Yale replaces racist stained-glass window, smashed by university worker in 2016, with new commissions by Faith Ringgold and Barbara Earl Thomas:
, and invited her to visit the campus to see the residential college in person before drafting a design.
“I wanted the windows to show that the students are what is important, and what is joyful, that Yale is their home away from home while they earn their degree,” Ringgold told Artnet News in an email. “I took it as a huge responsibility,” Thomas told Artnet News, noting that she had heard about the controversy surrounding the broken window, but never dreamed that she would become part of the story. “I feel quite emotional about it. This was a moment for me to be part of something far bigger than me.”
Another key moment in the university’s past is recognized in a window celebrating the admission of Yale’s first women students in 1969. And then there is a tribute to workers like Menafee, in a panel of featuring individuals preparing food that reads “Kitchen to Table.”
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