Blog Archive

August 31, 2022

Kukuli Velarde Displays Time-Based Sculpture in Tyler Courtyard

Author: Emily Herbein

This week, Tyler School of Art and Architecture became a satellite host for an installation by Peruvian artist and adjunct Ceramics Professor Kukuli Velarde in collaboration with Philadelphia’s The Clay Studio. The entire work, titled A Mi Vida X (To My Vida), consists of six clay multiple sculptures of infants. One of these unfired figures will reside in the Tyler courtyard until it can no longer withstand the elements of the outdoors.  Read More

August 26, 2022

Tyler Faculty Recognized for Summer Achievements and Exhibitions

Author: Emily Herbein

Tyler faculty across Sculpture, Art History, Painting, Ceramics, and Architecture programs have been recognized for their work and research in their fields with national and international exhibitions, publications, and accolades. The consistent affirmation that Tyler's professors receive within the art and design worlds helps to inform their teaching and connects students to real-world opportunities beyond their education. Read More

August 26, 2022

Tyler Welcomes Five New AED Faculty Members

Author: Emily Herbein

This fall, Tyler’s Architecture and Environmental Design department welcomes three new full-time faculty members: Assistant Professor of Architecture Jeffrey Nesbit, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Nathan Heavers, and Assistant Professor of Instruction in Planning and Community Development Ryan Devlin. Each brings a unique set of skills and knowledge, ranging from informal urban spaces to infrastructure to forest management. In separate interviews, the three discussed what drew them to Tyler, their practices, and how they feel they will enrich AED’s rigorous and diverse curriculum.   Read More

August 18, 2022

Tyler's 11th Annual Art Market Spotlight

Author: Emily Herbein

On September 16, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture will host its 11th annual Art Market in person for the first time after two virtual years. Join us in the Tyler Atrium and Green Hallway to browse the works of 25+ artists and vendors consisting of alumni, current students, and Tyler students clubs in conjunction with Temple's Homecoming Weekend. Below, read more about five participating artists and organizations to learn more about their work and time at Tyler. Read More

August 13, 2022

Tyler Rockey (PhD candidate) to speak at the University of North Carolina

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

PhD Candidate Tyler Rockey will deliver a paper entitled ‘“Ancient’ Marble as Natural Resource: The Materiality and Reuse of Sculpture Fragments in Early Modern Rome” at the University of North Carolina’s 8th Annual Art Student Graduate Organization Symposium “Matters of Art: Materiality, Functionality, and the Agency of Art Objects.” The paper, part of the panel “Materials in Decline: Displacing, Degrading, Decaying,” presents the view of ancient marble sculptural fragments used in renaissance restorations of antique statues as natural resources with unique and differing connotations, systems of extraction and movement, agency, and material qualities than other stone resources.   Read More

August 10, 2022

Ozlem Yildiz (PhD student) publishes article on Ottoman manuscript

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The article, "A Wise Enemy: The Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Portrayal of the Polish Commander Stanislaw Zolkiewski" can be found in IKON: Journal of Iconographic Studies 15 2022. If you would like to read this article before it is available online, please contact Oslem. Read More

August 10, 2022

Lynn Dolby (MA 2004) curates show at Arthur Ross Gallery

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Lynn Dolby, Collections Manager and Assistant Curator of the Penn Art Collection has curated a show that will be on view until August 21, 2022: "From Studio to Doorstep: American Artists in Prints from the Penn Art Collection": https://penntoday.upenn.edu/Arthur-Ross-Gallery-From-Studio-to-Doorstep-... Read More

August 8, 2022

Ali Printz (PhD candidate) is 2022-2023 Tyson Scholar at Crystal Bridges

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The Tyson Scholars of American Art Program encourages and supports interdisciplinary scholarship that seeks to expand boundaries and traditional categories of investigation into American art and visual and material culture from the colonial period to the present. Ali's fellowship begins in September of 2022 as she continues her research and writing for her dissertation. Read More

August 1, 2022

Tyler's First-Year Foundations Program Fosters Buildable, Transferrable Skills

Author: Emily Herbein

Buy Shaver, Associate Professor of Tyler’s Art Foundations program, emphasizes the importance of patience in his classes. The patience to understand ground-laying practices. The patience to document progress and work through failure. The patience to learn and unlearn techniques until they feel right. The ethos of Tyler’s critical freshman-year studies in art making is this: figuring things out.   Read More