August 27, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The exhibition, “Queer Geographies”, coincided with the 8th anniversary of the Orlando, Florida shootings at the LGBTQ+ nightclub Pulse. The artist Sebastian Duncan-Portuondo and community members made “disco mosaic rocks”—extant rocks from the park adorned with shards of a disco mosaic ball. The stones were stacked up like a “cairn” (a manmade marker for burial) in the gallery (see picture). Each rock was eventually returned to the park at the end of the show.Patel refers to this piece as “galactic queerness” because the pile of rocks was exhibited in a room set up to mimic stars in the sky.
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August 26, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The Department of Art History in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Associate Professor or Professor rank specializing in the Art and Visual Culture of the African Diaspora, to start fall 2025.
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August 24, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
You can read the article, co-authored with Nyugen E. Smith, "World-building and Futurity through Collaboration in Caribbean Diasporic Art Practices: A Conversation" in Art Journal Open 2024 here: https://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=18982
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July 31, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Prof. Neumeier's work during her Society of Architectural Historians Research Fellowship "Exploring Islamic Architecture in American Imagination" can be found here: click here
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July 10, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Alpesh's article, "Forever Becoming: Teaching “Transgender Studies Meets Art History” and Theorizing Trans Joy" was based on the course he taught in Fall 2022. It is available as open-access in Arts. 2024; 13(4):115. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13040115
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July 1, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Ali Printz, PAFA Terra Foundation Curatorial Fellow, has curated "Layers of Liberty: Philadelphia and the Appalachian Environment", running at PAFA June 27, 2024-November 3 2024.“In addition to Ali's innovative scholarship that examines American art through an eco-critical lens, Layers of Liberty acts as a test case for our approach to the reinstallation of the permanent collection in 2026,” says PAFA Chief of Curatorial Affairs Anna Marley.
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May 14, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Again, I grabbed these from your annual reports; these were not announced previously. It is so impressive how you are learning and sharing your learning with all different kinds of communities!Moe Marte finished out their internship at Philadelphia’s Office of Arts Culture and the creative economy and continued to work with the Public Art Department as a field documenter for "Percent for Art Monuments"; worked with the student exhibitions team here in Tyler; and had glass pieces accepted for inclusion in "Echo- Systems" in Tyler Contemporary.Rachel Vorsanger published, “Reflection and Refraction: Multivalent Social Realism in the Work of Joaquín Sorolla,” Arts Special Issue: Affective Art (February 2024).
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May 14, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Thanks to all of your annual achievement statements, I was able to scoop up a lot of important information to share with the broader community: these were not shared previously.It is such a pleasure seeing our grad students share their scholarship in conferences within the region, the U.S., the hemisphere, and the world!Jessica Braum spoke at the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present ASAP/14, Arts of Fugitivity, Virtual, in the panel: Conceptualizing TRANS-Asia; with the paper: “Plurilocal Subjectivity: Kim Lim’s Transnational Praxis and Cosmopolitan Imagination” (September 2023), as well as
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