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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November 21, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Professors Mariola Alvarez and Erin Pauwels were honored as faculty authors at a basketball game on Nov 18. The picture shows them being congratulated by Hooter the Owl, among others!
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November 14, 2023
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
This fall and summer have been an exciting and prolific time for Tyler’s faculty members. Across every discipline and program, our accomplished faculty have been curating and participating in exhibitions around the world, writing and editing books and other publications, receiving recognition for their work through grants and awards, and more. Below is a roundup of their recent achievements and activities.
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November 14, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Alvarez is co-editor of the journal Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, published by the University of California Press. The journal 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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October 24, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Sarina Miller's (Adjunct Instructor, MA and BA alum) book, Perspective: Selected Essays on Space in Art and Design has just come out through Vernon Press (https://vernonpress.com/book/1700). The chapters, one of which was authored by Christa DiMarco (PhD 2015, MA 2007), explore the ways in which visual and physical space have been designed and experienced in different cultures. This book amplifies the significance of space as a design element by examining its implications in various contexts through a global perspective of art and design.
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October 16, 2023
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
Glass is classified as neither a solid nor liquid— rather, it fluctuates between these states of matter. This scientific phenomenon was a point of inspiration for Form and Formless: Constellations of Knowledge, a new exhibition curated by Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Tyler’s Associate Professor of Global Contemporary Art, at the Robert Lehman Gallery at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, New York.As Patel explained, the exhibition “meditates on the slipperiness rather than the fixity of identity categories” such as gender, sexuality, nationality, and race. In curating Form and Formless, he sought to foreground works that complicate the notion of identity as something that is singular and static.
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