July 8, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Sculptor, performance artist, and Tyler alum Doreen Lynette Garner (BFA ‘10) presents a solo exhibition titled “REVOLTED” at The New Museum from June 30-October 16. Her signature themes of body horror, rebellion, and the grotesque further a narrative of racial injustice and the “myth of white racial purity,” the exhibition description details.
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June 15, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Samara Weaver (BArch ‘11, MArch ‘13) has always been drawn to buildings, spaces, and the emotions they can evoke. She ties her early love of architecture to a childhood memory of Philadelphia’s grand, neoclassical 30th Street Station. When deciding on her education, Weaver chose to obtain both an undergraduate and graduate degree in architecture rather than the fine arts due to her search for a more “structured job market,” she recently told Art Watch Podcast.
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May 10, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Phil Le (TYL ‘22) made his graduation day extra special by proposing to his girlfriend of eight years, Olivia Colacicco (TYL ‘21), at Tyler’s commencement reception surrounded by friends, family, and former professors.
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May 9, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Tyler’s 2022 “Diploma Project,” a special gift to the graduating class made by a distinguished alum, is a one-of-a-kind, hand-blown glass owl decanter to celebrate their achievement. Since 2019, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture has presented its graduating students with a special class gift: a unique work of art made by one of Tyler’s renowned alumni — a tradition that connects two generations of creatives.
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April 27, 2022
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.
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April 5, 2022
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.
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April 4, 2022
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
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March 22, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Visual Studies alumna Alison Evans (BA ‘21) was recognized with an Honorable Mention from Honoring the Future’s Fellowship and Award Program for Emerging Craft Artists Advancing Sustainability. Thanks to the organization, “craft students across the nation are rising to the challenge of climate change, using their powerful visual voices to offer hope and inspiration for achieving a sustainable future.” Evans’ project, Water Works, explored the relationship between Philadelphia’s waterways and various levels of pollution.
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January 26, 2022
Author: Wanda Motley Odom
Tyler alumnus Shwarga Bhattacharjee (MFA ‘18) has always let lived experience be his muse. His large, lushly layered abstract paintings and collage evoke his cultural background and identity as South Asian as well as the history of his home country, Bangladesh. Concealed within his use of vivid colors, contorted forms, bold and delicate textures, and broad gestural strokes are references to his Hindu religion and mythological stories, national symbols, verdant geographies, star-packed constellations, demons and goddesses, and the ravages of British colonial rule in India.
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