MacArthur-winning painter Jordan Casteel ’14MFA talks about her portraits.

At her first New York solo show, in the year she graduated from art school, Jordan Casteel ’14MFA presented a series of startling portraits. The subjects were former Yale classmates, all of them Black men. Drawn from tradition but defying expectations, the lushly painted figures are intimate and vulnerable, gazing at the viewer from their living rooms and bedrooms. The title was …

Contemporary Crossroads III

About this Event Join Yale alumni and friends for an engaging afternoon with world class alumni and specialists in the Arts as we get an in-depth look into the contemporary arts scene during the internationally acclaimed Art Miami. Whether you are a seasoned collector, avid art enthusiast, practitioner, or just beginning your artistic journey, this event is for you. The …

Jessica Wynne ’99 Featured in NYT

Jessica Wynne ’99 was featured in a NYT article, “Where Theory Meets Chalk, Dust Flies,” a photography showcase of mathematicians’ work on blackboards. “I am attracted to the timeless beauty and physicality of the mathematicians’ chalkboard, and to their higher aspiration to uncover the truth and solve a problem,” Ms. Wynne said in an email. “Their imagination guides them and …

Photographs by Ronghui Chen MFA’21 featured in NYT Magazine

In the article, “Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans,” in the New York Times Magazine, Ronghui Chen’s MFA’21 photography was featured. Throughout the long-form article, Chen’s photography illuminated the students whose lives’ were being discussed in visual form. The article is a very fascinating read, and the photos humanize those who are interviewed and discussed. Read the article here.

William T. Williams Receives the 2018 Pratt Institute Legends Award

William T. Williams MFA’68 was nominated and won the 2018 Pratt Institute Legends Award. Williams graduated from the Pratt Institute in 1966 and soon continued his educational journey at Yale for the next two years. Williams, as an influential figurative painter, said he received inspiration from Richard Bove and that solidified his philosophical perspective as seen in his works: a …

Martin Puryear MFA’71 to Represent the US at the 2019 Venice Biennale

Martin Puryear MFA’71 will represent the US at the 2019 Venice Biennale. The acclaimed sculptor will construct a new site-specific work for the pavilion, opening next spring. The exhibition will also include outreach to under-served youth, overseen by New York’s Studio in a School and the Istituto Santa Maria Della Pietà in Venice, according to the New York Times. Puryear is the second African American …

American Museum of Fly Fishing to honor James Prosek with Izaak Walton Award

American Museum of Fly Fishing to honor James Prosek with Izaak Walton Award   The American Museum of Fly Fishing will be honoring Yalie James Prosek ’97 with the 2016 Izaak Walton Award. Prosek is recognized for being a influential wildlife artist and author.  An awards celebration will be held in October in New York City for more info click here. …

YASC in Yamoransa | John Boak ’70 Paints Murals

John Boak '70

Image Above: John Boak ’70 with painter Clementina and her twin sisters   The Yale Alumni Service Corps (YASC) returned to their adopted village of Yamoransa, Ghana for their fourth trip. John Boak ’70 went along this time charged with a mission to paint murals in two of the rooms of the building (the Information Communications & Technology Center) that YASC …

Maginty ’93 & Jules ’99 Design for “Women in Abstract Expressionism”

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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 …

Marta Kuzma Named Dean of Yale School of Art

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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 …