Mickalene Thomas MFA ’02 created the backdrop stage design for Dior’s 2023 Paris Fashion Week show. ArtNews’ Angelica Villa writes, “Mounted on the walls surrounding the museum’s runway floor were collaged black and white images of 13 Black female performers, Josephine Baker, Diahann Carroll, Marpessa Dawn, Lena Horne, and Nina Simone being among them. Their images, which were overlaid with …
March 23-April 27th: Henry Finkelstein MFA ’83: Paintings
From March 23 to April 27th, 2024, head over to Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas to see the work of Henry Finkelstein MFA ’83. Of the exhibition, Finkelstein says, “These are paintings I did mostly in France over the last two years; first in the town of Sainte-Alvère in the Périgord, and more recently in Northern Brittany near Pommerit-le-Vicomte. …
April 5-July 27, 2024 Suzanne Chamlin MFA’89: Studies in Color
From April 5 to July 27th, head over to Fairfield University’s Bellarmine Hall Galleries to see the recent work of Suzanne Chamlin MFA ’89. On April 4th, the exhibit’s opening night, hear a lecture from Chamlin herself. From the exhibit’s website: “In this exhibition of recent work, Chamlin explores ideas about color theory and light through a series of landscape …
Melinda Blauvelt MFA ’73 Photography Featured in Brantville
Recently, Blind Magazine‘s Max Hirschfield wrote a feature on Melinda Blauvelt MFA ’73 and the 2023 Brantville, which includes photos Blauvelt took in Brantville, New Brunswick in the summer of 1972. Blauvelt, the first woman graduate of Yale’s MFA photography program, trained under the renowned rural chronicler Walker Evans, the legacy of which you can see in the photos included …