Image: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Yale University Art Gallery has opened 'Print Catalyst @ 30', an exhibition marking three decades of the Print Catalyst Program. According to the gallery’s June 27 newsletter, the show is on view in the institution’s fourth-floor galleries through December 6, 2026, alongside a separate exhibition, 'W. Eugene Smith and the Art of Witnessing'.
'Print Catalyst @ 30' brings together more than 35 prints described by the gallery as diverse and innovative. The selection includes states, progressives and matrices, offering a look at the range of outcomes generated through the program. The exhibition centers on an ongoing collaboration between the Yale School of Art and Yale University Art Gallery, a partnership that has produced prints over the life of the program.
The gallery framed the presentation as a celebration of the Print Catalyst Program’s 30-year history. By including not only finished prints but also states, progressives and matrices, the exhibition points to the printmaking process itself as part of the story, showing how artworks can develop through successive stages and technical experiments. The source material does not identify individual artists or specific works in the exhibition, but it does emphasize the breadth of the material on view.
The opening comes as part of a larger exhibition announcement from the gallery, which said both 'Print Catalyst @ 30' and 'W. Eugene Smith and the Art of Witnessing' began that day and will remain on view in the fourth-floor galleries until December 6, 2026. The gallery’s newsletter presents the two exhibitions as distinct projects, with the print show focused on the Yale program and the Smith exhibition dedicated to photojournalism.
The Yale School of Art collaboration gives 'Print Catalyst @ 30' an institutional dimension beyond a standard survey of prints. Its subject is not only the finished work of art but also the program that generated it, linking teaching, experimentation and production within Yale’s art ecosystem. The gallery’s language underscores that the works on display were produced through this shared effort rather than assembled from a single artist’s output.
No additional public programming, venue changes or touring dates were included in the verified source material. The exhibition remains listed in the gallery’s fourth-floor galleries through December 6, 2026.
