Yale faculty and teaching fellows are encouraged to teach from works of art in the collections. To schedule a class in the public exhibition spaces, or to discuss how the Gallery’s collection of original works of art can become a valuable component of your teaching at Yale, please contact David Odo, the Bradley Assistant Curator of Academic Affairs, at david.odo@yale.edu or 203.432.9162.

To teach with works of art not currently on display, please see Study Rooms and Resources.


 

The Gallery is committed to collaborating with a wide range of departments and programs across the Yale community. In addition to our established work with many courses in the History of Art, recent collaborations include sessions with the Directed Studies program; the departments of Sociology, History, American Studies, French, and Italian; the Law School; the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; and Yale Early American Historians.

We strongly encourage individual faculty members or department representatives to consider incorporating 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 welcome discussions of upcoming course schedules, departmental colloquia or symposia, research emphases, or other points of potential overlap.

For more information on teaching resources at the Yale University Art Gallery, please see our resources fact sheet.

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
David Odo
David Odo, the Bradley Assistant Curator of Academic Affairs, oversees Yale course visits in the Gallery, the Study Gallery, and the Object Study Classroom. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in Social and Cultural Anthropology, with a specialization in early Japanese photography. He has held fellowships at the University of Tokyo, the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C., the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, and Harvard University, and he has published and lectured widely on early Asian photography. Prior to his current position at the Gallery, he taught in the anthropology department at Harvard University, where he also curated an exhibition on the collection of Japanese photographs at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.