Here students will find information about professors and classes at Yale, in the Art and History of Art departments, as well as classes in other departments that in one way or another address the arts. The Resource tab also provides links to all sorts of art-related institutions and organizations on Yale's campus. Additionally, this tab will have a list of jobs, grants, and volunteer opportunities for art enthusiasts. We hope that this information will both facilitate and enhance student involvement in the arts at Yale.
Art Programs, Grants & Fellowships
- Art Museum Scholar Internships will provide funds for four undergraduate students to participate in summer internships at the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, or other art museums. The four internships are named as follows: Helen A. Cooper Scholar of American Paintings and Sculpture, Patricia Kane Scholar of American Decorative Arts, Patrick McCaughey Scholar of British Art, Duncan Robinson Scholar of British Art. At least one of the four internships is to be held at the Yale University Art Gallery and one at the Yale Center for British Art. The internships at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art will familiarize students with the operation of museums and curatorial departments. Students seeking opportunities with other art museums must procure such internships on their own. If selected as an Art Museum Scholar Intern, the internship will provide a stipend of up to $3,000. Internships must be eight weeks.
Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize
- The Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize is awarded at Commencement by the Yale University School of Art to an undergraduate or graduate woman who has pursued studio art courses in the School including: graphic design, drawing, painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and sculpture. The prize of over $20,000 is open to both art majors and non-majors. The prize seeks to encourage the woman whose whole person demonstrates a developing consciousness, a personal vision, and a spirit of search, regardless of whether she has evolved a concrete realization of that vision; a woman who shows promise of fulfilling Blair Dickinson's (Yale College Class of 1974) concept of an artist as suggested by this passage from her journel: "Ability to find spiritually rich occurrences in the world. Observer. Critic. Isolator. One who points to a moment and reveals its importance. Ability to cross over between areas of thought and to ascend and descend."
Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship Program
- The Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship Program awards annually three fellowships to students in the visual and fine arts, specifically: art history, conservation, studio art and photography. The Fellowships are supported by income from the Mortimer and Sara Hays Endowment Fund at Brandeis University and provide support for living expenses and travel outside the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. Each award provides a stipend of $19,000, and is not intended to be renewable.
The Nancy Horton Bartels Scholar Internships
- The Nancy Horton Bartels Scholar Internships will provide funds for four undergraduate students to participate in academic year internships at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. The four internships are offered annually, two at the Gallery and two at the Center, and are funded by an endowment established in 2005 by Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels. Mr. and Mrs. Bartels are graduates of Cornell University. The internships will familiarize students with the operations of museums and curatorial departments. The interns will work in a curatorial department for 10 hours per week for two consecutive semesters and will receive a stipend on an hourly basis. Nancy Horton Bartels Scholar internships will be awarded to students who demonstrate superior performance in their respective fields. Students should be seniors, juniors, or sophomores during the time they hold the internship. Details of applications and deadlines internships for the academic year 2009-2010 will be posted on this site from January 2009. For further information or questions, please email ycba.research@yale.edu.
Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art
- After offering summer sessions in Pont Aven for the past four years the Institute for Studio Studies has chosen in 2008 to formalize the relationship with this historically significant town through Yale Summer Session. Pont-Aven, a coastal village in Brittany, France will provide the context for the intensive studio work at the center of the Institute for Studio Studies' (ISS) four-week program. Students' independent studio research will begin with a conversation between faculty and each student over coffee at Café du Centre, the geographic and social center of the small town, and develop amidst Pont-Aven's watermills, narrow streets, and its network of tidal canals. Students' winding daily commutes from their homestay locations past patisseries, boat docks, and outdoor fish and vegetable markets to the Institute's studios in a renovated stone farmhouse frequently provide important visual source material as students learn to image their ideas through painting and drawing. While occasional trips to the nearby town of Quimper and the Atlantic coastline provide crucial moments of renewal that allow for a subsequent deepening of focus, the Institute's students primarily spend their days living like the local residents - sleeping, working, and eating amidst their Breton hosts and neighbors, doggedly pursuing their studio work with minimal distractions. Surrounded by the verdant "Bois d'Amour" (the Forest of Love), crisscrossed by the Pont-Aven River, and marbled with such historic architecture as the 16th century Tremalo Chapel, Pont-Aven (population: 3,000) became a popular retreat location for artists in the 19th century. Paintings by Paul Gauguin, Paul Serusier, and others hang in the Musée de Pont-Aven as testament to Pont-Aven's longstanding effectiveness as a hothouse for artistic productivity. Now well-known for "Traou Mad Galettes," sugar cookies through which Brittany's famous butter is transported around the world, Pont-Aven is a vibrant, friendly town that provides Institute students with access to France's legendary gastronomic pleasures, a generous community, and the smell of the ocean. Since 2001 its residents have welcomed our students and provided essential support for our unusually rigorous studio practice.
- The Sudler Fund was established in 1986 to provide support for the creative and performing arts in Yale's residential colleges. The Committee on the Creative and Performing Arts of the Council of Masters administers the Sudler Fund and welcomes proposals from students for creative arts projects in the colleges. Sudler funds may be used to support on campus dramatic, musical, dance, video or film productions, literary publications, and exhibitions. Ideally, productions should be held in residential colleges; if that is not possible, productions must take place on campus. The Committee on the Creative and Performing Arts meets at the beginning of each term to review student proposals and determine awards. The committee conveys their decisions in writing to each Master who in turn informs his or her students.
Yale University Art Gallery Student Guide Program
- The student Gallery Guide program at the Yale University Art Gallery is an opportunity for Yale undergraduates to lead thematic tours of the museum for the Yale community and the New Haven public. Students participate in a yearlong training program, with museum staff, curators, and faculty members, which includes exploring the Gallery's collection, special exhibitions, museum tour methodology, and art openings. The program also offers behind-the-scenes sessions in the conservation studio and field trips to other museums and art centers such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Dia:Beacon, and The Cloisters. The in-depth training will require a time commitment similar to that of an academic course. Following the completion of the training program, students remained involved with the Gallery Guide program by giving museum tours and participating in meetings throughout the semester. This is an excellent opportunity for Yale undergraduates to integrate art into their experience at Yale and to become part of the Yale University Art Gallery. The program is open to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors in Yale College.
Yale Center for British Art Student Guide Program
- The Yale Student Guide Program began in the fall of 2002 under the guidance of the Center's Education Department. The goal of the program is to increase the profile and use of the Yale Center for British Art among Yale undergraduates. Student guides meet weekly with Center staff and members of the Yale faculty to learn about the permanent collection and the workings of the institution; students then develop thematic tours, which they give to members of the general public and the Yale community. Tours are given on Saturdays and Sundays at 1 pm and for special weekend campus events. The guides work closely with the various residential colleges, clubs, teams, and organizations to recruit future guides and to inform undergraduates of the activities and events at the Center. Art in Focus is a new academic initiative for participants in the Yale Center for British Art student guide program. The project culminates in an annual exhibition.
Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, CT
- The art division offers a six-week session for academic credit as a special summer program. The School is located on the Stoeckel estate and is supported by the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Trust. Through the generosity of this trust, the full expenses of tuition, room, and board are covered by a fellowship grant to each student approved for admission. Selected colleges, universities, and professional art schools across the country and abroad are invited to nominate for these fellowships two candidates who are currently enrolled as juniors in their programs. There is an application fee of $20 and a registration fee of $700. Students in art follow a required program of painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography. Distinguished artists are on both the resident and the visiting faculty. The visiting faculty provide workshops, lectures, and individual criticism. The resident faculty in 2007 included Michelle Grabner, Katharine Kuharic, John Lehr, Samuel Messer (Director), and Norm Paris. Information about the program may be obtained in late January from the schools that have been invited to participate. The application deadline is in March. Persons interested in being considered for nomination should so inform their department heads. Individuals may not apply directly to the Norfolk program.