Art History

    February 22, 2022

    Sadie Redwing to speak at joint GAiD and Art History sponsored virtual event Wednesday 2/23/22 at 12:15 pm

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Sadie Red Wing (sadieredwing.com) is a Lakota graphic designer and advocate from the Spirit Lake Nation of Fort Totten, North Dakota. Red Wing earned her BFA in New Media Arts and Interactive Design at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She received her Master of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University. Her research on cultural revitalization through design tools and strategies created a new demand for tribal competence in graphic design research. Red Wing urges Native American graphic designers to express visual sovereignty in their design work, as well as encourages academia to include an Indigenous perspective in the design curriculum. Currently, Red Wing serves as an Assistant Professor at OCAD University (Toronto, ONT). Read More

    February 18, 2022

    Tyler School of Art and Architecture Issues Formal Land Acknowledgment

    Author: Emily Herbein

    The Collegial Assembly at Tyler School of Art and Architecture recently adopted use of an Indigenous Land Acknowledgment, developed by a faculty committee spearheaded by Art History Chair Jane DeRose Evans, to recognize the history of the native peoples who originally lived on the lands where the school sits.   In practice, the Land Acknowledgment can be voluntarily used before public events held on campus to encourage both event planners and visitors to think deeper about the work that is done both in and out of the classroom and how it is connected to the land that we inhabit.  Read More

    February 18, 2022

    Dr. Alpesh Patel contributions to the study of queer/trans theory

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Dr. Patel's speaking engagements and publications in the fall of 2021 highlight his research:  KINSEY INSTITUTE, FORSCHUNGSSTELLE KULTURGESCHICHTE DER SEXUALITÄT, WEAM - WILZIG EROTIC ART MUSEUM, December 2021. Moderator for panel, part of the online conference, “Exhibitionism – Sexuality at the Museum International” WOPHA: WOMEN, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND FEMINISMS CONGRESS, Miami, Florida, November 2021. Conversation with Carlotta Boettcher: “Productive Failure and Queer Photography” FULBRIGHT PRISM, September 2021. Panelist for “Art and Queer Community” for Fulbright Prism’s organization’s first online virtual conference (invited) Co-organizer with Jane Chin Davidson, “Okwui Enwezor: Art of Curating” panel with Przemsyław Strozek, ZACHĘTA ¬ NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WARSAW, POLAND, September 24, 2021 Read More

    February 18, 2022

    Nicole Emser Marcel to participate in Stanford Under-Mapped Spaces Workshop

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Nicole Emser Marcel (PhD Student) will participate in "Under-Mapped Spaces: New Methods and Tools for Critical Storytelling," with a project entitled "Whose Golden Age?: Correcting the Imagined Cartographies of the Pan-Am Flying Clipper Ships." The five-day intensive interdisciplinary workshop tests the utility of digital tools in the creation of compelling, accessible narratives of “under-mapped” places and is co-hosted by Stanford University, the David Rumsey Map Center and Stanford Geospatial Center, and Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections.  Read More

    February 17, 2022

    Dr. Tracy Cooper interviewed in The Art Newspaper

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Dr. Cooper's remarks are quoted in the story, "Venice's great women artists step into the limelight through major restoration project", an initiative undertaken by Save Venice. Dr. Cooper is an active board member of the organization. You can see the entire article here:  https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/15/save-venice-women-artists-res... Read More

    February 17, 2022

    Art History's Linda Earle Discusses the Importance of Philanthropy and Cultural Equity

    Author: Emily Herbein

    Fine Arts Management Professor Linda Earle recently spoke with Temple Now about the consequential impact that philanthropy and artists have had on building equitable creative spaces. Earle, also associate graduate director for arts management track of the master's program in Tyler's Art History Department, discusses the need for change on an institutional level, and looks at large-scale "tentpole organizations," like the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and how they plan to address and further implement diversity plans. She also addresses the recent change in how donors and art funders look at where to give and consider the need to look at "the whole field" rather than just the big-name artists and institutions. Read More

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