Communications Office

Intended for our internal audience here at the School, “Week at SoA” is a weekly email for students, faculty, and staff published during the academic year, listing MFA crit schedules, visiting artist lectures, School of Art events as well as public and university events in New Haven.

The mailing list for “Week at SoA” is recreated each fall to be sent to the School’s current faculty, students, and staff for the upcoming academic year. Current MFA students, full-semester faculty members, and staff members you are automatically subscribed to this list with your yale.edu email address at the beginning of each semester. If you are not part of these groups you will need to re-enroll in this list each September.

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Intended for a public audience including friends and supporters of the School, “News from New Haven” is a monthly newsletter about news and events happening on the School of Art campus.

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The School of Art Community Calendar contains those internal events open only to current students, staff, and faculty at the school >>

The Public Events Calendar contains events hosted by the School of Art that are open to the public >>

The School of Art in the World calendar and archive contains exhibitions, events, publications, and initiatives led by SoA alums and current faculty and staff >>

Events open to the public are also posted:

• on the School’s Facebook events calendar >>

• and on the School of Art’s Yale Calendar listings >>

Some events are open to the Yale community, but closed to the general public, those events are only posted on the SoA Community Calendar and the Yale Calendar.

As the Communications Office is officially charged with overseeing the School of Art’s wiki, we’ve put together the following resources for wiki editing for SoA community members:

• Editing the Wiki >>

• Ensuring Digital Accessibility >>

• Wiki Module examples >>

Because of the wiki’s open nature, anything you create can be edited by another member of the community.

However, each version of a page is archived, and by clicking the “Page history” button located in the bottom right when you’re logged into the wiki on a desktop, you can find old versions of pages to recover lost content.

Additionally, in viewing the wiki, every module has a button called “Editor details” in its bottom-right corner. Click this to see which member of the community edited this module, and who has access to edit it (as some pages and modules can only be edited by SoA staff and faculty).

Information on who last changed a page and its background is also archived on each page.

The official School of Art pages on the wiki have been organized by audience:

• About the School: For current students, faculty, and staff, and those interested in learning more about the Yale School of Art.

• Apply to the School: For prospective students.

and finally:

• Exhibitions, Publications, and News: For all constituencies including the general public in New Haven and abroad.

Visit the Sitemap to see all of the pages officially managed by School of Art staff >>

The School of Art requests that any students who create digital projects on the wiki archive them here to prevent them from becoming lost in the digital ether:

• Click “Edit this page” and add your wiki project here >>

Because the wiki in many ways exists as an ongoing collaborative artwork—while also serving the functional purpose of providing vital information about the School—it has been the subject of numerous reviews since it first came online as the Yale School of Art’s official website in 2006.

In the spirit of embracing critique of one’s work, here are a few of our favorites:

• “…so inexplicably horrific that it must be intentional…” —Josh Centers, TidBITS, Feb. 17, 2020

• “…Yale’s school of art is hip to the times, as evidenced by its post-internet, irony-saturated website populated with random GIFs” — Margaret Carrigan, Artsy, Aug. 29, 2017

• “Wow! I just saw your webpage - can’t unsee! - I certainly hope you aren’t teaching web design! Yale should be embarrassed!” — A woman who very much does not recommend us on Facebook, Feb. 8, 2017

• “Yale Art Dept Website Has “Officially Cemented Trolling as an Art Form” —Hrag Vartanian, Hyperallergic, Nov. 10, 2010

With the start of the 2019-2020 academic year, the School of Art changed the way the its Instagram (@yaleschoolofart) functions to give all community members the opportunity to participate.

All members of the School of Art community to submit content for the School of Art’s Instagram, as part of a new ongoing hashtag series: #spottedatSoA. All current and recent students, faculty, and staff members at the School of Art can use the form below to submit photos for posting.

In the time of COVID, #spottedatSoA has expanded to include any image that relates to the work you’re undertaking here at the School (whether that’s on-campus or off).

Submit to #spottedatSoA >>

Official, staff-run accounts include:

• @yaleschoolofart on Instagram

• Yale School of Art on Facebook

• Yale School of Art on YouTube

Faculty-run accounts include:

• @yaleanimation on Instagram, by Michael Rader, Lecturer in Film/Video/Interdisciplinary

There are also a number of student-run accounts, including that of

• the Graphic Design department: Yale—Graphic Design on Tumblr

• the Painting/Printmaking department: @yalepainting on Instagram

• the Photography department: @yalephoto on Instagram

• the Sculpture department: @yalesculpture on Instagram

Additional student-run social media includes:

• the MFA Photo YouTube channel