2022 Open Studios now happening in-person and open to the public!

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This issue's header image by Yuseon Park, Graphic Design MFA '23.

News from New Haven

 March 2022

To you, our current faculty and students, esteemed alumni, and greater community, we send word of what's up in New Haven, and ask that you might keep us updated in kind. Email us.
In this issue:

2022 Open Studios, now happening in-person and online! 

 Join us April 9 & 10 in New Haven & online for virtual programming

2022 Open Studios graphic identity created by Rok Hudobivnik and Ana Lobo, Graphic Design MFAs '22.

The Yale School of Art is excited to announce that its annual graduate open studios event is taking place both in person and online in 2022. Studios will be open to the public and are located across three buildings on Yale’s campus in downtown New Haven. Open Studios 2022 marks the first time that the doors of the School of Art buildings will be open to the public since the beginning of the COVID pandemic in March 2020. 

The physical studios of participating MFA students will be open to the public from 12PM to 6PM on Saturday, April 9 and Sunday, April 10 in the departments of Graphic Design, Painting and Printmaking, Photography, and Sculpture. Pre-registration is encouraged, but day-of registration will also be available at the door. Masks must be worn by everyone in indoor spaces within School of Art buildings, in compliance with Yale University’s masking guidelines. Proof of vaccination (including boosters) is also required for all members of the public and will be checked upon entry.

Events—screenings, performances, and workshops—are also being hosted across the School of Art as part of Open Studios, many of which will be streamed live online by the School of Art. The full schedule of events will be made available through the School of Art’s public events calendar and on the 2022 Open Studios website.

Virtual studios are also being created in collaboration with participating MFA students, through which work will be presented online in an effort to expand the means through which MFA students’ work and practice is made available to the public as part of the annual open studios event. The virtual studios will be accessible with the launch of the 2022 Open Studios website at 12AM on Saturday April 9 at yaleart.org/openstudios.

 
Register to attend Saturday in person here > 
 
Register to attend Sunday in person here > 

Join us tomorrow for a Laughter Work~Playshop

 Laraaji will lead us through laughtercises & meditation over Zoom

Friday, April 1, 2022
6PM

On Zoom here >

Join us on April Fools' Day for a public Zoom Laughter Work~Playshop with Laraaji, hosted, organized, and with poster design by M.C. Madrigal, Graphic Design MFA '23.

Beginning with an introduction to the health benefits of daily heavy laughter, before moving into call and response laughter chants and guided inner laughtercises, the playshop concludes with still meditation and more.

Full information on the School of Art's public events calendar >

Experience Vibrant Matters: 2022 Painting / Printmaking MFA Thesis Exhibition

 Virtual walkthroughs & photo documentation now available!

Documentation photography by Meghan Olson.

Spring 2022 thesis exhibitions are continuing apace, and we're excited to share that documentation of the 2022 Painting/Printmaking MFA exhibition, Vibrant Matters—exhibited as two groups—is available via the School of Art's growing exhibitions archive.

Group 1 of Vibrant Matters was open to the School of Art community from January 31 through February 10, 2022 and featured work by Rachael Catharine Anderson, Bhasha Chakrabarti, Kendrick Corp, Grant Czuj, Opal Ecker DeRuvo, Anne Mailey, Kristoffer McAfee, Alex Puz, Matt Smoak, Ashley Teamer, and Justin James Voiss.

 
Click to launch the 3-D walkthrough of Vibrant Matters Group 1

The second half of Vibrant Matters followed, and was open to the School of Art from February 22 through March 4, 2022. Group 2 featured work by Salvador Andrade Arévalo, Quinci Baker, Brianna Bass, Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang, Katherine Yaochen Du, Brett Ginsburg, Samantha Joy Groff, Patricia Orpilla, athena quispe, and Brennen Steines. 

Curated by Melanie Kress and Rachelle Dang, Vibrant Matters names "embodied knowledge, interdependence, mending and healing, nonlinear time, layered and unreliable histories, tangled ecologies, and, above all, the reverberating power of the material world." Read Melanie's full text on the exhibition here.
Click to launch the 3-D walkthrough of Vibrant Matters Group 2
With an exhibition identity and website created by Alvin Ashiatey and Mengjie Liu, Graphic Design MFAs ‘22, full information about Vibrant Matters can be found in the archives here >

Visit the exhibition website here >

 

Alum award & exhibition highlights

 Congrats to the alums selected for this year's biennials!

The Venice Biennale’s visual identity for the 2022 edition is based on works by Felipe Baeza, MFA '18. Courtesy of the Venice Biennale.

Yale School of Art alumni and faculty have been selected for inclusion in the major biennial exhibitions happening this year both in the U.S. and internationally. 

Alumni and faculty have been announced as participants in the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, entitled The Milk of Dreams and open through November 27, 2022 at the Giardini and the Arsenale in Venice. School of Art alumni Felipe Baeza ’18, Ficre Ghebreyesus ’02, Elle Pérez ’15 and Critic in Photography, and Christina Quarles ’16, as well as Assistant Professor and Acting Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture Aki Sasamoto, all have work represented. Additionally, the Venice Biennale’s visual identity for the 2022 edition is based on works by Felipe Baeza ’18.

Here in the U.S, alumni are also well represented in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, Quiet as It's Kept, open through September 5, 2022 in New York. School of Art alumni Matt Connors ‘04, Alex Da Corte ‘10, Pao Houa Her ‘12, and Michael E. Smith ‘08 have been selected as participating artists for the biennial’s eightieth edition.

Additionally, 2020 MFA alumna in Photography, Robert Andy Coombs, was awarded a 2022 United States Artists Fellowship for his photographic work exploring the intersections of disability and sexuality.

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.
 

Thank you for dedication to and interest in the Yale School of Art.

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