May 14, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Thanks to all of your annual achievement statements, I was able to scoop up a lot of important information to share with the broader community: these were not shared previously.It is such a pleasure seeing our grad students share their scholarship in conferences within the region, the U.S., the hemisphere, and the world!Jessica Braum spoke at the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present ASAP/14, Arts of Fugitivity, Virtual, in the panel: Conceptualizing TRANS-Asia; with the paper: “Plurilocal Subjectivity: Kim Lim’s Transnational Praxis and Cosmopolitan Imagination” (September 2023), as well as
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May 7, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
In this virtual exhibition, Art History undergraduate students present their capstone projects -- ranging from manga comics to Baroque art, from Mexican artists to Korean artists, from art by AIDS activists to environmental activists in a fascinating look at the intersectionalities of famous and forgotten artists from around the world.
View the exhibition on STELLAOnline
Congratulations to Zoe C, Shayna, Wini, Seohyun (Sera), Zoe K, Y Huong, Emma, Luke, Shannon, Izzy, Elizabeth, Taylor, Camille, and Eliza
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April 23, 2024
Author: Jordan Cameron
Keecha Abie Kamara '26, an Architecture student at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, is the 2024 recipient of AIA Philadelphia's Matthew J. Koenig Memorial Scholarship.
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April 19, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Zoë Kilgore and Seohyun (Sera) Park have been selected to represent Tyler on April 26 1-4:30 at the Community College of Philadelphia; with Yogev Avidar (BA 2023) as the discussant.
Zoë's talk, "A Sacred Space: Manifestations of Queerness in Vodou Practices" and Sera's talk, "Painting the Privileged: Genre Paintings of Sin Yun-bok and Jean-Honoré Fragonard" grew out of their projects for the capstone class.
We're proud to be represented by these three scholars!
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April 5, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Maria has been accepted for the Goizueta Fellowship with the University of Miami for June and July 2024. This fellowship supports research at the Cuban Heritage Collection, one of her dissertation's primary sources.
She has also been appointed Smithsonian American Art Museum's inaugural Audrey Flack Short-Term Fellow for August 1-30, 2024. This fellowship allows her to be in DC for a month to research the Smithsonian collections related to her research.
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April 5, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Ali Printz (PhD candidate) delivered her paper, "Extraction in the Alleghenies: John Kane’s Naive Ecocriticism" in Session Two, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScK31cTSu4Y
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March 27, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The Art History Department was very well represented at the Renaissance Society of America 2024 Annual Meeting, this year held in Chicago from March 21–23, 2024! We’re very proud of the great Early Modern scholarship of our department members and alumni.Emma P. Holter (PhD Student), “Bellini in Black and White: Reconsidering the Uffizi Lamentation;"Jesse Rhian-Yu Sullivan (PhD Candidate), “Ripples on the Surface: Active Dimensionality as a Lens for Understanding Early Renaissance Painting;"Dr. Tracy E. Cooper (Professor), “The Renaissance Book: Lilian Armstrong and Art History;" Dr. Cooper was also the respondent to the Society for the History of Collecting double-panel “Collecting and Knowledge Production through Travel;”
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February 28, 2024
Author: Jordan Cameron
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture’s Graphic and Interactive Design program was widely represented at the 2023 Flux Student Design Competition, with a total of 24 selected projects—more than any other program represented in the competition."It's gratifying to see Tyler represented so well in the competition," said Abby Guido, Associate Professor of Graphic and Interactive Design. "It shows that our focus on creativity, technical skills, and critical thinking is practical. This is a great moment for all of us to appreciate."
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February 12, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
We have a bounty of researchers presenting at the CAA annual meetings this month:Nikki Marcel (PhD candidate) chairing three panels: Rebellious Creating: Opacity as Praxis in the Contemporary Caribbean; Writing for Each Other: Collaboration Across Art History and Art Practice; Office Hours: Open Discussion between Students and ProfessorsDr. Alpesh Patel chairing Peer Review Futures Publications CommitteeEmmy Schollenberger (PhD candidate) "Mountains and Memory: The Geography of Japanese Internment Camps in Emma Nishimura's Locating Memory"Noah Randolph (PhD candidate) chairing Uneasy Pieces: Pedagogical Approaches to Sensitive Topics and Controversial Works of Art and co-chairing with Dr. Leah Modigliani, Walls, Blockades, and Barricades: Art at the Margins of the New Enclosures"
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