July 10, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Natalia will be conducting her research on her dissertation, "Beyond the City of Light: Impressionists in the Americas and the Caribbean".
Terra Foundation International Research Travel Grants offer US-based scholars working on American art and visual culture prior to 1980 the opportunity to conduct research abroad. Grant funding is available for projects that require study of materials outside the United States and that will enable scholars to:
Discover new primary source material;
Experience works of art first-hand in museums and private collections;
Make contact with artists, critics, art dealers, archivists, curators, and university scholars;
Consult archives and library collections outside the US;
Establish professional networks for future research.
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May 23, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Upcoming exhibition of Philadelphia artists at the Woodmere Art Museum: Sophie Sanders was honored by being selected by curator and artist Syd Carpenter as a participant in this show and featured in the related podcast called Diving Board. You can see more work from the "Ophelia" series on the website: https://www.sophiesanders.art/The Woodmere Annual: 77th Juried ExhibitionJune 2 - September 3, 2018This year's juror, Syd Carpenter, invited artists and craftspeople to submit work in all media that references the land, the transience of the body, and the skill of the maker.Exhibition-related programming:
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May 10, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Danielle (PhD candidate, Art History) will be researching the Latin American case studies for her dissertation, which focuses on two hospitals in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Salvador, Brazil. She will be consulting 16th and 17th century maps, views, and accounts by Jesuits and travelers of these early colonial port cities, as well as publications that contextualize her case studies and record or reproduce archival documents.
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April 24, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Two of our 2018 graduates and two class of 2019 members have just been elected into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor society: congratulations!
Emily Dugan (2018)
Madison Kochel (2018)
Emma Roberts (2019)
Tyler Valera (2019)
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April 11, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
SITSA is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Its mission is to develop scholars' abilities to integrate technical knowledge into their research. This approach will be integral to Farrell's dissertation on Bronzino's art.
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April 8, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Kaelin Jewell (PhD candidate, Art History), presented on "Topographies of Aristocratic Power in the Late Antique Mediterranean". In the same panel were Tyler Art History alumnae Shannon Steiner and Rachael Vause.
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April 6, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Art History Assistant Professor Erin Pauwels has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities and named a 2018 NEH Summer Scholar. This July she will participate in the NEH-sponsored Summer Institute on the “Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermath,” which is being hosted by the American Social History Project at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The program is designed to enhance university teaching as well as research and Pauwels will use the experience to develop a new Tyler Art History course on the visual culture of the American Civil War and its continuing significance to contemporary art and politics in the United States.
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April 5, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Prof.Alvarez will serve as a discussant at the symposium IFA Latin America, organized by the IFA, NYU and the Graduate Center of CUNY. Her talk is entitled "Super/Natural: Excess, Ecologies, and Art in the Americas".
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