Faculty and alumni in the news
Nontsikelelo Mutiti ’12MFA, director of graduate studies in graphic design, recently returned from a global symposium in Johannesburg, South Africa, hosted by Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Mutitiparticipated in the symposium’s second session, “From Heritage to Fashion: The Making of MaXhosa Africa,” alongside Laduma Ngxokolo, founder of MaXhosa Africa. Mutiti also celebrated the opening of a special commission at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia this winter. On view through December 2024, Entryways is the inaugural project for a new series that commissions artists to activate the façade of ICA’s building in partnership with Maharam, North America’s leading creator of textiles for commercial and residential interiors.
Meleko Mokgosi, director of graduate studies in painting/printmaking, was recently announced as an awardee of the 2024 Creative Capital grant. The funds will work to support Mokgosi’s project “De-futuring and Wilding Futurisms” which aims to make interventions through a reconsideration of how African art and African culture in general has been influential to the dominant notions of Western aesthetics.
MFA alums and faculty members were announced as participating artists for upcoming large-scale biennials and triennials. Torkwase Dyson ’03MFA, Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio ’16MFA, and Dala Nasser ’21MFA have been selected as participating artists for the 2024 Whitney Biennial, Even Better Than the Real Thing. The citywide contemporary art triennial, Prospect New Orleans, also announced this month that Aparicio, former faculty member Abigail DeVille ’11MFA, Meleko Mokgosi (director of graduate studies in painting/printmaking), Didier William ’09MFA, and Ashley Teamer ’22MFA have been selected to participate in the sixth edition of Prospect, entitled the future is present, the harbinger is home.
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