创立时期

耶鲁大学最初由康涅狄格州公理会教友于1701年创立，1716年迁至康涅狄格州的纽黑文 New Haven。

耶鲁的美术学院建立

耶鲁大学在视觉艺术领域的研究始于 1832 年特朗布尔艺廊的启用。美国慈善家Augustus Russell Street 于 1864 年捐赠一笔款项用于建立艺术学院，学院建立之初于由艺术委员会管理，委员会其中一成员萨缪尔·摩斯，同时也是摩斯密码发明人，即为耶鲁大学校友。同为耶鲁大学校友的安德鲁·迪克森·怀特当时受学院教职员之请求担任首任学院院长，但怀特婉拒该职，选择接下康乃尔大学首任校长的职位。学院于 1869 年启用时，为美国第一所隶属于高等教育机构的艺术学院，提供素描、绘画、雕塑以及艺术史等课程。

1908 年学院开始教授建筑课程并于 1916 年成立建筑系，由 Everett Victor Meeks担任系主任。在 George Pierce Baker 的带领下艺术学院另于 1925 年增设戏剧系，拥有独立系馆。戏剧系于 1955 年脱离艺术学院，独立为戏剧学院。平面设计（原平面艺术）学系则在 Alvin Eisenman 的带领下设立于 1951 年，为美国第一个平面设计硕士课程。

1959 年艺术暨建筑学院正式成为研究生专业学院，四年后耶鲁艺术暨建筑学院大楼在各方争议声中启用，该建筑由 Paul Rudolph 设计，建筑风格被归类为现代主义建筑流派下的粗野主义。

1972 年，艺术学院与建筑学院正式分家，此时期两学院仍一起共用艺术暨建筑学院大楼，直到 2000 年艺术学院位于邻近的教堂街的系馆正式启用。名为 Green Hall 的系馆目前由平面设计与摄影系的硕、学士班学生使用，绘画暨版画系位于 Green Hall 后方拥有该系之独立系馆。雕塑系之独立系馆则位于邻近的 Edgewood 街上。

校徽

校训

Lux et veritas 中文译为“真理和光明”

艺术界的知名校友

Portfolio contents

Your portfolio should be a collection of visual work – professional, experimental, commissioned, and self-initiated – that demonstrates your experience, skills and passions in the field of design and related disciplines. Of particular interest is work that is personally-driven and challenges norms of conventional professional practice. Our community is built on values of diversity and dexterity in visual communication and scholarship, and we are seeking individuals with great curiosity, creativity, ambition, and depth of commitment. Your portfolio should represent a well-rounded portrait of who you are, where your interests lie, and communicate a strong sense of how you might develop your practice in this program.

Upload up to 20 still images and/or videos (but not only videos) that represent your strongest work, with an emphasis on recent work from the last few years. Please note that the Slate viewer, which the admissions committee uses to assess your work, automatically sequences your work from most recent to oldest. There is not the ability to override this function.

Portfolio formatting

The portfolio submission interface will prompt you to label each image with a title, date, medium, and a brief description of the work (please do not embed your name in the work title or description). Work titles should be limited to 30 characters, and descriptions to one concise sentence.

As it’s necessary to review portfolios quickly and at a relatively small scale, we strongly encourage you to present work large within the frame, and in a simple and clear manner, so as to maximize our understanding. Generally-speaking, single images with one view of a project work best to achieve this. Split or composite images can make details or complex works difficult to appreciate and may risk being overlooked or misunderstood, so use these only sparingly.

When presenting books or pamphlets, prepare a few representative images that best capture its primary features, or alternatively make a short video showing a range of spreads. For interactive media, stills are helpful, but we encourage making a short video that captures the user experience. For complex systems-related or identity projects, highlight just the strongest components in a few images, and for three-dimensional works, show the surrounding context so material and scale relationships are clear.

All digital files must adhere strictly to the specifications outlined below.

File format for still images

It’s critical that you do not format images in a presentation program (e.g., PowerPoint, Keynote, PDF). PDFs and presentation program formats are not viewable in our system; only the first page/slide will display. Do not include the title or caption in the image file as it will decrease the available image area. Still image files may be sent in jpeg, png, bmp, or tiff format, and each image file may be no larger than 16 MB.

File format for videos

Videos will be accepted in QuickTime (preferred), AVI, FLV, MP4, or WMV format. Video files should be no longer than two minutes in length, and the size of your video uploads is limited to 64 MB. If you upload a video that is longer than two minutes, it will automatically time out at two minutes. Please note that videos are considered as part of your selection of twenty file uploads and should not be used as a method of showing examples of additional still images. Do not include captions within the video files.

If you wish to submit longer videos you may post them to your web site and provide links at the end of your statement.

Résumé

Both the content and design of your résumé is assessed. It should not be longer than 2 pages.

File format

Portfolios are submitted online as part of the online application. The portfolio submission interface will allow you to label each image with a title, a date of completion, the materials used, and a brief description of the work. Please do not embed your name in the titles of your work and limit titles to thirty (30) characters. Digital files must adhere strictly to the specifications outlined below.

Portfolio contents

Upload a total of sixteen (16) still images and/or moving image files. Only work completed within the last three years should be included, and at least half (8) should be work made in the last twelve months. In the review process, the admissions committee is concerned with scale and the tactility of the work. For this reason, paintings and drawings must be photographed showing the edge of the work. Paintings and drawings must not be digitally masked in black to the edges of the work. Three-dimensional works should also show the surrounding space and context. Do not include detail photos of work in your portfolio unless you consider them absolutely necessary. Under no circumstance should more than two detail shots be included. If you are presenting both still and moving images, please present them in two groups with all still images followed by all moving images. Within these groups, place all still and/or moving image files in chronological order starting with the oldest and ending with the most recent work. Chronological order of year is embedded in our system, and you will not be able to override it.

File format for still images

To conform to our viewing format, each still image file may be no larger than 16 MB. Do not format images in any presentation program (e.g., PowerPoint, Keynote), or include composite images (more than one work per file). Still image files may be sent in jpeg, png, bmp, or tiff format. GIF format is not compatible with our application interface.

File format for videos and moving images

Videos will be accepted in QuickTime (preferred), AVI, FLV, MP4, or WMV format. Video files should be no longer than one minute in length, and the size of your video uploads is limited to 64 MB. If you upload a video that is longer than one minute, it will automatically time out at one minute. Please note that videos are considered as part of your selection of sixteen files and should not be used as a method of showing examples of additional still images. Do not include titles or credits within the video files. GIF format is not compatible with our application interface.

If you are primarily a video artist and wish to submit a longer video, you may post the video to your own Website and provide the link at the end of your statement.

File format

Portfolios are submitted online as part of the online application. The portfolio submission interface will allow you to label each image with a title, a date of completion, the materials used, and a brief description of the work. Please do not embed your name in the titles of your work and limit titles to thirty (30) characters. Digital files must adhere strictly to the specifications outlined below.

Portfolio contents

Upload a total of twenty (20) still images and/or moving image files. A significant number of the images should represent work done within the last twelve months. If you are presenting both still and moving images, please present them in two groups with all still images followed by all moving images. Within these groups, place all still and/or moving image files in chronological order starting with the oldest and ending with the most recent work. Chronological order of year is embedded in our system, and you will not be able to override it.

File format for still images

To conform to our viewing format, each still image file may be no larger than 16 MB. Do not format images in any presentation program (e.g., PowerPoint, Keynote), or include composite images (more than one work per file). Still image files may be sent in jpeg, png, bmp, or tiff format.

File format for videos and moving images

Videos will be accepted in QuickTime (preferred), AVI, FLV, MP4, or WMV format. Video files should be no longer than two minutes in length, and the size of your video uploads is limited to 64 MB. If you upload a video that is longer than two minutes, it will automatically time out at two minutes. Please note that videos are considered as part of your selection of twenty files and should not be used as a method of showing examples of additional still images. Do not include titles or credits within the video files.

If you are primarily a video artist and wish to submit a longer video, you may post the video to your own Web site and provide the link at the end of your statement.