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Here is the work of senior class

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Students originally in class of 2021: about 10. of art majors

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The five concentrations in the undergraduate Art major follow closely, but divert from, the four graduate programs in the larger umbrella that houses our depart- ment: the School of Art. These are Painting /Printmaking, Sculpture, Photography, Graphic Design, and in the College, Filmmaking. graduated from Yale College in the Spring of 2022

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which includes eight Computing and the Arts majors on the visual arts track. These capstone bodies of work exhibited at Green hall Gallery represent the culmination of at least four

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Some of these young artists were originally slated to graduate last year, but stepped away for one or more terms during the pandemic year of remote learning. years of study at Yale through open eyes and hearts and minds,

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Much of this cohort feels an affinity with their areas of study, but often breaks boundaries to work interdisciplinary, and/or in the digital, virtual space. ups and downs, failures and successes, relationships,

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Faculty advisors/thesis critics: Justin Berry, Julian Bittiner, Dannielle Bowman, Sandra Burns, Yeju Choi, Alice Chung, Oscar Cornejo, Anoka Faruqee, Neil Goldberg, Dana Karwas, Matthew Keegan, Desmond Lewis, Corey McCorkle, Rosa McElheny, Meleko Mokgosi, Sophy Naess, Ted Partin, Halsey Rodman, Aki Sasamoto, Danna Singer, Federico Solmi, A.L Steiner, Sarah Stevens-Morling, Elizabeth Tuburgen, Alex Valentine, Henk Van Assen, Anahita Vossoughi. deep

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Speaking of notes, in the fall semester, in our weekly Friday morning (timing much to their chagrin) Senior Seminar, each student, was asked to prepare a 15-minute Powerpoint presentation about their work–their initial thesis project ideas, research, influences, questions, and the artwork created in courses at Yale that led them to this point. conversations, listening and feeling and thought , and most importantly, their practice in the studio

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Studio locations: 341 Crown, formerly Yale Art Gallery offices (destined to be Drama School space); Green Hall, 1156 Chapel St., Rooms G02, 211, 216, 217 and out in the field.

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Future plans include: Grad school, start-up, live on an island, be an artist, create an artist residency, curate shows, do fun stuff on the web, become a surgeon, become a tattoo artist/med school, unsure hahaha. Their work this year was made against, and despite (and even sometimes in response to,) the backdrop of the tides of the Pandemic

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4,784 Covid cases at Yale from Aug 1, 2021 until March 27, 2022 as it drags out

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Students originally in class of 2020: 2 (Daniel Lee and Aliaksandra Tucha) Students originally in class of 2021: about 10. of a post-Trump political landscape

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Popular vote: 2016; Hillary Clinton: 65,853,514; Donald Trump: 62,984,828 (from https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2016.pdf via wikipedia)
2020: Joseph Biden 81,268,924; Donald Trump 74,216,154 (from https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2020presgeresults.pdf via wikipedia) that often felt like it was not in the past very must at all, of the overdue Black Lives Matter and social justice movement, and finally, now, shockingly, but perhaps quite expectedly, War.

–Lisa Kereszi

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Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art