November 15, 2021
Author: Carin Whitney
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture presents Everything Must Go (Nov. 20 – Dec. 12), an exhibition featuring selected works from 2020 and 2021 MFA graduates at Atelier Art Gallery.The featured artists work across disciplines ranging from painting and sculpture to video and printmaking; exploring diverse aesthetics and conceptual perspectives. Though many of the artists have since moved away from Philadelphia upon graduating, this final gathering reveals how artists create and maintain communities across distance. Everything Must Go speaks to collective urgency—of closures and potential beginnings during uncertain times.
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November 8, 2021
Author: Carin Whitney
Dona Nelson, professor of Painting, has received the College Art Association's prestigious 2021 Distinguished Teaching of Art Award. She joins a list of major figures who have firmly demonstrated the inseparability of teaching and artistic practice.
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November 2, 2021
Author: Emily Herbein
This fall, the Whitney Museum presents Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing, the first major solo museum exhibition in New York for Tyler alumna Jennifer Packer (BFA '07). Coming to the Whitney from London's Serpentine Gallery, the exhibit is the largest survey of Packer's work to date, featuring over 30 drawings and paintings from the last decade that examine practices of observation, memory, and improvisation. The show's title is in reference to the biblical verse Ecclesiastes 1:8.
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November 1, 2021
Author: Emily Herbein
Photo by Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times
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November 1, 2021
Author: Emily Herbein
Photo courtesy of Alena FirestoneAlena Firestone, Community Development ‘23, City Regional Planning ‘24, was recently featured in Planning Magazine’s Fall 2021 issue for a commentary in which she discusses the ties between public health and the need for adequate city planning techniques to combat inequity.
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October 25, 2021
Author: Emily Herbein
Photo credit: Matthias Desme
Assistant Professor and Head of Sculpture C.T. Jasper and his longtime collaborator, Cornell University Professor of the Practice Joanna Malinowska, have partnered on a video and sculptural installation titled Who’s Afraid of Natasha? for the 2021 Bruges Triennial in Belgium.
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October 25, 2021
Author: Carin Whitney
The installation piece Badge of Honor by Professor Pepón Osorio, which has toured internationally since 1995, was recently acquired by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and is now on view for the first time as part of a major museum’s collection.
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