Blog Archive

April 26, 2023

Professor Tackles Game Play and Critical Thinking

Author: Emily Herbein

Renee Jackson, Assistant Professor and Program Head of Art Education, will publish a board game with TU Press at the end of this year, Tales of Woo and Woe, which is now on display in the Charles Library as part of the exhibition Game On! Design and Play for a Sustainable Future. She discusses her practice, pedagogy, and the importance of connecting critical yet imaginative thinking to the world around us. The exhibition, featuring works by Gabriel Kaprielian, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Tyler, and Matt Shoemaker, Head of the Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio at the Charles Library, is on view now through October. What is the concept of Tales of Woo and Woe and what inspired you to create it? Read More

April 21, 2023

Architectural Design Capstone Studio Project to be Displayed at Venice Architecture Biennale

Author: Emily Herbein

Senior-level design courses at Tyler don’t typically build the designs that they conceive. This year, however, visiting critics Mario Gentile and Tyler alum Tim Barnes (BSArch '09) of Shiftspace Design along with help from Clifton Fordham, Associate Professor and Program Head of Architecture, are leading the students through the design and assembly of a pavilion destined for this summer’s 18th International Architecture Exhibition in the European Cultural Center in Venice, Italy. The pavilion is conceived as a filter aimed at mediating current environmental, cultural and political climates.  Read More

April 21, 2023

Nicole Emser Marcel (PhD Candidate) receives fellowships from the Huntington, Yale, and Clements Libraries

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Nicole has been awarded the Mayers Fellowship from the Huntington Library, the George B. Cooper Fellowship from Yale's Lewis Walpole Library, and the Brian Leigh Dunnigan Cartography Fellowship from the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. The fellowships will support research for her dissertation, “Ordering, Reordering, and Disordering the Land: Visual and Material Strategies of Resistance and Repossession in Contemporary Caribbean Art." Read More

April 6, 2023

Marie Latham (MA Arts Admin program) and May Rubenstein (MA Arts Admin program) accepted as Fox Board Fellows

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Both Marie and May, who are finishing their work for their MA degrees, have been invited to be part of the Fox Board Fellows program. According to the Fox website, "Fox Board Fellows is building the next generation of business leaders dedicated to community-based engagement that strengthens their community. The program, powered by experiential learning, places graduate students on the boards of directors at local nonprofit organizations as non-voting members for an academic year." Read More

April 6, 2023

Architecture Student-Teaching Course Partners with Philadelphia K-12 Schools

Author: Emily Herbein

In an upper-level Architecture course led by Kate Wingert-Playdon, Senior Associate Dean and Director of Architecture and Environmental Design and Fauzia Sadiq Garcia, Assistant Professor of Instruction and Curriculum Coordinator of Facilities Management and Architecture Majors, Tyler undergraduate students are learning to adapt their design education instruction to a broader audience by creating custom design curriculums for students in the School District of Philadelphia.  Read More

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April 3, 2023

Marian Berthoud (PhD Candidate, Art History) has been awarded a research residency

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The research residency s offered by the Advisory Group at the Centro per la Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura delle Città Portuali a partnership between the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas, the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, the Amici di Capodimonte, and Franklin University Switzerland. The research residency will support nine months of dissertation research in Naples, Italy, during the 2023-2024 academic year. Her dissertation investigates the construction of Baroque cities after natural disasters, with particular attention to Spanish Italy, Sicily, Portugal, and the Philippines. The project focuses on elements of Baroque architecture, colonialism, and natural disasters as they apply to Naples, as well as sites destroyed in the early modern period in other parts of southern Italy, such as Nardò in Puglia and parts of southeastern Sicily. Read More

April 3, 2023

Lauren Sandler Receives New Fellowship from College Art Association

Author: Emily Herbein

Lauren Sandler, Associate Professor of Instruction and Program Head of Ceramics, is the inaugural recipient of the College Art Association’s Michael Auerbach Fellowship for Excellence in Visual Art, which honors CAA members who have obtained an MFA or equivalent in studio art and are currently teaching studio classes. Sandler’s work encompasses the deconstruction of mythologies and investigates narratives of power and perspective. She discussed her practice in relation to teaching, as well as where this new fellowship will allow her to take her work.   Read More