Graphic Design welcomes artists, theorists, & researchers for week-long “Night School”
Interdisciplinary workshops on cooking, language, band, & movement
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The Graphic Design Atrium ahead of "Night School." Photo by Allison Yoon, Graphic Design MFA '25.
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Beginning Monday, October 30 and continuing each night through Friday, November 3, the Graphic Design department hosted the first iteration of a week-long interdisciplinary workshop series, “Night School.”
The program welcomes guest artists, theorists, and researchers to work together with students in sessions that create a space for multi-level engagements between the cohorts around critical and timely issues. This semester’s "Night School" was designed in conversation with Survival in the 21st Century, an exhibition organized and curated by Georg Diez and Nicolaus Schafhausen, forthcoming at Deichtorhallen Hamburg in Germany in 2024.
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Documentation of "Night School" workshops and events. Photos by Allison Yoon, Graphic Design MFA '25, Jeewon Kim, Graphic Design MFA '25, and Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design.
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On the first night, a film by Alicja Rogalska, The Feast (2022) was screened during a community potluck. Cooking classes were taught by chef Kendall Thigpen, designer Santiago da Silva, artist and community organizer Paul John, and LinYee Yuan, founder and editor of the critically-acclaimed magazine about designing the future of food, MOLD. San Francisco-based writer and composer Kevin Simmonds led a series of language classes in which designers read, talked, listened, watched and decided if they were language automatons or conscious, listening communicators.
Artist-scholar, DJ and Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, Madison Moore, led Band Practice, sessions choreographed around listening sessions, explorations of movement, and discussion, in a way that collectively asked, “What conversation do we have on, around and about the dance floor? What does the night allow?” Visual artist and choreographer Beau Bree Rhee facilitated the movement class, “Choreo-Glyphs,” which included generative score-making and live drawing involving natural materials. Rhee’s workshops asked: “How can poetry or glyphs (condensed characters with meaning) generate new meanings, critiques, relationships that help us navigate?”
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Top image: Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design with the workshop facilitators. Photo by Jaamal Benjamin, Graphic Design MFA '25. Bottom images: Documentation of "Night School" workshops and events. Photos by Aylin Alakbarli, Graphic Design MFA '25 and Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design.
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With dinner hosted each night of the program, "Night School" allows for the development of meaningful discourse between students across cohorts, faculty, facilitators and friends of the department. The program was powered by the collaboration and support of Belonging at Yale initiative and the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, The Traphagen Alumni Speakers Series, Yale College Office of Student Affairs The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale and GHP.
Learn more about the program on the Night School website here >
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"Principles of Animation" in Times Square
Student work screened for four consecutive days at 41st St. & 7th Ave.
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The "Principles of Animation" class in front of their billboard screening project (work featured by Laura Camila Medina, Painting/Printmaking MFA '24. Images courtesy of Ben Hagari, Lecturer in Sculpture.
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Beginning Friday, November 10 at 8PM and continuing through Monday, November 13 at 8PM, work from the course “Principles of Animation” screened on billboards in Times Square as a course collaboration with ZAZ10TS.
Taught by Ben Hagari, Lecturer in Sculpture, the course involves the creation of handmade animations around the theme of metamorphosis, and the ongoing weekend screening at Times Square explores a site which blurs notions of day and night, reality and fiction. The 15-second animations played between commercials on the billboards at the south-east corner of 41st Street and 7th Avenue.
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The screening features work by graduate and undergraduate students across areas of study: Aylin Alakbarli, Graphic Design MFA '25, Audrey Coombe, BA '24, Nydia del-Carmen, BA '26, TF Dubois, GSAS '25, Michelle Foley, BA '25, Madeleine Gray, Painting/Printmaking MFA '24, Laura Camila Medina, Painting/Printmaking MFA '24, Orlando Porras, Graphic Design MFA '24, and Xiwen Zhang, Graphic Design MFA '26.
This work, alongside other animations created as part of the "Principles of Animation" course, is also being screened on the afternoon of December 11 as part of a public program taking place at the Alice Theater in the Humanities Quadrangle.
See all student work featured on Instagram >
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Dean Pinder travels across West Africa, engaging alums & exploring partnerships
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Top: Dean Kymberly Pinder and Kehinde Wiley, MFA '01, at his residence in Lagos, Nigeria. Bottom left: Yale alumni and guests enjoying a reception and tour of Wiley’s personal collection. Bottom right: The Yale contingency with dignitaries from Museum of Civilizations in Abidjan, Cotes de I’voire.
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In late October, Dean Kymberly Pinder, '95 PhD, traveled across West Africa with Nicole Freeman, the School of Art’s Director of Development and Alumni Relations and other Yale colleagues as part of the university’s Yale Africa Initiative.
With the aim of continuing Yale’s work in supporting efforts in West Africa, including engaging Yale alumni, exploring potential partnerships for current students, and aiming to increase applications across the region to Yale College and the university’s professional schools, the trip—in its experiences and events—all centered around art.
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View of INSAAC, the Institut National Supérieur des Arts et de l'Action Culturelle (National Higher Institute of Arts and Cultural Action) in Abidjan, Cotes de I’voire.
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In Accra, Ghana, the group hosted a Yale Club of Ghana Reception, visited the Dikan Gallery, Amoako Boafo’s new residency program, and Gallery 1957 showing work by Kenturah Davis, MFA '18. In Lagos, Nigeria, Kehinde Wiley, MFA ‘01, hosted a Yale alum gathering at his home at an event organized with the Yale Alumni Association and Yale MacMillan Center. Additional highlights in Lagos include a visit to the Nigerian non-profit, Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation, founded in 2019 by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, a studio visit with Victor Ehikhamenor, a visit to the John Randle Center for Yoruba History and Culture, and celebrating the opening of ART X Lagos, West Africa's premier international art fair.
Finally the group traveled to Abidjan, Cotes D’Ivoire and visited INSAAC, the Institut National Supérieur des Arts et de l'Action Culturelle (National Higher Institute of Arts and Cultural Action), an academic art school established to enable the research, creation, and facilitation of art across music, dance, visual arts, architecture, design, theater, cinema, craft, cultural action, and more. Also in Abidjan, Dean Pinder and the group visited the Museum of Civilizations and enjoyed an architectural tour by Issa Diabaté, M.Arch '95.
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Left: Dean Kymberly Pinder and School of Art Task Force member Lisa Goodman enjoy a tour of Gallery 1957 in Accra, Ghana with Gallery Director Alessandra Olivi (featured here is a work by Kenturah Davis, MFA '18). Right: Dean Kymberly Pinder making remarks at INSAAC.
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Additional attendees on the trip included Cajetan Iheka, Head of the Africa Initiative and Chair of the Council on African Studies; Charlotte Ashamu, Director of International Programs, Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage; Janette Yarwood, Director for Africa and the Middle East, Yale Office of International Affairs; Rebecca Cramer, Associate Director and Program Manager, International Development; Mindy Marks, Senior Director for Regional Clubs, Yale Alumni Association; and Cristin Siebert, Program Director, Council on African Studies and Council on Middle East Studies.
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Experience the 1st-Year MFA Exhibition
And join us for the public reception of the Undergraduate Show on Nov. 29
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Installation images of the First-Year MFA Exhibition, why do i always fall out of bed at night? Photos by Meghan Olson.
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Documentation of the second Fall 2023 exhibition—the First-Year MFA Show, entitled why do i always fall out of bed at night?—is now available!
Open to the Yale community October 16 through November 4, 2023, the First-Year MFA Exhibition featured work by Aliaksandra Tucha, Alice Gong Xiaowen, Alix Vernet, Allison Yoon, Ana Cláudia Almeida, Anietie N Ekanem, Aylin Alakbarli, Bella Convertino, Bix Archer, Brenda Barrios, Chaewon You, Christopher Desanges, Chuye Chen (JUICE), Claire Chey, Coco Shiya Yuan, David Billet, Diego Leon, Erol Scott Harris, Fatima Al-Kuwari, Flores, Gozie Ojini, Haejin Park, Hafsa Nouman, Helen Liene Dreifelds, Jaamal Benjamin, Jam Yoo, Jeewon Kim, Jeremy Grier, Jesús Hilario-Reyes, Kate Johnson, Lauren Flaaen, Leor Miller, Luis Manuel Diaz, Nadia Younes, Nic[o] Brierre Aziz, Olivia Crumm, Omer Wasim, Paulina Moncada, Purvai Rai, Rayer Ma, Rosa Bozhkov, Rose McBurney, Sam Frésquez, Saskia Globig, Stephanie Rose Guerrero, Taína Cruz, Vani Bhushan, Wendy Li, Yi Song, Youngjin Park, Yumeng Zhu, and Z.T. Nguyen.
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The exhibition identity for why do i always fall out of bed at night? was created by Darnell Henderson and Davy Dai, Graphic Design MFAs ‘24.
Find full information about the exhibition in the archives here >
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We're also excited to invite you to join us TONIGHT to celebrate the third and final exhibition of the Fall 2023 semester:
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The host will let you in soon
Fall Undergraduate Exhibition
Public reception:
⏰ TONIGHT ⏰
Wednesday, November 29
6-8PM
Green Hall Gallery,
1156 Chapel St.
📅 Full info on the calendar >
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Exhibition identity by student design group, Zoom Corporation.
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Watch Catherine Opie's Distinguished Lecture
Inaugural Fall 2023 lecture now available in full on YouTube
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On the evening of Monday, October 9, 2023, the School of Art welcomed Catherine Opie as the inaugural speaker in our Distinguished Lecture Series. Speaking from the Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall at the Yale University Art Gallery, Opie delivered a powerful talk about her practice and recent projects.
We’re excited to share that the lecture is now available to watch in full on the School of Art’s YouTube channel. Many thanks to Catherine Opie for joining us last month, and for allowing us to make this talk accessible online!
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Faculty news & exhibitions
Core faculty exhibit work at prestigious institutions in the U.S. & internationally
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Installation view of part of American Artist's Security Theater (2023) at the Guggenheim Museum. Photo by Lindsey Mancini, Assistant Director of Communications.
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In addition to teaching full-time during the academic year, the Yale School of Art’s core faculty members are also exhibiting work in prestigious institutions across the United States and internationally:
Meleko Mokgosi, Director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking, opened a solo exhibition at Jack Shaiman Gallery in New York City this month. Entitled Spaces of Subjection: Parts 1 to 5, the exhibition “examines the notions of space outside of the confines of figuration” and will be on view through December 22, 2023. The exhibition is also accompanied by a booklet containing writings and images of artworks in the show. Commissioned by Meleko Mokgosi, the booklet was designed by Nontsikelelo Mutiti, MFA '12 and Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design, and edited by Leslie Dick, Senior Critic in Painting/Printmaking.
Alexandria Smith, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art, also opened a solo exhibition this month in Hong Kong. Smith’s Stirrings of a Polymorphous Bloom is open at Gagosian’s Hong Kong location through January 13, 2024. Featuring new assemblage paintings and collage drawings, the works in Stirrings of a Polymorphous Bloom “envision cosmic environments inhabited by figures in flux,” exploring the changing nature of selfhood and identity.
Maria De Los Angeles, MFA '15 and Assistant Director in Painting and Printmaking, unveiled a new permanent mural in acrylic entitled A Spectrum of Hope at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
Aki Sasamoto, Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture, is opening a solo exhibition at the Queens Museum in New York next month. Entitled Point Reflection, the exhibition presents a selection of recent works including Sink or Float featured in the 59th Venice Biennale, and also premieres a series of performances. Celebrate the exhibition's opening on December 10th (RSVP here), and see if before it closes on April 7, 2024. Upcoming performance dates include February 17, March 3, and April 6.
American Artist, Lecturer in Sculpture, also has work featured in the new exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility. Featuring work by 28 artists and filling all six ramps of the museum’s rotunda, Going Dark “probes a key point of conflict in representation: both the desire to be seen and the desire for obscurity, especially as technology offers more opportunities for (and dangers in) exposure than ever before.” Alums Dawoud Bey, MFA '93, Titus Kaphar, MFA '06, Kevin Beasley, MFA '12, John Edmonds, MFA '16, Tomashi Jackson, MFA '16, Farah Al Qasimi, MFA ‘17, also have work featured in the exhibition. The exhibition’s catalogue includes creative responses to the concept of “going dark” by poets and graphic designers, including Nontsikelelo Mutiti, MFA '12 and Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design. Going Dark is open through April 7, 2024.
Finally, Lisa Kereszi, MFA '00 and Assistant Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, alongside Benjamin Donaldson, MFA '01 and Senior Critic, have recently published a collaborative family photobook with their daughter Ottilie Leete entitled IN. Edited by Michael Vahrenwald, MFA '03 and his co-publisher at Roman Nvmerals, David LaSpina, MFA '09, the book was designed by Yve Ludwig, YC '00 and MFA '05, and includes an essay by Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the School of Art, Robert Storr.
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