December 12, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Tyler Art History is being represented by an excellent group of students and faculty at the CAA Annual Meetings, Feb 12-15 2025. The Students and Emerging Professionals Committee’s (SEPC) Guide To All Things CAA*: · Discussant: Li Machado (PhD candidate)Prof. Leah Modigliani, “Killer Buildings, Verticality and Warped Space: the Catastrophic Return(s) of Tower Block Failure”Alexandra Schoolman (PhD candidate), “Virginia Errázuriz and Alternative Solidarity Networks in Chile during the Pinochet Dictatorship”Reimagining British Art: The Contributions of Transnational Artists in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s· Chair: Jessica Braum (PhD candidate)
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December 10, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Lynn Smith Dolby (MA, 2004) is the Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Fine Art Collection. Lynn has also been an active alum contributor to departmental workshops.
You can read about her work with the Penn Collections here: Penn Today link
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December 10, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Pauwels article, "Kay WalkingStick’s Layered Landscapes and Critical Stewardship in American Art History", is featured in a special section of Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art called "American Artists x American Symbols" that considers how artists working with nationalist symbols teach us to think critically and expansively about the history of art in the Americas.
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November 11, 2024
Author: Wanda Motley Odom
Tyler alum Marguerite Anglin's (BSArch '01) path from architecture student to the Public Art Director at Creative Philadelphia, the city’s office for arts and culture, showcases the power of interdisciplinary thinking and the lasting impact of the strong educational foundation that Tyler provides. Anglin's journey into architecture wasn't a straightforward one. Initially interested in fashion design, she was steered toward more technical fields by her parents. At a summer camp for business and engineering, a counselor introduced Anglin to architecture – a discipline that balanced her creative and analytical sides perfectly. Diving into Architecture at Tyler At Tyler, Anglin immersed herself in the architecture program.
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November 8, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Emma Holter (PhD candidate), Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie (PhD student) and Jackie Strecker (PhD student) recently represented Tyler at the Sixteenth Century Society conference in Toronto!
Their paper titles were:
Emma P. Holter: “Allegory of Outrage: Girolamo da Treviso and the English Reformation"
Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie: “Fantasey and Materiality: Thematizing Kunst in Archduke Ferdinand II's Court Glass Workshop"
Jackie Streker: "Monumental Prints, Miniature Cities"
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October 24, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie (PhD student) will be presenting “Fantasey and Materiality: Thematizing Kunst in Archduke Ferdinand II’s Court Glass Workshop.”
Jackie Strecker (PhD student) is giving a presentation, "Monumental Prints, Miniature Cities"
Emma Holter (PhD candidate) will also be presenting.
Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie also will be presenting at the Corning Museum of Glass’ 62nd Annual Seminar “Objects of Odor: Scent, Medicine, and Decorative Arts in the 16th century Holy Roman Empire
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October 21, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The conference, "The Appearance" is hosted by the Americas Society and the Asia Society will be in-person Oct 29 in New York. the conference was organized in collaboration with the current exhibition, "The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean".
Dr. Alvarez will be one of the roundtable presenters from 3:30-5:00 at the Asia Society (725 Park Ave) https://www.as-coa.org/events/appearance-conference-presented-americas-s...
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October 18, 2024
Author: Wanda Motley Odom
Professor Byron Wolfe is an accomplished photographer whose work is widely published and exhibited, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the current chair of the Art Department at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.He is passionate about collaborative research projects that investigate topics that span the visual arts, humanities and natural sciences, and uses photography and other visualization tools to tell stories that reflect upon broader notions of culture and the constructions of landscape, perception and time.
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October 11, 2024
Author: Wanda Motley Odom
Tyler Professor Emerita Gerda Panofsky-Soergel was a pixie of a woman with a prodigious intellect that earned her widespread recognition as one of the 20th century scholars who helped define the study of Italian art of the 15th to 17th centuries.Beloved by her students and colleagues alike, she was slight and wiry, with a soft voice—all of which belied her muscled, driven, and courageous scholarship in art history. Her students remember her as dedicated, humble, energetic, and robust of spirit.
Panofsky-Soergel, Professor Emerita in the Art History Department, passed away in September at the age of 95.
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