Resources for Current Art Majors

Yale Undergraduate Production’s full list of Build and Paint Spaces

Paint Spaces

TSAI CITY

Space/Location: The Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale’s main office and their paint space can be found on the third floor of 254 Elm Street. TSAI CITY is focused on creating an interdisciplinary learning environment that cultivates innovators, leaders, creators, and entrepreneurs in all fields and for all sectors of society.

Availability/Reservations/Policies: TSAI CITY is open to the entire Yale community. For more information regarding the center or to contact the staff, visit city.yale.edu.

Timothy Dwight Art Room

Space/Location: The Timothy Dwight Art Room is located in Timothy Dwight College.

Availability/Reservations/Policies: Timothy Dwight Art Room is a resource for students in Timothy Dwight. Please contact the Timothy Dwight Head of College’s Office for more information.

Silliman Art Studio

Space/Location: The Silliman Art Studio is located in the basement of Silliman College.

Availability/Reservations/Policies: The Silliman Art Studio is a resource for students in Silliman College. Please contact the Silliman Head of College’s Office for more information.

Hopper Art Room

Space/Location: The Hopper Art Room is located in Hopper College.

Availability/Reservations/Policies: The Hopper Art Room is a resource for students in Hopper College. Please contact the Hopper Head of College’s Office for more information.

Morse Art Room

Space/Location: The Morse Art Room is located in Morse College.

Availability/Reservations/Policies: The Morse Art Room is a resource for students in Morse College. Please contact the Morse Head of College’s Office for more information.

Build and Assembly Spaces

Dramat Shop

Space/Location: This moderate sized woodworking shop in the basement of the University Theater is equpped with both hand tools and bench power tools for working with wood. The shop may also be used as a paint area.

Availability/Reservations/Policies: This shop is prioritized for use by the Dramat. Use of the shop by other groups, possible only when the Dramat is not in production, must be pre-approved by the Dramat and by Undergraduate Production. The shop may be used as a paint space or as a build and assembly space. Specific training and supervision is required for operating power tools in the shop. Please discuss this option with your UP advisor first.

Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID)

Space/Location: The Center, located on the first floor of the Becton Engineering Center, features multiple spaces in one: a lecture area and meeting rooms for the exploration of new ideas, machine shops, a wet lab, and a studio for the creation of physical prototypes.

Availability/Reservations/Policies: CEID membership is a prerequisite for use of the spaces and shop. Specific training and supervision is required for operating some of the tools in the shop. Visit the CEID website for more information about CEID membership and the CEID Code of Conduct. CEID staff may exclude any activities that do not support the Center’s mission and values.

Whitney Theater

Space/Location: Located at the Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), the Whitney Theater is primarily a black box theater reserved for Theater Studies programming. However, it is also equipped for supervised construction and paint work.

Availability/Reservations/Policies: Any use of this space must be requested and confirmed through the Theater Studies Department technical director and production manager.

Berkeley Wood Shop

Space/Location: This woodworking shop is located in the basement of Berkeley College.

Availability/Reservations/Policies: The Berkeley Wood Shop is available to Berkeley students for small scale projects. The shop is usually staffed from 9a-4p on Saturdays during the school year. Please contact the Berkeley Head of College’s Office for more information.

School of Art

Space/Location: Located at 36 Edgewood Ave. and offers full woodworking and metalworking capabilities.

Availability/Reservations/Policies: Students must sign up for and complete a training session before granted access. The shops are open to School of Art Graduate students, Undergraduates currently enrolled in a Sculpture course, and Undergraduate Art majors.

School of Architecture

Space/Location: The School of Architecture owns some large fabrication and prototyping equipment located in Rudolph Hall.

Availability/Reservations/Policies: All School of Architecture equipment is reserved for students taking courses through the School of Architecture.

Also see here for:

On-Campus Performance Venues
Off Campus Performance Venues
Rehearsal Spaces
Build and Paint Spaces
Gallery Spaces
Music Production Facilities
Film Screening Venues

Resources to Address Art Course Costs • General

Many students on financial aid have available funds at the beginning of the year, but they must take initiative to access these funds. Students may email scott.wallace-juedes@yale.edu in Financial Aid for advice on what funds they may have which could be applied toward these costs.

• Art Course Fees

Many Art courses carry a course fee. Course fees are listed in the course descriptions at https://courses.yale.edu/

Creative and Performing Arts funds may NOT be used to cover course fees. o The university considers art course fees in the same category as textbook costs in other fields. These costs are considered when Yale calculates a student’s financial aid.

This is a curricular expense and low-income students may apply for safety net assistance. Not all students will receive assistance, but these applications help document how many students are affected by these fees.

• Art Course materials

In some cases, there are costs above and beyond the course fee, including materials costs.

Students who are interested in exhibiting their course work at the end of the semester in a college gallery may apply for Creative and Performing Arts Awards (CPA) to cover materials costs associated with an art course. CPA awards are only available to support work to be exhibited. Most CPA application requests are granted.

Low-income students who do not wish to exhibit their work may apply for safety net assistance. Not all students will receive assistance, but these applications help document how many students are affected by these fees.

• Cameras for Photography Courses

Students may consider borrowing a family member’s or friend’s camera for the semester.

Students sometimes have luck finding used cameras to purchase 2nd hand for a fraction of the cost of a new camera.

The Yale College Arts office maintains 4 digital camera packages to be checked out on semester-long loan for students on financial aid who are not able to secure a camera through other channels. Students should contact daisy.abreu@yale.edu to access these cameras.

Yale College Arts maintains 7 analog cameras at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM). Students may check them out via the CCAM online reservations system. Students enrolled in a photography course requiring such a camera may check them out for the entire semester.

Intermediate and Advanced photography courses also carry camera requirements, and, for this smaller group of more advanced photographers, cameras are available for loan from the School of Art.

Creative and Performing Arts Awards and Safety Net funds are NOT available to support camera purchases.

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Gallery Spaces for undergraduate visual art projects is available within many of the residential colleges and cultural centers. Most of the college spaces are prioritized for use by students in that college. Students should plan to display their project in the gallery in their own college if possible. In these cases, the galleries are allocated through the Creative and Performing Arts award process.

Be sure to review the details at link and contact the appropriate office for more information or to reserve a space. When a student is applying for a gallery space in a college other than in the funding college, the student should contact the gallery’s Head of College’s office directly.

If you are interested in purchasing custom frames, some options are listed on our Vendors page.

To more effectively disseminate valuable information regarding the major, there is an informal peer mentoring system. Peer mentors meet with prospective and current majors to provide advice and information regarding art. They can answer questions about what it’s like to major in art, what classes you may wish to take in the major, how you find a research opportunity, and so on. They may also hold community-building events in the major, which will be publicized accordingly.
Please note that peer mentors may not sign schedules or any other official Yale College forms for you. Please contact any one of them with your questions about the major. Invite them to a meal. Attend their events. Learn more about studying art at Yale.

2019-20 peer mentors are:

Chase Westover chase.westover at yale.edu sculpture

Eleni Christakis eleni.christakis at yale.edu painting

Itai Almor itai.almor at yale.edu CPAR

Christina Carrafiel christinacarrafiel at gmail.com painting

Sol Thompson sol.thompson at yale.edu photography

Please see your Head of College office to ask about funding within your residential college to support summer research and opportunities. Deadline: Varies, inquire in early Winter.

These include:

For all undergraduates: Paul K. and Evelyn Elizabeth Cook Richter Scholarship Funds Access forms from Council of Heads of Colleges website.

A Richter Summer Fellowship is awarded for independent study and research, not for only travel, work or enrollment in a school. An internship is a valid use only if the primary component is study or research, being part of a research team is a valid use. The maximum Richter award is $1,000. Awards are reported to the IRS as taxable income. Awardees must disclose the amount of any other funding supporting the proposed project. Richter Fellowships are ordinarily awarded to juniors, but freshmen and sophomores are eligible. (Seniors are not eligible.)

For Juniors: Summer Research Fellowships for (i.e., Bates…) Maximum Grant: As much as the Budget shows is needed to live and travel simply, but safely, and to do the research in a safe and appropriate fashion Application information available at http://www.yale.edu/yalecol/academics/fellowships/start/research/index.html

The Bates (among others) are summer research merit-based independent study fellowships for Juniors who are interested in spending a summer traveling abroad and doing independent research. You should think in advance about coming up with a worthy proposal. Many who receive these funds intend to go on to do a senior essay, substantive senior paper, or senior project. The funds cannot be used for language or other formal “programs.” but are designed for independent research.

For Juniors and Seniors: Mellon Research Grants Maximum Grant $500

Research must take place during the academic year, and awardees must present the results of their research either to the Senior Forum or to another educational forum. Each application for the research award mustinclude the approval of a faculty advisor who will supervise the research project. Applications distributed through the College Dean’s office.

Seniors receiving Mellon funds are required to present their research at the Melllon Forum. They will award funds until the total they received ($5,000) is expended.

The Yale College Safety Net is designed for currently enrolled undergraduate students who experience emergency and unexpected financial hardship. It can help with, among other things, paying for books and materials for art and other classes. Visit the link below, and select “Academic Supplies” if making a request for help with your materials for an art course. Deadline: ongoing

Information available here: SafetyNet

Undergraduate art students may apply for funding to help pay for an art exhibition in the residential colleges. Deadline: EARLY each semester

Information available here:
CPA

Maximum Grant $1,200 Access and fill forms on Yale Council of College Heads Web site

Administered by the Council of Masters, the Creative and Performing Arts Awards support on-campus dramatic, musical, dance, video or film productions, literary publications, and exhibitions in each residential college.

Undergraduate students on financial aid may apply for a DSA to support a summer artist apprenticeship or internship with a non-profit arts organization. Jobs may be found at OCS/Office of Career Strategy, or created and designed by students with the cooperation of a specific employer. Awards are $4000 for an 8 week position with a minimum number of weekly hours worked.

Information available here:
DSA

The Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize shall be awarded at Commencement by the Yale School of Art to an undergraduate or graduate woman who has pursued studio art courses in the School including: graphic design, drawing, painting, photography, film-making, printmaking, sculpture, and video. The prize is open to graduating MFA students and art major BA students. The prize seeks to encourage the woman whose whole person demonstrates a developing consciousness, a personal vision, and a spirit of search, regardless of whether she has evolved a concrete realization of that vision; a woman who shows promise of fulfilling Blair Dickinson’s (Yale College Class of 1974) concept of an artist as suggested by this passage from her journal: “Ability to find spiritually rich occurrences in the world. Observer. Critic. Isolator. One who points to a moment and reveals its importance. Ability to cross over between areas of thought and to ascend and descend.”

Information and deadline: published mid-Spring.

The Mary Hotchkiss Williams Travel Fellowship for the Visual Arts, awarded by the Yale University Art Gallery, supports travel abroad for qualified Yale undergraduates engaged in making visual art. This year, up to four fellowships will be awarded to students who demonstrate superior performance in their respective fields of artistic practice and present a proposal for travel that will provide enriching experiences to the developing artist. The fellowship carries a grant of $5,500. Preference is given to studio-art majors but students majoring in other fields at Yale College are invited to apply.

Application Deadline: February 16th, 2019, 1:00pm

For more information, see the Student Grants Database at https://yale.communityforce.com/Funds/Search.aspx

Application Requirements:
Brief Biography: Tell us about yourself.

Statement of Intent: Describe your travel plans and tell us how they are related to your art practice.

Budget: The price of tickets, lodging, etc.

Examples of Work:Provide 10 examples of your art in electronic form
(PDF / JPG preferred).

Yale Transcript: Submit your unofficial transcript.

Recommendations: Submit two letters of recommendation from members of the Yale faculty.

Application Deadline: February 16th, 2019, 1:00pm

All materials must be uploaded to this website by this date. Applicants will be notified of a decision in April.

For questions about this application, please contact Katharine Luce at katharine.luce@yale.edu

The Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship provides support to students in the visual and fine arts, including art history, conservation, studio art and photography, for travel and living expenses outside the continental United States, Alaska and Hawaii in accordance with a program of study or other activities approved by the fellowship selection committee.

The $19,000 fellowships are funded by income from the Mortimer and Sara Hays Endowment at Brandeis University.

http://www.brandeis.edu/mhb/
and
https://yale.communityforce.com/Funds/Search.aspx

2018-2019 RECIPIENTS

Ruier Ma
Yale University ’17

Symba Nuruddin
Yale University ’16

Margareta Viznerova
Columbia University ’18

The John Boit Morse Memorial Fellowship supports summer independent study and research in the fine arts, with preference given to an art student. This fellowship is intended for students conducting research the summer after their junior year.
This fellowship is administered by the Yale College Office of Fellowship Programs (OFP). Interested applicants may schedule an appointment with an OFP Fellowship Adviser; however, meeting with an adviser is not mandatory.

The John Boit Morse Memorial Fellowship is one of the Yale College Research Fellowships. All fellowships in this category are administered by the Office of Fellowship Programs and share a common application form and deadline.
Please click here for the application requirements, forms, and other important information about applying to fellowships in this category.
Special Eligibility Requirements
International students are not normally given grants for projects conducted in their home countries. If there is a question, see an OFP adviser.
Recipients of this fellowship who receive need-based financial aid during the spring semester may be eligible for the Summer Income Contribution (SIC) grant portion of the International Summer Award (ISA) Program. Only projects carried out abroad qualify. Click here for more information on the ISA-SIC.

Yale University policy requires that certain types of research projects involving human subjects be reviewed by an institutional review board (IRB) prior to the start of the study to ensure that the project meets University requirements and any applicable regulations. Click here to see if your project needs to be reviewed, for advice on working with human subjects, and for more information about the process and requirements.

Restrictions to Use of Award
All interested applicants must review the Yale University International Travel Policy. Projects in specific countries within approved regions listed below may not be eligible for funding based on current MedEx threat ratings, State Department Warnings, and the Yale University International Travel Policy.

Required materials that you must provide:
(no requirements entered for this grant)
The following restrictions apply:
Eligible Purposes: Research
Eligible Disciplines: Art (Yale College Humanities)
Eligible Years of Study: Junior
DEADLINE: in February

The new Swensen Scholarship, given in honor of David Swensen PH.D. ’80, is awarded via a nomination-only process to Yale undergraduates who excel both in the classroom and in athletics or the arts. Recipients, known as the Swensen Scholars, are awarded funding to practice the highest caliber training in their selected field over the summer. Because students must be in the top echelon of their pursuit, funding will only be provided for nationally/internationally recognized endeavors that will continue to set them apart from their peers. Swensen Scholars will become a cohort of achievers recognized as the epitome of Yale and the importance of curricular and extra-curricular excellence as integral parts of a liberal arts education.

Grants may cover the costs of elite level artistic performances or programs to enhance the scholar’s talent. Funding will vary according to budgeted needs, but funding cannot exceed the actual and necessary costs of participation in the activity.

Application Information:
This application is for ARTS only. If nominated by your department, students will be able to find the form by searching for “Swensen” here: https://yale.communityforce.com/Funds/Search.aspx

Contact Information:
For questions about this application, please contact Kate Krier at kathryn.krier@yale.edu

The Lohmann & Van Sinderen Prizes for Excellence in Undergraduate Printing and Design aim to recognize and celebrate the broad range of interest in planning, craft, and invention that gives under­g­raduate design and printing at Yale its singular character. The judges are eager to see printed work of all kinds in order to reward skill, discipline, and imagination. These prizes were established in 1967 in honor of Carl C. Lohmann, Class of 1910, founding member of the honorable company of college printers, lifelong typophile, and secretary of the University from 1927 to 1953. Since 2015, they have been supported by the Adrian Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prize fund.

Eligible pieces must have been planned and executed in the past academic year by a current Yale undergraduate. They may include publications and ephemera, class assignments, and self-initiated publishing projects. Professional studio work will not be considered, nor will printmaking projects, per se. Entries can be made by both digital and traditional methods, although final renditions cannot be screen-based.

For more information, including submission instructions and images of past entries, visit https://lohmann.yale.edu/

Announcement of the Hilla Rebay Postbaccalaureate Fellowship Program
(formerly the Fifth-Year Fellowship Program) for
2016-2017 Academic Year
Studio Arts Program
Trinity College
Hartford CT 06106

Description

The Hilla Rebay Postbaccalaureate Fellowship of the Studio Arts Program at Trinity College is designed to provide space to work, time, and a supportive arts community so talented individuals who studied studio arts at a university, art school or liberal arts college can have the extra resources they need to prepare the strongest possible portfolio in support of applications to graduate school in art.

The program allows a recent college graduate to spend a fifth year at Trinity working as an assistant for the Studio Arts Program and preparing to apply to graduate school. Fellowship recipients work a minimum of 20 hours per week. Ten hours are spent working as a general assistant for the Studio Arts Program. Beyond that, the Fellow is expected to spend another ten hours (minimum) working in the studio on his/her personal work for the graduate school admissions portfolio. This is an academic year appointment thus the work schedule coincides with the schedule of classes. Fellows receive a stipend of $8,000 and are provided a studio space on campus. Fellows must make their own living arrangements. Health benefits are included and Fellows may take one course per semester at Trinity or the consortium schools for free.

Duties and Expectations

➢ Oversight of the Senior Studio facility—the Fellow’s studio will be located here as well. Includes monitoring safety and maintenance issues, keeping track of stocked supplies, and reporting any needs or concerns on a regular basis to the program technician.

➢ Manage the events scheduled in the student gallery, oversee maintenance issues for the gallery, monitor stock of installation supplies and report regularly any needs to the program technician, and act in an advisory capacity for student shows there.

➢ Assist the program technician with installations in the Widener Gallery.

➢ Initiate and organize extracurricular events—field trips, open critique sessions, etc.

➢ In general, act as a resource and mentor to studio arts majors and all students enrolled in studio arts classes.

➢ Produce and mount an exhibition showing the Hilla Rebay Postbaccalaureate Fellow’s work created during the academic year. Exhibition takes place in the student gallery, generally after all the senior thesis exhibitions have been held.

Additional Information

It is not necessary to be a Trinity graduate or a studio arts major to apply for this fellowship. Any student with the appropriate level of experience and interest is eligible.

The need to pursue part-time employment in another position does not disqualify candidates so long as they are able to follow through with the commitments of the fellowship.

How to Apply

To apply please submit the following:

➢ A one-page application letter explaining why you are a good candidate for the fellowship and outlining your plans for graduate study.

➢ A one-page artist’s statement addressing your work and its influences.

➢ A link to an online Flickr gallery containing 15-20 images of your work (include the link in your application letter and in your artist’s statement.) Make sure your images are clear, sharp, and without glare.

➢ A list of studio arts courses and art history courses you have taken.

➢ A C.V. detailing your college experience including study abroad and any other significant formative experiences.

These materials should be submitted by March 31, 2016 (email or paper copy) to:

Tracy Quigley
Administrative Assistant, Studio Arts Program
Trinity College, Hallden Hall
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106
tracy.quigley@trincoll.edu