Stephanie Wiles: The Yale University Art Gallery Looks Towards the Future

Prior to coming to YUAG in 2018, Dr. Wiles served as the director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College and as the Richard J. Schwartz Director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. She began her museum career at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City in the Department of Drawings and Prints. Wiles is a specialist in Old Master drawings and prints, and in British and American art. She received a Ph.D. in art history from the City University of New York Graduate Center, with her dissertation focused on the work of British-born artists Henry Farrer and Thomas Charles Farrer, a Ruskin admirer and leader of the American Pre-Raphaelites. Dr. Wiles, what are some of the main projects that you have focused on since you arrived at the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) in 2018? Stephanie Wiles. There have been several initiatives. Among those I’d like to highlight is the ongoing development of YUAG collection spaces at the West Campus Collection Studies Center. In Fall 2019, the Gallery opened the Hume Furniture Study , following the successful opening a few years before that of the Wurtele Study Center . These study/storage spaces are adjacent to a shared conservation lab and the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage . The potential of these study centers for teaching and research is vast, as is their size.…