When the COVID-19 pandemic struck New York, MacArthur-winning performer and artist Okwui Okpokwasili ’96 B.A. was living in Brooklyn, debuting a new project called “Sitting on a Man’s Head,” which was inspired by one of many forms of protest practiced by...
When the coronavirus pandemic derailed the spring semester, the members of Whim ’n Rhythm — Yale’s all-senior, soprano-alto a cappella group — were in the process of recording their annual studio album, a musical capsule of their year together. Now, all...
The Whiffenpoofs, the country’s oldest a cappella group, celebrated its 110th anniversary this past October at Battell Chapel, with many alumni in attendance. Now, when the singers would have been preparing for their world tour, they are instead self-...
How do we respond when something terrible happens? For actor Obi Ndefo ’94 B.A., ’97 M.F.A., the answer was: “Grab onto whatever I can.”
Last August, Ndefo, known best for playing Bodie Wells on the TV drama “Dawson’s Creek” and Jaffa rebel Rak'nor on “...
Fifteen years ago, G. Kimball Hart ’70 B.A., ’80 M.P.P.M., walked into the Austin Grove Church in Bluemont, Virginia, for the first time. He was there to attend the funeral of a stone mason who had worked for him for many years.
Something about the simple...
During his sophomore year at Yale, while talking with a group of friends, Jordan Plotner ’17 B.A. felt overcome by a brain fog. A membrane surrounding his spine and brain had ruptured, causing cerebrospinal fluid to leak and his brainstem to compress...
Yale women interested in filmmaking had to overcome numerous roadblocks in the early years following the coeducation of Yale College in 1969. Namely, filmmaking as a practice at Yale had not yet been embraced as an art form, although students studied film...
Marion Belanger ’90 M.F.A. and Martha Lewis ’93 M.F.A. had traveled in the same New Haven art circles for years, but it wasn’t until both applied to create an installation for the New Haven Agricultural Experiment Station that the two decided to join...