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 28, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
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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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October 10, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Emily is on the team of six international scholars that received an NEH Collaborative Research Grant of $249,000. The three-year project is titled, "Visualizing Local Christian Communities in Muslim Cosmopolitan Istanbul in the 19th and 20th Centuries". The team will use multi-lingual sources to reconstruct the demography and topography of Istanbul's Greek Orthodox communities, producing articles, podcasts, interactive maps, data visualizations, and virtual and in-person exhibitions. As one of the key collaborators on the project, Emily will be investigating the built environment and architecture of these minority communities in one of the world's largest and most diverse cities. The project will be housed at UC Berkeley.
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October 5, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
We have a terrific group of scholars presenting at the annual SECAC conference this month:Gillian Yee (PhD student): “Life, Death, and Everything in Between: Peter Hujar’s Capuchin Catacomb Portraits” (also session chair)Brittany Rubin (PhD student): “’All the Tricks of Aretin[o]’: The Affective Lives of Samuel Pepys’ Reproductive Portrait Collection”Joseph Kopta (Asst. Prof. of Instruction): “The Trebizond Alexander Romance and Representations of Kingship” Noah Randolph (PhD candidate): “Atop the Pedestal: Paula Wilson’s ‘Living Monument’”Ali Printz (PhD candidate): “Upending the Plantationocene: The Coal Sculptures of Charles Edgar Patience”
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