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The New New Haven Thing

The Yale School of Art has launched the careers of many famous artists. Now its dean is on a mission to make sure the art students don’t have to take on debt.

Kym Pinder Yale
“It’s not ethical for us to commit to these students, some of whom have applied multiple times to get into Yale,” if the school isn’t going to help them to have a sustainable life after graduate school, says School of Art dean Kymberly Pinder. Photo: Lisa Kereszi
Marion Maneker
August 12, 2025

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One evening this summer, I found myself at a cocktail party thrown by a prominent art advisor in her Connecticut home. It was a very Greenwich kind of place: each room decorated in a different style. There was a red lacquer library that harked back to ’80s New York, when the Kravises and Gutfreunds ruled society, and a jungle-print “playroom” with arcade games, just to pick two.