Open Studios 2023

[ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT | MARCH 22, 2023]

The Yale School of Art is excited to announce that its annual graduate open studios event is taking place in person in 2023, with work by participating artists also made available online.

April 15 & 16, 2023

12PM-6PM

1156 Chapel Street & 36 Edgewood Avenue, New Haven

Studios in the departments of Graphic Design, Painting and Printmaking, Photography, and Sculpture will be open to the public and are located across Yale’s campus in downtown New Haven.

> Pre-registration is encouraged, but day-of registration will also be available at the door. Register to attend here >

> All visitors are required to be fully vaccinated and boosted, and should be prepared to show proof of this if asked.

> Masks are strongly recommended and may be required in some spaces based on the University’s capacity and visitor policies.

Events—satellite projects, screenings, performances, and workshops—are also being hosted across the School of Art as part of Open Studios. The full schedule of community-led programming will be made available through the School of Art’s public events calendar and on the 2023 Open Studios website.

Online representation of work by participating MFA students will also be made available as part of a continued effort to expand the means through which students’ work and practice is accessible to the public as part of the annual open studios event.

The 2023 Open Studios website will launch ahead of the start of Open Studios weekend on the evening of Friday, April 14, 2023 at yaleart.org/openstudios.

The Yale School of Art is excited to host its annual graduate open studios event in person in 2023, with work by participating artists also made available online. Studios will be open to the public and are located across Yale’s campus in downtown New Haven.

All visitors are required to be fully vaccinated and boosted, and should be prepared to show proof of this if asked. Masks are strongly recommended and may be required in some spaces based on the University’s capacity and visitor policies.

The studios of participating MFA students and undergraduate art majors will be open to the public from 12–6pm on Saturday, April 15 and Sunday, April 16 in the departments of Graphic Design, Painting and Printmaking, Photography, and Sculpture.

Events—satellite projects, screenings, performances, and workshops—are also being hosted across the School of Art as part of Open Studios. The full schedule of community-led programming will be made available through the School of Art’s public events calendar and on the 2023 Open Studios website.

Online representation of work by participating MFA students and undergraduate art majors will also be made available as part of a continued effort to expand the means through which students’ work and practice is accessible to the public as part of the annual open studios event.

CREDITS

2023 Open Studios graphic identity created by Siri Lee, Graphic Design MFA ‘24, and Jisung Park, Graphic Design MFAs '23.

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

2023 Open Studios events are organized by members across the School of Art community and are listed below as:

> satellite events = happening during the 12-6PM hours of Open Studios but hosted outside of the main School of Art buildings at 1156 Chapel, 353/341 Crown, & 36/32 Edgewood

> scheduled events = taking place at scheduled times at the School of Art during Open Studios

> activated sites = exhibitions, installations, works-in-progress, and other projects across the School of Art buildings

> related events = events taking place during open studios weekend as collaborations or recommended community happenings

GRAPHIC DESIGN AT 1 BROADWAY

SATURDAY, APRIL 15 & SUNDAY, APRIL 16

12-6PM

1 BROADWAY, NEW HAVEN

MFA Students in Graphic Design are activating the site of a former Patagonia store at 1 Broadway in downtown New Haven with a series of window displays, video projections, sculptural works, publications, and more.

STUDIO WALKTHROUGHS: VICTORIA MARTINEZ, CLIMATE ENGAGEMENT FELLOW

SATURDAY, APRIL 15 & SUNDAY, APRIL 16

12-6PM

165 PROSPECT STREET, NEW HAVEN

Victoria Martinez, Painting/Printmaking MFA ‘20 and Climate Engagement Fellow for the Art in Cities Initiative, is hosting walkthroughs of her studio in Osborn Memorial Laboratories. See her recent works, including silk paintings and brick paintings, as well as a preliminary sketch of the mural design for her Climate Engagement through Art in Cities Fellowship.

PIEROGI CART

BY CLAIRE HUNGERFORD & BAXTER KOZIOL

SATURDAY, APRIL 15

2-3PM

COURTYARD IN FRONT OF 353 CROWN STREET

Grab free fried pierogi, kraut and special drinks made by Claire Hungerford, Graphic Design MFA ‘24, and Baxter Koziol, Sculpture MFA ‘24.

EXHIBITION WALKTHROUGH: THIS DESIGN IS VERY HUMAN

SATURDAY, APRIL 15

4PM

32 EDGEWOOD GALLERY

Featuring work by School of Art students Kaloyan Kolev, Michelle Li, Kate Johnson, Karela Palazio, Anna Zhang, Kevin Chen, Fatima Al-Kuwari, Theo France-Haggi, Jeewon Kim, Stephanie Wang, Sarah Teng, Aylin Alakbarli, Alice Mao, Chuye Chen (Juice), and Saskia Seraphima Globig.

BENT: A PERFORMANCE WITH GABRIELA RASSI

SATURDAY, APRIL 15

5:30-6PM

COURTYARD IN FRONT OF 353 CROWN STREET

Gabriela Rassi, Painting/Printmaking MFA ‘23, plays guitar, accompanied by William Bartholomew and Ziggy Coffey.

PRELIM MOTION DESIGN GREATEST HITS REEL

SUNDAY, APRIL 16

2PM & 3PM

1156 CHAPEL STREET, ROOM B03

Christopher Pullman, Senior Critic in Graphic Design, screens short curated video design solutions from recent MFA students in the Graphic Design Prelim program, as a way to explain the underlying objectives of the course, “Motion Design.”

FAIR GAME: PHOTOGRAPHY MFA THESIS EXHIBITION

SATURDAY, APRIL 15 & SUNDAY, APRIL 16

12-6PM

GREEN HALL GALLERY, 1156 CHAPEL STREET

Featuring work by 2023 MFA students in Photography Davion Alston, Hobbes Ginsberg, Arielle Gray, Natalie Ivis, Sydney Mieko King, Xi Li, Adrian Martinez Chavez, Miraj Patel, Shaun Pierson, and Sophie Schwartz.

THIS DESIGN IS VERY HUMAN

SATURDAY, APRIL 15 & SUNDAY, APRIL 16

12-6PM

32 EDGEWOOD GALLERY

An exhibition featuring work by School of Art students Kaloyan Kolev, Michelle Li, Kate Johnson, Karela Palazio, Anna Zhang, Kevin Chen, Fatima Al-Kuwari, Theo France-Haggi, Jeewon Kim, Stephanie Wang, Sarah Teng, Aylin Alakbarli, Alice Mao, Chuye Chen (Juice), and Saskia Seraphima Globig. Created as part of the course, “Interactive Design and the Internet: Software for People,” taught by Rosa McElheny, Graphic Design MFA ‘19.

THE POTLUCK

SATURDAY, APRIL 15 & SUNDAY, APRIL 16

12-6PM

341 CROWN STREET

This year’s undergraduate senior class is excited to put together a small exhibit showcasing works created in preparation for their thesis show. This multidisciplinary, collaborative experiment will include works by Catherine Webb, Charlie Gleberman, Diego Miró Rivera, Flores Espinosa, Hannah Neves, Marshall Barg, Mike Wang, Thais Shepard, and Rosa Chang.

COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY CANVAS: AN OPEN (STUDIOS) INVITATION, YEAR 2

SATURDAY, APRIL 15 & SUNDAY, APRIL 16

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 second year of the collaborative community canvas—open for anyone to draw on—as part of 2023 Open Studios. This year, we’re exploring ephemerality: using different materials as “canvas” and offering snippets from last year’s project for free, in a gesture of “leave a drawing, take a drawing.”

Hosted by the School of Art’s Assistant Director of Communications, Lindsey Mancini, as an extension of her art mapping project ArtAround. Free pens, stickers, and maps of public art in New Haven will also be available!

VIDEO ROOM

SATURDAY, APRIL 15 & SUNDAY, APRIL 16

12-6PM

36 EDGEWOOD AVE., ROOM 204

Video Room is an all-weekend screening of short experimental films by MFA students from all departments. The videos will be on a constant loop along and a list of works will be available.

Participants include Andrew Ordonez, Justin Allen, Yacine Tilala Fall, Shaun Pierson, Anat Keinan, Daedalus Li, Fatima Al-Kuwari, Jeewon Kim, Michael Cuadrado, Ricardo Galvan, Lauren Klotzman, Creighton Baxter, Avery Youngblood, Laura Camila Medina, Saski Globig, Marcelline Mandeng Nken, Garrett Allen, Darby Routtenberg, Adam Amram, Adrian Martinez, and Gabriela Rossi.

CRIT INSTALLATION-IN-PROGRESS: CAMILLA CARPER

SATURDAY, APRIL 15 & SUNDAY, APRIL 16

12-6PM

36 EDGEWOOD AVE., ROOM 406

MFA student in Sculpture, Camilla Carper, will be working on their upcoming critique presentation, screening their thesis film and building a viewing surface for the work. Visit the viewing surface in-progress through the weekend and view the film:

Intensive Care

video, 14 minutes 31 seconds, compilation of Jeff Rehg’s performances 1997- 2001 at the Sea Ranch Collective

ADULTS ONLY [BLACK DESIRES IN MOTION]. AN EVENING WITH DOM.

SATURDAY, APRIL 15

6-8PM

ARTSPACE, 50 ORANGE STREET, NEW HAVEN

Dominique Duroseau, 2023 MFA student in Sculpture at the Yale School of Art, will be in conversation with the audience about her practice. With work featured in Artspace’s current exhibition, [Voicings], Duroseau will be unpacking and discussing (from a personal lens) issues centered around the complexities of Black desires – how does one navigate certain spaces while negotiating one’s vulnerability, how we confront shame, racialized discriminations and fetishism, body negativity politics and the discomfort of desexualization while seeking and processing the normalcy of desires as a Black Person.

REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED AT 6PM

ARTIST CONVERSATION BEGINS AT 7PM

OPEN STUDIOS AT NXTHVN

SATURDAY, APRIL 15 & SUNDAY, APRIL 16

1-5PM

169 HENRY STREET, NEW HAVEN

NXTHVN is hosting their Open Studios this weekend too! Visit the studios of fellows, including MFA program alums Edgar Serrano MFA ‘10 and athena quispe MFA '22, for a glimpse of their work at NXTHVN.

Additional Programming:

Saturday, April 15, 2023

By Any Means Necessary: Art History Class by Processa

1PM–2PM

Butterfly Artmaking

1–5PM

Sunday, April 16, 2023

Exhibition Walkthrough: Not For Sale

2PM & 4PM

Scavenger Hunt

1PM–5PM