Yale faculty and teaching fellows are encouraged to teach from works of art in the collection. To schedule a class in the public exhibition spaces, please contact Elizabeth Gray at 203.432.8479 or elizabeth.gray@yale.edu. To teach from works of art not currently on display, please see Collection: Study Rooms and Resources.

For more information and to discuss the possibilities, please contact Kate Ezra at 203.432.0941.


  The Gallery is committed to increasing the number of collaborative courses with a wide range of departments and programs. For example, a 2003–04 pilot collaboration with Directed Studies incorporated study of original works of art from the collection into the existing humanities curriculum of that program; this collaboration will continue and develop in coming years. Individual faculty members or department representatives are strongly encouraged to consider the possibility of using the Gallery’s collection in teaching.

The Gallery also offers a number of scholarly lectures, workshops, and symposia each year. We are eager to develop and coordinate this programming in conjunction with courses being taught across the University and invite discussion of upcoming course schedules, departmental colloquia or symposia, research emphases, or other points of potential overlap.

Kate Ezra
As the Nolen Curator of Education and Academic Affairs, Kate Ezra develops programs and collaborations across the University to foster teaching and learning from the Gallery’s collection.  Her background includes both museum and academic experience.  From 1994 until 2008 she taught art history at Columbia College in Chicago.  Prior to that she was curator of African art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where she organized several major exhibitions of African art and wrote the accompanying exhibition catalogues, including Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection (1992), Art of the Dogon: Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection (1988), and A Human Ideal in African Art: Bamana Figurative Sculpture (1986).  Kate received her Ph.D. in Art History with a specialization in African art from Northwestern University in 1983. Download curriculum vitae