Rita Jules ‘99 and Miko McGinty ’93 designed the catalog for the exhibition “Women in Abstract Expressionism, organized by the Denver Art Museum, opening on June 12, 2016. The lead designer for the book is Rita Jules. The catalog is published by the Yale University Press. The groundbreaking exhibition Women of Abstract Expressionism will celebrate the often unknown female artists of this mid-twentieth-century art …
Margot McMahon ’84mfa | Oak Park Art League’s ARTifact
This July we celebrate ”Artifact” an Oak Park Art League Invitational. Margot McMahon ’84 MFA, will sculpt as her nonviolence statement a young Hemingway at the time he wrote his legendary novel “A Farewell to Arms”, around a Coronoa 3 typwriter. Her sculpted portrait is focused around an Oak Park ARTifact, a similar typewriter to Hemingway’s loaned by Peritz Brothers …
Marta Kuzma Named Dean of Yale School of Art
February 9 2016 Marta Kuzma, vice chancellor and rector of the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Sweden, will be the next dean of the Yale School of Art, announced President Peter Salovey Feb. 9 in a message to the Yale community. Kuzma will be the first woman to lead the School of Art, which opened in 1869 as the …
Capabilities
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Words & Cello
Two multidisciplinary artists come together for one night of poetry and music. The poet, novelist, and playwright Aram Saroyan has been widely regarded for his minimalist poetry, and immunobiologist and cellist Georgia Lill moves from the laboratory to the recording studio with ease. Saroyan, the author of Made in L.A. 2016’s subtitle—a, the, though, only— reads a selection of his …
Conversations
Kenneth Tam’s recent videos are the outgrowth of encounters between strangers, developed with participants the artist has met through online social forums. In these scenarios, barriers of intimacy become unhinged and vulnerabilities are shared through various activities that are performed in the presence of a camera, which acts as a conduit between an anonymous interior space and the outside world. …
America after the Fall
What is American art? That is a question the country’s artists asked and answered in myriad ways during the decade spanning the economic crash of 1929 through America’s entry into World War II. With economic downturn at home and the rising threat of fascism abroad, artists of the time applied their individualized visions of the nation to rethinking modernism. This …
Made Visible
In honor of our Chicago-based alumni artists, join us Tuesday, April 26th as we celebrate diversity in the arts. Mix and mingle before and after the lecture given by Yale University Art Gallery Curator, Pamela Franks.