April 3, 2019
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Tiffany Lynn Hunt (PhD candidate) presented her talk, "Extending Cultural Capital: Gregory XIII's Project for the Apostolic Stairs" at the 24th annual Graduate Student Symposium, held at the Barnes Foundation on March 29, 2019.
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March 28, 2019
Author: Michael Smaczylo
Rule Breakers and Makers: Artist, Identity, SocietyHow does society shape and influence artists? How do artists find their individual voices and make an impact? Explore your own creative vision as you take inspiration from artists in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in this two-week long collaboration with Art Education, Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Structured looking, responding, and connecting led by Art Museum Educators builds a foundation for intensive studio practice exploring a variety of materials and media. SCHEDULEJuly 22 - August 2 Monday through Friday 9:30am-1:30pm
Course taught by Carol Royer, Tyler Art Education Faculty member and PMA educators and curators.
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March 21, 2019
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Kedra Kearis has been awarded a NY Historical Society Fellowship for her pre-doctoral research on women patrons of New York Society in the Gilded Age. Kearis's research focuses on the French-American exchange in the late nineteenth century with a particular emphasis on the revival of eighteenth-century fine and decorative arts.
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March 12, 2019
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Scott Gratson (Professor of Instruction in Communication and Social Influence, Klein College of Undergraduate Studies; PhD in AH anticipated May 19) presented a lecture on the art of David Wojnarowicz on Temple's Tokyo campus, as part of the Feminist Art and Theory class on that campus. Picture: Scott Gratson enjoying an after-lecture dinner with Toshiaki Yokozawa (TUJ Board Member), and Assoc Dean George Miller and his wife.
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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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