At the end of March, Pauli Murray College unveiled a mosaic mural by Mickalene Thomas MFA ’02, that, as Tina Lu, head of Pauli Murray College put it would be “monumental,” “enduring,” and “challenging.” Made with thousands of varying-sized enamel tiles, the mural features a giant black-and-white image of a smiling Pauli Murray as a young adult, gazing out toward …

Recently, Alteronce Gumby MFA ’16 was interviewed by Ashley Tiner at Vice’s I-D on the cosmic influence on his work. Tiner describes how, “Alteronce pushes colour theory into a liberatory space — troubling colour’s use as a tool to interpret human value, and instead using it to transport us past social structures into subconscious territories.” We radicalize color for our own intention. …

The New York Times Style Magazine recently featured an article, What Does It Mean to Be a Young, Black Queer Artist Right Now? , which centered around a photo and video shoot that Shikeith MFA ’18 organized and shot. On the project, Shikeith says, I pitched this idea in May 2021, [after] the 30th anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s “Tongues Untied.” …

Recently The Cut‘s Art and Soul writer Anna Furman interviewed Christina Quarles MFA ’16 about “becoming a mother, measuring success in the art market, and traveling around Europe with her unconventional queer family.” Quarles, best known for her fantastical and prismatic paintings with impossibly contortioning racially ambiguous characters, has quickly risen to fame after debuting at the 2022 Venice Biennale …

Howardena Pindell ’67 MFA is among the artists featured in the MOMA’s exhibition, Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces, which runs through February 18, 2023. As New York Times reporter,  Aruna D’Souza notes that the exhibition honors JAM, a gallery space “founded by the artist and social activist Linda Goode Bryant in 1974 at 50 West 57th Street. Over the next 12 years …

YAAL would like to kick off the new year honoring 3 Yale MFAs included in Artsy‘s “10 MFA Grads on the Rise in 2022.” Rachael Anderson MFA ’22, Bhasha Chakrabarti MFA ’22, and athena quispe MFA ’22. Read more at the Artsy article here. Photo Credit: Portrait of Bhasha Chakrabarti by Merik Goma. Courtesy of Bhasha Chakrabarti.

Recently, Lucy Ives profiled Do Ho Suh MFA ’97, whose fabric sculptures conserve the texture of everyday life. Ives writes: “Suh’s art is often described as a response to globalization… Suh was born in Seoul in 1962 and came to the US to study at the Rhode Island School of Design, where his work in fabric architecture was a way …

Danielle De Jesus MFA ’21 was the 2022 Beecher Residency Inaugural resident at Stillman House in Litchfield, Connecticut. She spoke with ArtNet about her experience. Read more at this ArtNet article! Photo Credits: Danielle De Jesus at the Beecher Residency. Photo courtesy of the artist.

From September 9 to October 28, 2022, you can view Chiffon Thomas MFA ’20 on display at the PPOW gallery in New York City. Thomas’s exhibition, Staircase to the Rose Window, was reviewed in the New Yorker by Johanna Fateman, who described the multidisciplinary artist’s work as “breathtaking”: “Thomas’s alchemical, history-laden work stands, in part, as a metaphor for trans …

“Grace is the condition of being blessed. It also describes a certain effortless movement: it is meant to come to us with ease. But for his debut exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery, multidisciplinary artist Shikeith MFA’ 18 warns us via the show’s title that for Black queer people, “grace comes violently.” The gentle yet tense photographs, sculptures, and five-channel video-cum-sculpture …