Student Achievements

    November 9, 2023

    Tyler Art History grad students participate in Islamic Art Study Day at the Freer

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Özlem Yıldız (PhD candidate), Ryan Mitchell (PhD student) and Miray Eroglu (PhD student) participated in an Islamic Art Study Day at Freer Gallery of Art in the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art as part of the awarding ceremony of the Charles Lang Freer Medal and lecture honoring Gülru Necipoğlu on October 28, 2023. On October 29th 2023, Yıldız, Mitchell and Eroglu visited the Freer Collection's special collection with curators Massumeh Farhad and Simon Rettig to look at works of art in the collections inspired by Professor Necipoğlu's lecture: "From China to Europe: A Topkapi Palace Album with Images in the Persianate, Cathayan, Frankish Manners (c. 1350-1500)." Read More

    November 6, 2023

    Tyler Graduate Student’s Research Cited in Michelangelo Attribution Debate

    Author: Alina Ladyzhensky

    Tyler Art History graduate student Hatice Köroglu Çam’s research is at the center of a recent Insider article about ongoing disagreement over the attribution of a 16th century marble statue of the Greek god Pan. Çam, a first-year PhD student whose work focuses on Italian Renaissance art, argues that the statue was created by one of the most renowned artists of the Western canon: Michelangelo. Read More

    November 1, 2023

    Emma Holter (PhD student) to take masterclass at the Courtauld

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Emma P. Holter, a second-year PhD student and University Fellow, will attend a masterclass in Venetian drawings in the Prints Department at the Courtauld Gallery in London this November. The masterclass will be offered by renowned expert Dr. Catherine Whistler (Ashmolean Museum) in conjunction with the Courtauld Gallery's current exhibition "La Serennissima: Drawing in 18th-century Venice" https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/la-serenissima-drawing-in-18th-century-... Read More

    October 31, 2023

    Painting Major Reimagines Vanitas through Research

    Author: Wanda Motley Odom

    This is the third of four articles about Tyler's Spring 2023 CARAS grant winners.In senior Sofia Angelini’s haunting and intensely red deer painting Crucifixion, a wide-eyed fawn stares backward seemingly bewildered, its head turned away from a wainscoted wall where the preserved head of an eight-point stag hangs mounted as a trophy.  Read More

    October 13, 2023

    Horticulture Major Tests Forest Recovery at Ambler Campus

    Author: Wanda Motley Odom

    This is the second of four articles about Tyler's Spring 2023 CARAS grant awardees.Horticulture major Trinity Flores (BS Hort ’24) developed a love for nature as a young student attending Waldorf schools, an academically rigorous education program where the focus on experiential learning often took her outdoors.“I learned to milk cows when I was in third grade,” Flores, a Pottstown native, said. Read More

    October 11, 2023

    Jessica Braum delivers paper at Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Jessica Braum delivered her paper "Plurilocal Subjectivity: Kim Lim’s Transnational Praxis and Cosmopolitan Imagination" on Saturday, September 30, as part of the "Conceptualizing Trans-Asia" double panel co-organized by Alpesh Patel and Jane Chin Davidson for the annual conference of the international organization Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). Read More

    October 5, 2023

    Stellar representation for Tyler Art HIstory at SECAC this fall!

    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”  Read More

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