School of Art 2019 Commencement
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Commencement 2018, Yale University's Old Campus. Photo: Sara Abbaspour, Photography MFA '19.
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On Monday, May 20, 2019, the Yale School of Art will celebrate its newest graduating class. Commencement will include an address by curator, author, and scholar Sarah Lewis.
The 2019 candidates for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts:
Graphic Design: Micah Barrett, Severin Bunse, Evan Chang, Hyung Cho, Dho Yee Chung, Simone Cutrí, Emma Gregoline, Willis Kingery, David Knowles, Zhongkai Li, Rosa McElheny, Zack Robbins, Haeok Shin, Soomin Shon, Hua Shu, Tania Alvarez Zaldivar, Liyan Zhao
Painting/Printmaking: Kim Altomare, Braeden Bailey, Ana Benaroya, Jacob Broussard, Dominic Chambers, Gabrielle D'Angelo, Edi Dai, Alex Gibson, Ian Goldsborough, Phoebe Helander, Lyndsey Marko, Emile Mausner, Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, Rebecca Ness, Esteban Pérez, Lauren Quin, Tajh Rust, Leila Seyedzadeh, Mike Shultis, Blair Whiteford
Photography: Sara Abbaspour, Genesis Báez, Molly Berman, Felix Davey, Brian Galderisi, Rodrigo Lopez Gomez, Kaitlin Maxwell, Chase Middleton, Angel Pedro, Kanthy Peng
Sculpture: Kristoffer Ala-Ketola, Nicki Cherry, Kerri Conlon, Alfredo Diaz, Azza El Siddique, Emilie Gossiaux, Petra Hjartardottir, Coral Saucedo Lomelí, Catalina Ouyang, Diego Palacios, Suzanna Zak
Sarah Lewis is a curator, author, scholar, and assistant professor at Harvard University in the department of the history of art and architecture and the department of African and African-American studies. She is the guest editor of the landmark “Vision & Justice” issue of Aperture (2016), which received the 2017 Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research from the International Center of Photography. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, Lewis served as a Critic at the Yale School of Art, and held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Modern, London. Lewis is also the author of The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery (2014) and her articles on race, contemporary art, and culture have been published in many academic journals as well as The New Yorker, the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, and for the Smithsonian, The Museum of Modern Art, and Rizzoli. Her next book, on Frederick Douglass, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.
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Meleko Mokgosi Appointed Associate Professor in Painting/Printmaking
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The School of Art is pleased to announce the appointment of Meleko Mokgosi as Associate Professor in Painting/Printmaking. Set to begin his appointment in July 2019, Mokgosi is engaged in a project-based practice positioned between cinema studies, psychoanalysis, critical theory, and post-colonial studies.
Marta Kuzma, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art notes: “As an artist and an educator, Meleko Mokgosi is dedicated to an expanded language of aesthetic and historical references while building on the necessary tools to build a sustainable and critical studio practice. His regard for the larger political ramifications of techniques of production explore the conceptual foregrounding of painting and in doing so, his approach challenges the way in which many graduate students grapple with negotiating critical social questions within their artist practice.”
Meleko Mokgosi’s practice is articulated within “chapters” which he has described as approaching “how democracy materializes in the daily lived experience of the black subject, both in the American context and in southern Africa.” He maintains the importance in keeping a balance between theoretical inquiry and studio practice—noting that “subjectivity is not solely about ideas and theories, but more importantly subjectivity is a felt experience that necessarily involves the materiality of the body, affect and psychic realities.”
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Collaborative London Summer School Announces Inaugural Participants
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Celebrating its inaugural program year this July, The Artist Collective is a London-based summer school hosted by the Paul Mellon Centre in cooperation with Yale School of Art and Institute of Contemporary Arts London, as well as the Yale Art History Department and the Yale Center for British Art.
Eight MFA students from the School of Art and eight PhD students from the Yale History of Art Department have been invited to participate in the inquiry-driven summer school alongside their UK-based peers, including four PhD students and members of the PMC’s Doctoral Research Network, and additional artist members of the ICA’s wider community.
The School of Art would like to congratulate the MFA students selected to participate in the program's inaugural year: Kyla Arsadjaja, first-year student in Graphic Design; Sara Emsaki, first-year student in Painting/Printmaking; Dawn Kim, first-year student in Photography; Willis Kingery, second-year student in Graphic Design; Morgan Levy, first-year student in Photography; Karinne Smith, first-year student in Sculpture; Nicholas Weltyk, first-year student in Graphic Design; and Orysia Zabeida, first-year student in Graphic Design.
Taking place over twelve days in London, The Artist Collective Summer School is designed to be an informal, flexible and lively program of activities and events, in which the participating students and attendees will take a leading role. It will also provide a forum for stimulating discussion and debate on a theme—this year, forms of artistic collectivity—that is of interest to both art students and art history students, that is of relevance in relation to both historic and contemporary art, and that is investigated through the prism of British artistic and architectural practice.
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Today a Reader — Graphic Design MFA Thesis Show Public Reading & Reception
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Public reading:
Saturday, May 18
from 3–6pm
followed by a reception
from 6–8pm.
Open through
May 20, 2019.
For more information,
visit today-a-reader.com
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Featuring:
Micah Barrett
Severin Bunse
Evan Chang
Hyungseuk Cho
Dho Yee Chung
Simone Cutri
Emma Gregoline
Willis Kingery
David Knowles
Zhongkai Li
Rosa McElheny
Zack Robbins
Haeok Shin
Soomin Shon
Hua Shu
Tania Alvarez Zaldivar
Liyan Zhao
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Yale Norfolk School of Art Summer 2019 Lecture Series: The Ethics of Color
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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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Alumni!
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Send updates and news, and say hello:
SchoolofArtAlumni@yale.edu
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