Save the date for 2023 Open Studios!
Join us in New Haven on Saturday, April 15 & Sunday, April 16, 2023
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2023 Open Studios graphic identity created by Siri Lee, Graphic Design MFA ‘24.
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The Yale School of Art will be hosting our annual graduate open studios in April, featuring work from the departments of Graphic Design, Painting/Printmaking, Photography, and Sculpture.
Saturday, April 15 & Sunday, April 16
12–6PM
1156 Chapel St. & 36 Edgewood Ave.
Join us in April for two full days of studio visits and a series of community-led public programming, with student work to be made available on the Open Studios website.
Studios will be open to the public and are located across three buildings on Yale’s campus in downtown New Haven: 1156 Chapel Street, 353 Crown Street, and 36 Edgewood Avenue. All visitors must be fully vaccinated and boosted, and should be prepared to provide proof of vaccination/booster on request. Masks are strongly recommended and may be required in some spaces based on the University’s capacity and visitor policies.
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 2023 iteration, launching at the start of Open Studios weekend.
View the 2022 virtual studios for the next month here >
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Talking public art & social impact with Tavares Strachan & Clara Wu Tsai
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"Collaborating: Public Art & Social Impact," a panel discussion at the Yale University Art Gallery on February 10, 2023. Pictured from left to right: Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean Kymberly Pinder, Clara Wu Tsai, Vice Chairman, BSE Global; Founder, the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation; Governor, NY Liberty, Tavares Strachan MFA '06, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Szabó Gendler. Photos by Lindsey Mancini, Assistant Director of Communications.
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Earlier this month, the School of Art hosted a public conversation between Tavares Strachan MFA '06 and founder of the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation, Clara Wu Tsai. With questions posed by public art scholar and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean Kymberly Pinder, the pair discussed a project they collaborated on together: Strachan's permanent public art installation, Belong / Brooklyn. The phrases "We belong here" and "You belong here" bathe viewers in a neon glow, as the text-based sculpture sits atop the subway entrance at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Installed in 2021, Tsai shared that the sculpture activates the site of protests that took place on these streets after the murder of George Floyd. Strachan said that in creating this piece, he used the tools of the artist to “negotiate those feelings” of not belonging. “We anticipate," he shared, "that we will be constantly in the struggle.”
With an introduction by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University, Tamar Szabó Gendler, the talk was hosted in the Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall at Yale University Art Gallery.
Stay in the loop about upcoming public Yale School of Art events by subscribing to our public events calendar here >
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Spring 2023 MFA thesis news
First 3D walkthrough available, plus upcoming public receptions
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Click to access the 3-D walkthrough of Group 1 of the 2023 Painting/Printmaking MFA thesis exhibition, a signal urgent but breaking.
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With the first two thesis exhibitions behind us, the School of Art is excited to continue hosting public receptions for the upcoming MFA thesis exhibitions in Sculpture, Photography, and Graphic Design.
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.
Members of the public are also invited to visit a new thesis exhibition website, accessible at art.yale.edu/MFAThesis, where information and images—including 3-D walkthroughs!—will be added throughout the coming months and you can learn more about the individual artists and designers that make up the class of 2023. Click the image above to access the first 3-D walkthrough with work from Group 1 of the Painting/Printmaking thesis exhibition, a signal urgent but breaking. Photo documentation and Group 2’s 3-D walkthrough will be made available on the thesis website soon!
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Upcoming public receptions:
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Sculpture MFA Thesis Exhibitions
Liquidator
Group 1: March 4 – 11, 2023
Public opening on Friday, March 10 from 6 to 8PM
Featuring Justin Allen, David Bordett, Madison Donnelly, Dominique Duroseau, Omar Fidel Garcia, and Paloma Izquierdo.
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Exhibition identity by Sarah Elawad and Kyle Richardson, Graphic Design MFAs ‘23.
Group 2: March 27 – April 2, 2023
Public opening on Friday, March 31 from 6 to 8PM
Featuring Camilla Carper, Bailey Connolly, Anat Keinan, Younes Kouider, SR Lejeune, and Stephen Lordan.
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Photography MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 11 – 18, 2023
Public opening on Friday, April 14 from 6 to 8PM
Featuring Davion Alston, Hobbes Ginsberg, Arielle Gray, Natalie Ivis, Sydney Mieko King, Xi Li, Adrian Martinez Chavez, Miraj Patel, Shaun Pierson, and Sophie Schwartz.
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Graphic Design MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 25 – May 2, 2023
Public opening on Saturday, April 29 from 6 to 8PM
Featuring Paul Bille, Filip Birkner, Samantha Callahan, Andrew Connors, Sarah Elawad, Osvald Landmark, M.C. Madrigal, Jisung Park, Yuseon Park, Kyle Richardson, Ainsley Romero, Lester Rosso, Junyi Shi, David Jon Walker, Yifan Wang, Cat Wentworth, and Avery Youngblood.
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Don't miss a reception by adding these public receptions to your calendar, using the orange "Add to calendar" button on our public events calendar >
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Celebrating faculty & alum awards
Tiffany Foundation Grants, USA Fellow, 2023 AAHHE Award, & Rome Prize
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Preliminary copies of Lisa Kereszi's forthcoming publications, including a collaboration with Senior Critic in Photography Benjamin Donaldson, funded in part by a Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant. Photo courtesy of Lisa Kereszi, ‘00, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Senior Critic in Photography.
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Congratulations to School of Art faculty and alumni who’ve been awarded recent prestigious prizes and residencies!
On January 28, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation announced the winners of its 2022 Biennial Grants. Of the twenty selected artists, ten are Yale School of Art alums: Farah Al-Qasimi ‘17, Hector Dionicio Mendoza ‘09, Nikita Gale BA ‘06, Mark Thomas Gibson ‘13 and former Lecturer in Painting/Printmaking, Pao Houa Her ‘12 and Critic in Photo, Lisa Kereszi ‘00, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Senior Critic in Photography, Matvey Levenstein ‘87, Ronny Quevedo ‘12, Anna Tsouhlarakis ‘02, and Didier William MFA ‘09. “I’m excited to put the award to use, toward the production costs of three photobook projects,” faculty member and alum Lisa Kereszi shared. “Two are due to come out in late 2023 with Minor Matters Books and alumni-led publisher ROMAN NVMERALS. The latter is a collaboration with Senior Critic Benjamin Donaldson '00 and is edited and designed by alums Michael Vahrenwald and Yve Ludwig.” The unrestricted grants are intended to give artists the opportunity to produce new work and push the boundaries of their creativity.
In another unrestricted award announcement, on January 24, Natalie Ball ‘18, was revealed as one of the 45 creatives to receive a 2023 United States Artists Fellowship. And in February, Maria De Los Angeles ‘15, Critic and Assistant Director in Painting/Printmaking was announced as the winner of the 2023 William Aguilar Cultural Arts Award, given annually by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) to individuals who have contributed significantly to the understanding of the national Latino community and culture through the fine, creative, and performing arts.
Finally, Elle Pérez ‘15 and Critic in Photography, is beginning a residency in Rome as the winner of the 2023-23 Abigail Cohen Rome Prize. Through July, they'll be working through the theme of surrender, making new images while further experimenting with sequence and juxtaposition, creating new configurations that can unlock further meaning.
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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.
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