those working in arts institutions across the U.S.
This semester's workshops have so far included a Financial Literacy Workshop with Amy Smith, reprising her Spring 2021 workshop hosted in Painting/Printmaking. A dance and theater artist, educator, and facilitator, Amy leads financial well-being workshops through Creative Capital, Assets for Artists, and now, two years running, at the Yale School of Art. Held at the end of January on Zoom, Amy guided students through the barriers that often prevent artists from achieving financial well-being, with topics including negotiating fair pay, budgeting and taxes, as well as credit, debt, and long-term saving.
Over the weekend, MFA student in Photography Emily Barresi led an Adobe Premiere Workflow Workshop in Green Hall for undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning more about the video and audio editing experience on Mac systems. The beginner-level course covered file management, editing workflow, and exporting in Adobe Premiere Pro, and included an overview of the basic functions of the program, plus tips and tricks to edit more efficiently.
Coming up in April is a two-day Grant Writing Workshop with New York-based interdisciplinary transgender artist, writer, and educator, Jonah Groeneboer. While attendance is limited amongst MFA students to allow for each artists’ work to be refined for the grant application process, the workshop will teach best practices for proposals and budgets, and empower participants to develop artist statements and application documentation with confidence, so they can actively build their careers with agency.
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Save the date for Virtual Open Studios 2022
Join us April 9 & 10 for online programming with new virtual studios
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2021 Open Studios graphic identity created by Mengjie Liu & Churong Mao, Graphic Design MFAs '21.
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Save the date for the Yale School of Art's Spring 2022 Open Studios, happening this year on Saturday, April 9 and Sunday, April 10, 2022.
As the University's public health guidance continues to respond to the fluctuating COVID environment in Connecticut and New Haven, we are currently preparing a reimagining of last year's online version, with static virtual studios created for each participating artist alongside a series of community-led public virtual programming happening across the two days of our annual event.
You can still view last year's virtual studios online until mid-March, at which point we'll be turning off the site to prepare for the 2022 iteration, launching at midnight at the start of Open Studios weekend on April 9.
View the 2021 virtual studios for the next two weeks here >
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First in-person lectures now on YouTube
Watch Daniel Ramos in Photography & Hassan Rahim in Graphic Design
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Daniel Ramos' Fall 2021 Visiting Artist lecture in Photography, livestreamed over Zoom and now available on YouTube. Photo: Lindsey Mancini, Assistant Director of Communications.
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We're excited to share that the first in-person lecture recordings are now available to watch on the School of Art's YouTube channel.
Recorded Fall 2021 semester lectures that have premiered in the past weeks include Daniel Ramos' lecture in Photography, delivered on October 6, 2021 and livestreamed over Zoom, as well as a segment from Hassan Rahim's lecture in Graphic Design, delivered on October 29. We hope to make many more talks and lectures available online as we collaborate with each speaker interested in making their work and words available online.
Watch at yaleart.org/youtube >
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Alums gather in LA to celebrate Sam Messer
Los Angeles gathering at exhibition by Professor Adjunct Emeritus of Art
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An alumni gathering hosted by the School of Art at M+B Los Angeles on February 19, 2022, celebrating an exhibition of work by Sam Messer '82. Photos: Jill Westgard, Director for Development and Alumni Relations.
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More than sixty Yale School of Art alumni and friends gathered in Los Angeles last weekend for our viewing and reception, hosted to celebrate an exhibition of work by Professor Adjunct Emeritus of Art Sam Messer at M+B entitled Go to it laughing.
Representing fifty years of graduates, attendees on February 19th came from around Los Angeles—home to the second highest population of SoA alumni—and around the country, as many were in LA for the week of art fairs. Sam Messer, MFA '82, taught at the School of Art for twenty-five years, and many in the audience were his former students at SoA.
He spoke about his work and how the environment of California influenced this current series, including a reference to his wife Eleanor on a surfboard. His daughter, Jo Messer, MFA '17, was among the guests as were several of her classmates. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean Kymberly Pinder joined the group virtually to welcome guests and congratulate Sam.
The event also celebrated a new scholarship at the School created in Sam’s name by Bernard Lumpkin, BA '91, and Carmine Boccuzzi, BA '90, JD '94. The scholarship fund continues to grow with additional gifts from alumni and friends. Sam is offering a special thank you for anyone who gives $1,000 or more to the scholarship by June 30 of this year. For more information please contact Director for Development and Alumni Relations, Jill Westgard at jill.westgard@yale.edu.
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Search extended for director / tenure-track faculty member in Graphic Design
Review of applications begins in March — share and apply!
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Photo: Lisa Kereszi, Senior Critic in Photography and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art.
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The Yale School of Art extends its invitation for applications worldwide for a tenured or tenure-track faculty appointment in the area of Graphic Design to begin July 1, 2022. The selected candidate will also assume the Directorship of the program for a designated period of time.
We seek a designer with a practice distinguished by formal and critical inquiry, who is technologically forward-thinking, has the ability to foster exchange across disciplines, and a broad knowledge of graphic design’s multivalent histories. The successful candidate should have strategic leadership skills, a collaborative approach to management, and a desire to innovate the Graphic Design area of study within the School of Art and wider university. A record of expanding and diversifying access to educational opportunities for historically underrepresented and marginalized communities is central to this goal and a crucial criteria for consideration.
Learn more here, and apply directly at this link >
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