Artist Collective Summer School at ICA, London Wraps Inaugural Program Year
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Nicholas Weltyk, Graphic Design MFA '20, and Orysia Zabeida, Graphic Design MFA '20, preparing for their final presentation at the Paul Mellon Centre. Photo: Tung Chau, doctoral student in Contemporary Art, Yale Department of the History of Art.
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Members of the School of Art community recently returned from London where they participated in the inaugural year of The Artist Collective Summer School—a collaboration between the School of Art, the Paul Mellon Centre, the Yale Art History Department, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA).
Seven current MFA students and one recent MFA graduate participated alongside eight Yale History of Art graduate students and eight British art historians in the intensive twelve day program that was in part conceived of and initiated by Assistant Dean for Research and Public Projects Ayham Ghraowi. Students visited the Women's Art Library at Goldsmiths, University of London; met with the award-winning artist-led collective The Otolith Group; traveled to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Union Library, and Natural History Museum in Oxford; visited the Tate Britain's permanent collection with lead curator Martin Myrone; met with British conceptual artist Barbara Steveni, and more.
Site visits, roundtables, and workshops converged to 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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Students visit the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on a day trip to Oxford with Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art at Yale, Tim Barringer. Photo: Willis Kingery, Graphic Design MFA '19.
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Raju Rage presents on subversive economies at the ICA, as part of a workshop with Collective Creativity. Photo: George Mind, doctoral student in Photography, University of Westminster.
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Students visit a publication display at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art. Photo: Kyla Arsadjaja, Graphic Design MFA '20.
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Yale Norfolk School of Art Completes 71st Year under Co-Directors Byron Kim and Lisa Sigal
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Glenn Ligon and Silas Munro, seminar with students. Photo: Domia Edwards.
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Led for the first time by newly appointed co-directors Byron Kim and Lisa Sigal, the Yale Norfolk School of Art completed its 71st year at the end of June. An intensive six week undergraduate summer residency, each participating student is nominated by the deans at their respective institutions as the program brings young artists from across the U.S. together to immerse themselves in a rigorous environment of artistic practice, learning, and growth.
"This summer we were blessed with being amongst a community of remarkably diverse and caring people," Kim and Sigal shared of their experience this summer. "'The Ethics of Color' public lectures brought the community of Norfolk and our community of artists together over a subject of cultural and social importance. We are thrilled to be the co-directors—it has proven to be a life changing experience for us, the students and teachers alike."
The 2019 resident faculty included Ayham Ghraowi, Martin Kersels, and four Teaching Fellows selected from recent graduates of Yale’s MFA program: Ernest Bryant, Painting/Printmaking MFA '18; Claudia Cortinez, Painting/Printmaking MFA '13; Lacey Lennon, Photography MFA '18; and Bryce Wilner, Graphic Design MFA '18. Students also investigated “The Ethics of Color,” the theme of the summer’s public lecture series, made possible by Norfolk Foundation, Inc., which brought visiting scholars and artists to Norfolk to engage the students and the local community on a wide range of topics.
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Teaching fellow Claudia Cortinez demonstrates collagraph printing to a group of students. Photo: Domia Edwards.
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Silas Munro delivers the public lecture “W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America, The Ethics of Color” on May 30, 2019. Photo: Domia Edwards.
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Students in teaching fellow Lacey Lennon's photography class, May 30, 2019. Photo: Domia Edwards.
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Second Year of Partnership with Yale Prison Education Initiative Commences at Two Connecticut Correctional Facilities
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The second year of the School of Art and Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI) Partnership Teaching Fellowships began in earnest at the start of July, as two recent MFA graduates lead the undergraduate-level course Visual Thinking, each at a different Connecticut correctional facility. Offered as part of Session B of Yale Summer Session, the courses run from July 1 – August 2, 2019.
Diego Palacios, Sculpture MFA '19, is teaching Visual Thinking at Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire, CT—the state's primary location for inmates under the age of 21. Suzanna Zak, Sculpture MFA '19, is teaching the course at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution for adults in Suffield, CT. Currently YPEI is only liberal arts college credit-granting program offered to incarcerated students there, and this summer marks the first time that School of Art classes are offered at MacDougall-Walker as an expansion of last summer's inaugural program.
Offered to Yale College students at the School of Art, Visual Thinking serves as an introduction to the language of visual expression through cross-disciplinary studio projects. The course explores the fundamental principles of visual art, and students acquire a working knowledge of visual syntax applicable to the study of art history, popular culture, and art. The course meets for three-hour seminars twice per week over an intensive five-week period. Participating students are also granted access to studio time twice each week, during which they have the opportunity to ask their instructors questions and complete assignments with access to drawing materials and paint.
In an effort to continue this broadening of access to arts education in the Connecticut correctional system, the YPEI fellowship and its offerings are expected to continue to expand in a 2020 iteration and beyond.
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Hayden Distinguished Fellow Hito Steyerl Collaborates Across Yale for Park Avenue Armory Exhibition
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The Yale Precision Marching Band performs in Hito Steyerl's "Drill" (2019). Photo: Lindsey Mancini.
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Hito Steyerl, a Hayden Distinguished Fellow at the School of Art in both 2018 and 2019 as well as an acclaimed filmmaker, writer, and cultural critic, opened a new exhibition on June 20 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City entitled Drill. Organized around a newly commissioned 3-channel video installation, the project features many Yale collaborations born out of Steyerl’s fellowships at the School of Art.
The exhibition's titular film Drill features public historian and Yale doctoral candidate Anna Duensing, as well as original music based on the sonification of gun violence, composed by Yale School of Music’s Thomas C. Duffy, former Yale drum major Antonio Medina, and Yale College’s James Brandfonbrener. In the film, the Yale Precision Marching Band performs this original score, harkening back to the initial purpose of the Armory’s Wade Thompson Drill Hall.
In an artist talk Steyerl gave at the School of Art last Spring, she described the music as a “symphony of creative destruction,” but the installation is just one of eight that comprise the exhibition as a whole. The most extensive presentation of Steyerl’s work in the U.S. to date, Drill closed July 21, 2019. More information on YaleNews >>
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Summer Administrative Changes
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This summer two members of the School of Art community will be leaving their positions, and one finds herself in a new role. Registrar Janet Liscio has retired after a remarkable forty-two years of service at Yale—twenty-two of those years within academic administration at the School of Art. During that time she has worked with four deans and has seen over a thousand students earn their MFAs, serving in the critical positions of Senior Administrative Assistant and then Registrar for the School.
Ayham Ghraowi will leave his role as Assistant Dean for Research and Public Projects to continue his independent studio practice in New York City full-time. Ayham has been fundamental in the establishment of national and international cooperations between the School of Art and a multitude of other professional schools and departments at Yale University, including developing a partnership with the Yale Prison Education Initiative which led to the founding of an annual teaching fellowship in 2018.
The School of Art would also like to congratulate Emily Cappa, who has transitioned from Senior Administrative Assistant in Academic Administration and Undergraduate Studies to fill Janet’s role as Registrar beginning July 1, 2019. Emily came to the School in October 2017 from The Hartford Art School where she served on the admission team as well as undergraduate faculty.
We also welcome Michael Nock in the new position of Development Officer, working with our Director of Development Jill Westgard. Michael is a 2019 graduate of the Yale School of Management and is already quite familiar with the School and the students, having participated in the 2018 Cryptocurrency Workshop led by Hayden Distinguished Fellow Hito Steyerl. Michael will support fundraising efforts for scholarships and reporting to donors.
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Sam Messer in his role as director of the Yale Norfolk School of Art, 2009. Photo: Norfolk Now.
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Samuel Messer Enters Emeritus Status
The School is pleased to share that Samuel Messer, who served for twelve years as Associate Dean and for over twenty years as the Director of the Yale Norfolk School of Art, has been granted emeritus status by the Yale Corporation, following his last semester as an Adjunct Professor in the department of Painting/Printmaking at the close of the 2018-19 academic year.
After graduating from the Painting program in 1982, Sam was appointed a Senior Critic in 1995, and Director of Yale Norfolk School of Art in 1999. Sam’s collaborative, literary painting practice has earned him the deep-rooted respect of students alongside noted awards including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant in 1984, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1993, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996. The School of Art wishes Sam the very best and respectfully appreciates his service as both an educator and community leader. In recognition of Sam’s legacy at the School, a scholarship fund has been created in his name. To contribute, visit www.yale.edu/giveArt.
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John Edmonds. "Two Spirits," 2019. Archival pigment photograph. Courtesy of the artist.
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John Edmonds wins Brooklyn Museum’s first UOVO Prize
John Edmonds, MFA ‘16 and Lecturer in Photography, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Brooklyn Museum’s UOVO Prize. Established by the museum and the New York fine art storage company UOVO in the spring of 2019, the $25,000 award recognizes the work of emerging Brooklyn-based artists. In addition to participating in an upcoming solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 2020, Edmonds will install a fifty-square-foot public work on the facade of UOVO’s new facility in Bushwick in the fall.
Edmonds’ powerful photographs situate subjects within the symbols and histories that inform contemporary understandings of identity, in an exploration of visibility, intimacy, and tradition. “Living and working in Brooklyn has deeply impacted and inspired my practice,” Edmonds said in a statement. “I’m thrilled to work with the staff at the Brooklyn Museum and have my first solo museum presentation in the borough I call home.”
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Installation view of “Art after Stonewall.” Photo: Nicholas Papananias. Courtesy of Grey Art Gallery, New York University.
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Jonathan Weinberg Surveys Art after Stonewall
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of 1969, Critic in Undergraduate Studies Jonathan Weinberg curated a two-part exhibition that collectively features more than 200 works of art and related visual materials exploring the profound impact of the LGBTQ Civil Rights movement on the art world. Staged at both the Leslie Lohman Museum and New York University’s Grey Art Gallery, this groundbreaking survey is entitled Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989 and its catalogue stands as a visual history of twenty years in American queer life.
Organized by the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, Art after Stonewall is curated by Weinberg in concert with Tyler Cann, CMA’s Head of Exhibitions and Pizzuti Family Curator of Contemporary Art, and Drew Sawyer, the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum. While its New York City installations have closed, the exhibition will be staged in full at the Columbus Museum of Art March 6, 2020 – May 31, 2020.
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Announcing New Post-Graduate Associates
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The School of Art is pleased to announce that recent MFA graduates Edi Dai and Willis Kingery will be serving as Post-Graduate Associates for the upcoming 2019-2020 academic year. Both graduated in May 2019–Dai with an MFA in Painting/Printmaking and Kingery with an MFA in Graphic Design. Through these roles, Dai and Kingery will be expanding their own practices as artists while furthering their training under Dean Marta Kuzma.
Edi Dai will be contributing to the research and initiatives supporting the upcoming 150th anniversary of the Yale School of Art. In celebration of the School’s founding in 1869, the 2019-2020 academic year will feature public lectures and events highlighting both the School of Art’s history as the first art school connected with an institution of higher learning in the United States, as well as the first university arts school–and the first school at Yale–to admit and grant degrees to women.
Willis Kingery’s role as a Post-Graduate Associate will be in advancing Critical Practice initiatives at the School. Working alongside Dean Kuzma who teaches the course “Diving into the Wreck: Rethinking Critical Practices” for first-year MFA students every Fall, Kingery will assist in the development of interdisciplinary collaborations across Yale University as well as contribute to the advancement of Critical Practice as an emerging area of study at the School of Art.
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