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In-Person Program, Windham-Campbell Close Looking, Tender Photo: African Photography in Real Time

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.

Hybrid Program, Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Lecture in American Art, "From the Outside Out"

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.

In-Person Program, Windham-Campbell Staged Readings

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.

CANCELED: E-Exhibition Tour, Fazal Sheikh: Exposures

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.

E-Exhibition Tour, Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition

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.

In-Person Program, Studio Session, Drawing Yorùbá Sculpture

Yorùbá master carver Lukman Alade Fakeye (born Ìbàdàn, Nigeria, 1983), the Fall 2022 Hayden Visiting Artist, Yale School of Art, leads an in-gallery drawing session focused on works by the celebrated woodcarver Moshood Olusomo Bámigbóyè (ca. 1885–1975). A sixth-generation carver of the Fakeye dynasty, Lukman guides participants through the five individual steps of carving. Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition. Generously sponsored by the Hayden Visiting Artist Fund and the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund.

E-Conversation, Give an Elder a Mic

In collaboration with the Chapter House, an art and community nonprofit led by Indigenous women, the Yale University Art Gallery presents a conversation between Jonah Yellowman (Diné), spiritual advisor to Utah Diné Bikéyah (UDB) Native-led organization, and Sháńdíín Brown (Diné), the Henry Luce Curatorial Fellow for Native American Art at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence.

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