Portrait Commission for Davenport College
 Kenturah Davis, Painting and Printmaking MFA '18, and Davenport Graduate Affiliate, was commissioned by Davenport College to create a portrait of Otelia Cromwell, PhD 1926. Cromwell earned a PhD in English at Yale University, becoming the university's first African American woman graduate. Davis created the portrait using Cromwell's own words--choosing a letter Cromwell wrote to her father about her experience at Yale, her bond with her family, and her endeavors as a scholar. The portrait is now on view at the college and can also be seen on their blog.
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Image courtesy the artist.
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Image by Willis Kingery '19.
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New Fellowship Announced :
The Scuola di Palazzo Te
Mantua, Italy
July 7 - July 15, 2018
Application deadline: April 30, 2018
centropalazzote.it/scuola-palazzo-te/
Three current Yale School of Art students who apply for the residency and are selected will be awarded:
– Scholarship to cover tuition fees, food, and dorms
– $500 subsidy for travel expenses
The Scuola di Palazzo Te is an educational project aimed at inspiring visions, projects and practical capacities in the contemporary cultural production field. The project concentrates on the relations between cultural productions, memories and collective heritage. The project imply a direct and durable relationship with relevant contemporary artists, thinkers and cultural institutions rulers starting from the idea that art production practices might operate with mutual benefit confronting with cultural activism, with a visionary conceptualization of cultural policies and with cultural mediation practices. This connection appears to be particularly relevant as the targets of those practices are memories, heritage, communities and urban coexistence.
The project in its first edition – ON MAKING ART – is a residential course of 9 days from July 7th to July 15th that will take place in Palazzo Te under the guidance of three Italian contemporary arts and cultural productions masters: Stefano Arienti, Mariangela Gualtieri and Virgilio Sieni. The course will be also managed and coached by a specialized unit of the International Center of Palazzo Te with the cooperation of the ASK research Centre of Bocconi University.
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