February 3, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Two AED faculty members, Fauzia Sadiq Garcia, RA, and Eric Oskey, RA were recently named board Directors of the American Institute of Architects' Philadelphia Chapter. Garcia will serve as the Director of Education, while Oskey will be the Director of Technology and Innovation. What are your plans for your AIA tenure?
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January 13, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Pepón Osorio, the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Community Art at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, was recently interviewed by artist and scholar Nicole Fleetwood in MoMA magazine. The two artists discuss MoMA’s acquisition of his installation, Badge of Honor, which explores the relationship between an incarcerated father and his teenage son left at home. Fleetwood curated a major exhibition, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, for MoMA that featured the works of artists in U.S. prisons and delved into similar themes as Osorio’s. The exhibition was open from September 2020-April 2021.
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January 13, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Dr. Pauwels will be presenting a virtual lecture, "José María Mora, Napoleon Sarony and the Migrant Surround in American Portrait Photography", Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 at 5 p.m. Registration is free, but required: https://npg.si.edu/greenberg-steinhauser-forum-american-portraiture
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January 12, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Tyler Professor in Painting Dona Nelson, having presented 20 solo shows over the span of her career, is best known and respected for her use of unorthodox materials, processes, and forms in her immersive and gestural paintings. Nelson has been a respected educator and mentor as well, and was honored with the College Art Association’s Distinguished Teaching of Art Award last year.
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December 13, 2021
Author: Emily Herbein
Associate Professor of Practice Eric Oskey, RA, and his award-winning firm Moto Designshop have recently finished a commission for Saint Joseph’s University, Arrupe Hall. A Jesuit residence hall and place of worship, the intricate brickwork and modern façade are standouts along the campus’s Lapsley Lane.
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December 3, 2021
Author: Emily Herbein
Dr. Lolly Tai, a Professor of Landscape Architecture, will retire at the end of this semester after 20 years of teaching at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. A prominent Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), a recipient of the Bradford Williams Medal, the Award of Distinction from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, and most impressively, the 2021 Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal, Art and Architecture, her time at Tyler has been highly decorated.
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November 16, 2021
Author: Gracie A. Laychock
Professor Emeritus George C. Whiting was a constant presence in Tyler’s Landscape Architecture and Horticulture program even after his early retirement in 2006. He often made stops by the department on the Ambler campus in the years that followed to catch up with faculty and check in on the various programs, as his colleagues and students fondly remember.
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November 9, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Professors Emily Neumeier (Temple University) and Alex Dika Seggerman (Rutgers University-Newark) discuss their experience incorporating Wikipedia in the classroom, suggesting different types of assignments, the feminist origins of the “edit-a-thon” and how teaching students about the reliability and structure of online knowledge is perhaps one of the most pressing issues of our day.Emily Neumeier is assistant professor of Art History at Temple University. She specializes in the visual and spatial cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean, with a focus on the Ottoman Empire.
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