This is a free program for families with children who are five to twelve years of age and on the autism spectrum. Participants look at artwork in the galleries and create a follow-up project in a museum classroom. While the needs of individuals with autism are prioritized, it is also fun for parents, siblings, and other relatives too! Preregistration is required.
This program is conducted by the Education department of the Yale Center for British Art in consultation with the Yale Child Study Center and is recommended by the Autism Parents Community (APC).

Join our student guides to learn more about the installation of Steve McQueen: Lynching Tree.
Lynching Tree (2013) is a color photograph mounted in a lightbox that depicts an old tree with thick, sprawling branches. The tree stands in a clearing littered with leaves and grass and is surrounded by bushes and scrawny saplings. Only the title of the image reveals the horror of this apparently pastoral scene. The tree was used as a gallows for enslaved Black people; the unmarked graves of victims lie beneath it.

Lovers Rock (2020)
Directed by Steve McQueen (rated TV-MA; 70 minutes)
To coincide with a two-day international symposium on the work of Steve McQueen at the museum Friday and Saturday, October 28–29, 2022, two screenings of the film Lovers Rock are offered in the Lecture Hall. Lovers Rock is from McQueen’s Small Axe British anthology film series, five films that tell distinct stories about the lives of West Indian immigrants in London from the 1960s to the 1980s.
About “Lovers Rock”

Join the Future Leaders of Yale, Working Women’s Network, Yale African American Affinity Group, and Yale Latino Networking Group for a virtual information session with the Connecticut Women Education and Legal Fund (CWEALF) to learn more about the Let’s Get Loud: Voter Guide to the 2022 Election and how to make your voice heard this election cycle. This voter guide is designed to provide support to women in CT who are ready to advocate and organize for women’s economic security.

Across a diverse body of work spanning thirty years, Black British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen (b. 1969, London) has documented stories of incarceration and violence, intimacy and vulnerability. On October 28 and 29, the Yale Center for British Art will convene an international symposium that investigates the range of McQueen’s artistic and film practice. To coincide with and precede the program, a single work by the artist, “Lynching Tree” (2013) will be on view at the museum through October 30.
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