Open Studios 2022

[ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT | April 7, 2022]

The Yale School of Art is excited to announce that its annual graduate open studios event is taking place both in person and online in 2022. Studios will be open to the public and are located across three buildings on Yale’s campus in downtown New Haven. Open Studios 2022 marks the first time that the doors of the School of Art buildings will be open to the public since the beginning of the COVID pandemic in March 2020. 

The physical studios of participating MFA students will be open to the public from 12PM to 6PM on Saturday, April 9 and Sunday, April 10 in the departments of Graphic Design, Painting and Printmaking, Photography, and Sculpture. Pre-registration is encouraged, but day-of registration will also be available at the door. Masks must be worn by everyone in indoor spaces within School of Art buildings, in compliance with Yale University’s masking guidelines. Proof of vaccination (including boosters) is also required for all members of the public and will be checked upon entry.

Events—screenings, performances, and workshops—are also being hosted across the School of Art as part of Open Studios, many of which will be streamed live online by the School of Art. The full schedule of events will be made available through the School of Art’s public events calendar and on the 2022 Open Studios website.

Virtual studios are also being created in collaboration with participating MFA students, through which work will be presented online in an effort to expand the means through which MFA students’ work and practice is made available to the public as part of the annual open studios event. The virtual studios will be accessible with the launch of the 2022 Open Studios website at 12AM on Saturday April 9 at yaleart.org/openstudios.
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COVID Safety Rules at 2022 Open Studios:

Masks must be worn by everyone in indoor spaces within School of Art buildings, in compliance with Yale University’s masking guidelines. Proof of vaccination (including boosters) is required for all members of the public and will be checked upon entry.

The Yale School of Art is excited to host its annual graduate open studios event both in person and online in 2022. Studios will be open to the public and are located across three buildings on Yale’s campus in downtown New Haven. Open Studios 2022 marks the first time that the doors of the School of Art buildings will be open to the public since the beginning of the COVID pandemic in March 2020.

The physical studios of participating MFA students will be open to the public from 12PM to 6PM on Saturday, April 9 and Sunday, April 10 in the departments of Graphic Design, Painting and Printmaking, Photography, and Sculpture. Pre-registration is encouraged, but day-of registration will also be available at the door. Masks must be worn by everyone in indoor spaces within School of Art buildings, in compliance with Yale University’s masking guidelines. Proof of vaccination (including boosters) is also required for all members of the public and will be checked upon entry.

Events—screenings, performances, and workshops—are also being hosted across the School of Art as part of Open Studios. The full schedule of events will be made available through the School of Art’s public events calendar and on the 2022 Open Studios website.

Virtual studios are also being created in collaboration with participating MFA students, through which work will be presented online in an effort to expand the means through which MFA students’ work and practice is made available to the public as part of the annual open studios event.

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CREDITS

2022 Open Studios graphic identity created by Rok Hudobivnik and Ana Lobo, Graphic Design MFAs ‘22.

Production, digital strategy, and content management by Assistant Dean for Communications and Digital Media, Sarah Stevens-Morling, and Assistant Director of Communications Lindsey Mancini.

The Yale School of Art will be hosting a number of events over the course of our 2022 Open Studios weekend. Meet artists in their studios, see works-in-progress, and join us for screenings, workshops, & more.

THE VIDEO ROOM: YALE MFA SCREENINGS

SATURDAY, APRIL 9 & SUNDAY, APRIL 10

12-6PM

36 EDGEWOOD AVE., ROOM 204

Join us on Saturday & Sunday in 36 Edgewood, Room 204, for an all-weekend screening of MFA student video work. The videos will be on loop throughout Open Studios and a list of works will be available in the space. Short experimental and narrative films are represented from all departments.

COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY CANVAS: AN OPEN (STUDIOS) INVITATION

SATURDAY, APRIL 9 & SUNDAY, APRIL 10

12-6PM

COURTYARD IN FRONT OF 353 CROWN STREET

Join us in the courtyard between 1156 Chapel Street and 353 Crown Street to contribute to a collaborative community canvas—open for anyone to draw on—as part of Open Studios 2022. Hosted by the School of Art’s Assistant Director of Communications, Lindsey Mancini, as part of her art mapping project ArtAround.

Members of the public are invited to leave marks, traces, and memories on the collaborative canvas space provided with the paint pens made available, and grab goodie bags (for the first 25 attendees each day), as well as maps of public art in New Haven and a creativity catalyst guide to take home.

LARGE-SCALE INSTALLATION-IN-PROGRESS: ANAT KEINAN

ACTIVATED SITE, 36 EDGEWOOD AVE., ROOM 307

MFA student in Sculpture, Anat Keinan will be working on their upcoming critique presentation, installing a large-scale installation at the open space near their studio at 36 Edgewood Ave., Room 307. People are welcome to visit the artist as she installs this new work during the days of Open Studios.

PIT INSTALLATION-IN-PROGRESS: ERICK ALEJANDRO HERNANDEZ

ACTIVATED SITE, 353 CROWN ST., PIT

MFA student in Painting/Printmaking, Erick Alejandro Hernandez, will be working on their upcoming critique presentation, installing work for their crit next week in the open exhibition area known as “the Pit” on the basement floor of 353 Crown Street. People are welcome to visit the artist as he installs new work during the days of Open Studios.

NO WHITE WALLS OPENING RECEPTION

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

5-6PM

32 EDGEWOOD AVE.

EXHIBITION WEBSITE >

No White Walls is the inaugural Yale School of Art Annual exhibition curated by graduate students which seeks to engage themes of collectivity and challenge the established history of the exhibition space in Western museums and galleries—a history dominated by the white cube formula. As such, this exhibition will focus on artworks that stand free from the walls and incorporate sonic, tactile, and/or olfactory elements. Drawing from the lineage of Rasquache art, the Tropicalia movement, Auto-construcción, and other decolonial approaches to art making, this exhibition will attempt to disrupt the legacy of an educational model influenced by the commercial expectations facing MFA students today. The curators of the exhibition aim to identify, engage, and uplift MFA practitioners within the Northeast region that are not solely invested in producing objects intended for a particular market or economic exchange. Through this refusal to engage in a market that capitalizes on the exploitation of MFA students, the exhibition will provide an alternative and temporary platform to practitioners that move beyond siloed forms of knowledge keeping.

Opening Reception: April 9, 5pm at E.I.K., 32 Edgewood Gallery

Featuring artworks by Bhen Alan, Julie Chen, Bridget DeFranco, Daniel Fethke Pravit, Rigo Flores, Daniela Gomez Paz, Jacq Groves, Scott Lerner, Anna Ting Möller, Tess Oldfield, just practice (Sophie Weston Chien and Amanda Ugorji), and London Williams.

No White Walls is curated and conceptualized by MFA students Salvador Andrade, Zoila Coc-Chang, Miguel Gaydosh, athena quispe, Mike Tully, and Amartya De.

OPEN STUDIOS RADIO

SUNDAY, APRIL 10 BEGINNING AT 12PM

A project by the 2022 Open Studios graphic identity designers, Rok Hudobivnik and Ana Lobo, Graphic Design MFAs ‘22.

A GUIDED VISUALIZATION WORKSHOP

SUNDAY, APRIL 10

12-2PM

1156 CHAPEL STREET, GRAPHIC DESIGN ATRIUM

A workshop hosted by Paul Bille, Graphic Design MFA ’23, and Amsterdam-based designer Lukas Engelhardt, “A Guided Visualization” investigates the agency we have over the physical and digital workspaces that we inhabit, informed by how we utilize the tool of the server—not only as a technical but also as an aleatory device to talk about the technological sovereignty of designers.

Through this workshop, Bille and Engelhardt invite participants to think about the virtual and spatial conditions that shape their workspaces.

PERFORMANCE: MAYA PERRY

SUNDAY, APRIL 10

5:20-6PM

353 CROWN STREET, ROOM 116

Maya Perry, Painting/Printmaking MFA 23, will play a set of experimental improvised sounds using instruments/voice into a string of guitar pedals and a looper.