Looking Back on 150 Years
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Digitally highlighted black and white image of a microfilm copy of The New Haven Palladium newspaper dated October 8, 1869.
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On this day in 1869, students entered the sandstone building at the corner of High and Chapel Streets to inaugurate the first art school connected with an institution of higher learning in the country: Yale's School of the Fine Arts. Today, the Yale School of Art celebrates its 150th year with a dynamic anniversary mark, a robust Autumn Lecture Series, and the dissemination of historical findings that reach back to the School's founding through a special Instagram series, #SoA150th.
Augustus and Caroline Street’s generous gift made the founding of the School possible on the condition that enrollment be co-educational. Established two months before the territory of Wyoming adopted the women’s right to vote and hold public office, the School of the Fine Arts took shape amidst a nationwide movement establishing women’s rights. And yet despite the declared mandate for the School, media coverage surrounding its opening denied that very point. The New York Times reported: “We have never had a school of high art where young men could receive an artistic training that would fit them for the actual work of their profession and we congratulate the authorities of Yale College on having so far succeeded.” The first class, reportedly destined for enrollment by “young men,” was composed of Mr. Joline B. Smith, and Ms. Alice and Ms. Susan Silliman.
Findings like this nineteenth century newspaper clipping are among the many historical elements to be shared through the anniversary Instagram series, #SoA150th, curated by Post-Graduate Research Associate, Edi Dai, Painting/Printmaking MFA '19. Since joining the School this summer, Dai has assisted in an in-depth initiative researching the School's history, which builds on the research she conducted as a Graduate Curatorial Intern at the Yale University Art Gallery—a role in which she supported the research undergirding the large-scale anniversary exhibition celebrating women artists at Yale, opening in August 2020.
Visit art.yale.edu/150th for all information regarding upcoming anniversary events and initiatives, and follow @yaleschoolofart on Instagram for each installment in the #SoA150th series.
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Autumn 2019 Lecture Series *Extended*
All events are free and open to the public.
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Jessica Stockholder. In the Face of Drifting Eye, 2019. Installation view of Stuff Matters at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands, April 19 – September 1, 2019.
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Monday,
October 28
6pm
32 Edgewood Avenue (EIK)
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Jessica Stockholder in Conversation with Lynne Tillman and Marta Kuzma
Jessica Stockholder will be giving an artist talk entitled “Hinging: How to put it in the world.” Currently serving as the Distinguished Service Professor in the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts, Stockholder will speak 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.
Her public lecture will be followed by a panel conversation with Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean and Professor of Art Marta Kuzma and novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic Lynne Tillman. Hayden Visiting Artists are generously made possible by the Hayden Fund for Art and Ideas. More information >>
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Yale University Art Gallery. Photo: Christopher Gardner. Courtesy of Yale University.
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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"
The School of Art is cosponsoring an exciting panel featuring three alumni—Howardena Pindell (‘67), Wangechi Mutu (‘00), and Kevin Beasley (‘12 and Critic in Sculpture)—in conversation with the newly appointed Director of the Yale Center for British Art, Courtney J. Martin. The event marks the 50th anniversary of African American Studies at Yale and will reflect on changing perceptions of black visual arts since 1969 and share views on how to ensure an inclusive global art world for the future.
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?”
*new to the schedule*
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. In a talk entitled “What should socialism mean in the 21st century?,” Fraser will consider the resurgence of the term nationally and venture the beginnings of an answer to the question her lecture’s title posits: what does or should “socialism” signify in the present era?
The School of Art recognizes the important thinking Nancy Fraser puts forth around the parallel development of feminism and other social movements and the rise of neoliberalism to raise important questions around what equality means today. More information >>
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The School of Art is excited to welcome artist and poet Barbara Chase-Riboud—the first known African-American woman to receive an MFA in 1960 from what was then the Yale School of Architecture and Design—to campus for an historically significant public event in the 150th Autumn Lecture Series.
Subscribe to the School of Art's Yale Calendar listings to be notified as soon as the details of this event are made public.
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Upcoming All-School Events
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: Ernest Bryant (Painting/Printmaking ‘18), Clare Kambhu (Painting/Printmaking '18), Julia Rooney (Painting/Printmaking '18), and Suzanna Zak (Sculpture ’19).
Also participating in the lunchtime discussion will be Zelda Roland, Founding Director of the Yale Prison Education Initiative and moderating the discussion will be Dean Marta Kuzma, in a reflection on the visual art program for incarcerated students at the Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire and the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield.
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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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October 14 –
November 14
Green Hall Gallery
1156 Chapel Street
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We Don't Really Know Each Other — First-Year Show & Closing Reception
An exhibition 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.
A closing reception will be held on Thursday, November 14 from 4–5pm.
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Alumni!
Let's be in touch.
Send updates and news, and say hello:
SchoolofArtAlumni@yale.edu
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