Yeju Choi, Andrew Walsh-Lister, and Alvin Ashiatey join Graphic Design in new full-time faculty appointments

The Yale School of Art is pleased to announce three new full-time faculty appointments in the area of graduate study in Graphic Design. Yeju Choi, Critic in Graphic Design since 2012 and 2009 MFA alum, joins as full-time Core Faculty; Andrew Walsh-Lister, 2012 alum in Graphic Design, has been appointed Critic; and Alvin Ashiatey, 2022 alum of the program and former fellow at the Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, has been appointed Lecturer.

About Yeju Choi

Yeju Choi is a designer, artist, and educator based in New York City. Her independent design practice Nowhere Office focuses on projects in civic, public, and cultural sectors. Working closely with artists, architects, planners, nonprofits, city agencies, and community organizations, she develops strategies and contents, and designs identity systems, publications, websites, environmental graphics, and exhibitions. She also creates site-specific, community-based, and socially engaged public art projects as Yeju & Chat, an interdisciplinary collaborative practice she founded with Chat Travieso in 2013.

Yeju has been teaching at Yale School of Art since 2012, courses including Exhibition Design, Core I Design Studio, and Introduction to Graphic Design. She has been a visiting critic, held workshops and lectures at MoMA, Columbia University, Cornell University, The New School, City College of New York, RISD, Rutgers University, and Seoul National University, among others, in graphic design and architecture/urban design departments. Her work has been recognized, published, and exhibited internationally by AIGA, Artplace, Type Directors Club, :Output award, Graphic, Typojanchi the International Typography Biennale, Gwangju Design Biennale, etc., and she received a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design in 2019. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Yeju received a B.F.A from Seoul National University and an M.F.A from Yale University where she received Norman Joondeph Prize and Phelps Berdan Award.

About Andrew Walsh-Lister

Andrew Walsh-Lister is a typographer, writer and curator based between the US and UK. He holds an MFA from Yale School of Art and is a current PhD candidate in Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art, London. Together with Matthew Stuart he co-edits the irregular journal / multifarious publishing platform Bricks from the Kiln, which was established in mid-2015. He has held a number of academic positions, including 2019–21 Designer-in-Residence at Virginia Commonwealth University, Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Chicago, Senior Lecturer at University of Brighton and Teaching Fellow at Winchester School of Art, and has also taught and delivered workshops at Goldsmiths University, Estonian Academy of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Oslo School of Architecture & Design, Cooper Union and ELISAVA Barcelona, among others. His practice and research has manifested in a range of talks, lecture-performances, exhibitions and events at institutions including MoMA PS1, Graham Foundation, The Most Beautiful Swiss Books, Mahler & LeWitt Studios London, ICA London, Wysing Arts Centre, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, abC Art Book Fair, Cafe OTO, Chicago Architecture Biennial and Brno International Biennial of Graphic Design. He has been awarded residencies at the Frans Masereel Centrum and Ox-Bow School of Art, and has works in permanent collections including the Little Magazines Collection at University College London, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Poetry Library in London.

About Alvin Ashiatey

Alvin Ashiatey is a designer from Tema, Ghana, now based in New Haven, Connecticut. He earned his BFA from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2015 and his MFA from Yale University in 2022. Alvin was the inaugural Blended Reality Postgraduate Fellow for both the Yale School of Art and the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media. He has also taught at Mason Gross and Rutgers University. Alvin’s work blends Ghanaian influences with a combination of technology.

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