Celebrating the MFA Class of 2022 & 2020 Alums
Congrats to the new grads 🎓
Plus, honoring the 2020 MFA alums at a special diploma ceremony 🥂
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Commencement speaker Rose B. Simpson, left, and the School of Art Diploma Ceremony in the Yale University Art Gallery Sculpture Garden. Photos by Adrian Martinez Chavez, Photography MFA '23.
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On Monday, May 23, the Yale School of Art celebrated its 2022 MFA degree recipients with speeches, ceremonies, and a closing reception. In the morning, the graduates met for the traditional group photo on the steps of Green Hall at 1156 Chapel Street before processing to Old Campus to participate in Yale University's 321st commencement exercises.
In the afternoon, the School of Art hosted a Diploma Ceremony for the MFA Class of 2022, in recognition of the 52 graduating artists across the School's four areas of graduate study. Held in the Sculpture Garden at the Yale University Art Gallery, the School of Art Diploma Ceremony was presided over for the first time by Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean Kymberly Pinder, at the conclusion of her first academic year as dean.
Acclaimed native artist and cultural preservationist, Rose B. Simpson, delivered a powerful address as the 2022 commencement speaker. A special reception for graduates and their guests was held in the Sculpture Garden at the close of the commencement exercises.
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Documentation of the Class of 2020 Alumni Ceremonies, held May 14, 2022. Photos by Sophie Schwartz, Photography MFA '23.
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Earlier in May, the alums from the Class of 2020 were invited to return to campus with family and friends for a special alumni commencement ceremony held in recognition of the cancellations that happened in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A traditional university ceremony for all professional schools took place on Old Campus on the morning of Saturday, May 14, 2022. At noon, School of Art faculty, 2020 alums and their guests gathered in 32 Edgewood Avenue for a diploma ceremony and reception.
Congratulations, both to the alums from the Class of 2020 as well as to our newly graduated MFA Class of 2022!
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Experience the 2022 MFA thesis exhibitions in Photography & Graphic Design: Romance Action Mystery + and here in
Photo documentation & virtual walkthroughs now available!
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Documentation photography by Meghan Olson.
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Spring 2022 thesis exhibitions concluded this month, and we're excited to share that documentation of the 2022 MFA thesis exhibitions in both Photography and Graphic Design are now available via the School of Art's growing exhibitions archive.
The 2022 MFA thesis exhibition in Photography, Romance Action Mystery, was open to the Yale community from March 28 through April 5, 2022, and featured the work of Emily Barresi, Dylan Beckman, Anabelle DeClement, Amartya De, Eileen Emond, Ian Kline, Chinaedu Nwadibia, Brian Orozco, Rosa Polin, and Jessica Tang.
An accompanying website was created by the exhibition identity designers, Hannah Tjaden and Mike Tully, Graphic Design MFAs ‘22.
Access the exhibition website at mfaphoto2022.yaleschoolofart.org >
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Click to launch the 3-D walkthrough of Romance Action Mystery
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Full information about Romance Action Mystery can be found in the archives here >
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Screenshot from exhibition website andhere.in
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Finally, the 2022 MFA thesis exhibition in Graphic Design, and here in, was open to the Yale community from May 13 through 23, 2022, and featured the work of Alvin Ashiatey, Jessica Flemming, Han Gao, Yuan Gao, Miguel Gaydosh, Rok Hudobivnik, Kathryn-kay Johnson, Mengjie Liu, Ana Lobo, Kang Ma, Churong Mao, Hannah Tjaden, Betty Wang, Mike Tully, and Immanuel Yang.
As shared on the exhibition website, and here in "sketches a path between remnants of projects and experiences—from materials and tools, to audio recordings of collective and personal spaces, to the contexts in which work is encountered. Artifacts accumulate in the gallery throughout the duration of the exhibition, distilling activity to form."
Access the exhibition website at andhere.in and find full information about and here in in the exhibitions archive >
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New lectures available on YouTube
Watch Gina Osterloh's talk on YouTube, with more Spring lectures coming soon
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Click to watch Gina Osterloh's lecture in Photography on YouTube.
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Gina Osterloh's Visiting Artist Lecture in Photography, which took place in person in Room G-10 ("the Pool") on April 13, is the latest lecture to be published in full on the School of Art's YouTube channel.
We're excited to share that we have a number of additional lecture recordings from the Spring 2022 semester to publish over the summer, so subscribe to our YouTube channel or follow @yaleschoolofart on Instagram to stay updated on new videos as they become available.
Visit the Yale School of Art on YouTube >
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Spring 2022 Exhibitions in 32 Edgewood Avenue
MFA students curate exhibitions featuring work by local artists
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Installation view of No White Walls, the inaugural Yale School of Art Annual exhibition in 32 Edgewood Ave. Photo by Miraj Patel, Photography MFA '23.
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The School of Art space in 32 Edgewood Avenue was activated throughout the Spring 2022 semester, with exhibitions curated by MFA students across all four areas of graduate study.
On April 9, as part of the first day of in-person Open Studios, members of the public were invited to view the inaugural Yale School of Art Annual exhibition and attend an opening reception from 5–6PM that evening. Entitled No White Walls, the exhibition engaged themes of collectivity and challenge the established history of the exhibition space in Western museums and galleries—a history dominated by the white cube formula.
Featuring works solicited through an open call by MFA students enrolled in programs across the northeast, the exhibition was on view to the Yale community through April 22. Participating artists included Bhen Alan, Julie Chen, Bridget DeFranco, Daniel Fethke Pravit, Rigo Flores, Daniela Gomez Paz (Painting/Printmaking MFA '23), Jacq Groves, Scott Lerne, Tess Oldfield, Anna Ting Möller, just practice (Sophie Weston Chien and Amanda Ugorji), and London Williams.
The Yale School of Art Annual is a curatorial opportunity available to first-year MFA students, in a collaboration with graduate students from art programs across the Tri-State Area. The MFA student curators who conceptualized of and curated No White Walls include Salvador Andrade Arévalo, Painting/Printmaking MFA '22, Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang, Painting/Printmaking MFA '22, Amartya De, Photography MFA '22, Miguel Gaydosh, Graphic Design MFA '22, athena quispe, Painting/Printmaking MFA '22, and Mike Tully, Graphic Design MFA '22. Visit the exhibition webpage for full information >
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Installation view of Exploding Paper Inevitable, a solo exhibition of work by New Haven-based comic book artist Left Handed Sophie. Photo by Lindsey Mancini, Assistant Director of Communications.
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Then in May, graduate students enrolled in the course Performative Painting and Painterly Performance staged a solo exhibition of work in 32 Edgewood by New Haven-based comic book artist Left Handed Sophie entitled Exploding Paper Inevitable.
In the course taught by Tavia Nyong’o and Meleko Mokgosi, Co-Director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking, discussions focused on questioning medium specificity and expanding notions of painting, performance, figuration, and abstraction through the lens of blackness. The exhibition of Left Handed Sophie's work acts as the culminating gesture of the class.
Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Sophie's enchanting performances and immersive works on paper explore the intersections of race, gender, magick, and mythology. By drawing inspiration from pop art, cartoons, drag, and vaudeville, their practice defies categorization and pushes viewers to reconsider the boundaries of fine art, commercial visual culture, and everyday life.
Exploding Paper Inevitable was open to the Yale community May 3–12, with a special reception and performances by the artist and opera singer Deborah Stevens held on the evening of Friday, May 6.
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Nicole Freeman joins the School as Director of Development & Alumni Relations
Join us in welcoming Nicole to the School of Art community
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We’re excited to share that Nicole Freeman is the new Director of Development and Alumni Relations for the School of Art. We look forward to the ways she will innovate and creatively engage with the School of Art community and partner with our cross-school/unit development staff.
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Nicole brings an impressive track record in creating, managing, and implementing donor-centric fundraising programs, most notably at Harvard’s Divinity School and Graduate School of Design. During her time at Harvard, she increased alumni leadership giving at the Graduate School of Design from $525,000 to $800,000 by providing new infrastructure and strategy to their systems and solicitation methods. She also secured significant six-figure gifts to support student research and programs at both schools. Prior to Harvard, she led campaign efforts at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she provided fundraising oversight and enhanced existing giving programs. She was most recently the Chief Philanthropy Officer of the Bakehouse Art Complex.
Nicole was raised in Alexandria, Virginia and Sarasota, Florida. In her free time, she enjoys adventure travel, yoga, and reading — and she looks forward to meeting everyone.
Please join us in welcoming Nicole to the Yale development community!
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Alum featured in partnership between New Haven Museum and the Yale Quantum Institute
Martha W. Lewis '93 reflects on New Haven's history of innovation
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Martha W. Lewis (left) and Florian Carle (right) at the opening of The Quantum Revolution at the New Haven Museum on April 13, 2022. Photos by Dean Pinder.
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A new exhibition at the New Haven Museum, The Quantum Revolution: Handcrafted in New Haven, features the work of School of Art alum Martha W. Lewis '93 alongside that of Yale Quantum Institute Manager and Benjamin Franklin College Fellow, Florian Carle.
The exhibition draws on the history of the revolution that took place in New Haven in the late 1990s, during which experimentalists and theorists at Yale started to focus on quantum mechanics to leverage its properties to build a new kind of computer. In 2009, after a decade of hard work and several technological breakthroughs, these researchers demonstration the world's first two-qubit algorithms using a superconducting quantum processor inside a dilution refrigerator called "Badger."
The Quantum Revolution captures the history and the handcrafted beauty of this groundbreaking work. Presented in partnership with the Yale Quantum Institute, The Quantum Revolution will be on view at the New Haven Museum at 114 Whitney Ave. through September 16, 2022. Visit the museum’s website for hours and more information >
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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.
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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