March 11, 2019
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Natalia Angeles Vieyra (PhD candidate, Art History) will be presenting, "Playing the Market: Camille Pissaro and Venezuela's Visual Economics" at the 16th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on 19th-Century Art, co-sponsored by the Association of HIstorians of 19th-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art, NYC.
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February 28, 2019
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Emma will be graduating in May 2019. This award, which is an all-Tyler award, was given on behalf of her academic excellence, leadership, and service to the community.
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February 4, 2019
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Tyler Art History faculty and alumni reconnected at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Symposium "Worlds Among Us: Across Geographies" on January 31, 2019.
Squeezed into the frame are James Merle Thomas; Jerry Silk; Yana Balsom (MA 19xx), Associate Director of Exhibition Planning at the PMA; Jennifer Zwilling (MA 2001), Curator of Artistic Programs at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia; Nicole Elizabeth Cook (MA 2010), Coordinator for Academic Partnerships at the PMA.
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January 28, 2019
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Dr. Emily Neumeier, currrently fulfilling a Getty post-doc in Athens, was awarded the Margaret B. Sevcenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture for her paper, "The Church the Pasha Built: Towards a Multi-Confessional History of Islamic Architecture". This competitive award is conferred annually by the Historians of Islamic Art Association for the best unpublished essay written by a junior scholar. The essay is part of Neumeier's larger project on the buildings of Ottoman Greece and Albania, and will be considered for publication in the journal Muqarnas.
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July 10, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Natalia will be conducting her research on her dissertation, "Beyond the City of Light: Impressionists in the Americas and the Caribbean".
Terra Foundation International Research Travel Grants offer US-based scholars working on American art and visual culture prior to 1980 the opportunity to conduct research abroad. Grant funding is available for projects that require study of materials outside the United States and that will enable scholars to:
Discover new primary source material;
Experience works of art first-hand in museums and private collections;
Make contact with artists, critics, art dealers, archivists, curators, and university scholars;
Consult archives and library collections outside the US;
Establish professional networks for future research.
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May 23, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Upcoming exhibition of Philadelphia artists at the Woodmere Art Museum: Sophie Sanders was honored by being selected by curator and artist Syd Carpenter as a participant in this show and featured in the related podcast called Diving Board. You can see more work from the "Ophelia" series on the website: https://www.sophiesanders.art/The Woodmere Annual: 77th Juried ExhibitionJune 2 - September 3, 2018This year's juror, Syd Carpenter, invited artists and craftspeople to submit work in all media that references the land, the transience of the body, and the skill of the maker.Exhibition-related programming:
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May 10, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Danielle (PhD candidate, Art History) will be researching the Latin American case studies for her dissertation, which focuses on two hospitals in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Salvador, Brazil. She will be consulting 16th and 17th century maps, views, and accounts by Jesuits and travelers of these early colonial port cities, as well as publications that contextualize her case studies and record or reproduce archival documents.
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