Blog Archive

January 31, 2020

Vivien Wise: Exploring Relationships and Trees Through Art

Author: Zachary Vickers

This article originally appeared on Temple Ambler Campus's website here and was written by Jim Duffy, MSEd, Content Manager, Temple University Ambler and University College.   It’s difficult for Vivien Wise to recall a time when she wasn’t using her skills with fibers to turn ideas into reality. “I’ve been on this path for a long time. My mom and my grandmothers were quilters — I finished my first quilt when I was eight,” said Wise, a Fibers & Material Studies FMA student in Temple’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture. “When I was in high school, I visited an exhibition, a crocheted art piece called the Coral Reef Project. It was the first time that I realized that fibers could be art. I knew that was what I wanted to do with my life.” Read More

January 28, 2020

Danielle Abdon to speak at four conferences this spring

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Danielle Abdon (PhD anticipated May 2020) will be giving four papers this spring: College Art Association: “Latrines and Sewers for the Sick Poor: Waste Management in Italian Renaissance" (supported by the Dean of Tyler School of Art and Architecture) Renaissance Society of America: "The Hospital de las Cinco Llagas: Negotiating Physical and Spiritual Health in Sixteenth-Century Seville” Read More

January 2, 2020

Tyler Associate Professor, Baldev Lamba at the 2019 ASLA Conference

Author: Gracie A. Laychock

At the 2019 ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture in San Diego, CA., Baldev Lambalead a panel presentation titled “Design with Nature, 50 Years Later". The panelist speakers included Frederick Steiner, FASLA, Dean, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Univ. Read More