Yale-China Arts Advisory Committee 2022-2023
Ming Thompson, chair
Co-Founder, Atelier Cho Thompson
Chair, Arts Advisory Committee, Yale-China
Yale-China Fellow, 2004-2006, Yali High School
Ming Thompson is co-founder of Atelier Cho Thompson, a New Haven- and San Francisco-based multidisciplinary practice working between architecture, interiors, graphics, and strategy. ACT's work frequently blurs the boundaries between typologies, as they draw inspiration from their work in schools, offices, restaurants, and homes around the world. Ming was a recipient of the AIA Young Architect Award in 2020, and her firm has been the recipient of numerous national and regional design awards. ACT’s work has been published in Architect, Contract, Arch Daily, and Design Milk, among others. Educated at Yale College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Ming has taught at the California College of the Arts and has served on design juries around the U.S. Ming is a first-year advisor at Yale.
Mary Lou Aleskie
Howard L. Gilman '44 Director
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Dartmouth College
Mary Lou Aleskie assumed her role at Dartmouth College in April 2017. She is charged with leading the advancement of the Hopkins Center for the Arts and arts and creativity at Dartmouth. The hallmark of her efforts will build on interdisciplinary projects linking the arts with humanities and STEM initiatives across campus and overseeing the evolution of the Hopkins Center into a 21st century state-of-the-art facility. She came to Dartmouth from New Haven, CT, where, since 2005, she was the director of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
Colin Alistair Campbell
Filmmaker
Yale-China Fellow, 2009-2011, Sun Yat-sen University
Colin is a writer, actor, producer, and newly-minted director. "Patricia Says Goodbye" represents his directorial film debut. His passion for filmmaking only continues to grow: he has just wrapped shooting a second narrative short - a gentle ensemble comedy that he also wrote and directed - and is preparing to shoot a third, more experimental short in early 2023. A founding member of the Kiley Ensemble, a contemporary theater group in New York City, he draws on his experience as an actor to help shape his directorial and writing approach.
Born in Iceland, Colin enjoyed a rather nomadic childhood and early adulthood, living in countries on four different continents. He currently calls both Virginia and New York City home.
Sheila de Bretteville
Caroline M. Street Professor of Graphic Design
Yale School of Art
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville is the first tenured woman at the Yale University School of Art where she is the Caroline M. Street Professor, a title she accepted because city streets are where her site-specific installations have taken place, among these permanent site-specific pieces are: Biddy Mason: Time & Place in downtown Los Angeles, Omoide noShotokyo in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo; Search: Literature in Flushing’s Main Library, At the start… At long last… in the terminus of New York’s A train; Path of Worker Stars in downtown New Haven, Take a break…Out to lunch… Back to work… for the Department of Labor and Training in Rhode Island; … 所以 … at Hong Kong Design Institute: Step(pe) in downtown Yekaterinburg, Russia, and Special Events at the new LAFC Banc of California Soccer Stadium in downtown Los Angeles.
Sheila’s work is permanently on display in the Umea Museum Sweden, and in the special collections of libraries and museums among them, Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris. Her work has been frequently exhibited in museums such as the California: Designing Freedom, at the London Design Museum, and Graphic Design in America and Hippie Modernism: The Search for Utopia at the Walker Museum, Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 at the Hammer Museum and MOMA NY, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and P.S. 1 in New York, and Nasty Women at the New Haven Institute Library. During the past two years, her print work from the 1970s regarding participation and gender have been exhibited in a half dozen different galleries in Austria, Poland, and Germany.
Sheila was designated a Distinguished Alumna by Barnard College where she received her BA degree in the History of Art, Design Legend by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, awarded honorary doctorates from five American Universities of Art and Design on both coasts of the United States and given a Lifetime Achievement award from the Women’s Caucus for the Arts.
Daniel Fitzmaurice
Chief of Staff
Americans for the Arts
Daniel is positive that everyone benefits from creativity in their communities, which is why cultural equity is a core value in his work. With professional experience as a classical pianist, music educator, and arts administrator, he personally understands the joys and challenges of navigating creative ecosystems. He most recently served as the Executive Director at the Arts Council of Greater New Haven from 2017-2022 after leadership appointments at Creative Arts Workshop and Elm Shakespeare Company, all in New Haven, CT. As a passionate arts advocate, he co-organized Connecticut's first Create the Vote campaigns from 2018 to 2022 and served on a statewide policy advisory committee for arts, culture, and tourism. As a community leader committed personally and professionally to anti-racism, he co-created Connecticut's first COVID-19 relief fund for individual creatives, Arts for Anti-Racism Pledge, and Cultural Equity Plan. He is also proud to have served as a facilitator for the Community Leadership Program and on the Boards of CT Arts Alliance, New Haven Innovation Collaborative, and the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce. He and his family love exploring the vast creative ecosystem of their home states of Connecticut and Rhode Island and experience living in Portland, Oregon, and Philadelphia, PA.
Phoebe Hui
Artist
HKETO-NY Arts Fellow, 2015-2017
Phoebe HUI is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher primarily working in the relationship between language, sound, and technology. Most recently, Phoebe was a lecturer in the Visual Arts and Culture program at the Hong Kong Design Institute. She is the recipient of a number of grants and awards, including the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Young Artist Award (Media Art), Asian Cultural Council Altius Fellowship, Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award, Solo Show Grant from Watermans to coincide with 2012 Olympics Games in London, Hong Kong Arts Development Council Art Scholarship, and the Hong Kong Design Association Design Student Scholarship. She has presented her research-based art practice and papers in different places such as ISEA, MIT Media Lab, Asian Contemporary Art Week, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Phoebe received her M.F.A. from the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts, her M.A. in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and her B.A. in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong.
Kao Mayching
Art Historian
Chair Professor of Fine Arts, retired
Director of the Art Museum, retired
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professor Kao Mayching is a distinguished scholar and a career advocate and champion of the arts, humanities, and education. Professor Kao has dedicated her life to the advancement of Hong Kong arts education and to the cultivation of young artists and art historians. She began her career as a professor in the Department of Fine Arts at New Asia College at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her leadership was quickly recognized and she became Chairperson of the Department, during which time she established the Master of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, and Master of Fine Arts programs – a milestone achievement in the Department’s planning and development. Professor Kao concurrently served an 18-year tenure as the Director of the Art Museum of the Institute of Chinese Studies at CUHK, where she spearheaded the Museum’s development and the expansion of its collection, exhibition, and research of artwork. Professor Kao has also served as the Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University of Hong Kong, where she worked industriously to promote education in humanities and the arts for the public and society as a whole.
She has served on many advisory committees, including the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, and public agencies. Professor Kao has been recognized for her scholarship and achievements through numerous accolades, scholarships (including a Yale-China Scholarship to study in the United States), and special funds named after her. Professor Kao is a graduate of New Asia College at CUHK in 1967 where she studied Fine Arts. She received her Master’s degree in Western Art History from the University of New Mexico in 1969, followed by her PhD in Asian Art History from Stanford University in 1972.
R. Drake Pike 白杰克, Chair
Managing Director - Goldman Sachs (Hong Kong & Beijing), retired
Yale-China Fellow, 1975-1977, New Asia College, CUHK
Drake’s fondness for and support of Yale-China dates back almost 50 years. Drake first visited the Yale-China’s teaching fellows in Hong Kong in 1972 when he was an undergraduate taking a gap year in Taiwan. From 1974-76 he was himself a Yale-China teaching fellow then worked two years in San Francisco helping recent Chinese immigrants find employment in the Bay Area. Drake previously served two terms as a Yale-China trustee in the early 2000’s.
Before his retirement to San Francisco in 2014 Drake was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, acting as Goldman’s senior advisor to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and as head of the Goldman Sachs International Bank office in Beijing. Prior to that he was chief credit risk officer for Lehman Brothers in Asia and held similar positions at Tokai Asia and First Chicago Bank. He started his banking career in 1982 in the China division of Chase Manhattan Bank, helping American companies make some of their first investments in China. Post retirement, Drake served as an independent director of China Life Insurance Company from 2015 to 2021.
Drake graduated from Yale in 1974 with a BA in Chinese Language and Literature and received his Master’s degree from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in 1981. He now lives in San Francisco with his wife, Sally Harpole, an international arbitrator, where he volunteers at his church, takes French classes, and enjoys playing the trumpet again several decades after his stint with the Yale Marching Band.
Alan Plattus
Professor of Architecture
Founding Director, Urban Design Workshop
Yale School of Architecture
Alan Plattus began teaching at Yale in 1986 after serving on the faculty of Princeton University for seven years. He is the current director of the School’s Ph.D. program and the Yale Urban Design Workshop and Center for Urban Design Research (YUDW), which he founded in 1992 and which undertakes research and design studies for communities throughout Connecticut and the metropolitan region. Current YUDW projects include planning for a Heritage Park along the Thames River between New London and Groton, Connecticut, and resiliency planning for Bridgeport and the Connecticut coast funded by HUD’s Rebuild by Design program. Plattus also directs the School’s China Studio, a collaboration between Tsinghua University in Beijing and the Yale School of Architecture, and recently led a Yale and international team to develop plans for a Peace Park along the Jordan River on the Israeli-Jordanian border. He has served on the boards of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the National Architectural Accrediting Board, the Journal of Architectural Education, and Architectural Research Quarterly, as well as the Connecticut Main Street Center and the New Haven Preservation Trust. Plattus received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.Arch. from Princeton University.
Ivy Wang
Attorney
Yale-China Fellow, 2006-2008, Sun Yat-sen University
Ivy Wang is a lawyer and landscape architect in training. From 2015-21, she was an attorney in the Southern Poverty Law Center's Economic Justice Project in New Orleans. Prior to that, she defended low-income tenants at Southeast Louisiana Legal Services and clerked for the Hon. Helen Berrigan in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Landscape Architecture at U.C. Berkeley and plans to combine law, policy, and design in her future practice. She is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.