Poster design by Nicholas Weltyk, Graphic Design MFA '20.
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This summer Yale Norfolk School of Art will offer a thematic program, made possible by Norfolk Foundation, Inc., called The Ethics of Color that will include a series of public lectures covering divergent topics such as the language of color theory coupled with human rights legislation, color as a material witness to disaster, new materialist conceptions of brown and the environment, W.E.B. Du Bois’s infographics utilizing color and data for analysis and activism, and an 80s art exhibition in Black and White.
Yale Norfolk’s co-directors, Byron Kim and Lisa Sigal, will seek new ways to engage audiences with The Ethics of Color presenters. The roster of speakers will influence the students’ summer dialogue in a structured way, culminating in a digital archive of these interactions. Yale Norfolk seeks to engage with the Norfolk public but also with a broader public geographically to build a more diverse audience during the summer period. Receptions will follow each lecture to enhance this synergy.
The roster of speakers will include Aruna D’Souza, Tomashi Jackson, Silas Munro, Tavia Nyong’o and Susan Schuppli. Aruna D'Souza is a writer/critic and curator whose book Whitewalling has been well discussed in the art world since the 2017 Whitney Biennial and will talk about a show that the artist Lorraine O'Grady curated in the early 80s called The Black and White Show. Tomashi Jackson, artist, has a unique perspective on Josef Albers’ color theory as it relates to societal perspectives. Silas Munro is a designer based in Los Angeles, his lecture on W.E.B. Du Bois’s “color line” diagrams will focus on these fascinating works as design, objects of activism and as drawings utilizing color. Tavia Nyongo will share his recent research on the posthumous writings on José Muñoz on the color brown. Susan Schuppli is an artist and scholar who operates in the field of forensic architecture and teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Painting/Printmaking Program Hosts Full Day of Skillshare Workshops
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Flower Crown Workshop with Victoria Martinez. From left to right: Victoria Martinez, Naomi Lisiki, Tim Brawner, Aryana Minai, Leila Seyedzadeh. Photo: Edi Dai, Painting/Printmaking MFA '20.
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On Saturday, March 30, graduate students in the School of Art’s Painting/Printmaking program organized and attended a full day of workshops.
Last fall, students gathered information about what they would like to learn more about and what skills they would like to share. Students then compiled workshops based on their wants and needs, and sixteen students led workshops that taught skills ranging from woodblock printing to grant writing, from bookbinding to weight lifting, and from contemporary dance to making Kombucha from scratch.
These workshops empowered students to practice their teaching philosophies, work collaboratively, and share ideas with each other. Collectively titled Skillshare Workshops, the initiative resulted in a full day of programming, from 9am to 9pm, and was generously funded through the Painting/Printmaking program.
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Coloring Your Drawings in Photoshop with Ana Benaroya. Photo: Edi Dai, Painting/Printmaking MFA '20.
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Bookbinding with Rebecca Shippee. From left to right: Phoebe Helander, Ana Benaroya, Aryana Minai, Victoria Martinez, Rebecca Shippee, Tim Brawner, Amaryllis Moleski, Naomi Lisiki. Photo: Edi Dai, Painting/Printmaking MFA '20.
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Robert Reed Drawing Workshops Part II: Drawing Intensive & Pedagogical Discourse
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MFA students and undergraduates attend the Robert Reed Drawing Workshops in New York City. Photo: Anahita Vossoughi, lecturer in Painting/Printmaking.
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Following the February trip to State College, PA to attend the Robert Reed workshops at Penn State University, another group of undergraduate and graduate students attended the subsequent Robert Reed workshops—an all-day affair held on March 23 in New York City.
Hosted at both the Hunter College MFA Studios and the Whitney Museum of American Art, the workshops included “Re-Animating the Drawing Process” led by Jessica Tam and School of Art lecturer in Painting/Printmaking Anahita Vossoughi, “More with Less” taught by Clint Jukkala, and “Building the Hat” taught by Tea Chai Beer. Each took up Reed’s methods of physical engagement, repetition, learning by doing, and bringing the unexpected into the classroom as a means of ungrounding preconceived ideas about the medium.
Robert Reed (1938 – 2014) was the first African American professor tenured by the Yale School of Art and taught drawing and painting for 50 years. His rigorous pedagogy influenced generations. Participants in the New York workshops had the unique opportunity to learn about Reed’s innovative studio curriculum through a series of lectures, discussions, and workshops led by his former students. The Whitney Museum also hosted a public talk with those who studied under Reed during his time at Yale, which featured Yale Norfolk School of Art co-director and Senior Critic in Painting/Printmaking Byron Kim.
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MFA students and undergraduates experiment with shadows as part of the Robert Reed Drawing Workshops in New York City. Photo: Anahita Vossoughi, lecturer in Painting/Printmaking.
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Yale Center for British Art Appoints Dean's Council Member Courtney J. Martin as Director
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Courtney J. Martin. Photo: Winnie Gier.
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Last Thursday, the Yale Center for British Art announced that Courtney J. Martin, deputy director and chief curator at the Dia Art Foundation, will become its next director. She will succeed Amy Meyers, who will retire on June 30 after a seventeen-year tenure.
A former graduate, Martin earned her Ph.D. from the University. She went on to teach at Vanderbilt University and Brown University, and in 2015, joined Dia as adjunct curator for the exhibition Robert Ryman at Dia:Chelsea. In 2017, she became the nonprofit’s deputy director and chief curator. She also serves as a member of the Dean's Council at the Yale School of Art.
“An esteemed scholar of historical and contemporary art, she will use her extensive experience in research, teaching, and curation to further infuse the arts into the university’s work and shape the YCBA’s leadership in the field of British art,” president Peter Salovey said in a statement.
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Notes° — Undergraduate Senior Project Thesis Show Closes Saturday
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Open April 13 – April 20, 2019
Reception: Friday, April 19 from 5:30–7:30pm
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Featuring:
Bix Archer
Isis Davis-Marks
Vikram Dhawan
Leonard Galmon
Vicky Gebert
Dan Gorodezky
Emma Green
Tommy Lee Huang
Taylor Jackson
Michelle Kemei
Will Kortum
Alexandros Koutsogeorgas
Madeleine Lee
Julia Ma
Devon Merlette
Adam Moftah
Lamia Priestley
Jose Rodriguez
Natalie Schultz-Henry
Daniel Stein
Joshua Tarplin
Nikoletta Toffoloni
Jack Wesson
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Gallery hours for Spring 2019:
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Monday: 10am - 2pm
Tuesday, Thursday: 10am - 5pm
Wednesday: 10am - 2:30pm
Friday: 10am - 5:30pm
Saturday: 1pm - 5:30pm
Sunday: 10am - 5pm
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Alumni!
Let's be in touch.
Send updates and news, and say hello:
SchoolofArtAlumni@yale.edu
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