Yiyun Li received the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction during the first year of the pandemic. She comes to campus for the first time since receiving the prize to launch her highly-anticipated new novel The Book of Goose and to discuss her work with critic Anthony Domestico. Free copies to the first forty guests! Signing to follow.
Start your festival day with free coffee and treats, book and tote bag giveaways, and a short reading by playwright Aleshea Harris.
Amneris Chaparro, Rice Fellow at the MacMillan Center, will present this talk as part of the CLAIS Colloquium Series 22-23.
Leni Ribeiro Leite will present as part of the CLAIS Colloquium Series 22-23.
Maria Mercedes Piñango (Yale Linguistics) will present as part of CLAIS Colloquium Series.
Reflecting on the last 50 years of her work, jeweler and advocate Kiff Slemmons examines jewelry’s place in culture—both past and present—including its capacity for meaning and metaphor, its reflection of identity, its potential to offer protection, and its release from convention. Presented in conjunction with the current installation American Jewelry: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery. Generously sponsored by the Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Lectureship Fund.
Emmanuel Iduma discusses his weekly Substack newsletter Tender Photo, where he engages with contemporary African photography and photographers. He is joined in conversation by Cajetan Iheka, Professor of English, Yale University. Offered in conjunction with the Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
For our current vaccination and mask requirements, visit https://artgallery.yale.edu/hours-and-directions.
Judy Ditner, the Richard Benson Associate Curator of Photography and Digital Media, and Isabella Shey Robbins (Diné), Ph.D. candidate in History of Art and American Studies at Yale, present a virtual tour of the exhibition Fazal Sheikh: Exposures. They take viewers through the two photographic projects featured in the show, explain the curatorial process, and offer personal perspectives on Sheikh’s work. Yechen Zhao, the Marcia Brady Tucker Fellow in the Department of Photography, moderates the discussion. Generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund.
Join us for an evening of staged readings of selected scenes from the work of the 2022 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients in drama, Sharon Bridgforth and Winsome Pinnock. Offered in conjunction with the Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
For our current vaccination and mask requirements, visit https://artgallery.yale.edu/hours-and-directions. Enter the Yale University Art Gallery’s Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall at 201 York Street.
In honor of the opening of Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition, join James Green, the Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation Associate Curator of African Art, for a preview of the exhibition and an introduction to works of sculpture spanning the artist’s 50-year career. Generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund.
Closed captions will be available in English.
Registration required; to register, visit https://bit.ly/3zErJ04.
