Emeritus professor honored by National Academy
The National Academy, an honorary association of
American artists with a museum and school of fine arts in New York City, has
awarded the 2007 Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize to Bernard Chaet, professor
emeritus of drawing and painting. This is Chaet's fifth prize from the National
Academy since 1997, and is awarded in conjunction with the 182nd Annual
Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, which was on view at the academy
museum this spring. Also included in the exhibition this year is a painting by
William Bailey ’55BFA, ’57MFA, professor emeritus of painting, who is the
winner of the Benjamin Altman Prize.
Summertime art study
Sam Messer ’81MFA, adjunct professor of painting and
associate dean, had a solo exhibition, "The Evolution of Desire," this spring
at the Nielsen Gallery in Boston. Messer just concluded his seventh year as
director of the art division at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in
Norfolk, Connecticut. Twenty-six students, all heading into their senior year
in college, participated in the intensive six-week program of painting,
drawing, printmaking, and photography. The Summer School also offers three free
programs for the community: a children's workshop, a drawing class, and a
digital photography class.
Dean curates Venice Biennale
Dean Robert Storr returned to New Haven this summer
from Europe, where he curated the 2007 Venice Biennale. Storr was the first
director from the United States in the history of the celebrated art festival.
The 52nd Biennale's public exhibition, "Think with the Senses -- Feel with
the Mind: Art in the Present Tense," presents works by about a hundred artists
from around the world. "While this show looks forward, it does not look back,"
writes Dean Storr, explaining his inclusion of living and active artists in the
show. "These art works, . . . though created in different languages, are all
conjugated in the present tense." The exhibition is on view in Venice through
November 21.
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