Digital Labs
The Digital Labs of the School of Art (http://art.yale.edu/DigLab) consist of Mac-based facilities for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the School. Each area of graduate study has its own computer lab for graduate work, and there are computers available for all-school use as well. For general course use there is a computer classroom with attached scanners and networked printers.
Painting and printmaking students have an Epson printer set up for digital printing and transparencies for printmaking processes. Sculpture students have both monochrome and color laser printers as well as video editing stations. Graphic design students can use Ricoh laser printers for proofs, smaller work, and books, and HP Designjet wide-format printers and a Ricoh engineering plotter for poster production. Photography students have an Imacon scanner for digitally scanning negatives and Epson printers for digital photo printing. All-school facilities include Ricoh laser printing, HP Designjet wide-format inkjet printing, and Dremel 3-D printers.
The graduate facilities include 11 x 17 scanners and additional equipment based on the needs of the students in the department, including laser printers, PC computers, slide scanners, and a laser cutter.
Digital projectors, cameras, displays, audio recording, a black-box production studio, and other equipment are available for short-term loan during the academic year. All students who work digitally are expected to have their own portable hard drive to store personal work.
All computer facilities are available to students twenty-four hours a day; departmental access is required for some labs. The labs are supported by digital technology team members and have individual student monitors as well.
Center for Collaborative Arts and Media
The Center for Collaborative Arts and Media at 149 York Street is an interdisciplinary arts research center that fosters critical inquiry at the intersections of visual art, design, film, music/sound, performance, and computer science. Its programs and faculty-led staff promote interdisciplinary inquiry, discourse, production, and research across expanding fields of arts practice. The center, which is open to all Yale students, has a motion studio equipped with a state-of-the-art 1,400-square-foot motion capture analysis system, an eight-channel interactive projection system, and an integrated XR experience platform; a black-box production studio equipped with various video and audio recording instruments, studio lighting, green screen, and an integrated XR experience platform; a variety of creative suites for individual use with such resources as video and audio recording instruments, animation copy stands and drawing tablets, mixers and editing instruments, integrated XR production tools, and powerful computing resources equipped to handle most 2-D and 3-D computer graphics needs; and a media lab featuring a variety of fabrication resources including wide-format inkjet printing, direct-to-substrate UV printing, 3-D prototyping, laser-cutting, vinyl-cutting, drawing tablets, scanners, and traditional bookbinding instruments.
Center for Engineering Innovation and Design
Since opening in 2012, the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID) has served as the hub for collaborative design and interdisciplinary activity at Yale University. Its goal is to enable the design, development, and actualization of ideas, from the whiteboard to the real world. Students, staff, and faculty from across Yale have access to CEID resources, participate in courses and events, and collaborate with CEID staff on a wide range of projects. The CEID acts as both an educational resource as well as a focal point for design and engineering on campus. Its 8,700-square-foot design lab combines an open studio, lecture hall, wet lab, and meeting rooms. The studio is equipped with 3-D printers, hand-tools, electronics workstations, and a variety of materials for members to use. Members have 24/7 access to the studio space, as well as to a state-of-the-art machine shop, wood shop, and wet lab during regular staffed hours.
Ralph Mayer Learning Center
Through the generosity of the late Bena Mayer, a painter and the widow of Ralph Mayer, author of The Artist’s Handbook of Techniques and Materials, The Painter’s Craft, and A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, archives related to her husband’s research and writings have been given to the Yale School of Art for the establishment of the Ralph Mayer Learning Center. The purpose of the center is to support research and writing on the use of materials, and for the study of artists’ techniques in the field of drawing and painting. A course on materials and techniques, part of the curriculum of the Yale School of Art for more than fifty years, is augmented by the center.
Original Mayer manuscripts and memorabilia are included in the collection of the Haas Family Arts Library and are available on a noncirculating basis to members of the Yale community and the public. The School offers to answer in writing inquiries regarding the use of artists’ materials. Requests for information about this service should be addressed to Anoka Faruqee, Director of Graduate Studies, Painting and Printmaking, Ralph Mayer Learning Center, PO Box 208339, New Haven CT 06520-8339.
Yale University Art Gallery
The Yale University Art Gallery was founded in 1832 as an art museum for Yale and the community. Today it is one of the largest museums in the country, holding more than 250,000 objects and welcoming visitors from around the world. The museum’s encyclopedic collection can engage every interest. Galleries showcase artworks from ancient times to the present, including vessels from Tang-dynasty China, early Italian paintings, textiles from Borneo, treasures of American art, masks from Western Africa, modern and contemporary art, ancient sculptures, masterworks by Degas, van Gogh, and Picasso, and more. Spanning one and a half city blocks, the museum features more than 4,000 works on display, multiple classrooms, a rooftop terrace, a sculpture garden, and dramatic views of New Haven and the Yale campus. The gallery’s mission is to encourage an understanding of art and its role in society through direct engagement with original works of art. Programs include exhibition tours, lectures, and performances, all free and open to the public. For more information, please visit https://artgallery.yale.edu.
Yale Center for British Art
The Yale Center for British Art is a public art museum and research institute that houses the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. Presented to the University by Paul Mellon (Yale College, Class of 1929), the collection reflects the development of British art and culture from the Elizabethan period to the present day. Free and open to the public. Offers exhibitions and programs, including lectures, concerts, films, symposia, tours, and family events. For more information, please visit https://britishart.yale.edu.
Libraries
The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library is part of the Yale University Library, which comprises fifteen million print and electronic volumes in more than a dozen different libraries and locations. The Arts Library, linking the ground floors of Rudolph Hall and the Loria Center at 180 and 190 York Street, serves as the primary collection for the study of art, architecture, and drama at Yale. The Arts Library contains approximately 150,000 on-site volumes including important reference works, monographs, exhibition catalogs, and print periodicals, and a growing complement of digital resources, including online periodicals, article indexes, and databases. It also includes Arts Library Special Collections, which features artists’ books and volumes on the book arts, fine printing, typography, and illustration, as well as archival materials and thesis projects from the Schools of Art, Architecture, and Drama. The Arts Library’s digital collections contain more than 370,000 images to support teaching and research across a range of disciplines in the arts and humanities. In addition, more than 200,000 visual arts titles are available for delivery to Haas, or any other Yale library, from the Library Shelving Facility (LSF). More than 100,000 titles are housed at Sterling Memorial Library, the Classics Library, and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The Yale University Library system makes related collections in archaeology, anthropology, fashion, film, history, and literature readily accessible to arts scholars and practitioners. To learn more, visit http://web.library.yale.edu/arts.