July 26, 2024
Author: Jordan Cameron
Effective July 1, 2024, the department formerly known as Graphic and Interactive Design was renamed to Design and Illustration (D&I). This change, over six years in the making, better represents the breadth and depth of the degree programs offered and positions the department for future expansion into other related disciplines. “The new name encompasses our dedication to both traditional and emerging fields, underlining our commitment to providing students with a comprehensive and forward-thinking educational experience,” D&I faculty said in a statement shared with the Tyler community on July 1.
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July 16, 2024
Author: Jordan Cameron
Natalia Purchiaroni, a second-year MFA candidate in Photography, had never curated an art exhibition before having the idea for what would become The Myth of the American Dream, now on view in the Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery this July.Over the last 10 years, Purchiaroni has observed more and more people—across all political affiliations—begin to ask questions about how much the American government protects and serves its citizens. She has noticed that an increasingly large number of conversations with peers, family members, and even in professional and academic settings, center around the state of the nation and the anxieties about it.
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July 10, 2024
Author: Jordan Cameron
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June 17, 2024
Author: Wanda Motley Odom
Art Therapy major Valerie Ramos’s book In Bloom is an explosion of mixed media, tissue paper, newsprint, patterned craft paper, felted snippets, tinsel scalloped doilies, and stiffened netting. The book’s assemblages of multicolored pages are so full that they sit up like wings when fully open, which seems apropos as the center of the book coyly resembles a swallowtail butterfly, with puffy wings of mauve and pink and purple and blue and silver.
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June 6, 2024
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
Bradford Davis (MFA '24), an alum of Tyler's Ceramics program, will join The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, one of the nation's oldest and most respected centers for ceramics, as a Resident Artist this fall. The residency program offers the top emerging ceramic talent in the U.S. and abroad the space, time, and resources to develop their artwork and their professional lives.Davis is an award-winning multimedia artist who uses ceramics to express his emotions and responses to his traumas and life experiences. As a retired Army Artillery Officer, his journey of healing feeds his creative research.
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June 4, 2024
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
Tyler Glass Adjunct Professor Judith Schaechter was recently profiled by WHYY News about her role as the current artist-in-residence at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, which explores the biological basis of aesthetic experiences. Schaechter's residency project is a stained-glass dome that speaks to the concept of biophilia— the human tendency to seek deep connections with nature. Read more.
Image: Judith Schaechter and her biophilic dome project in progress. Photo credit: Kimberly Paynter/WHYY
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May 24, 2024
Author: Jordan Cameron
Students in the Landscape Architecture and Horticulture programs make their way to the Temple Ambler Campus to do some of the most important hands-on learning of their time at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.
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May 22, 2024
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
Nghi To, a 2024 graduate of Tyler’s MFA program in Graphic & Interactive Design (GAID), has been selected for a prestigious Chronicle Books Design Fellowship, awarded by the independent book publisher to talented, emerging designers. Chronicle Books is a San Francisco-based publisher and distributor of illustrated books, gifts, toys, and games for children and adults. To is one of three early-career designers chosen among a high volume of applicants for this year’s cohort of the publisher’s competitive design fellowship program. The fellowship runs from July 9, 2024, through June 27, 2025.
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May 22, 2024
Author: Wanda Motley Odom
In December 2022, Printmaking major Eliezer Lompo (BFA ’25) was fortunate enough to travel to his parents’ country of origin, Burkina Faso in West Africa, and explore various aspects of the culture and heritage of Gourmantche tribe that they are a part of.“As a second-generation immigrant, it has always been difficult to establish a strong connection with my culture” living in the United States as he found that very few artistic depictions of the Gourma people and their culture exist,” Lompo said recently.“One of my biggest ambitions is to visually document the Gourmantche culture. Depictions of historical, mythological events, portraits of important figures, and native landscapes are what I plan to incorporate over a series of prints and paintings.”
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May 21, 2024
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
Visual artist Rachelle Anayansi Mozman Solano (MFA ’98), an alum of Tyler’s Photography program, has been selected to receive a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. The illustrious fellowships, administered annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, are awarded to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Mozman is among 188 highly accomplished scholars, artists, photographers, scientists, and writers who were chosen for this year’s award from nearly 3,000 initial candidates through a rigorous peer review process.
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