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The Yale School of Art banner, carried each year by a graduating student during commencement exercises, seen outside of Green Hall.The Yale School of Art banner, carried each year by a graduating student during commencement exercises, seen outside of Green Hall.
The Yale School of Art banner, carried each year by a graduating student during commencement exercises, seen outside of Green Hall.

The Yale School of Art celebrates its graduating class of 2021 with a commencement address by writer and musician Greg Tate.

Class of 2021 Student Speaker: Amina Ross, Sculpture MFA

Faculty Marshal: Sophy Naess, Senior Critic, Painting/Printmaking

Student Marshal: Emma Safir, Painting/Printmaking MFA

Banner Bearer: Herdimas Anggara, Graphic Design MFA

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2021 Commencement ceremony streaming online at >

yaleart.org/2021Commencement

Read the Art & Education announcement >

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Documentation of the 2021 Yale School of Art commencement ceremony on Old Campus.Documentation of the 2021 Yale School of Art commencement ceremony on Old Campus.
Photos by Angela Chen, Photography MFA ‘20.

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

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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

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Photography

Mickey Aloisio

Ronghui Chen

Tarah Douglas

Jackie Furtado

Max Gavrich

Nabil Harb

Dylan Hausthor

Annie Ling

Alex Nelson

Rosemary Warren

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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

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Hand-foiled 2021 Commencement program, photographed on concrete.Hand-foiled 2021 Commencement program, photographed on concrete.
The 2021 Commencement program, designed and created by Anezka Minarikova and Bianca Ibarlucea, Graphic Design MFAs ‘21.

The Yale School of Art celebrated its graduating class of 2021 with a commencement address by writer and musician Greg Tate.

The 2021 School of Art commencement took 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 were limited to graduating students only, graduates’ families, friends, and members of the public were invited to watch the ceremony live, as it was broadcast on the Yale 2021 website.

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Greg Tate is a writer and musician who lives in Harlem. A founding member of the Black Rock Coalition, Tate played guitar and co-led the BRC affiliate band Women In Love which included future Burnt Sugar members Mikel Banks, Jason Di Matteo and Lewis Flip Barnes. In 1999 he and Jared Nickerson formed Burnt Sugar which has, to date, produced 16 albums under Tate’s direction on Burnt Sugar’s own Avant Groidd imprint. Greg Tate was a Staff Writer at the Village Voice from 1987-2003. His writings on culture and politics have also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Artforum, Rolling Stone, VIBE, Premiere, Essence, Suede, The Wire, One World, Downbeat, and JazzTimes. He was recently acknowledged by The Sourcemagazine as one of the ‘Godfathers of Hiphop Journalism’ for his groundbreaking work on the genre’s social, political, economic and cultural implications.

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