September 27, 2017
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Arlene Holtz, former Principal at Wilson Middle School, will join the panel discussion at the Michener Museum in Doylestown, PA on Wednesday Oct 4, 2017, from 7 to 8:30. She will contribute to the panel, "School Art Collections: Reflecting on the School Community and Their Relevance Today" as Principal of a school which had a collection of 67 paintings, including well known Pennsylvania Impressionists and African-American artists Dox Thrash and Henry O. Tanner. Nine of these paintings are in the exhibit "Dedicated, Displayed, Discovered: Celebrating the Region's Art Collections." The curator for the exhibit, Adrienne Neszmelyi-Romano, completed her Masters' Thesis at Tyler on the Wilson collection. All the paintings were removed from Wilson against the community's wishes a decade ago and placed in storage.
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September 6, 2017
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The international conference was held at Alfred Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald Germany. Price's paper was titled, "The Baltic Connection: Georg Brandes, German Secession and Anna Ancher’s Modernism.". THe organizers of the conference plan to hold a second part in Berlin in 2018.
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August 24, 2017
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
I am pleased to announce that Professor Jane Evans will serve as the next Chair of the Art History Department beginning this semester and continuing for a three-year term. Jane is an internationally respected archeologist and scholar who brings a wealth of administrative experience to this role, having served as president of Temple’s Faculty Senate and on many university-wide committees.
Susan E. Cahan
Dean, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
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