General Public

Hybrid Program, Conversation, The Complexities of Indigenous Representation in the Arts

Join Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf (Eastern Shoshone, Hidatsa, and Mandan), Yale University Presidential Visiting Fellow and the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Associate in Native American Art and Curation between the Department of the History of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery; Dr. Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha), Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and guests for a conversation about the complexities of Indigenous representation in the arts.

Mondays at Beinecke: Revisiting the Past – Imagining the Future with Roberta L. Dougherty, Librarian for Middle East Studies

A talk in conjunction with the Beinecke Library building-wide exhibition, “Revisiting the Past—Imagining the Future,” on view through July 9.
Roberta L. Dougherty, Librarian for Middle East Studies, will discuss some of the items she selected for the exhibition.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3ZLmRlX

Roma, Jews and the Holocaust (Day 2)

This symposium examines the intersections between Romani and Jewish experiences of persecution and between the ways Romani and Jewish survivors, activists, historians, artists, and organizations have sought to come to terms with those experiences.

The event will consists of series of small panels, taking the forthcoming publication of Ari Joskowicz’s book Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust (Spring 2023) as an occasion to gather and discuss these themes.

In-Person Program, Student Program, Valentine’s Day Hearts and Crafts

Come feel the love at the Gallery this Valentine’s Day! Whether you’re spending the day with friends, with that special someone, or among the artworks on view, we have activities for all!

Stop by our tables in the lobby from 2:00 to 5:00 pm on Tuesday, February 14, to make an art-themed Valentine for someone you love. Write yourself a love note and add it to our self-love wall—we’ll teach you how to fold it into an origami heart!

Spring Colloquium Lecture with Reinaldo Funes-Monzoto

Spring Colloquium Lecture with Reinaldo Funes-Monzoto, visiting research scholar at Princeton University. Lunch will be provided.

Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.: Martin’s Legacy of Ecosystem Engineering

Dr. Nyeema C. Harris
Knobloch Family Associate
Professor of Wildlife and
Land Conservation
Dr. Harris studies carnivore ecology, behavior, and conservation.
As an avid nature-lover, her most transformative experience
stemmed from witnessing lions hunt in Kenya as a youth growing
up in Philadelphia. In the work of her Applied Wildlife Ecology
(AWE) Lab, she aims to facilitate exposure, broaden participation
in who has agency and contributes to knowledge production, and

Community Day

Join us for a day of free, family-friendly activities featuring local artists and performers. Visitors of all ages are invited to draw comics, play games, make music, tour our exhibitions, enjoy treats and more!
MAKING + DOING
comics workshop with Adam Wallenta (10:30 am–12 pm)
music making with Thabisa (12–12:45 pm)
art-making activities (12:30–2 pm)
architectural models (10:30 am–2:30 pm)
games + puzzles + books (10:30 am–2:30 pm)
SEEING + LEARNING
special exhibition tours (11:00 | 11:30 | 1:30 | 2:00)

Ayi Kwei Armah’s “The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born” (1968), an Inspiration

Stephanie Newell, George M. Bodman Professor of English, Yale University, discusses the classic Ghanaian novel that inspired Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s ongoing series “The Beautyful Ones,” represented in the YCBA’s current exhibition of her work. Newell will describe the history and context of Ayi Kweh Armah’s novel of Ghanaian independence, and explore some of its themes. In this visceral novel, filled with dirt and bodily fluids, Armah vividly conjures the stench of political corruption.

Art In Context | Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Archiving Memory

Cheryl Finley (Yale PhD 2002), Director, Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Spelman College, and Associate Professor, Cornell University, will discuss the central role photographic archives play in Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s practice, having the power to conjure memory while harnessing the past to signal the future.

Dancing About Architecture: A Common Conversation with Deborah Berke and David Rockwell

Join us in Commons, the newly re-imagined place for student life, the arts, and dining, for a conversation with Yale School of Architecture Dean Deborah Berke and architect and designer David Rockwell about the role art plays in community and placemaking.