DESIGN proposalYale University School of Art

Yakun Chen

Main Audience

Yale University School of Art’s main audience consists of three groups. The first group the website primarily serve for is the current students who are enrolled in the Yale arts school, the faculties, and also other students who are in Yale. The second group of visitors would be composed of the perspective students who have interests in enrolling the school, for instance the junior or senior students in high school or the students in college consid- ering transferring to the Yale arts school. The third group composed of people who are interactively engaged in the realm from different social groups, which includes the alumni, the parents, the people who are interested in arts.

Core Needs

Considering the three groups of people the website should serve for, there is a large amount of information should be included. The priority for the website should be pro-viding information and resources for the current students and faculties, including the course information, upcoming events, and online project showcase.In addition, the admission information should be count as another important part of the site, which should be clear, straightforward, and supportive. The third trait the website should have, is the well-considered and cleverly designed pages providing information of events, calendar and visiting direction, which could fulfill the majority needs of all groups.

Proposal

All of them should have an expectation of a beautifully designed website from which people could get a sense of the aesthetic appreciation of the art program. Rather than being dissected by disturbing clutter and confused by mass amount of informa-tion and unnecessary categories, the visitors should be able to reach the information they need only in a few clicks. Right now the website design is very disturbing and a lot of links are not even functional. To avoid receptive or lacks of information, we created a site map for the original site to lay all the information out in order to help us recreate the site. Although the current appearance of the website might be designed on purpose, we would like to, based on the customize-encouraging feature, recreate the site has aesthet- ic and clean appearance, functional and well-directed category, and hierarchical and non-cluttered information.

ABOUTCURRENT STUDENTALUMNISFACULTY & STAFFGALLERY

I separated the menu into two groups. One group contains About, Current Student, Alumnis, Faculty & Staff, and Gallery. The other group is more about information, such as Admission, Course, Visiting, and Archives. The menu’s font is Code Bold, and the rest part is Oriya Sangam MN.For color, I chose a bright orange-red as the dominant hue of the website. I tried to combine eye-catching color blocks with thin lines, while some of them contain responsive design in the future.

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Yale University School of Art

History The study of the visual arts at Yale had its beginning with the opening, in 1832, of the Trumbull Gallery, one of the earliest art museums in the Anglo-Saxon world and the first (and long the only one) connected with a college in this country. It was founded by patriot-artist Colonel John Trumbull, one-time aide-de-camp to General Washington, with the help of Professor Benjamin Silliman, the celebrated scientist. A singularly successful art exhibition held in 1858 under the direction of the College Librarian, Daniel Coit Gilman, led to the establishment of an art school in 1864, through the generosity of Augustus Russell Street, a native of New Haven and grad-uate of Yale’s Class of 1812. This new educational program was placed in the hands of an art council, one of whose members was the painter-inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, a graduate of Yale College. When the Yale School of the Fine Arts opened in 1869, it was the first art school connected with an institution of higher learning in the country, and classes in drawing, painting, sculpture, and art history were inaugu-rated. The art collections in the old Trumbull Gallery were moved into a building en-dowed by Augustus Street and so named Street Hall, and were greatly augmented by the acquisition of the Jarves Collection of early Italian paintings in 1871.

Architectural instruction was begun in 1908 and was established as a department in 1916 with Everett Victor Meeks at its head. Drama, under the direction of George Pierce Baker and with its own separate building, was added in 1925 and continued to function as a department of the School until it became an independent school in 1955. In 1928 a new art gallery was opened, built by Egerton Swartwout and funded through the generosity of Edward S. Harkness. It was connected to Street Hall by a bridge above High Street, and Street Hall was used for instruction in art. The pro-gram in architecture was moved to Weir Hall, designed by George Douglas Miller. A large addition to the Art Gallery, designed by Louis I. Kahn in collaboration with Douglas Orr, and funded by the family of James Alexander Campbell and other friends of the arts at Yale, was opened in 1953. Several floors were used by the

HISTORYMISSION STATEMENTPROGRAMSTUDY AREATUITION & FINANCIAL AID

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Yale University School of Art

HISTORYMISSION STATEMENTPROGRAMSTUDY AREATUITION & FINANCIAL AIDt

Graphic Design PhotographyPainting & Printmaking Sculpture Film, Video, Interdisciplinary

PAINTING AND PRINTMAKING (MFA)

Instruction in the program is rooted in the investigation of painting as a unique genre with its own complex syntax and history. Within this setting, the program encourages diversity of practice and interpretation, innovation, and experimentation on the part of students.

Approximately twenty-one students are admitted each year. At the core of instruction are individual and group critiques with faculty, visiting critics, and visiting artists. In addition, students participate in a variety of seminars taught by both faculty and critics. The study of printmaking is integrated into the painting program, and a student may concentrate in painting, printmak-ing, or a combination of the two.

Students work in individual 300-square-foot studios at 353 Crown Street adjacent to Green Hall. Students have access to a printmaking workshop in the Crown Street building, equipped with two etching presses and a lithog-raphy press, a fully equipped silkscreen facility, as well as digital resources available in the print studio, the throughout the School and the Digital Media Center for the Arts (DMCA).

Credit Requirements

42 credits in area of concentration, including Art 949a, and 18 additional credits, including a minimum of 6 academic credits in courses outside the School of Art.

Typical Plan of Study

Photography

Instruction in the program is rooted in the investigation of painting as a unique genre with its own complex syntax and history. Within this setting, the program encourages diversity of practice and interpretation, innovation, and experimentation on the part of students.

Approximately twenty-one students are admitted each year. At the core of instruction are individual and group critiques with faculty, visiting critics, and visiting artists. In addition, students participate in a variety of seminars taught by both faculty and critics. The study of printmaking is integrated into the painting program, and a student may concentrate in painting, printmak-ing, or a combination of the two.

Students work in individual 300-square-foot studios at 353 Crown Street adjacent to Green Hall. Students have access to a printmaking workshop in the Crown Street building, equipped with two etching presses and a lithog-raphy press, a fully equipped silkscreen facility, as well as digital resources available in the print studio, the throughout the School and the Digital Media Center for the Arts (DMCA).

Credit Requirements

42 credits in area of concentration, including Art 949a, and 18 additional credits, including a minimum of 6 academic credits in courses outside the School of Art.

Typical Plan of Study

PAINTING AND PRINTMAKING (MFA)

Instruction in the program is rooted in the investigation of painting as a unique genre with its own complex syntax and history. Within this setting, the program encourages diversity of practice and interpretation, innovation, and experimentation on the part of students.

Approximately twenty-one students are admitted each year. At the core of instruction are individual and group critiques with faculty, visiting critics, and visiting artists. In addition, students participate in a variety of seminars taught by both faculty and critics. The study of printmaking is integrated into the painting program, and a student may concentrate in painting, printmak-ing, or a combination of the two.

Students work in individual 300-square-foot studios at 353 Crown Street adjacent to Green Hall. Students have access to a printmaking workshop in the Crown Street building, equipped with two etching presses and a lithog-raphy press, a fully equipped silkscreen facility, as well as digital resources available in the print studio, the throughout the School and the Digital Media Center for the Arts (DMCA).

Credit Requirements

42 credits in area of concentration, including Art 949a, and 18 additional credits, including a minimum of 6 academic credits in courses outside the School of Art.

Typical Plan of Study

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Course

Visiting

Archives

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GRAPHIC DESIGN

Preliminary YearMegan BillmanLaura FoxgroverJerome HarrisAllyn HughesQiong LiAlexandra Portis

First YearSeungEun ChungMarvin deJongRichard EspinosaJonathan GormanYotam HadarJenny HungYuanchen JiangHyoungKee KimJiyoni KimErin KnutsonLoide MarwangaRyan Gerald NelsonEric NylundMichela PovoleriNejc PrahTimothy RipperRia RobertsJohn Paul WolforthSecond YearNir BittonYu-Yeon ChoJoao Doria de SouzaShira InbarMarina KitchenKellie KonapelskySean KuhnkeScott LangerMinHee LeeEsther LewisMartha McGillHouman MomtazianGina Moreno-ValleBenjamin NiznikSunny ParkGrace Robinson-LeoLacey Waterman

PAINTING AND PRINTMAKING

First YearHenry ChapmanMaria CornejoBrandon CoxKatherine DavisSarah FauxSean FitzgeraldMarcela FloridoDanielle FriedmanPatrick GrothCamille HoffmanFox HysenMarisa MansoJohanna Povirk-ZnoyLuke RogersTschabalala SelfMartha TuttleSamantha VernonDavid WalshWilliam WardensKyle WilliamsLuyi Xu

Second YearDarja BajagicStephen BenensonJordan CasteelJose DeVeraAaron FowlerMariana Garibay RaekeAna Maria Gomez LopezHeidi HahnOlof IngerHaley JosephsJinhee KangJacob KonstJaeNa KwonLance MarchelJames MillerCathleen MoosesJenna PirelloDevan ShimoyamaNicholas SteindorfEmmy Thelander

PHOTOGRAPHY

First YearDavid AlekhuogieZak ArctanderQuinn GorbuttIsabel MagowanSarah MeyohasElle PerezBryson RandDavid SoffaIlona SzwarcAnne Thornton

Second YearErin DesmondAwol ErizkuGenevieve GaignardHannah HummelFumikazu IshinoCasey McGonagleTyler MooreHannah PriceMelissa StultzEvan Whale

SCULPTURE

First YearConstanza AlarconDaniel BeckwithMargaret BennettJoseph BuckleyShahrzad ChangalvaeeElizabeth DeVitaAndrew HawkesAnthony HopeJonathan MildenbergHans-Jacob SchmidtLivia UngurSecond YearJerry BlackmanAllen ChenShih-Hsiung ChouLauren HalseyMichael HandleyErin HenryYutaka KawahitoShehrezad MaherMaya ManviOren PinhassiMark Starling

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