Blog Archive

Michael and friends in Azerbaijan
January 24, 2025

Michael Ernst (PhD candidate) Awarded Title VIII CRLT Fellowship

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Michael was accepted into the Title VIII Combined Research & Language Training (CRLT) Program and awarded a fellowship for his dissertation research in Azerbaijan. Included in the grant is funding for language instruction to further his Azerbaijani and Russian language skills while there. The Title VIII CRLT Fellowship is awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence & Research and administered through American Councils for International Education. photo: Michael and friends in 2022 at the Alinja Castle in Nakhchivan,  Azerbaijan Read More

January 22, 2025

Scholar in Climate Justice and Built Environment Joins Tyler Faculty

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

Billy Fleming, an interdisciplinary scholar of climate justice and the built environment and founding co-director of the Climate and Community Institute, a progressive think-tank focused on climate and political economy, has joined the Tyler community as an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture.Fleming is renowned for his research on clean energy supply chains, social and abolitionist movements in rural landscapes, land-based practices of carbon management, and the communities transformed by each. Read More

January 21, 2025

Art History Chair Jane DeRose Evans named next President of ASOR

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

Jane DeRose Evans, chair of Tyler's Art History Department was elected as the next President of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) by its Board of Trustees. She will serve as the President-elect during 2025, shadowing current President Sharon Herbert, and will work on developing ASOR’s strategic plan that is set to begin in 2026. Jane will step into her three-year term as President of ASOR in 2026. Read More

January 8, 2025

9 Questions for Art Ed Professor David Herman Jr. About "An Opus of Love"

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

In An Opus of Love, a new exhibition at the TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image by Tyler Assistant Professor of Art Education David Herman Jr., collage plays a central role as an artistic technique and a tool for introspection and narrative construction. Through such creative practice, they capture the subtle ways in which the past is always present and creates non-linear, seemingly fragmented narratives in which past and future coexist in meaningful dialogue.In this Q&A, Herman, a lens-based artist and distinguished visual art education scholar, reflects on the exhibition as it opens and the ways in which An Opus of Love (January 9-February 22) uses his personal archival material to explore themes like fatherhood, Black visualities, Gullah Geechee culture, and perception. Read More

The artist in the studio is standing between two images of elk.
January 6, 2025

Native American Artist Norman Akers Joins Tyler as First Edgar Heap of Birds Family Artist in Residence

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

Native American artist Norman Akers, who uses cartographic imagery in paintings and prints to reference the history of a changing Indigenous landscape, has been selected as the inaugural Edgar Heap of Birds Family Artist in Residence at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University.Akers, a member of the Osage Nation who currently teaches painting in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas, will spend January-May 2025 in the Tyler community focusing on his artistic practice and engaging with students and faculty. Read More