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Yale School of Art
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New Haven, Connecticut, 06520-8339

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As an integral component within the Art and Social Justice Initiative, Yale School of Art partnered with the Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall in 2018 to create an annual summer art program for incarcerated students at the Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire, CT, with courses and extra-curricular workshops led by recent MFA graduates.

In Spring of 2018, the inaugural teaching fellowships for the program were awarded by the School of Art and YPEI at Dwight Hall to five graduates to support instruction in the following two summer courses, as well as two extracurricular workshops developed by recent MFA graduates, which together constitute this first iteration of the program during the summer of 2018.

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  • General Info
  • As part of the Art & Social Justice Initiative, the Yale School of Art offers MFA graduates the opportunity to teach at a Connecticut correctional facility through the Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall and Yale Summer Session.
  • Course meetings
  • 2-3 seminar meetings per week (3 hours per session over a five week period; with the possibility of evening classes.) Instructors will be asked to make themselves regularly available for on-site office hours. Instructors should plan on being in New Haven or at site of instruction Mondays through Fridays.
  • Compensation
  • The Yale School of Art teaching fellowship will provide the instructors a fellowship award of $8,900 (US).
  • Courses available for YPEI Teaching Fellows to lead:
  • Art S111: Visual Thinking
  • An introduction to the language of visual expression, using studio projects to explore the fundamental principles of visual art.
  • Art S115: Basic Drawing
  • An introduction to drawing, emphasizing pictorial syntax and the articulation of space.
  • Art S130: Painting Basics
  • An introduction to basic painting issues, stressing a beginning command of the conventions of pictorial space and the language of color.
  • Art S138: Introduction to Digital Photography
  • Exploration of the transition of photographic processes and techniques into digital formats.
  • ART S167: Intro to Interactive Design
  • Interactive design explored through the development of projects that are based online.

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Grant Czuj, Painting/Printmaking MFA ‘22

Alex Puz, Painting/Printmaking MFA '22

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Anezka Minarikova, Graphic Design MFA ‘21

Bianca Ibarlucea, Graphic Design MFA '21

co-taught a course

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The Summer 2020 iteration of the YPEI Teaching Fellowship was cancelled due to COVID-19.

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2020 Program Panel

Friday, November 15, 2019

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

EIK, 32 Edgewood Avenue

The Yale School of Art hosts a panel of MFA graduates who were selected as Instructors during the first two iterations of the Yale School of Art/Yale Prison Education Initiative Partnership in the summers of 2018 and 2019: Ernest Bryant (Painting/Printmaking ‘18), Clare Kambhu (Painting/Printmaking ‘18), Julia Rooney (Painting/Printmaking '18), and Suzanna Zak (Sculpture ’19). Diego Palacios (Sculpture ’19), who served as an instructor during the Summer 2019 program year, will be participating in the panel discussion remotely through online video conferencing.

Also participating in the lunchtime discussion will be Zelda Roland, Founding Director of the Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall, and Yale School of Art Dean Marta Kuzma, in a reflection on the visual art program for incarcerated students at the Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire and the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield.

Free and open to the public.

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Suzanna Zak, Sculpture MFA ‘19

Diego Palacios, Sculpture MFA '19

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This is a still black-and-white poster announcing the Yale School of Art / Yale Prison Education Partnership Panel on September 24, 2018 at 6PM. The event took place at Yale School of Art's EIK building at 32 Edgewood Ave.This is a still black-and-white poster announcing the Yale School of Art / Yale Prison Education Partnership Panel on September 24, 2018 at 6PM. The event took place at Yale School of Art's EIK building at 32 Edgewood Ave.

Yale School of Art / Yale Prison Education Initiative Partnership Panel

On September 24, the Yale School of Art will host a panel of the 2018 MFA graduates who had been selected as the inaugural teaching fellows this past summer: Ernest Bryant (Painting/Printmaking ‘18), Clare Kambhu (Painting/Printmaking '18), Julia Rooney (Painting/Printmaking '18), Danny Ginsburg (Painting/Printmaking '18), and Nate Pyper (Graphic Design ‘18).

Also participating in the evening’s discussion will be Zelda Roland, Founding Director of the Yale Prison Education Initiative and Daniel Karpowitz, Director of Policy and National Programs at the Bard Prison Initiative, in a reflection on the inaugural visual art program for incarcerated students at the Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire, CT.

Moderating the event will be Dean Marta Kuzma, and Ayham Ghraowi, Assistant Dean for Research and Public Projects.

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Ernest Bryant, Painting/Printmaking MFA ‘18 Basic Drawing Course

Clare Kambhu and Julia Rooney, Painting/Printmaking MFA '18 Painting Basics Course

Daniel Ginsburg, Painting & Printmaking MFA '18 Materials Workshop

Nate Pyper, Graphic Design MFA '18 Publications Workshop

Taught at Manson Youth Institution Cheshire, CT

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2018 Program Information

  • Summer 2018 Yale School of Art courses were offered at Manson Youth Institution. The program will continue for Summer 2019 and be expanded to include a new course taught at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution for adults.
  • Manson Youth Institution (Summer ’18 and Summer ’19)
  • – Located in Cheshire, CT.
  • – Only state prison that houses juvenile offenders who have been sentenced as adults; also houses young adult offenders under the age of 22.
  • MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution (Summer ‘19)
  • – Located in Suffield, CT.
  • – Age range: 24-48 years old.
  • – Largest prison in New England; currently YPEI is only liberal arts college credit-granting program offered to incarcerated students there.
  • Summer 2018 Participation
  • – 20 students applied to participate in the Yale School of Art Curriculum (Facility count: ~500)
  • – In 2018, 10 students total enrolled in our courses, with ages ranging from 18-21 years old.
  • – Although only 10 students enrolled, up to 12 students at a time attended the courses and workshops in 2018, and there were approximately 20 total students who participated in some part of the program.
  • Two five-week courses at Manson Youth Institution offered, in sequence in 2018:
  • – YSS A: Art S115: Basic Drawing (Ernest A. Bryant III, Painting/Printmaking MFA ’18)

  • Studio Time 2x a week

  • – YSS B: Art S130: Painting Basics (Clare Kambhu/Julia Rooney, Painting/Printmaking MFA ’18)

  • Studio Time 2x a week

  • – Two extra-curricular workshops:
    1. Zine Production (Nate Pyper, Graphic Design MFA ’18)

  • One Session

    1. Painting Materials (Danny Ginsburg, Painting/Printmaking MFA ’18)

  • Three Sessions

  • Download this information as a PDF here

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Background image: Documentation of the Yale School of Art / Yale Prison Education Initiative Partnership Panel, September 24, 2018. Photo by Sara Abbaspour, Photography MFA ‘19.

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