Digital lab
The Digital Labs at the School of Art (http://art.yale.edu/DigLab) consists of Macintosh-based facilities for undergraduates and graduate students enrolled in the School. Each department has its own computer lab for graduate work, and there are undergraduate graphic design lab as well. For general course use there is a computer classroom with attached scanners and networked printers.
Painting and printmaking students have an Epson 7600 set up for digital printing and transparencies for printmaking processes. Sculpture students have both 3D printing, laser cutting and a color laser printer. Graphic design students can use laser printers for proofs, smaller work, and books, and HP Designjet wide-format printers for poster production. Photography students have an Imacon scanner for digitally scanning negatives and Epson 9800 printers for digital photo printing.
The graduate facilities include 11 x 17 scanners and additional equipment based on the needs of the students in the department, including laser printers, video editing stations, and slide scanners.
Digital projectors, cameras, displays, and other equipment are available for short-term loan. All students who work digitally are expected to have their own portable FireWire hard drive to store personal work.
All computer facilities are available to students twenty-four hours a day; departmental access is required for some labs. The labs are supported by digital technology team members and have individual student monitors as well.
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Center for Collaborative Arts and Media
The Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at 149 York Street is a multimedia facility that was created to establish connections between traditional art and the computer age. The center was conceived by and serves the several arts departments and institutions at Yale. Beyond providing classroom and laboratory facilities, the CCAM provides instruction and equipment that allow faculty and students in all arts disciplines to discover and create in the diverse fields of electronic media. Advanced technologies, staff expertise, and interdisciplinary approaches make the CCAM an ideal auxiliary for Yale’s arts community. ccam.yale.eduEditor details
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Ralph Mayer Learning Center
Through the generosity of the late Bena Mayer, a painter and the widow of Ralph Mayer, author of The Artist’s Handbook of Techniques and Materials, The Painter’s Craft, and A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, archives related to her husband’s research and writings have been given to the Yale School of Art for the establishment of the Ralph Mayer Learning Center. The purpose of the center is to support research and writing on the use of materials, and for the study of artists’ techniques in the field of drawing and painting.
Original Mayer manuscripts and memorabilia are included in the collection of the Haas Family Arts Library and are available on a non-circulating basis to members of the Yale community and the public.
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Yale University Art Gallery
The Yale University Art Gallery at 1111 Chapel Street is the oldest college art museum in the United States, having been founded in 1832 when the patriot-artist John Trumbull gave more than one hundred of his paintings to Yale College. Since then its collections have grown to more than 200,000 objects ranging in date from ancient times to the present.
In addition to its world-renowned collections of American paintings and decorative arts, the gallery is noted for outstanding collections of Greek and Roman art, including the artifacts excavated at the ancient Roman city of Dura-Europos; the Jarves, Griggs, and Rabinowitz collections of early Italian paintings; the Société Anonyme Collection of early-twentieth-century European and American art; Impressionist, modern, and contemporary works; Asian art; African art; art of the ancient Americas; and Indo-Pacific art.
The gallery is in the final phase of a comprehensive renovation and expansion that will transform the visitor experience of both the gallery and its collections. The project began with the restoration and renovation of the landmark 1953 Louis Kahn building, completed in 2006, and continues today with the renovation and restoration of the 1928 Old Yale Art Gallery, designed by Egerton Swartwout, and the 1866 Street Hall, designed by Peter Bonnett Wight. The current phase of construction will unite all three buildings into a cohesive whole opening in December 2012.
While focusing on its role as a center for scholarly research in the history of art and museum training for graduate and undergraduate students at Yale, the gallery also maintains an active schedule of public education programming. For more information, please visit artgallery.yale.edu.
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Yale Center for British Art
Presented to the University by Paul Mellon (Class of 1929), the Yale Center for British Art at 1080 Chapel Street houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. The collection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, rare books, and manuscripts reflects the development of British art, life, and thought from the Elizabethan period onward. On view are masterpieces by leading artists such as Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, Thomas Gainsborough, J. M. W. Turner, and John Constable, as well as major figures from Europe and America who lived and worked in Britain. British sporting art, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Camden Town School, and the Bloomsbury Group are also well represented, together with more recent twentieth-century artists.
One of the center’s greatest treasures is the building itself. Opened to the public in 1977, the Yale Center for British Art is the last building designed by internationally acclaimed American architect Louis I. Kahn. The structure integrates the dual functions of study center and gallery while providing an environment for works of art that is appropriately simple and dignified. It stands across the street from Kahn’s first major commission, the Yale University Art Gallery (1953).
The center offers a year-round schedule of exhibitions and educational programs, including films, concerts, lectures, tours, and special events. It also provides numerous opportunities for scholarly research, such as residential fellowships. Academic resources of the center include a reference library of 20,000 volumes, accessible on Orbis; a photo archive of 200,000 photographs, with a computerized index; a conservation laboratory; and a study room for examining prints, drawings, rare books, and manuscripts from the collection. An online catalogue at http://britishart.yale.edu allows users to search the center’s collections and the works in its Reference Library. In addition, high-resolution images of objects in the public domain can be downloaded free of charge.
An affiliated institution in London, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, awards grants and fellowships, publishes academic titles, and sponsors Yale’s first credit-granting undergraduate study abroad program, Yale-in-London.
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Libraries
The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, linking the ground floors of Rudolph Hall and the Loria Center at 180 and 190 York Street, serves as the primary collection for the study of art, architecture, and drama production at Yale. The collection, one of the most comprehensive in North America, holds approximately 125,000 volumes on art, architecture, painting, sculpture, graphic design, urban planning, and theater. It includes the Arts Special Collections, which has volumes on the book arts, fine printing, typography, and book illustration, as well as the Visual Resources Collection, whose Digital Library holds more than 300,000 images to support teaching and research across a range of disciplines in the arts and humanities. The Haas Family Arts Library contains important reference works, monographs, and exhibition catalogs; periodicals, including nearly 500 current subscriptions; and a growing suite of digital resources, including online periodicals, databases, and indexes. Sterling Memorial Library, Yale’s central research library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Classics Library at Phelps Gate also contain many volumes on art and architecture, as well as related collections in archaeology, anthropology, film, bibliography, history, and literature.
The Arts Library is part of the Yale University Library, one of the world’s leading research libraries, holding approximately 12.8 million volumes. To learn more, visit the library’s Web site at www.library.yale.edu/arts.
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