Tschabalala Self MFA ’15 recently painted an image of Nicki Minaj for the December 2023 digital cover of Vogue. On the collaboration, Vogue writes, “when we asked Tschabalala to do a portrait of Nicki for Vogue’s December digital cover—using photographer Norman Jean Roy’s cover shoot [of the print edition] as a starting point—she was surprised and electrified by the idea, and maybe just …

Jordan Casteel MFA ’14 was featured on Time‘s top 100 people list of 2022. Read what Time writes about Casteel: “Jordan Casteel’s portraits invite us to meet their gaze. The artist is best known for detailed oil paintings that find subjects in her New York City community—usually African Americans, always people of color—staring out at the viewer, their expressions confident but …