Save the date: "Collaborating: Public Art and Social Impact" with alum Tavares Strachan
Join us on Friday, February 10 at 10AM at the Yale University Art Gallery
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Tavares Strachan. Belong / Brooklyn, 2021. Special red neon, sintra, transformers. Photo by Viney group; courtesy of Social Justice Fund
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Join us on Friday, February 10 for a panel discussion on public art and community building, with Tavares Strachan MFA '06, Clara Wu Tsai, Founder of The Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation, Kymberly Pinder, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art, and Tamar Gendler, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences:
Collaborating: Public Art and Social Impact
Friday, February 10, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall
1111 Chapel St, New Haven
In 2021, The Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation’s The Social Justice Fund launched the #YouBelongHere campaign to encourage a sense of belonging among people in the community and around the world. The art initiative was conceived in response to the mass peaceful protests that organically centered in front of the Barclays Arena in the months following George Floyd’s 2020 murder. Using famed artist Tavares Strachan’s You Belong Here/We Belong Here art installation—which is currently on display outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY—as a visual backdrop, the project encourages people to share their stories of belonging on social media using the hashtag #YouBelongHere. In this panel discussion, Strachan speaks with founder of the Social Justice Fund, Clara Wu Tsai, alongside public art historian Kymberly Pinder and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Tamar Szabó Gendler, to share how this project was envisioned and realized, and how public art can affect social change in communities around the world.
Learn more on our public events calendar >
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Spring 2023 curricular happenings & highlights
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Spring 2023 welcome back graphic by Junyan Hu, Graphic Design MFA ‘24.
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The Spring 2023 is well underway, with courses beginning this month and the first MFA thesis exhibition newly installed in Green Hall Gallery.
In Undergraduate Studies, Hasabie Kidanu (MFA '17) and Luiza Dale (MFA '21) are the latest alums to join the faculty. Kidanu is teaching "Visual Thinking," and Dale is teaching a section of "Introduction to Graphic Design." Additionally, as the Fredric Roberts Photography Workshops Fellow, Brian Orozco (MFA '22) is teaching "Digital Photography Seeing in Color." Other new faculty members include Ryan Sluggett and Greg Parma Smith, who are both teaching a section of the "The Narrative Figure," with Sluggett's section operating as an undergrad/graduate hybrid. Luchina Fisher has also joined the faculty to teach “Introductory Documentary Filmmaking.” Undergraduate Visiting Artists this semester include MFA alums Edgar Serrano, Mark Thomas Gibson, Victoria Sambunaris, Andrea Modica, and Mark Steinmetz, plus Marina Berio.
In Painting/Printmaking, core faculty member Rachelle Dang joins with curator Kristen Hileman to advise the 2023 thesis cohort. Join us this Friday in New Haven—February 3 from 6–8 PM—for the first public reception celebrating Group 1 of the Painting/Printmaking thesis exhibition, a signal urgent but breaking. New courses in Painting/Printmaking include Cassandra Xin Guan’s “Attention Economies,” which aims to think through the political economy of attention; and Carly Sheehan's material-focused workshop "On the Surface," which explores affinities to different surfaces with the goal of discovering outcomes to processes that may be surprising or calculated. Visiting Artists in Painting/Printmaking this semester include Naomi Beckwith, Alex Da Corte, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Huma Bhabha, and Liz Larner, among others.
In Graphic Design, new faculty member Gee Wesley joins to co-teach the seminar "Of Things Not Seen." Ritu Ghiya is teaching the new course “Collage Poetics”—part studio and part conversation about producing and researching work through the poetics of citation, collage, and bootlegging, through which students develop a journal practice, ideating and iterating work from these personal references. Senior Critic Irma Boom will be hosting a one-week workshop for students in February. The department will also host a publication celebration for Chris Lee, David Shields, and faculty members Mindy Seu and Geoff Kaplan, for Kaplan's book After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet; A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy, Lee's publication Immutable, and Shields' The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection. Visiting Artists in Graphic Design, hosted as the Paul Rand Lecture Series, will welcome Mendi and Keith Obadike, Morehshin Allahyari, and Wesley Taylor.
In Photography’s new course “Image Culture,” co-taught by Matt Leifheit, Alissa Bennett, and Pau Houa Her, students examine the lives and afterlives of photographs in contemporary culture. Mark Steinmetz is teaching the new course "The Practice of Black and White Photography," which examines the techniques and aesthetics of black and white photography, covering everything from air bubbles to Atget. Visiting Artists in Photography this spring include Elliott Jerome Brown, Baldwin Lee, Jorge Pardo, recent alum Robert Andy Coombs (MFA ‘20), Vanessa Winship, Dru Donovan, and Erin Shirreff among others.
In Sculpture, Martin Kersels is teaching “Eden is Burning,” which welcomes students from all four areas of study to instill interdisciplinary tenets and loosen the shackles of the media that, for some, keeps them in their lane without the joy and expansiveness of swerving. In “PlayPleasurePain,” taught by Elizabeth Tubergen and Joseph Buckley, students focus on creating works that explore how these three experiences become enmeshed via embodied making practices, asking: How do the sensations of play, pleasure, and pain collide to inform queer corporeality? Spring 2023 Visiting Artists in Sculpture include Santigold, Gordon Hall, Anna Uddenberg, and Julia Phillips.
Interdepartmental graduate courses this spring include Marta Kuzma’s “The Artist as Curator,” which encourages students to recognize the wider set of practices surrounding the display of art-work, recognizing ambivalence, investigation, options, fluctuation, divergence, and the engagement of other fields of knowledge to enrich perspectives and vocabularies. Assistant Director in Graphic Design, Julian Bittiner, is reprising “Interdisciplinary Typography Workshop” for students across our four areas of graduate study. Finally, Melanie Hoff’s “Digital Love Languages” is based on the premise that there is a world where all our software is made by people who love us and that we can contribute to building it—an experiment in communion disguised as a class.
Interdepartmental Wednesdays continue this spring with weekly interdepartmental critiques and studio visits, plus panels, talks, and workshops. Programming also includes the first-ever Interdepartmental Open Studios, through which students are invited to visit each other’s workspaces ahead of the public Open Studios scheduled for April 15 and 16, 2023. Recent alum Vamba Bility (MFA ‘21) is also teaching a double weave workshop, and core faculty will share the work and research that resulted from recent sabbaticals in a panel titled “Art Practice and Teaching,” moderated by Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design, Nontsikelelo Mutiti. We’re also excited to invite you to a public interdepartmental talk in April with Tammy Nguyen, sponsored by the Traphagen Alumni Speakers Series and the Yale College Office of Student Affairs. Learn more on our public events calendar >
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Spring 2023 thesis exhibitions
Join us for public receptions & meet the class of 2023 on a new thesis website
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The School of Art’s exhibition schedule for the Spring 2023 semester includes the annual MFA thesis exhibitions featuring work from all 2023 MFA degree candidates across the school’s four departments: Painting/Printmaking, Sculpture, Photography, and Graphic Design. While spring exhibitions are open only to members of the Yale community (those with active Yale IDs) and their invited, accompanied guests, we’re excited to invite you to the public receptions celebrating each show, taking place on February 3, February 17, March 10, March 31, April 14, and April 29, 2023 all from 6 to 8PM.
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.
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a signal urgent but breaking
Painting/Printmaking MFA Thesis Exhibition
Group 1: January 30 – February 6, 2023
Public opening on Friday, February 3 from 6 to 8 PM
Featuring Alexandria Couch, Stephano Espinoza Galarza, Daniela Gomez Paz, Jonathan Herrera Soto, Soren Hope, Christopher Paul Jordan, Fiza Khatri, Estelle Maisonett, Tura Oliveira, Can Yağız, and Ang Ziqi Zhang.
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Group 2: February 15 – 22, 2023
Public opening on Friday, February 17 from 6 to 8PM
Featuring Emmanuel Amoakohene, Hunter Foster, Rina Goldfield, Nina Hartmann, Erick Alejandro Hernández, Natia Lemay, Phoebe Little, Maya Perry, Gabriela Rassi, Bryan Ali Sanchez, and María Vargas Aguilar.
Exhibition identity by Jisung Park and Cat Wentworth, Graphic Design MFAs '23.
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Sculpture MFA Thesis Exhibition
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.
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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Seeking part-time staff member to assist with Photography's Equipment Loans & Labs
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An undergraduate art major points to a frame of an analog black-and-white contact sheet, #spottedatSoA on October 1, 2021. Photo by Lisa Kereszi, Senior Critic and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art.
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The Equipment Loan Office (ELO) for Photography at the School of Art provides no cost rental of various types of photography equipment to include cameras, lighting kits and more to over 500 graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in School of Art classes each semester. The ELO is an essential part of the student experience at the school, providing the opportunity to experiment with mediums that might require a high start-up cost, offering guidance to students on equipment choice and use, and equipping students to display their work in Green Hall Gallery during thesis shows.
The School seeks an Equipment Loan Technician for Photography, reporting to the Photography Darkroom Manager. The position will provide support for equipment loan, returns and maintenance of various varieties of photography equipment to include camera’s, digital equipment, lighting equipment, stands etc.
Principal Responsibilities
- Maintenance and upkeep of photography equipment inventory.
- Monitor and update on-line equipment loan website
- Communication with students and faculty regarding equipment loans, office hours, etc.
- Set-up new photography equipment
- Provide guidance and assistance to students pertaining to photography equipment usage
- Responsible for inspecting equipment at the time of check-in when item is returned.
- Alert faculty oversight point-person as to needed items for replacement
Required Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree and two years related experience or an equivalent combination of education/experience.
Preferred Education and Experience
- Experience using both analogue and digital devices
- Significant experience with various photography equipment
- Excellent customer service skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to multi-task and prioritize
Apply by emailing a cover letter and a CV to art.dus@yale.edu.
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In case you missed it! Fall 2022 recap
Photo documentation of undergraduate exhibition + new artist talk transcript
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Installation images of the Fall 2022 Undergraduate Exhibition SCREENED. Photos by Adrian Martinez Chavez, Photography MFA '23.
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In a student-curated presentation of work by undergraduate art majors taking School of Art courses through Yale College, the Fall 2022 exhibition, SCREENED, featured Anasthasia Shilov, Avery Mitchell, Catherine Webb, Diego Miró-Rivera, Doruk Eliacik, Emme Zhou, Hannah Chaves Raman Neves, Linna Yao, Marshall Barg, Rudd Fawcett, Serena Cheng, Rosa Chang, Michelle Li, Lauren Song, Alex Taranto, Thaïs Shepard, John Sedrak, Ellika Edelman, Yuri Bong, Ethan Shim, Charlie Gleberman, Samantha Trimboli, Joyce Wu, Jaylan Granberry, Eric Doddy, and Anna Zhang.
With an exhibition identity created by Rudd Fawcett, Yale College ‘23, SCREENED was curated by Doruk Eliacik, Yale College ‘23 and was on view to the Yale community from November 28, 2022 through January 11, 2023.
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Barbara Earl Thomas and Christopher Paul Jordan in conversation in the Community Program Room at Ives Main Library in New Haven on November 14, 2022. Photo by Lindsey Mancini, Assistant Director of Communications.
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The School of Art is pleased to share that an edited transcript of the conversation that took place in November 2022 between Barbara Earl Thomas and Christopher Paul Jordan, Painting/Printmaking MFA ‘23, is now available to read online as an accessible PDF.
Printed booklets were also made available at the New Haven Free Public Library in conjunction with the display of Barbara Earl Thomas’ papercuttings at the Ives Main Library entrance through December 31, 2022.
Learn more and download the edited transcript >
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