NEWS



New Catalog and Book Launch for
Gracias A Dios: The Art of the Cevallos Brothers



Yeh Art Gallery is excited to announce our new publication: Gracias A Dios: The Art of the Cevallos Brothers, a 96-page publication with archival photos, essays, interviews, and artwork. This book commemorates the Fall 2023 exhibition of work by the Cevallos Brothers at the Yeh Art Gallery, which featured their extraordinary hand-painted signs.

The fully-illustrated book is designed by Jacqueline Schoeffel (St. John’s University BFA Graphic Design ‘02) and features three texts in English and Spanish: an essay by St. John's University Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Kyla Paolucci, an interview with Carlos and Miguel Cevallos by Mariado Martinez Perez, and an introduction by gallery director Max Warsh.

Catalog Launch for Gracias A Dios: The Art of the Cevallos Brothers  Date: Saturday, November 23rd, 2–5pm 
Location: St. John’s Manhattan Campus, 101 Astor Place, New York, NY  RSVP for the event here!

Come celebrate the launch of the catalog for Gracias A Dios: The Art of the Cevallos Brothers with a conversation between St. John's University Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Kyla Paolucci, co-editor of the book Aviram Cohen and special guests.

How to get a copy? 

  • Support the Yeh Art Gallery with a donation of $50 or more and receive a copy in the mail, click here. 


  • If you are affiliated with a museum, library, university, or other research institution and would like to receive a copy for your archives/collections/research, email us at warshm@stjohns.edu to receive a copy.
 

“Public Art as Political Bargaining Chip: When Site-Specificity is Both Potent and Powerless“



In conjunction with our exhibtion Kit-Yin Snyder and Richard Haas, read lawyer Magan Noh’s analysis of the legal dispute regarding the artwork by Kit-Yin Snyder at the ManhattN Detention Center in the September issue of The Brooklyn Rail. 
 

ABC News visits the Yeh Art Gallery



ABC News visited our Kit-Yin Snyder and Richard Haas exhibtion to interview the artists as well as Jan Lee from the group Neighbors United Below Canal. Watch the full video here! 


Resources to Stop Anti-Asian Violence



As a Catholic and Vincentian University devoted to the highest principles of love, acceptance, and human development, St. John’s stands resolutely against hatred, discrimination, and violence when directed at Asians, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders (AAPI). 

The Yeh Art Gallery stands in solidarity with the AAPI community, and would not exist without the important contributions of Asians. The recent attacks in Atlanta are part of an ongoing history of racist violence against Asians and Asian Americans. The recent uptick of violence in this country stems from white supremacists utilizing the pandemic to escalate xenophobia and hate. Further, we recognize that violence against Asian communities is part of a larger system of prejudice and oprression against Black, Brown, and Indigenous people, women, and other communities of color.

Staff members have supported grassroots organizations focused on Asian American and Asian Canadian workers, as well as stopping AAPI hate. Here is a list of organizations  largely compiled by Dr. Lisa Lowe, and shared by  Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) at St. John’s:

-      National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum

-      Red Canary Song

-      CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities

-      Butterfly (Toronto)

-      Stop AAPI Hate

-      KIWA Workers for Justice

-       Chinese Progressive Association, San Francisco & Boston

-      Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA)

-      Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)