Blog Archive

View of Up, Up, and Away mural with accompanying augmented reality element
December 18, 2023

Painting Professor Creates First Augmented Reality Experience at Philadelphia International Airport

Author: Jordan Cameron

A group of airborne schoolgirls greets travelers in Terminal F at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL). The young women are depicted in a mural, created by Adjunct Professor of Painting Ziui Chen Vance, in various states of jumping and raising their arms. There is a palpable movement to the brightly colored piece, but there is more to it than meets the eye.  Read More

Andrew Vlady operating a stone lithograph machine
December 18, 2023

Remembering Renowned Lithographer and Printmaking Alum Andrew Vlady

Author: Jordan Cameron

On October 27, 2023, Tyler Printmaking alum Andrew Vlady (BFA ’67 MFA ’70) passed away in Mexico City, the place he worked and called his home for many decades. Along with his wife, Beatriz, he was the co-founder and technical director of the lithographic studio Kyron Ediciones Gráficas Limitadas. Vlady received his BFA in Printmaking from Tyler in 1967, then traveled to the then Tyler School of Art Rome Campus, today Temple Rome, to be a teaching assistant in the Printmaking program there. He stayed in Rome to embark on his MFA, which he completed in 1970, gaining a particular interest in lithography, one of the oldest forms of printmaking. Read More

Luke Pelcher
December 12, 2023

Luke Pelcher (BA anticipated 2024) publishes article

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Luke's article, "The Spanish Imposition of the Grid-Pattern Town upon its Mesoamerican Colonies and How it Disrupted Native Space, Analyzed Through the Maps of the “Relaciones Geográficas”" was published in asterisk*: yale undergraduate journal of art & art history issue 7 fall 2023. Find it here: https://www.asteriskjournal.org/fall-2023  Congratulations to Luke for his original work! Read More

December 12, 2023

Mapping the Global Middle Ages: undergraduate Storymap project

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Students in the upper-level Art History class, the Global Middle Ages, taught by Dr. Joseph Kopta have produced an impressive story about the period between 1000 to 1400, across the globe. Check it out here: https://storymaps.com/stories/865221256e654f1798f03cb2fcdae5de  Read More

Riso print by Hester Stinnett featuring handwritten notes and book covers
December 8, 2023

Professor of Printmaking Exhibits in Mexico Alongside MFA Alum

Author: Jordan Cameron

Decades separate the artistic careers of Professor of Printmaking Hester Stinnett and Tyler alum Ron Abram (MFA ’86), but their artistic practices connect through a shared interest in the personal significance of archival materials, as demonstrated in a duo exhibition at the Museum of the University of Guanajuato in Mexico.The exhibition, Lo Personal Se Imprime / The Personal is Printed: Hester Stinnett & Ron Abram, was curated by Tyler alum Gilberto López-Elías (MFA ’21), whom Stinnett taught when he worked on his MFA in printmaking during a leave of absence from teaching art history and printmaking at the University of Guanajuato. Read More

Five Figures, a painting by Beth Sutherland, features five people walking outside in front of a wall with buildings in the background
December 1, 2023

Tyler Alumni Awarded 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships

Author: Alina Ladyzhensky

Tyler alumni Michelle Weinberg (MFA ’88), Beth Sutherland (MFA ’81), and Amy Ritter (BFA ’09) have been awarded a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship grant, a highly competitive program administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts with support from the New York State Council on the Arts. Read More

Alvarez headshot
December 1, 2023

Dr. Mariola Alvarez appointed co-editor in chief

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The UC Press announced Mariola's term as co-editor in chief of Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture; she assumes the position after the journal’s founding editor-in-chief, Charlene Villaseñor Black, steps down. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing the most current international research on the visual culture of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, as well as that created in diaspora. A defining focus of the journal is its concentration of current scholarship on both Latin American and Latinx visual culture in a single publication. The journal aims to approach ancient, colonial, modern and contemporary Latin American and Latinx visual culture from a range of interdisciplinary methodologies and perspectives. Read More