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    April 6, 2018

    Dr. Erin Pauwels awarded NEH grant for summer institute

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Art History Assistant Professor Erin Pauwels has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities and named a 2018 NEH Summer Scholar. This July she will participate in the NEH-sponsored Summer Institute on the “Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermath,” which is being hosted by the American Social History Project at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The program is designed to enhance university teaching as well as research and Pauwels will use the experience to develop a new Tyler Art History course on the visual culture of the American Civil War and its continuing significance to contemporary art and politics in the United States. Read More

    April 5, 2018

    Dr. Alice Rudy Price publishes review of Pissaro show.

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Adjunct Professor Dr. Price's review of the Ordrupgaard's exhibition, "Pissaro: Meeting on St. Thomas" (March-June 2017, in Copenhagen) was published by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA). Read More

    April 5, 2018

    Dr. Jerry Silk moderates TURF-CreWS panel

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Silk moderated the panel, "Art, Iconography, and Controversy" at the Temple 2018 TURF-CreWS symposium, April 12.  Three of the papers on the panel originated in his Fall 2017 Honors undergraduate class. Read More

    April 3, 2018

    Temple University stands out at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Renaissance rocks! Temple University stood out at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America recently held in New Orleans. At least ten current faculty, graduate students and alumni were in the juried program or attended the conference: Tracy Cooper, Bethany Farrell, Elizabeth Duntemann, and Jasmine Cloud are seen here at the Italian Art Society reception; also participating as session organizers and/or speakers were Erin Downey, Margaret Morse, Art DiFuria, Sophia McCabe, Aliza Benjamin, and Cate Wallace.   Read More

    January 25, 2018

    Pepón Osorio wins College Art Association's 2018 Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement

    Author: hjh

    January keeps getting better for Pepón Osorio, Laura Carnell Professor of Community Art at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. The College Art Association (CAA) announced today that Pepón had been named the 2018 Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement—only nine days after learning he had won a United States Artists fellowship.Pepón is the first artist of Puerto Rican descent to win the award. In a press release, CAA cited his "meticulous installations incorporating the memories, experiences and cultural and religious iconography of Latino communities and family dynamics."He joins a select 31-member club. Previous winners of the award include Hans Haacke, David Hammons, Jacob Lawrence, Yvonne Rainer and Nancy Spero. Read More

    December 19, 2017

    AECAP Professor Dr.Lisa Kay's Work To Be Published In Forthcoming Art therapy Book

    Author: Michael Smaczylo

    Congratulations to Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Art Education and Community Arts Practices Professor Lisa Kay whose work is published in the forthcoming book, Art for Children Experiencing Psychological Trauma: A Guide for Educators and School-Based Professionals. This timely and groundbreaking resource is focuses on the relationship between art education and psychological trauma in youth populations. Dr. Kay, a board certified art therapist and art educator, contributed two solo chapters: Children Exposed to Trauma: Children in Crisis and Yellow Bricks: An Approach to Art Teaching. She also co-authored two chapters on understanding the potential for art Making for students experiencing psychological trauma and best practices in pre-service art teacher education and professional development.   Read More

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