150th Autumn Lecture Series *Extended*
All events are free and open to the public.
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Howardena Pindell, Untitled #4D (detail), 2009. Mixed media on paper collage. Private collection, Illinois. Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
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Thursday,
November 14
5:30pm
Yale University
Art Gallery
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Howardena Pindell, Wangechi Mutu, and Kevin Beasley in
"Looking Back at 50 Years of Change in the Visual Arts"
This program is cosponsored by the Department of African American Studies at Yale University, the Yale School of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. More information >>
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Covers for Nancy Fraser’s most recent publications. Left: The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond (Verso, April 2019). Right: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, coauthored with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya. (Verso, March 2019).
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Monday,
November 18
6pm
32 Edgewood Avenue (EIK)
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Nancy Fraser: “What should socialism mean in the 21st century?”
Critical theorist Nancy Fraser will deliver a public lecture on her recent research regarding twenty-first century feminism and feminist militancy, as well as the fractured myth of progressive neoliberal capitalism.
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Dr. Ramon Amaro. Photo: Marjolijn Dijkman.
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Wednesday,
November 20
12–1pm
1156 Chapel Street, Graphic Design Atrium (Room 104)
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Scholar and educator Dr. Ramon Amaro: "On machine learning and the collective condition of Black survival"
*new to the schedule*
Dr. Ramon Amaro, Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, will deliver a public lecture on his recent research regarding machine learning as it relates to systems of value and racialized exclusion. His research and practice stem from his seminal work on Blackness, machine learning and the substances of race.
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Barbara Chase-Riboud. The Albino, 1972. (reinstalled in 1994 by the artist as All That Rises Must Converge/Black). Bronze with black patina, wool and other fibers; 180 × 126 × 30 inches. © Barbara Chase-Riboud. Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
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Thursday,
November 21
6:30pm
32 Edgewood Avenue (EIK)
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Artist and poet Barbara Chase-Riboud in conversation with Claudia Rankine and Marta Kuzma
*new to the schedule*
Acclaimed artist and poet Barbara Chase-Riboud will speak as the anniversary year’s Honorary Lecturer with Yale University’s Professor of Poetry Claudia Rankine and Dean Marta Kuzma. In 1960, Chase-Riboud became the first known African-American woman to receive an MFA from what was then the Yale School of Architecture and Design.
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All-School Events Happening This Week
Free and open to the public.
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Documentation of the first Yale School of Art / Yale Prison Education Initiative Partnership Panel, September 24, 2018. Photo by Sara Abbaspour, Photography MFA ‘19.
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Friday,
November 15
12:30–1:30pm
32 Edgewood Avenue (EIK)
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Yale School of Art / Yale Prison Education Initiative Partnership Panel
Hosted as part of the School of Art's Art and Social Justice Initiative, on November 15, the School will present a panel of the recent MFA graduates who were selected to participate in the first two iterations of the Yale School of Art/Yale Prison Education Initiative Teaching Fellowships in the summers of 2018 and 2019.
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Animated poster for the First-Year Show: We Don't Really Know Each Other. Exhibition identity by Furqan Jawed (Graphic Design MFA '21), Jessica Flemming (Graphic Design MFA '21), Luiza Dale (Graphic Design MFA '21), and Nick Massarelli (Graphic Design MFA '21).
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Thursday,
November 14
4–5pm
Green Hall Gallery
1156 Chapel Street
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We Don't Really Know Each Other: First-Year Show Closing Reception
Join us for a closing reception for the exhibition We Don't Really Know Each Other, featuring work by first-year MFA students across the departments of Graphic Design, Painting/Printmaking, Photography, and Sculpture, curated by Senior Critic A.L. Steiner.
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Mickalene Thomas Appointed 2020 Presidential Visiting Fellow
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Mickalene Thomas, 2019. © Chad Kirkland.
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The Yale School of Art announces the appointment of Mickalene Thomas as the 2020 Presidential Visiting Fellow in Fine Arts. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean Marta Kuzma notes: “We are honored to have Mickalene Thomas join the Yale School of Art faculty throughout 2020 as a black feminist artist whose practice contributes to the evolving conversation around post-blackness, sexuality and power. She is a fierce mentor who has supported emerging queer black artists, through fostering critical conversations and assisting with professional development.”
In a practice that spans from painting, collage, and photography to video and installation, Mickalene Thomas creates art historically-informed work that recasts the central protagonists as women of color in the creation of a new art history that references both the civil rights movement and second wave feminism. Thomas explores pictorial strategies around African American women. Charlotte Burns, the executive editor of In Other Words, writes that Mickalene Thomas’ “genre-busting work takes many forms, and grapples with bodies and their desires, with power, equity and identity.” More information >>
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Recap of Recent 150th Lectures
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Documentation of David Reinfurt's lecture on October 10, 2019. Photos by Ronghui Chen, Photography MFA '21.
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David Reinfurt: A *New* Program for Graphic Design
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On Thursday, October 10, independent graphic designer David Reinfurt (MFA in Graphic Design, ‘99) kicked off the 150th Autumn Lecture Series, speaking in the Atrium of Green Hall in a public talk that centered around his newly released book A *New* Program for Graphic Design.
In 2010, Reinfurt introduced the study of graphic design at Princeton University in 2010, and his new book—published by Inventory Press (Los Angeles) with D.A.P. (New York)—is largely based on his teaching. A *New* Program for Graphic Design is a do-it-yourself textbook that synthesizes the pragmatic with the experimental and builds on mid- to late-twentieth-century pedagogical models to convey advanced principles of contemporary design. Rooted in three courses (Typography, Gestalt, and Interface) originally developed for liberal arts students, the book provides a broad introduction to graphic design and visual literacy for readers from any discipline.
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As a co-founder of O-R-G inc., Dexter Sinister, and The Serving Library, Reinfurt has developed several models that have reimagined graphic design and publishing in the twenty-first century. He was 2016–2017 Mark Hampton Rome Prize Fellow in Design at the American Academy in Rome and is the co- author of Muriel Cooper (MIT Press, 2017).
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Documentation of Jessica Stockholder's lecture on October 28, 2019. Photos by Dawn Kim, Photography MFA '20.
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Jessica Stockholder: "Hinging: How to put it in the world"
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Artist Jessica Stockholder (MFA in Painting/Printmaking, '85) spoke on Monday, October 28 in EIK as part of the second event in the 150th Autumn Lecture Series. In her talk, entitled "Hinging: How to put it in the world," Stockholder spoke about the contextual nature of her practice. Her lecture marked her return to the School, both as an alum of the MFA program and as a faculty member. In 1999, Stockholder was appointed the Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture—a role she held for over a decade.
Stockholder spoke to the range of her work over time, addressing how she consistently works with material, color, and form to embody her interest in edge, boundary, autonomy, dependence, and coherence in the face of happenstance. "Color has space in it," she told listeners, "and the skin of a room creates a kind of illusion." Since the 1980s Stockholder has worked at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and architecture, employing conceptually-rich colors and materials to revolutionize the space of mixed media installation.
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Her talk was followed by a conversation between the artist, Dean Marta Kuzma and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, for a two-part event that explored what Stockholder described as her interest in "the edges and boundaries of things." Tillman is Professor and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts’ Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program in New York.
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