The School of Art will honor the memory of Carol Jayne Schlosberg, the alumna and former Yale instructor who died last month while on vacation in Mexico, with the creation of a Commencement prize in the artist's name and a retrospective exhibition of her work.
Ms. Schlosberg, 40, was murdered on March 29 while walking along a beach in Puerto Escondido, on Mexico's Pacific coast.
She earned her M.F.A. from Yale in 1992 and taught at the School of Art 1993-95. She had worked for John Gambell Graphic Design in New Haven since 1995 and was active in the art world in New England and New York.
"All of us at the Yale School of Art are deeply saddened by the loss of our friend and colleague Carol Schlosberg," says School of Art Dean Richard Benson. "She will always be remembered by those who knew her for the warmth of her personality, the helpfulness of her nature and the strength of her work as an artist. She studied at Yale and then remained in the community, and her death strikes us as though a beloved family member had suddenly been taken away. Our sympathies go out to her family, and we fervently hope that those responsible for this tragedy are brought to justice."
"Carol was respected by her peers and by the faculty," adds David Pease, former dean of the School of Art and professor of painting. "She was quite a remarkable young woman. She was focused, ambitious in her art, and quiet, but not without tremendous inner strength. We got a lot more from her than we gave."
Born June 14, 1957, Ms. Schlosberg grew up on the North Shore of Massachusetts. As an undergraduate at Montserrat College of Art in Massachusetts, she was the 1989 recipient of an Ellen Battell Stoeckel fellowship for study at the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut. She earned her bachelor's degree at Montserrat College in 1990 and moved to New Haven, where she lived until October of 1997, when she moved to Vermont. At Yale, she studied with such noted contemporary American artists as William Bailey, Gregory Amernoff, Andrew Forge, Natalie Charkow and Richard Lytle.
Ms. Schlosberg's work -- textured, abstract, sometimes geometric, sometimes free-form -- has been shown in group exhibitions in Connecticut and Massachusetts, most notably in the New Talent show at Alpha Gallery in Boston. She exhibited in solo shows at the Montserrat College of Art and the Stamford Museum and Nature Center in Connecticut.
The School of Art will hold a retrospective exhibition of the alumna's work
June 15-28 in the Art & Architecture Gallery, 180 York St. In addition, a prize in her memory will be established and given this May at the school's Commencement exercises.
Ms. Schlosberg is survived by her parents, Robert and Jane Schlosberg of Scottsdale, Arizona; and a sister, Lynda Bazin of Carlisle, Massachusetts.
A memorial service will be held at St. Peter's Church in Weston, Massachusetts, on April 18 at 10 a.m. Donations in Ms. Schlosberg's memory may be made to the Yale University School of Art, P.O. Box 208339, New Haven, CT 06520-8339; or to the Montserrat College of Art,
P.O. Box 26, Beverly, Mass. 01915.
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