Events

2025 Open Studios events are organized by members across the School of Art community and are listed below as:

> scheduled events = taking place at scheduled times at the School of Art during Open Studios

> activated sites = exhibitions, installations, works-in-progress, and other projects across the School of Art buildings

> related events = events taking place during open studios weekend as collaborations or recommended community happenings


  • SCHEDULED EVENTS:

  • The Throat (Rehearsal) Saturday, April 5 & Sunday, April 6 2PM & 4PM both days 1156 Chapel St., central hallway...

    The Throat (Rehearsal)

    Saturday, April 5 & Sunday, April 6
    2PM & 4PM both days
    1156 Chapel St., central hallway stairwell


    Series of 20 minutes performances on both days: 2:00pm-2:20pm, 4:00pm-4:20pm. A vocal performance by Shiyun Deng, Graphic Design MFA ’25, and Camille Gwise, Graphic Design MFA ’26.

  • Visual Intro into the Black Gaze: Portraiture, Love, and Desire with Faith Couch Saturday, April 5 2 PM 1156 Chapel...

    Visual Intro into the Black Gaze: Portraiture, Love, and Desire with Faith Couch

    Saturday, April 5
    2 PM
    1156 Chapel St., Photo “Pool”(Room G10) 

    This talk will offer a brief exploration of the history of Black representation in the 21st century while examining the work of contemporary Black photographers and image-makers. Through this lens, Faith Couch, Photography MFA ’26, will discuss how her practice engages with a lineage of image-making—grappling with both the affirming and contested depictions of Black life—and how her work seeks to reclaim, reimagine, and deepen narratives of love, care, and intimacy. 

  • Possible Occurrence 3.1: “Sports Piece”

    Saturday, April 5
    3PM
    1156 Chapel St., The Elevator

     

    For Possible Occurrence 3.1, duo performers Camille Chang and Soleil Piverger will perform Sports Piece. They will perform sports acts and gestures on a vertical path, emphasizing the level of their athleticism.

  • unbound // reconfigured: Experimental Sound Saturday, April 5 4:30-6PM 36 Edgewood Ave., Basement Gallery Join us for an evening of...

    unbound // reconfigured: Experimental Sound

    Saturday, April 5
    4:30-6PM
    36 Edgewood Ave., Basement Gallery

    Join us for an evening of radical sonic exploration with current MFA students. From fractured rhythms to deep droning resonance, these artists are working to forge new auditory landscapes alongside their visual practices. Witness live as we blur the lines between music and performance.

     

    Featuring work by Aru Apaza, Painting/Printmaking MFA ’26, Cameron Patricia Downey, Sculpture MFA ’26, Gozié Ojini, Sculpture MFA ’25, Alice Gong Xiaowen, Sculpture MFA ’25, Shiyun Deng, Graphic Design MFA '25, and Camille Gwise, Graphic Design MFA '26.

  • SoA Tiny Desk Concert featuring Shef's Kiss Sunday, April 6 5-6PM 36 Edgewood Ave., Sculpture Faculty Offices Think NPR Tiny...

    SoA Tiny Desk Concert featuring Shef's Kiss

    Sunday, April 6
    5-6PM
    36 Edgewood Ave., Sculpture Faculty Offices

    Think NPR Tiny Desk but at Allyse Corbin’s desk in the Sculpture Faculty Office! With artist Shef's Kiss as the performer. Hosted by Allyse Corbin, artist and photographer, as well as SoA's Senior Administrative Assistant in Sculpture and Photography.


  • EXHIBITIONS & ACTIVATED SITES:

  • Ballast: 2025 MFA Exhibition in Sculpture, Part II Exhibition Saturday, April 13 & Sunday, April 14 12-6PM Green Hall Gallery...

    Exhibition identity by Denzel Boyd and Chris Cole, Graphic Design MFAs ‘26.

    Ballast: 2025 MFA Exhibition in Sculpture, Part II Exhibition

    Saturday, April 13 & Sunday, April 14
    12-6PM
    Green Hall Gallery

    Featuring work by Nic[o] Brierre Aziz, Brenda Barrios, Jesús Hilario-Reyes, Gozié Ojini, and Alix Vernet.

     

    More information at art.yale.edu/exhibitions >

  • Graphic Design Atrium Activation Saturday, April 5 & Sunday, April 6 12-6PM 1156 Chapel St., Atrium Join MFA students in...

    Graphic Design Atrium Activation 

    Saturday, April 5 & Sunday, April 6
    12-6PM
    1156 Chapel St., Atrium

    Join MFA students in Graphic Design for a showcase of work including performances, an artist discussion pit (for students, faculty and visitors to have meaningful discussions), karaoke with projections of student's motion work, a retrospective gallery of posters designed for various SoA events during this academic year, as well as different stations and classrooms showcasing printed work, books and other publications, websites, typographic, audiovisual and sculptural work. Organized by Laura Capriles, Graphic Design MFA ’27, and Izza Alysa, Graphic Design MFA ’26.

  • Collaborative Community Canvas: An Open (Studios) Invitation, Year 4 Saturday, April 5 & Sunday, April 6 12-6PM Courtyard in front...

    Collaborative Community Canvas: An Open (Studios) Invitation, Year 4

    Saturday, April 5 & Sunday, April 6
    12-6PM
    Courtyard in front of 353 Crown Street

    Join us in the courtyard between 1156 Chapel Street and 353 Crown Street to contribute to a third year of the collaborative community canvas—open for anyone to draw on—as part of 2025 Open Studios. Draw on the canvas and take home selections from previous years'project for free, in a gesture of “leave a drawing, take a drawing."

     

    Hosted by the School of Art’s Assistant Director of Communications, Lindsey Mancini, as an extension of her art mapping project ArtAround. Free pens, stickers, and maps of public art in New Haven will also be available!

  • Crit installation: Alixe Turner & Yuna Cho

    Saturday, April 5 & Sunday, April 6
    12-6PM
    353 Crown Street, The "Pit"

    First-year MFA students in Painting/Printmaking, Alixe Turner and Yuna Cho will be exhibiting their critique presentation in the "Pit" space.

  • Origins at 63 Audubon Saturday, April 5 & Sunday, April 6 12-6PM 63 Audubon St., New Haven Origins is a...

    Origins at 63 Audubon

    Saturday, April 5 & Sunday, April 6
    12-6PM
    63 Audubon St., New Haven

    Origins is a pop-up art show featuring several Connecticut artists and will be on view at 63 Audubon Street during April 4-6 (12-6 pm) and April 11-13 (12-4 pm). 

     

    Presented by the Yale School of Art and Yale School of Management in collaboration with the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Arts Council of Greater New Haven, The Center for Inclusive Growth, Creative Arts Workshop, ACES Educational Center for the Arts, Neighborhood Music School, and The Ely Center of Contemporary Art.


  • Related events

  • Open Studios at NXTHVN SATURDAY, APRIL 5 & SUNDAY, APRIL 6 1-5PM 169 Henry Street, New Haven NXTHVN is hosting...

    Open Studios at NXTHVN

    SATURDAY, APRIL 5 & SUNDAY, APRIL 6
    1-5PM
    169 Henry Street, New Haven

    NXTHVN is hosting their Open Studios this weekend too! Visit the studios of fellows, including MFA program alums Christopher Paul Jordan MFA '23, Patrick Henry MFA '24, and Edgar Serrano MFA '10 for a glimpse of their work at NXTHVN.

     

    Additional Programming:

    Youth & Family Program: Stained Glass Inspired Creations
    Saturday, April 5, 2PM

    Children and families are invited to participate in making their own stained glass-inspired artworks in connection to the exhibition, All At Once | Reflected Through Glass.

    All At Once | Reflected Through Glass Walkthrough
    Sunday, April 6, 2PM

    NXTHVN’s Curatorial Fellow Rigoberto Luna will be available in the gallery to talk to guests about his current exhibition, All At Once.

     

    Event webpage >

  • Keyhole Artist Residency Open Studios @Ely Center of Contemporary Art Saturday, April 5 & Sunday, April 6 12-5PM 51 Trumbull...
     

    Keyhole Artist Residency Open Studios @Ely Center of Contemporary Art 

    Saturday, April 5 & Sunday, April 6

    12-5PM

    51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT 

     

    Please join ECOCA for the Keyhole Artist Residency Open Studios! Meet artists Isaac Canady, Cynthia Celone, and Jean-Pierre Solis-Sánchez and see what they are working on.

     

    Event webpage >