Blog Archive

February 28, 2022

Madeline Rile Smith (BFA '14) Granted 2022 Saxe Emerging Artist Award

Author: Emily Herbein

Madeline Rile Smith (BFA ‘14), Adjunct Professor in Glass, was recently granted the Saxe Emerging Artist Award from the Glass Art Society. Thanks to this opportunity, Smith will present at the 2022 Annual GAS Conference in Tacoma (May 18-21), participate in an upcoming digital artist exhibition, receive an honorarium to support her work, and more.  Her practice, which earned the committee’s attention through an award nomination, specializes in body-activated pieces. She appreciates objects that can stand alone as well as serve as performance art, often times implementing music and sound. Her practice raises the question: “How can glass go beyond the object and not just be a static sculpture on a pedestal? How can you interact with it?”  Read More

February 28, 2022

Beatrice Wright (BA anticipated) to present at a conference

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Beatrice will present her paper, "Capturing Russia's Silver Age Icon Through the Kaleidoscope of the Avant Garde", during the April 8-10th SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium. They developed their paper in Prof. Alice Price's writing-intensive class, Color and the Nordic Avant-garde (Fall 2021). Read More

February 25, 2022

Tyler Ray (BS '22) Advocates for Preservation of Historic North Philly Church

Author: Emily Herbein

Lifelong North Philadelphia resident Tyler Ray (BS '22) is determined to use his Community Development degree and certificate in Historic Preservation to uphold one of his neighborhood's most beloved structures, the Church of the Advocate. Ray tells Temple Now that his family have been lifelong members and the church is what initially "nurtured his love of architecture and passion for preservation."  Located at 18th and Diamond Streets, the Church of the Advocate was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 1980. It's a prominent example of French Gothic Revival architecture, and one of the most notable examples in the United States. Ray recalls how the structure has been in disrepair for as long as he can remember, which he attributes to inequity between predominately white and Black neighborhoods. That reality pushed him to attend Temple and encouraged him to solve problems that hit close to home. Read More

Lahota and Dakota Visual Essay, Sadie Redwing
February 22, 2022

Sadie Redwing to speak at joint GAiD and Art History sponsored virtual event Wednesday 2/23/22 at 12:15 pm

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Sadie Red Wing (sadieredwing.com) is a Lakota graphic designer and advocate from the Spirit Lake Nation of Fort Totten, North Dakota. Red Wing earned her BFA in New Media Arts and Interactive Design at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She received her Master of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University. Her research on cultural revitalization through design tools and strategies created a new demand for tribal competence in graphic design research. Red Wing urges Native American graphic designers to express visual sovereignty in their design work, as well as encourages academia to include an Indigenous perspective in the design curriculum. Currently, Red Wing serves as an Assistant Professor at OCAD University (Toronto, ONT). Read More

February 21, 2022

Assistant Professor David Herman Jr. Explores Black Image and Ways of Seeing

Author: Emily Herbein

Assistant Professor of Art Education David Herman Jr., PhD, believes past perceptions shape the way we examine the present. He will explore this theme as part of the Testimony: Visual and Embodied Gateways to Black Histories series, presented by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University. Herman, a lens-based artist, will give a virtual lecture titled "Witnessing Gestures: Spatial Aspects of Black Visualities in the Cinematic Image" on Wednesday, February 23. In this Q&A, he discusses the influences for his lecture, what he hopes will resonate with the audience, and why social topics like this are relevant and important. Registration information can be found here. How did you choose the topic of your lecture?  Read More

February 21, 2022

Tyler's Urban Workshop Awarded NEA Grant for Upcoming Design Project

Author: Emily Herbein

Architecture professors Sally Harrison, AIA and Ulysses Sean Vance, RA have received a $15,000 matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support an architectural project within Tyler's Urban Workshop. The project, the Living-Learning Cabin Prototype, will generate a design for an innovative structure that is able to adapt to the diverse social, educational and recreational needs of children with disabilities.  Read More

February 18, 2022

Tyler School of Art and Architecture Issues Formal Land Acknowledgment

Author: Emily Herbein

The Collegial Assembly at Tyler School of Art and Architecture recently adopted use of an Indigenous Land Acknowledgment, developed by a faculty committee spearheaded by Art History Chair Jane DeRose Evans, to recognize the history of the native peoples who originally lived on the lands where the school sits.   In practice, the Land Acknowledgment can be voluntarily used before public events held on campus to encourage both event planners and visitors to think deeper about the work that is done both in and out of the classroom and how it is connected to the land that we inhabit.  Read More

February 18, 2022

Dr. Alpesh Patel contributions to the study of queer/trans theory

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Dr. Patel's speaking engagements and publications in the fall of 2021 highlight his research:  KINSEY INSTITUTE, FORSCHUNGSSTELLE KULTURGESCHICHTE DER SEXUALITÄT, WEAM - WILZIG EROTIC ART MUSEUM, December 2021. Moderator for panel, part of the online conference, “Exhibitionism – Sexuality at the Museum International” WOPHA: WOMEN, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND FEMINISMS CONGRESS, Miami, Florida, November 2021. Conversation with Carlotta Boettcher: “Productive Failure and Queer Photography” FULBRIGHT PRISM, September 2021. Panelist for “Art and Queer Community” for Fulbright Prism’s organization’s first online virtual conference (invited) Co-organizer with Jane Chin Davidson, “Okwui Enwezor: Art of Curating” panel with Przemsyław Strozek, ZACHĘTA ¬ NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WARSAW, POLAND, September 24, 2021 Read More

February 18, 2022

Nicole Emser Marcel to participate in Stanford Under-Mapped Spaces Workshop

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Nicole Emser Marcel (PhD Student) will participate in "Under-Mapped Spaces: New Methods and Tools for Critical Storytelling," with a project entitled "Whose Golden Age?: Correcting the Imagined Cartographies of the Pan-Am Flying Clipper Ships." The five-day intensive interdisciplinary workshop tests the utility of digital tools in the creation of compelling, accessible narratives of “under-mapped” places and is co-hosted by Stanford University, the David Rumsey Map Center and Stanford Geospatial Center, and Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections.  Read More

February 17, 2022

Dr. Tracy Cooper interviewed in The Art Newspaper

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Dr. Cooper's remarks are quoted in the story, "Venice's great women artists step into the limelight through major restoration project", an initiative undertaken by Save Venice. Dr. Cooper is an active board member of the organization. You can see the entire article here:  https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/15/save-venice-women-artists-res... Read More

February 17, 2022

Art History's Linda Earle Discusses the Importance of Philanthropy and Cultural Equity

Author: Emily Herbein

Fine Arts Management Professor Linda Earle recently spoke with Temple Now about the consequential impact that philanthropy and artists have had on building equitable creative spaces. Earle, also associate graduate director for arts management track of the master's program in Tyler's Art History Department, discusses the need for change on an institutional level, and looks at large-scale "tentpole organizations," like the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and how they plan to address and further implement diversity plans. She also addresses the recent change in how donors and art funders look at where to give and consider the need to look at "the whole field" rather than just the big-name artists and institutions. Read More

February 15, 2022

Temple's Scientista Chapter Shares Collaborative Exhibit

Author: Emily Herbein

Temple’s chapter of Scientista, a national foundation built around empowering women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields, recently curated an open-call exhibition for STEMM-related artwork. For students like Hajra Sohail (CST ‘23), a biology major with an art minor, this project was an eye-opener to the kinds of creative collaboration that non-art disciplines can enjoy. Projects were varied, incorporating an array of mediums like painting, drawing, sculpture, and fibers.  Read More

February 8, 2022

"Crave," A Vibrant GAID Exhibition Now On View in Green Hallway

Author: Emily Herbein

Junior GAID students are displaying their vibrant, interactive kiosk posters as part of the annual restaurant identity project, “Crave.” With brightly colored, engaging imagery, enticing language, and scannable QR codes that lead to video and behind-the-scenes content, “Crave” is a showcase of nearly all the skills cultivated in the GAID program.  Curated by Professor Paul Sheriff, who has been coordinating this assignment for the last 25 years since his time at the original Elkins Park campus, “Crave” has grown and changed over the years to reflect a modern student and creator.   Read More

February 8, 2022

Michael Lally (PhD candidate) to present a paper

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The paper, “To Wear, To See: Object Biographies and The History of Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean” will be presented at the "Going Global: New Challenges in the Field of Provenance Research” conference at the Vitromusée in Romont, Switzerland, Sept. 15, 2022. Read More

February 3, 2022

Tyler Faculty Named to AIA Philadelphia Board

Author: Emily Herbein

Two AED faculty members, Fauzia Sadiq Garcia, RA, and Eric Oskey, RA were recently named board Directors of the American Institute of Architects' Philadelphia Chapter. Garcia will serve as the Director of Education, while Oskey will be the Director of Technology and Innovation.   What are your plans for your AIA tenure?  Read More

February 3, 2022

Brittany Strupp (PhD, 2022) to speak on Robert Henri's portraits of Chinese-Americans

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Brittany Strupp will represent the Art History Department with a paper titled “The Dignity of Life”: Robert Henri's Portraits of Chinese Americans" at the 26th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art, hosted by the Barnes Foundation (hybrid), February 24-25. Brittany's talk will begin at 10 AM on Friday the 25th. This annual symposium brings together graduate students from nine mid-Atlantic colleges and universities to present current research in the field of art history.  Read More

February 2, 2022

Temple Contemporary Launches Its Seed Packet Project This Spring

Author: Emily Herbein

Allyson Church, graduate assistant with Temple Contemporary and MArch candidate, has been spearheading the gallery’s Seed Packet Project, an initiative to bridge the arts with the built disciplines in a unique and interactive way.   Having initially received her BFA in Printmaking, Church took a gap year between degrees to learn farming methods since she felt like pursuing a career in the fine arts wasn’t necessarily for her. While working at a flower farm in Philadelphia, she learned about land use and regenerative farming.   Read More