Standing in solidarity, in support of Black lives

Official School of Art COVID-19 Updates:

New calendars beginning summer 2020:

Community Calendar >>

Containing only those events open to the SoA community.

Public Calendar >>

Containing those events open to the public.

The Yale School of Art’s Speak to Me series is an online forum with invited speakers, activists, writers, and artists organized with poet, playwright, and author Claudia Rankine, Leah Mirakhor, Lecturer in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, alongside Dean and Professor Marta Kuzma, in an effort to address the NOW.

The series is open to the public and began June 9, 2020. Learn more about Speak to Me here >>

While this year’s in-person commencement exercises have been postponed, the Yale School of Art celebrates and applauds its graduating class of 2020.

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Yale School of Art Mourns the Passing of William Bailey: Distinguished Alumnus, Former Dean, and Kingman Brewster Professor Emeritus of Art

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Yale School of Art Faculty Danna Singer and A.L. Steiner Named Guggenheim Fellows Alongside Three Alumni

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Major Bequest to Establish the Jack Stewart Scholarship Endowment for Yale School of Art

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Student Voices:

This website exists as an ongoing collaborative experiment in digital publishing and information sharing. Because all members of the School of Art community have the ability to add new content and pages, not all of the content on this website reflects the School of Art’s official position.

The Yale School of Art is committed to the protection of free inquiry and expression in the classroom and throughout the school community. In this, the School reflects the University’s commitment to and policy on freedom of expression as eloquently stated in the Woodward Report. In 1975, the Yale Corporation declared that “protecting and nourishing freedom of speech is a primary obligation of all members of the University community. Even the most unpopular views should be heard at Yale without interference.” See studentlife.yale.edu/guidance-regarding-free-expression-and-peaceable-assembly-students-yale.

Celebrating Yale School of Art’s 150th Year

The start of the 2019-2020 academic year marks the 150th anniversary of the Yale School of Art, which opened for its first day of classes on October 15, 1869. To commemorate this sesquitennial, the Yale School of Art commissioned Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Caroline M. Street Professor of Graphic Design, Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design, and a 1964 alumnus of the Graphic Design program, and Laura Coombs, 2017 Graphic Design alumnus and Senior Designer at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, to create an anniversary mark that both celebrates and conveys the profound history of the School.
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Mickalene Thomas Named 2020 Presidential Visiting Fellow in Fine Arts

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