Yale Norfolk School of Art Summer 2026
Lecture Series: “Seeing Through,” May 23–July 3, 2026 Norfolk, CT
Faculty Deadline to Nominate: February 2, 2026
Student Deadline to Apply: February 15, 2026
Byron Kim and Lisa Sigal, the Yale Norfolk School of Art co-directors, are pleased to announce the 2026 session. Yale Norfolk will accommodate 26 students who will live in cottages and dormitories on the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate and work in the Art Barn. Only students planning to graduate in 2027 are eligible for nomination.
Students will follow a curriculum of Yale College art courses, including Critical Studies, Advanced Image Making, and Senior Studio. They will work in individual studio spaces with access to a loom, digital printers, computers, and traditional printmaking facilities.
The resident faculty for 2026 will be Byron Kim, Lisa Sigal, and Ayham Ghraowi, joined by four Teaching Fellows selected from graduates of Yale’s esteemed MFA program.
2026 Theme: Seeing Through
“Seeing Through” draws inspiration from Martinique-born French philosopher Édouard Glissant, who wrote about opacity and its inverse, transparency: “the opaque is not the obscure; rather, it is that which cannot be reduced.” His writing reclaims the right to opacity and questions the injustices of Western thought’s demand for transparency when evaluating people. Fred Moten extends this concept, treating transparency and opacity as processes of seeing and knowing—of seeing through something. The theme can also be interpreted as persistence: seeing something through. Curriculum and readings will be developed around this theme.