September 16, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Taylor Elyea, a 2020 alum, went on to complete her MA at Georgetown University in Art and Museum Studies, with a focus on Collections Management. While at Temple, she was Collections Management Intern at the Temple University Anthropology Lab, and completed several internships during her semester abroad at Temple Rome. She reports that, "I owe much of my success to the Tyler School of Art and Architecture and its passionate and motivated professors. The Chief Registrar at The Frick with whom I interviewed with attended a semester at Temple Rome, so she was very familiar with Temple's level of excellence."
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September 11, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Joseph Kopta (PhD Candidate) will speak at the workshop "Shades of Purple: Purple Ornament in Medieval Manuscripts" at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, on November 11, 2021. He will present a paper, "Purple Aesthetics in Middle Byzantine Manuscripts," stemming from his research on pigments for his dissertation on Greek-language Gospel Lectionaries.
The workshop is organized by the SNF-Projekt Textures of Sacred Scripture in the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich, and features two days of international papers by art historians and conservation scientists of the medieval world.
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August 28, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Joseph R. Kopta (PhD candidate) received the Art History Graduate Teaching Award for 2020/21. Joe has taught at every level in the undergraduate program, including most recently, "Destroying Images: Iconoclasm", for which students revised and wrote on under-represented topics on iconoclasm on Wikipedia. In just over a month since the articles were written or published, over 20,000 views were recorded.
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August 28, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Lily F. Scott (PhD candidate) is the recipient of the Tyler Art History Graduate Teaching Award, 2020/21. She has taught a range of courses, pioneering the Arts of the World I and II, teaching the GenEd Arts of the Western World, and upper-level classes such as "Sapphic Art". Lily summed up her teaching philosophy by noting that "I treat my own art historical pratice as an exercise of intellectual investigation, and I encourage my students to join me and be investigators as well."
Congratulations to Lily for this well-deserved award!
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July 23, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Ali Printz is one of sixteen PhD candidates from across the country chosen to attend the eighth annual Center for Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation seminar, both this summer and next. With the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2014, CCL has provided eight classes of advanced graduate students with the knowledge and networks to pursue professional opportunities in museums.This year’s students represent sixteen different universities and a broad range of fields of study which include contemporary art in the Middle East, the swamps of Dutch landscapes, Soviet Hauntology, ecological art in the Black diaspora, Appalachian regionalism, and marble sculptures from post-Tridentine Rome. Together, this cohort demonstrates approaches to scholarship that promise to expand the knowledge, impact, and audience of our field."
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July 14, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Ari Lipkis will present "Imprisoned in the Fold: Piranesi and the Video Artist" at the New Approaches to Piranesi: A Virtual Roundtable, hosted by the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of North Carolina, on July 16, 2021. Registration for the event is through: bit.ly/piranesiroundtable
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June 25, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Lily F. Scott was awarded the Barra American Art Fellowship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Center for American Art for 2021/22. The Barra American Art Fellow assists with department research and exhibition projects while also working on personal research and dissertation writing. Lily's project, Neither Then nor Now: Queer Temporalities & Interwar Portraits of Expatriate Sapphists, examines the portraiture of/by queer American women artists living in 1920s Paris.
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June 16, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Natalia Vieyra (PhD 2021) and Tara Kaufman (MA 2019) have both contributed articles to Panorma: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 7.1 2021. Natalia's article is in the Special Section on Art and Politics in the US Capitol: "Columbus, Conquest, and the Capitol"; Tara's article is a review of an exhibition: "Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art Nature, Culture" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Both can be found here : Panorama Spring 2021
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June 14, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Michael Ernst (PhD student) has published a conference precis of "What is an Islamic Garden in the 21st Century?", the Islamic Landscape Symposium at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2019, in the International Journal of Islamic Architecture 10.2 2021 514-516.
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