Celebrating the 2020 MFA Graduates | Notable Awards & Achievements

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This issue's header image by Kyla Arsadjaja, Graphic Design MFA '20.

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Celebrating the 2020 MFA Graduates

Design by Luiza Dale, Graphic Design MFA '21. Typeface BT Grotesk Bold by Scott Vander Zee.
The Yale School of Art celebrates and applauds its graduating class. While commencement exercises on campus have been postponed, degrees were formally conferred to our 61 MFA graduates on Monday, May 18, 2020.

The 2020 Recipients of the Degree Master of Fine Arts:

Graphic Design: Kyla Arsadjaja, Maria Candanoza, Jinu Hong, Zhiyan Huang, Laura Huaranga, Cindy Hwang, Dawoon Jeon, Jeongwoo Kim, Tuan Quoc Pham, Steven Rodriguez, Julia SchÀfer, Yuanbo Wang, Bryant Wells, Nicholas Weltyk, Sam Wood, Orysia Zabeida, Wenwen Zhang

Painting/Printmaking: Hangama Atiqullo, James Bartolacci, Tim Brawner, Kevin Brisco, Mariel Capanna, JosĂ© Chavez-Verduzco, Taylor Clough, Krystal DiFronzo, Sara Emsaki, Trevon Latin, Naomi Lisiki, Victoria Martinez, Aryana Minai, Africanus Okokon, Edd Ravn, JosĂ© de Jesus Rodriguez, MarĂ­a de Los Àngeles RodrĂ­guez JimĂ©nez, Kern Samuel, Carly Sheehan, Rebecca Shippee, Kathia St.Hilaire, Chiffon Thomas, Ye Qin Zhu

Photography: Angela Chen, Deangelo Christian, Robert Andy Coombs, Rory Hamovit, Elizabeth Hibbard, Dawn Kim, Morgan Levy, Jane Lowe, Allison Minto, Jiajun Wang

Sculpture: Genevieve Goffman, Lauren Lee, Efrat Lipkin, Anna Miller, Peyton Peyton, Randi Renate, David Roy, Sam Shoemaker, Karinne Smith, Anne Wu, Alex Zak

More information >> 
Announcement of the graduating class on Art & Education >>

Notable Awards & Achievements

A.L. Steiner (courtesy Matthew Leifheit) and Danna Singer (courtesy Allison Minto).
Faculty Members Danna Singer and A.L. Steiner Named Guggenheim Fellows Alongside Three Alumni

At the start of April, the Yale School of Art was pleased to announce that faculty members Danna Singer and A.L. Steiner were among the 2020 Guggenheim Fellows named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Three Yale School of Art alumni were also named among the 2020 Guggenheim Fellows: artists Leslie Hewitt, Gordon Ennis Moore, and Katy Schimert, whose graduating classes span from 1972 to 2004.

Danna Singer was appointed by the School of Art as a Lecturer in Photography in the fall of 2019, after graduating from the program with an MFA in Photography in 2017. A photographer and educator, Singer's work largely focuses on the social ramifications of economic inequality, depicting the struggles of working-class Americans. A.L. Steiner was appointed by the School of Art as a Yale Presidential Visiting Fellow in Photography for 2018, and in January 2019 she began her new appointment as Senior Critic in Film/Video. Steiner’s approach within the genre of film, video, and lens-based media emphasizes an artist practice that reflects that of a critical cultural producer exploring the traditions of collage and montage.
 
MarĂ­a de los Ángeles RodrĂ­guez JimĂ©nez Named 2020 Fulbright Scholar 

Graduating MFA student MarĂ­a de los Ángeles RodrĂ­guez JimĂ©nez (Painting/Printmaking '20) has been named a 2020-21 Fulbright Scholar. For her fellowship, the artist will travel to Brazil to continue her exploration of her work as offerings:

"Similar to a womb, that can be empty but whole, the objects I create are vessels for potential. This body of work reflects my research of where an art object begins and where it ends and how the audience becomes implicated in the existence of the object—in its life. The YorĂčbĂĄ divination system, and all its translations across the diaspora, inspired these offerings; they are about giving gratitude and embodying what is unseen but can be materialized."
 
Dannielle Bowman Wins Aperture’s 2020 Portfolio Prize

Dannielle Bowman, Photography MFA '18, has been selected as the winner of Aperture’s 2020 Portfolio Prize, the annual award that aims to “identify trends in contemporary photography and highlight artists whose work deserves greater recognition.”

The artist was selected for her ongoing series What Had Happened, which captures notions of displacement, family history, and home in the Los Angeles neighborhoods where she grew up. In addition to receiving a cash prize, Bowman will also have her work featured in an upcoming issue of Aperture magazine as well as an exhibition of her work staged at Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York in Manhattan.

Lesley A. Martin, Aperture’s creative director and the publisher of The PhotoBook Review shared with Artforum, “Bowman has begun to map histories that remain mostly unspoken, eliciting memory via the judicious placement of alternative signifiers—signifiers mostly illegible to those outside or unfamiliar with these stories...In doing so via a rigorously composed, formal set of pictures that stand outside traditional documentary storytelling, Bowman not only begins to carefully unfurl these secrets; she also manages to bend a classic set of photographic conventions toward her own goals, enfolding her own family history within them.”
 

School of Art Mourns the Passing of Alumnus, Professor, & Former Dean William Bailey

Photo by Ford Bailey. Courtesy of Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York.
The School of Art is saddened to share that William Bailey, distinguished alumnus, former dean and faculty member, as well as the Kingman Brewster Professor Emeritus of Art, passed away on April 13, 2020 at his home in Branford, Connecticut due to complications from an existing illness. Regarded in his art practice for his meditative approach to realism, Bailey was an esteemed member of the Yale School of Art faculty and community, and he played a pivotal role in informing and developing its pedagogy for nearly three decades.

Having earned both his BFA in 1955 and his MFA in 1957 at what was then the Yale School of Art and Architecture, William “Bill” Bailey joined the faculty as a Professor of Art in 1969 before his appointment as Dean from 1974 to 1975. During his time as Professor and then as Dean, Bailey was essential in fostering a sense of academic continuity as the institution formally became designated as the Yale School of Art when the School of Architecture was established as a separate school by the University in 1972. After his time as Dean, Bailey continued to serve as a prominent member of the faculty in the department of Painting until retiring in 1995.

The School of Art extends sincere condolences to Professor Bailey’s family and loved ones at this sad time. 

We have more in memory of Professor Bailey on our website, including a note of remembrance from artist Clifford Ross.

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