150th Spring Lecture Series Begins Tomorrow with a Cross-Generational Conversation
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The 150th Anniversary mark, created by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Caroline M. Street Professor of Graphic Design, Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design, MFA ‘64, and Laura Coombs, MFA '17 and Senior Designer at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Featuring typefaces by School of Art faculty, students, and alums. More information >>
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Wednesday,
January 22
6:30pm
32 Edgewood Ave.
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Design pioneer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and designer Laura Coombs on gender, design, and identity
In continued celebration of our 150th anniversary, the School of Art will present a cross-generational conversation on the intersections of design, gender, and identity, featuring design pioneer, first tenured woman professor in the School’s history, and Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, alongside mentee, collaborator, and Senior Designer at the New Museum, Laura Coombs.
Together, de Bretteville and Coombs created the School of Art’s 150th anniversary mark featured in the animation above—not a singular symbol but a range of 150 interchangeable marks constructed with typefaces made by students, alumni, and faculty of the School of Art.
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2020 MFA Thesis Dates Announced
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Animation by Jinu Hong, Graphic Design MFA '20.
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Members of the public and the Yale community are invited to visit the MFA thesis exhibitions of current students, scheduled to be on view in Green Hall Gallery at 1156 Chapel Street in New Haven during the following dates:
Painting/Printmaking Group One: January 25–30
Reception: Saturday, January 25, 6–8pm
Painting/Printmaking Group Two: February 8–12, 14
Reception: Saturday, February 8, 6–8pm
Sculpture Group One: February 29–March 4, 6
Reception: Saturday, February 29, 6–8pm
Sculpture Group Two: March 28–April 1, 3
Reception: Saturday, March 28, 6–8pm
Graphic Design: April 25–May 1
Reception: Saturday, April 25, 6–8pm
Photography: May 9–19
Reception: Saturday, May 9, 6–8pm
The gallery will be open to the public throughout the spring semester Mondays through Fridays, from 9am–4pm. For more information and updates, visit art.yale.edu/gallery.
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150th Autumn Lecture Series Recap
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Documentation of Barbara Chase-Riboud's honorary lecture with Marta Kuzma (left) and Claudia Rankine (right) on November 21, 2019, New Haven, CT. Photos by Ronghui Chen, Photography MFA ‘21.
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Artist and poet Barbara Chase-Riboud in conversation with Claudia Rankine and Marta Kuzma
Honorary lecture celebrating Yale School of Art's 150th year
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“I had this sense of justice,” she said, “I had this sense of what was right, and what was just, and what was proper: to expect other people to hear me, to expect other people to listen to me, to expect other people to acknowledge me.”
On the evening of November 21, acclaimed artist, writer, and poet Barbara Chase-Riboud spoke with Professor of Poetry Claudia Rankine and School of Art Dean and Professor of Art Marta Kuzma in an historic conversation chronicling her extraordinary life and practice, hosted in cooperation with both the Department of African-American Studies at Yale and the Yale School of Architecture.
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The youngest artist to ever be collected by the Museum of Modern Art, friends with the likes of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and James Baldwin, and writer of award-winning novels and collections of poetry—throughout an artistic career that spans nearly eight decades, Barbara Chase-Riboud has both witnessed and made history. In 1960, she became the first known woman of color to earn her MFA at what was then the Yale School of Architecture and Design, now known as the Yale School of Art. In this, her first return to New Haven on the occasion of the School’s 150th anniversary year as honorary speaker, she shared her experiences at Yale and abroad in an unflinching conversation that revealed the profound conviction necessary in combating spaces of institutional power.
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“Somehow along the way,” Chase-Riboud said, “there were all kinds of indications and all kinds of checkpoints that made this road to this particular institution and changed my life.”
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Documentation of Dr. Ramon Amaro's lecture on November 20, 2019, New Haven, CT. Photos by Nabil Harb, Photography MFA ‘21.
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Dr. Ramon Amaro: "On machine learning and the collective condition of Black survival"
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Scholar and educator Dr. Ramon Amaro delivered a public afternoon lecture in the atrium of Green Hall, sharing his recent research regarding machine learning as it relates to systems of value and racialized exclusion.
Dr. Amaro used Gilbert Simondon's 1989 text, On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, as a framework through which to critique the developing technologies and products of algorithmic culture, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), underlining how language still serves as the vehicle through which racism is transmitted. For Dr. Amaro, in the hands of corporate techno-utopians, these technologies can only replicate—not remedy—the biases of the systems that produce them, further perpetuating the fictive substances of race.
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Following what Simondon describes as an “inadequate rapport” between humans and technology, Dr. Amaro argued that data renders citizens as visible for governance, yet the regulatory effects of data are marked by race, gender, socio-economic biases, and other exclusionary factors, which continue to disproportionately disadvantage certain populations while privileging others. Dr. Amaro concluded that AI and ML are inherently acts of colonial thought, in which no amount of design can prevent them from continuing to unwittingly commit violences against marginalized populations. To counteract these conditions, Dr. Amaro called for artists to push beyond the enaction of the colonial imaginary and disrupt racialized logics through their work.
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Documentation of Nancy Fraser's lecture on November 18, 2019, New Haven, CT. Photos by Dawn Kim, Photography MFA '20.
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Nancy Fraser on "What should socialism mean in the twenty-first century?"
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On Monday, November 18, critical theorist Nancy Fraser ventured the beginnings of an answer to the question her lecture's title posits: What should socialism mean in the twenty-first century? Beginning with a consideration of the word's resurgence as both a political term and sociopolitical theory, Fraser put forward a persuasive postulation on how it can be defined or understood in a way that allows for the full realization of socialism’s myriad potentialities.
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Disclosing the capitalist economy’s contradictory and destructive relation to its “non-economic” background conditions, Fraser contended that socialism must do more than transform the economy. It must also transform the economy’s relation to its background conditions of possibility, especially in its consideration of non-human nature and the gendered work of social reproduction. In short, Fraser asserted, a socialism for the twenty-first century must be eco-feminist, anti-racist, and unquestionably democratic.
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Further events and initiatives celebrating the School of Art's 150th year will be announced throughout fall and summer 2020. Visit art.yale.edu/150th for all announcements and information regarding upcoming anniversary programs.
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Alumni!
Let's be in touch.
Send updates and news, and say hello:
SchoolofArtAlumni@yale.edu
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