New Post-Grad Fellowship Project, in Collaboration with The Hundreds

The Yale School of Art is pleased to share the results of a new SoA post-grad fellowship project, developed in collaboration with the community-based streetwear brand, The Hundreds. Three students from our MFA class of 2021, each representing a different area of graduate study, were commissioned to create work specifically for the mass-produced medium, tote bag.

A further expansion of how we understand and engage with the idea of “exhibition” in a post- and still-COVID world, the project allows for these alum’s work to be made available through limited edition tote bags, the sales of which go back into the SoA ecosystem these students just emerged from, supporting the School of Art.

Learn more about the featured artists and the ideas underlying their designs, below:

Emma Safir, Painting/Printmaking MFA ‘21

“To be let in, or to keep out—chainlink is ubiquitous. This is a soft interpretation of how chainlink "pixelates” space, dividing image and place.“

Furqan Jawed, Graphic Design MFA ‘21

"My design for the tote bag uses the word “Insert” and its various synonyms as a textual exploration of the act of insertion in a tote bag and elsewhere. The text is set in ‘Anal Neue Display’, a typeface I created from the graphic forms of buttplugs and anal beads.”

Mickey Aloisio, Photography MFA ‘21

“During the course of 2020, I spent a lot of time at highway rest stops. With no place to go, I would drive 15 minutes south and suddenly I’d find myself in a sort of twilight zone. The rest stop is never anyone’s destination, it is only ever meant to be a stop on the way to somewhere else. It’s because of this, that I was able to achieve a sense of transience while remaining safely sedentary. This tote bag comes from that place. It is a concealed story of an orchestrated love found between the headers and barcodes of loose receipts.”