Yale faculty and teaching fellows are encouraged to teach from works of art in the collection. To schedule a class in the public exhibition spaces, please contact Elizabeth Gray at 203.432.8479 or elizabeth.gray@yale.edu. To teach from works of art not currently on display, please see Collection: Study Rooms and Resources.

For more information and to discuss the possibilities, please contact Pamela Franks at 203.432.0621.


  The Gallery is committed to increasing the number of collaborative courses with a wide range of departments and programs. For example, a 2003–04 pilot collaboration with Directed Studies incorporated study of original works of art from the collection into the existing humanities curriculum of that program; this collaboration will continue and develop in coming years. Individual faculty members or department representatives are strongly encouraged to consider the possibility of using 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 invite discussion of upcoming course schedules, departmental colloquia or symposia, research emphases, or other points of potential overlap.

Pamela Franks
As The Nolen Curator of Academic Initiatives, Pam Franks develops programs and collaborations across the University to foster teaching and learning from the Gallery’s collection. Previously, in 2003, she was part of the team that opened the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas. Her background with the Gallery reaches back to her time as a Florence B. Selden Fellow in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, where she organized the exhibition The Tiger’s Eye: The Art of a Magazine. Pam received her Ph.D. in Art History with a specialization in twentieth-century art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. Download curriculum vitae