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READINGS
Staged Readings: Works by Windham-Campbell Drama Prizewinners
Tuesday, September 20, 7:00 pm
The Yale School of Drama presents an evening of staged readings of short pieces by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Hannah Moscovitch, and Abbie Spallen. After their readings, the playwrights and a group of directors and actors answer questions from the audience. Presented in collaboration with the Donald Windham–Sandy Campbell Literature Prizes.
Please use the entrance at 201 York Street or 56 High Street to access the Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall.
Learn More about the Windham-Campbell Festival >
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GALLERY TALK
Windham-Campbell Prizewinner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on Titus Kaphar
Wednesday, September 21, 12:30 pm
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, winner of the 2016 Donald Windham–Sandy Campbell Literature Prize for Drama, examines the work of New Haven–based artist Titus Kaphar, M.F.A. 2006. Jacobs-Jenkins discusses what he sees in the work and outlines the ways that Kaphar’s concerns dovetail with those he addresses in his plays. Presented in collaboration with the Windham-Campbell Prizes.
Space is limited. Please meet in the Gallery lobby.
Learn More about the Work of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins >
Learn More about the Work of Titus Kaphar >
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READINGS
Closing Event: Windham-Campbell Prizewinners Readings
Wednesday, September 21, 7:00 pm
The Donald Windham–Sandy Campbell Literature Prize Festival traditionally closes with short readings by all of the prizewinners. Hilton Als, Stanley Crouch, Helen Garner, Tessa Hadley, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, C. E. Morgan, Hannah Moscovitch, Jerry Pinto, and Abbie Spallen share their work. Michael Kelleher, Program Director of the Windham-Campbell Prizes, moderates the event. Presented in collaboration with the Windham-Campbell Prizes.
Please use the entrance at 201 York Street or 56 High Street to access the Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall.
Learn More about the Windham-Campbell Prizewinners >
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MEMBERS PROGRAM
Trivia Night
Thursday, September 22, 5:30–7:00 pm
All are welcome to another evening of trivia, fun, and facts, hosted by the Gallery’s free membership program. Registration is not required. Please meet in the Gallery lobby.
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(INTER)SECTIONS
(Inter)sections with Carl Hancock Rux
Friday, September 23, 1:30 pm
Join Hayden Visiting Artist Carl Hancock Rux, interdisciplinary artist and collaborator in Carrie Mae Weems’s Grace Notes: Reflections for Now, in conversation with Key Jo Lee, Ph.D. candidate in the Departments of the History of Art and African American Studies and Wurtele Gallery Teacher. (Inter)sections is a new series of programs that promotes interdisciplinary dialogue. Featuring artists, curators, scholars, students, and writers, the series is a generative forum that engages the Gallery’s expansive collection and offers a unique blend of perspectives on culture, identity, and power to critically reflect on the human experience. By boldly exploring complex and challenging issues in unconventional ways, Inter(sections) reconsiders the art world today.
Space is limited. Please meet in the Gallery lobby.
Learn More about Reflections for Now Programs >
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TOURS
Furniture Study Tour
Friday, September 23, 12:30 pm
Go behind the scenes of the American Decorative Arts Furniture Study, the Gallery’s working library of American furniture and wooden objects, which features more than 1,100 works from the 17th to the 21st century. Space is limited. Please meet at the Information Desk in the Gallery lobby.
Learn More about the Furniture Study >
Highlights Tours
Thursday, September 22, 6:30 pm
Friday, September 23, 3:30 pm
Saturday, September 24, 1:30 and 2:30 pm
Sunday, September 25, 1:30 and 2:30 pm
Join our educators and student guides for an interactive tour of the Gallery’s history, architecture, and encyclopedic collection. Focusing on a handful of objects chosen to showcase both the permanent collection and special exhibitions currently on view, no two tours are the same. Please meet at the Information Desk in the Gallery lobby.
View Collection Highlights >
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SAVE THE DATE: STUDIO PROGRAM
Sketching in the Galleries
Thursday, September 29, 5:30 pm
Participate in the tradition of drawing from original works of art. Sam Messer, M.F.A. 1982, Associate Dean of the Yale University School of Art, guides visitors in an evening of sketching at the Gallery. Materials are provided.
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SAVE THE DATE: STUDIO PROGRAMS
Shaping Block-Front Furniture
Friday, October 7, 12:30 and 2:00 pm
In conjunction with the exhibition Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, master cabinetmaker Allan Breed demonstrates the sawing-out and shaping of block-front case furniture, a form of decoration particular to colonial New England, at the Gallery’s Furniture Study. Space is limited. Registration required; please call 203.432.9525.
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MEMBERSHIP
Experience all that the Gallery has to offer!
Free membership extends the Gallery’s philosophy of free admission one step further, allowing everyone who wants to belong the opportunity to join.
Be the first to learn about upcoming exhibitions, programs, and events. Receive the Gallery’s tri-annual magazine, discounts in the Bookstore, and more.
Learn More and Become a Free Member >
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830
Through Sunday, January 8, 2017
Learn More >
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Images: View of the Jan and Frederick Mayer Lobby, Yale University Art Gallery | Windham-Campbell Prizewinners Abbie Spallen, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and Hannah Moscovitch. Image courtesy Windham-Campbell Prizes, windhamcampbell.org | (Left) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Image courtesy Windham-Campbell Prizes, windhamcampbell.org; (right) Titus Kaphar, Another Fight for Remembrance, 2015. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery, Purchased with a gift from the Arthur and Constance Zeckendorf Foundation | 2016 Windham-Campbell Prizewinners: (top row) C.E. Morgan, Tessa Hadley, Helen Garner; (middle row) Jerry Pinto, Hilton Als, Hannah Moscovitch; (bottom row) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Abbie Spallen, and Stanley Crouch. Image courtesy Windham-Campbell Prizes, windhamcampbell.org | Trivia Night in the ancient art galleries, Yale University Art Gallery | View of the modern and contemporary art galleries, featuring Carrie Mae Weems’s Slave Coast series (1993) and Martin Puryear’s Le prix (2006), Yale University Art Gallery | Tour in the American paintings and sculpture galleries, Yale University Art Gallery | Sketching in the Galleries program, modern and contemporary art galleries, Yale University Art Gallery | Chest of Drawers, Newport or Providence, Rhode Island, 1755–85. Mahogany, yellow poplar, eastern white pine, chestnut. Yale University Art Gallery, Mabel Brady Garvan Collection | Members preview, Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, Yale University Art Gallery | View of the exhibition Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, Yale University Art Gallery
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