February 1, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
This semester Dr. Emily Neumeier will be spending her sabbatical at Harvard University as a research fellow in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. During this fellowship, she will be pursuing a new research project about practices of architectural restoration in Ottoman and Republican-era Istanbul, which she will discuss in an upcoming lecture on February 8. Neumeier has already begun investigating this topic in an essay that appears in her co-edited volume Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century, which comes out this month with Edinburgh University Press.
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January 30, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Join us for a party to celebrate the publications of three faculty members:
Assoc. Prof. Leah Modigliani: Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City
Assoc. Prof. Erin Pauwels: Napoleon Sarony's Living Pictures
Asst. Prof. Mariola Alvarez: The Affinity of Neoconcretism
Feb 1 beginning at 6 Temple Contemporary; light refreshments provided
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January 25, 2024
Author: Jordan Cameron
Erin Pauwels, PhD, Associate Professor of American Art and Undergraduate Advisor, has been appointed the 2024-25 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art in the Department of History of Art at the University of Oxford. During her professorship, Pauwels will teach an undergraduate course about American art from the 17th century to the present day. She will also teach a graduate course on how land, animals, and material resources have inspired the art and visual and material culture of the United States of America, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Pauwels will also be a Visiting Fellow at Worcestor College during her time in Oxford, where she will deliver the annual Terra Lecture in American Art in spring 2025.
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January 15, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The Carlsberg Foundation has granted Alice M. Rudy Price (PhD 2014, Adj, Asst. Prof.) funding for six months of research in Denmark from May to December 2025. This funding will support catalogue research for a 2026–2027 art exhibition, "Aging Bodies, Mature Careers," hosted by Ribe Kunstmuseum and Skovgaard Museet in Denmark.
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December 18, 2023
Author: Jordan Cameron
A group of airborne schoolgirls greets travelers in Terminal F at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL). The young women are depicted in a mural, created by Adjunct Professor of Painting Ziui Chen Vance, in various states of jumping and raising their arms. There is a palpable movement to the brightly colored piece, but there is more to it than meets the eye.
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December 8, 2023
Author: Jordan Cameron
Decades separate the artistic careers of Professor of Printmaking Hester Stinnett and Tyler alum Ron Abram (MFA ’86), but their artistic practices connect through a shared interest in the personal significance of archival materials, as demonstrated in a duo exhibition at the Museum of the University of Guanajuato in Mexico.The exhibition, Lo Personal Se Imprime / The Personal is Printed: Hester Stinnett & Ron Abram, was curated by Tyler alum Gilberto López-Elías (MFA ’21), whom Stinnett taught when he worked on his MFA in printmaking during a leave of absence from teaching art history and printmaking at the University of Guanajuato.
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December 1, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The UC Press announced Mariola's term as co-editor in chief of Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture; she assumes the position after the journal’s founding editor-in-chief, Charlene Villaseñor Black, steps down. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing the most current international research on the visual culture of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, as well as that created in diaspora. A defining focus of the journal is its concentration of current scholarship on both Latin American and Latinx visual culture in a single publication. The journal aims to approach ancient, colonial, modern and contemporary Latin American and Latinx visual culture from a range of interdisciplinary methodologies and perspectives.
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November 30, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Pauwels was nominated by two museum colleagues based on her publications about the histories of photography and lithographic printmaking. The Print Council of American was founded in In 1956, by Lessing J. Rosenwald and a group of museum directors and curators as a non-profit organization “fostering the creation, dissemination, and appreciation of fine prints, new and old.” Since then, the Council has continued to grow and evolve as a professional organization with an elected membership, reflecting tremendous expansion in the fields of print curatorship, scholarship, and museum practice, and embracing the specialties of drawings, photography, and conservation.
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