Artist Community Dream Space

1-5PM
36 Edgewood Ave., Basement Gallery

A creative collaborative space with open mic vibes and collaging materials, recycled supplies, big paper on walls, and community art works in progress. A creative space to chill, rest, and a low pressure way to maybe try something new! By Allyse Corbin, artist, photographer, and our Senior Administrative Assistant in Sculpture and Photography.

Songbird

2PM
1156 Chapel St., Graphic Design Atrium

A performance of voice and text tracing the experience of political exile through the act of speaking itself, drawing on personal and collective testimonies practiced aloud, together. By Izza Alyssa, Graphic Design MFA '26.

Faith Couch + Cierra Britton: The Ordinary as Radical in Visual Practice

2-3:30PM
36 Edgewood Ave., Room 204

Join artist Faith Couch, Photography MFA '26, for a conversation on Black self-representation in contemporary art, moderated by curator Cierra Britton. Couch will discuss her practice of centering intimacy, memory, and the ordinary gestures of Black life, sharing how her work navigates history, archive, and visual culture. Britton will guide the discussion, highlighting the ways self-depiction functions as a form of presence, agency, and radical storytelling in art today.

Promenade

4PM
1156 Chapel St., Green Hall Gallery Basement

Taking small objects for a walk. By Camille Gwise, Graphic Design MFA '26, with Charitssa Stone, Graphic Design MFA '27, Izza Alyssa, Graphic Design MFA '26, Siyu Chen, Painting/Printmaking MFA '27, Stella Mi Chen, Graphic Design MFA '27, Saskia Globig, Graphic Design MFA '25, and Taisha Carrington, Sculpture MFA '26.

Safelight

12-2PM
1156 Chapel St., Room G36 (basement level)

A site-specific installation by Sonia Rosa Kahn, Painting/Printmaking MFA '27, and Rosemary Haynes, Photography MFA '27, featuring moving image works in the Photography department's darkroom, G36. Kahn and Haynes share a reverence for analog processes and an enchantment with the tactile bounds of light sensitive materials. In Fall of 2025 the artists presented a pair of moving image works in G36 as a part of the critical practices course, "Moving Bodies." Safelight is an expansion upon and further realization of these pieces Kahn and Haynes included in this show. The artists invite you to join them in their ventures under the safe light, haptically and optically.

Calligraphy Workshop

1-2PM
1156 Chapel St., Graphic Design Atrium

Join Grace Han, Graphic Design MFA '27, for a calligraphy workshop exploring the materiality of letterforms.

Paul Rand Lecture Series Fashion Show

2PM
1156 Chapel St., main hallway

A series of garments created for the Graphic Design Paul Rand Lecture Series posters for the Spring 2026 semester. Exploring people as living archives and gatherings as markers of time. By Izza Alyssa, Graphic Design MFA '26.

Graphic Design Video Screening

4-5PM
1156 Chapel St., Graphic Design Atrium

A series of moving images, films, and video made by graphic designer MFA students at the Yale School of Art. By Izza Alyssa, Graphic Design MFA '26, with Sebastian Lijo, Graphic Design MFA '27, and Nakaya Lynch, Graphic Design MFA '28.

Collaborative Community Canvas:
An Open (Studios) Invitation, Year 5 🥳

Courtyard in front of 353 Crown Street

Join us in the courtyard between 1156 Chapel Street and 353 Crown Street to contribute to a fifth year of our collaborative community canvas—paper and canvas portals open for anyone to draw on—as part of 2026 Open Studios. Draw on the canvas and take home pieces from previous years' projects 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 dissertation research and art mapping project, ArtAround. To celebrate our fifth year of creating outside together, special ArtAround enamel pins will be available to the first 30 friends to drop by. As always, pens, stickers, and maps of public art in New Haven will also be available!

Tender Hell: 2026 MFA Exhibition in Graphic Design

Green Hall Gallery

Featuring work by Izza Alyssa, Gabriella N. Baez, Denzel Boyd, Rebecca Cheng, Ellen Fabini, Amy Fang, Camille J. Gwise, Hana Jelovšek, David Wonsik Jung, Hasti Kasraei, Heejae Kim, Cierra Peters, Michael Stevens, Priscilla Young, Xiwen Zhang, and Hongting Zhu.

More information at art.yale.edu/exhibitions >

In the Weeds

32 Edgewood Gallery

An exhibition of work by the students in the Graphic Design course, "Exhibition Design: Space to Place."

Soft Landing at 63 Audubon

63 Audubon St., New Haven

A juried community exhibition organized by Moshopefoluwa Olagunju, Painting/Printmaking MFA ‘27

Soft Landing brings together artists working across painting, sculpture, photography, and textile-based practices to explore fabric as a site where comfort, memory, and history intertwine. Rather than a passive backdrop, fabric emerges as an active material, one that protects, records, and transforms.

Featuring work by Laura Capriles, Young Grace Cho, Alec Dai, Madeline Eldridge, Ana Espinal, Lauren Flaaen, Heather Hope Gendron, Grace Han, LEV, Inkpa Mani, Gabriella Mazza, Michelle Beaulieu Morgan, Nadine Nelson, Jeff Ostergren, Raymond Pinto, Alexzandria Robin, Margaret Roleke, Sok Song, Christl Stringer, Reggie Woolery, and Gee’s Bend Quilt from the collection of Catherine Nelson.

Soft Landings is open at 63 Audubon: March 30 – May 6, 2026, Mondays through Thursdays, 2-6 PM.

63 Audubon is a community art space managed by the School of Art in collaboration with the School of Management.

Full exhibition information >