Blog Archive

April 27, 2022

Grants for summer 2022 research

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

We're so proud that a large number of graduate students have been awarded summer grants for their research projects - and we want to hear all about your research when we get back together in August!Temple Grad Summer Grant: Nicole Marcel (PhD student), who will be working with her primary advisor, Dr. Rachel Grace NewmanRyan Mitchell (PhD student), who will be working with his advisor, Dr. Ashley WestEmily Schollenberger (PhD student), who will be working with her advisor, Dr. Erin PauwelsAnd the recipients of the Marcia Hall Research Awards:Flavia Barberini (PhD candidate) to attend a workshop on International Thematic Summer School:  Art Markets (Antwerp/Brussels)Preston Gould (MA anticipated) to conduct research in Florence, IT for his qualifying paper Read More

April 27, 2022

Temple's 30 Under 30 Features Two Tyler Alums

Author: Emily Herbein

This year, Temple's annual 30 Under 30 list features two Tyler graduates, Rachel Bell (BFA '17) and Amirah Mitchell (BS '21). Each year, Temple University reconnects with 30 of its best and brightest graduates under the age of 30 across all schools to find out how they've become innovators in their fields. Thanks to an extensive alumni network, these honorees are furthering Temple's legacy for the better. The 2022 award recipients will be formally recognized during Temple Made Days, April 25–30.  Read More

April 19, 2022

Phi Beta Kappa inductee: 2022

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

After a hiatus of two years due to COVID, invitations to join Phi Beta Kappa, the scholar/service organization, have returned: Lydia Davidheiser (BA anticipated 2023), majoring in Art History, is in its newest class! Congratulations, Lydia! Read More

April 18, 2022

Duckworth Scholars Digital Studio Showcase Features Contemporary Vietnamese Art From Chau Nguyen, MFA '22

Author: Emily Herbein

Chau Nguyen, MFA '22, is presenting their work in painting at this year's Duckworth Scholars Digital Studio Showcase on April 19. Pulling influence from their time growing up in Vietnam and their knowledge of commercialized Western paintings, Nguyen explored various creative techniques, both familiar and experimental to their painting practice, in order to visualize this phenomenon. Below, they explain the meaning behind their work and what they feel is important for viewers to take away from the complexity of decolonial practices and contemporary Vietnamese art. Read More

book cover Mariola Alvarez Neoconcretism
April 18, 2022

Prof Mariola Alvarez's book to appear in 2023

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Alvarez's book, The Affinity of Neoconcretism: Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Brazilian Modernism 1954-1964 will come out in March 2023, from the University of California Press, under their Studies in Latin American Art series. In the meantime, register to hear her speak at "Las Informalistas: Women of Latin American Informalist Abstraction" on May 3, 2022, the subject of her new inquiry: https://www.islaa.org/events/event-2022-may-las-informalistas  Read More

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April 13, 2022

Dr. Alpesh Patel's new book

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Storytellers of Art histories: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, edited by Alpesh Patel and Yasmeen Siddiqi (University of Chicago, 2022) Read More

April 5, 2022

In Profile: Aaron Ricketts (BFA '17)

Author: Emily Herbein

Since graduating from Tyler with a BFA in Photography in 2017, Aaron Ricketts has risen as a high-profile Philadelphia creative with an arresting, surrealist-inspired style. His work explores every day themes, typically through portraiture, paired against a backdrop of stunning digital manipulation and striking detail. He has traveled a circuitous path that led from high school to a year in college to ordinary jobs to the Air Force and back to college again.  Read More

April 5, 2022

Art Therapy's Hope Springs Installation Spreads Joy Across All Programs

Author: Emily Herbein

Art Therapy major Kianna Cooper (BA ’22) unwinds a length of black thread, snips it and knots an end around a colorful, twisted wire-and-glass bead object. Then she eases up a ladder and loops the other end around the exposed coil innards of a full-size mattress. Cooper is adding final tendrils to a mobile-like installation title Hope Springs, conceived by Graduate Assistant and Peer Art Education Advisor Ali Ruffner (MEd ‘22) and executed with Art Therapy Program Head and AECAP Department Chair Dr. Lisa Kay as a project to uplift Tyler students, faculty and staff alike as they returned to in-person learning last fall from the imposed separation of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Read More

view of one room of the Barnes
April 4, 2022

Jay Raymond (Tyl alum, BA Art), A Vision for Education: Why does the Barnes Foundation look that Way?

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Hear what it was like to visit the Barnes Foundation in its original home in Merion, PA. Author, educator, and scholar Jay Raymond, who studied with Dr. Barnes' intellectual partner Violet Di Mazia, will share the aesthetic theory, vision, and practice that formed the distinctive content and composition of the Barnes collection. Virtual lecture April 18 4-5:30  This event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Art and Art History departments and the Visual Studies program, with support from Temple University's General Activities Fund. Photo: Barnes Foundation, courtesy of the Barnes Foundation Read More

April 1, 2022

Dr. Peter M. Lukehart to Speak about Women's Roles in the Accademia di San Luca in the 17th century

Author: Carin Whitney

On Tuesday, April 12, Art History welcomes Dr. Peter M. Lukehart, Associate Dean for the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, who will present an in-person talk: By Honor or by Merit: Women in the Accademia di San Luca, 1600-1700.Dr. Lukeheart will assess the roles women played within the Accademia di San Luca by addressing contested ideas about the levels of participation and membership existing for academicians of either gender throughout the seventeenth century.The talk will take place in Tyler B004. Click here for more information. Read More