November 11, 2020
Author: Zachary Vickers
Renee Jackson, assistant professor and program head of Art Education, is the recipient of the 2020 Pennsylvania Art Education Association (PAEA) Outstanding Higher Education Art Educator Award at the PAEA Conference (October 16–17, 2020) for her research and teaching related to social justice art education and the integration of game-design and game-play as collaborative art forms and learning tools.
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November 11, 2020
Author: Zachary Vickers
Lisa Kay’s latest book offers readers therapeutic art strategies to support and enhance the art teaching practice as well as gain a better understanding of therapeutic art and how to support students in thoughtful, holistic ways. In November 2020, it was endorsed by the International Society of Education through Art (InSEA).
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October 14, 2020
Author: Zachary Vickers
Doug Bucci, assistant professor at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, has been named Program Head of the Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM Program. Bucci, who earned his MFA from Tyler in 1998, is also a practicing artist who uses his personal health to influence his innovative jewelry works. He utilizes data-mapping and 3D-printing technologies to explore and display biological systems and the effect of disease on the body.
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October 12, 2020
Author: Zachary Vickers
Stay up to date on all that is happening with faculty, students and alumni of the Tyler School of Art and Architecture:
Trenton Doyle Hancock (MFA '00) gives the origin story of his alter ego, Torpedo Boy, talks about what Philip Guston’s infamous Klansmen have to offer as well as discusses his latest exhibition, “Something American,” on view at James Cohan’s two New York City locations through October 17, 2020. (October 7, 2020)
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August 20, 2020
Author: Zachary Vickers
Lisa Kay, Associate Professor and Program Head of Art Therapy has been reappointed as Department Chair of Art Education & Community Arts Practices (AECAP) for a second three-year term through the academic year 2022–23. As chair, Kay has helped reshape the MEd program by emphasizing the identities of the artist-, educator- and arts-based researcher; developed the Art Therapy Program—one of the few undergraduate programs in the United States situated in an art and architecture school within an urban public university—and continued to expand Community Arts Practices to offer socially-engaged art that emphasizes both the creative object and its social implications.
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June 3, 2020
Author: Zachary Vickers
Rob Kuper, associate professor of landscape architecture, is featured in the June 2020 (Vol. 110, No. 6) issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine where he responds to the benefits of virtual classrooms, how it can reduce the carbon footprint of the entire class, provide more immediate critical feedback and more:
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April 30, 2020
Author: Zachary Vickers
In 2003, Lolly Tai, PhD, RLA, FASLA and professor of landscape architecture at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University was named a First Asian American Pacific Islander female ASLA Fellow by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the professional association for landscape architects in the United States, to honor her vital contributions to the field.
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