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Reynolds served as the "Henry J. Heinz II Director" of the Yale University Art Gallery, from 1998 until 2018. [7] [8] During this time at the Yale University Art Gallery, Reynolds renovated and restored all three buildings. [7] His art practice consists primarily of sculpture, photography, conceptual art, performance art, and installation art.
Yale alumnus Andrew Dickson White was petitioned by the school's faculty to become the first dean, but instead opted to be the first president of Cornell University. A new building for the school, Street Hall, was completed in 1866. [4] John Ferguson Weir, an artist, was the first director, and later a dean, of the Yale School of Fine Arts. He ...
After leaving Carnegie Mellon University, Gister went to the City College of New York where he headed the Aaron Davis Center for the Arts as its inaugural Director. Lloyd Richards who was the dean of the Yale School of Drama, invited Gister to Yale to be his associate dean of the Drama School, which was a position he held from 1979 to 1999 ...
Robert James Reed Jr. (July 9, 1938 – December 26, 2014) was an American artist and professor of painting and printmaking at Yale School of Art for 45 years. [1] In 1987, Reed was appointed to Yale School of Art's tenured permanent faculty [2] making him, at the time of his death, the School's first and only African-American to be so appointed in the School's then 145 year history.
She received her PhD from Yale University in Art History in 1995. Pinder has taught and served in administrative roles at the University of New Mexico (Dean of the College of Fine Arts), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Professor, Chair of the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism and Director of the Graduate Program), and Middlebury College.
Street Hall, designed by Peter Bonnett Wight, was opened as the Yale School of the Fine Arts in 1866, and included exhibition galleries on the second floor. The exterior was in a neo-Gothic style, with an appearance influenced by 13th-century Venetian palaces. These spaces are the oldest ones still in use as part of the Yale University Art Gallery.
The building was designed by Louis I. Kahn and constructed at the corner of York and Chapel Streets in New Haven, across the street from one of Kahn's earliest buildings, [3] the Yale University Art Gallery, built in 1953. The Yale Center for British Art was completed after Kahn's death in 1974, and opened to the public on April 15, 1977.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is a division of Yale College that acts as a College of Arts and Sciences. [1] It consists of four divisions, humanities, social sciences, sciences and engineering and applied sciences. [2] (Ref 2 says "The FAS spans three broad intellectual areas, represented by the divisions of Humanities, Social Science, and ...