OCTOBER 30, 2023
NEWS FROM NEW HAVEN: OCTOBER 2023
YALE COLLABORATION BRINGS HLENGIWE DUBE TO THE SCHOOL OF ART EXPERIENCE THE 2ND-YEAR MFA EXHIBITION DEI PROGRAMMING FOSTERS BROADER INCLUSIVITY and MORE
SEPTEMBER 2023
In August, the School of Art celebrated beloved staff member Brian Schmidt, who retired after more than three decades as Senior Administrative Assistant in Financial Affairs. He’s sorely missed and in his absence, the administrative support staff is being built out with new positions to more fully support Dean Pinder’s initiatives—including Interdepartmental Day and the new public lecture series. Please apply or forward to your networks if you or someone you know might be interested in any of our new open positions
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
NEWS FROM NEW HAVEN: SEPTEMBER 2023
FALL 2023 CURRICULAR HAPPENINGS and HIGHLIGHTS NEW FACULTY LECTURE SERIES BEGINS WITH CATHERINE OPIE INAUGURAL CLIMATE ENGAGEMENT MURAL COMPLETE and MORE
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
INAUGURAL CLIMATE ENGAGEMENT MURAL COMPLETE!
“TAKE THE RISK TO COOL DOWN" BY VICTORIA MARTINEZ INSTALLED SEPTEMBER 2023
On the corner of Mill Street and Saltonstall Avenue in Fair Haven, just 1.6 miles down from the Yale School of Art’s main building on Chapel Street, you’ll find a new mural created by 2020 MFA alum of the Painting/Printmaking program, Victoria Martinez. Entitled Take the Risk to Cool Down, the mural is the result of 12+ months of work by Martinez, collaborators across Yale, and Daniel Pizarro, MFA ‘12, the Communications Design Fellow for the project.
The site was carefully chosen by a committee of stakeholders across New Haven and the University, and the work is installed outside of MATCH, the Manufacturing and Community Technical Hub—a nonprofit that provides comprehensive manufacturing training, mentorship, wrap-around support, and jobs to the New Haven community. On a recent visit to MATCH, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro remarked on how the mural’s inherent creativity reflects the creativity of the organization housed inside.
The mural was first painted on parachute cloth at the Osborn Memorial Lab on Science Hill, where Martinez had a studio during her fellowship. With the help of mural coordinator, Irisol Gonzalez-Vega, Painting/Printmaking MFA ‘24, and mural assistants Kat Wiese, Painting/Printmaking MFA ‘24, Lobbin Liu, Graphic Design MFA ‘24, and Berkana McDowell, the design was painted September 1st through the 6th before the parachute cloth was transported to MATCH at 20 Mill Street in Fair Haven. On September 6th and 7th, the mural was affixed to the wall with the help of the mural coordinator and assistants, with the mural’s entire creation and installation taking place inside a week.
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
WELCOME TO OUR 2023-2024 POSTGRADUATE FELLOWS
This semester, the Yale School of Art is welcoming three MFA program alums back to New Haven as postgraduate fellows, through ongoing partnerships across campus:
Newly graduated alum of the Photography program, Natalie Ivis, MFA ‘23, is the '23-24 Postgraduate Fellow in Photography. Ivis is teaching an undergraduate course “Photographic Storytelling”—a course that introduces students to the various elements of photographic storytelling, artistic styles, and practices of successful visual narratives. Through Yale Pathways to Arts and Humanities, Ivis is continuing to work with high school students in New Haven throughout the '23-24 academic year. Part of which involves being a co-instructor for a six-month photography program, “The View From Here”, for high school students from greater New Haven organized by the Yale Center for British Art.
Another recent alum, Paloma Izquierdo, MFA '23, of the Sculpture program, will work in the Blended Reality Lab as the second SoA/CCAM Postgraduate Fellow—a role developed in collaboration with the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media. Izquierdo will be working with augmented reality, virtual reality, and machine learning as part of CCAM’s Blended Reality initiative which incubates new projects that layer real and virtual worlds.