May 24, 2021, 4pm
1156 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut
United States
The Yale School of Art celebrates its graduating class of 2021 with a commencement address by writer and musician Greg Tate.
The 2021 candidates for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts:
Graphic Design: Herdimas Anggara, Milo Bonacci, Luiza Dale, Bianca Ibarlucea, Furqan Jawed, Harin Jung, Jun Jung, Minhwan Kim, Ana Lobo, Nick Massarelli, Anezka Minarikova, Mengyi Qian, Anna Sagström, Mianwei Wang
Painting/Printmaking: Vamba Bility, Brianna Rose Brooks, David Craig, Danielle De Jesus, Nathaniel Donnett, Leyla Faye, Kate Meissner, Mich Miller, Gabriel Mills, Dala Nasser, Alina Perez, Tamen Pérez, Sara Rahmanian, Jonathan Rajewski, Emma Safir, Chibuike Uzoma, Curtis Welteroth
Photography: Mickey Aloisio, Ronghui Chen, Tarah Douglas, Jackie Furtado, Max Gavrich, Nabil Harb, Dylan Hausthor, Annie Ling, Alex Nelson, Rosemary Warren
Sculpture: Cameron Clayborn, Armando Cortés, Kevin Hernández Rosa, Sae Jun Kim, Diana Sofia Lozano, Hyeree Ro, Amina Ross, Audrey Ryan, Jeenho Seo, Freddy Villalobos, Stella Zhong
The 2021 School of Art commencement will take place as part of Yale University’s larger in-person commencement exercises on Old Campus in New Haven on Monday, May 24—held with safety precautions in place including limited attendance, social distancing, and masks. While all in-person ceremonies are limited to graduating students only, graduates’ families, friends, and members of the public are invited to watch the ceremony live, as it’s broadcast on the Yale 2021 website.
Graduates will hear addresses from Yale School of Art Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean and Professor of Art Marta Kuzma, invited commencement speaker Greg Tate, and student speaker Amina Ross.
About commencement speaker Greg Tate
Greg Tate is a writer, musician and cultural provocateur who lives on Harlem’s Sugar Hill. His books include Flyboy In The Butterrmilk (1992), Everything But The Burden: What White People Are Taking From Black Culture (2004) and Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader (Duke University Press, 2016). Tate has also led the conducted improv band Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber since 1999, and is a proud member of Howard University’s Bison Nation. He has been a visiting faculty member at Yale, Columbia, Brown, Williams, and, most recently, Princeton (where he taught The Loud Black And Proud Musicology of Amiri Baraka) and New York University where he debuted the course A Brief History of Woke Black Music.
