Tyler News

    May 6, 2019

    Marlise Brown (PhD candidate, Art History) selected to participate in the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) hosts the seminar, which will be held this summer (2019) in New York. It is a two-week intensive program where participants attend workshops, meet with curators, directors, educators, and trustees from New York museums and cultural institutions. Each participant is paired with a curator in the city who will act as a mentor. Read More

    April 26, 2019

    #CDWeek2019

    Author: lmandara

    The Tyler School of Art and Architecture's Community Development program partnered with the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations and LISC to celebrate National Community Development Week 2019.  The partners hosted a public workshop "Power and Influence" lead by Rodney Mobley and Tess Donie of New Kensington Community Development Corporation.  Over a dozen residents and community leaders were introduced to tools to identify where they have Influence in their communities and to understand how to best utilize their power to be most effective in their work. This session covered concepts of identity, power mapping, and collective action.Representatives from the Community Development program and Tyler Admissions gave an overview of the Community Development major, admissions and the financial aid process. Read More

    April 25, 2019

    Newly elected to Phi Beta Kappa!

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Congratulations to the new inductees to Phi Beta Kappa (2019)! Maya Borrero (2019) Lindsey Gilbert (2020) Olivia Hosie (2019) Catharine Lautenbacker (2019) and an AH minor, Aron Skarzenski (Anthro, 2019) Read More

    April 25, 2019

    Hannah McCoy (BA anticipated, Art History) and Jessye Storey (BA anticipated, Art History/Communications) awarded a Mellon Foundation Grant for the Summer Academy at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    The program includes workshops,field trips, and networking events with museum professionals. At the end of the Academy, participants are invited to apply for the two-year Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program, which matches them with a museum mentor and provides an internship and stipend. There are 17 Summer Awards annually.  Congratulations to both! Read More

    April 11, 2019

    Ali Printz (PhD student, Art History) to attend Emerging Curators Retreat and Casa Lu's Parque Hundido Residency

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Ali Printz will be attending the Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles) Emerging Curators Retreat. The leading scholar of the Retreat will be curator Jeffrey Deitch (formerly Director of MOCA, now an independent curator). She will then head to Mexico City for a residency at Casa Lu Parque Hundido, where she will be creating a new body of paintings based on the history and fabric of Mexico City. Read More

    April 9, 2019

    Dr. Erin Pauwels awarded two post-docs for her sabbatical leave

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Dr Erin Pauwels, who will be on leave AY 2019-2020, was awarded both the Post-Doctoral Fellow in Residence at the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library (where she will be housed in a gardener's "cottage") and the Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship for research in American art and print culture from the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. Her research centers on the late 19th-century American photographer Napoleon Sarony. Read More

    April 5, 2019

    Joseph Kopta (PhD Candidate) awarded Kress Institutional Fellowship at the Zentralinstitute für Kunstgeschichte

    Author: Jane DeRose Evans

    Joseph Kopta (PhD Candidate) has been awarded a two-year Kress Institutional Fellowship at the Zentralinstitute für Kunstgeschichte (Central Institute for Art History) in Munich, Germany, supporting his dissertation research on the materiality of Byzantine manuscripts.   The Samuel H. Kress Foundation devotes its resources to advancing this history and conservation of European art from antiquity through the nineteenth century. It regularly awards six pre-doctoral Fellowships each year in the History of European art in association with one of six European host institutions.   Read More

    April 3, 2019

    Wearable Art Show

    Author: tuj81552

    Hundreds of students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends and parents gather at Temple’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture for the annual Wearable Art Show, a student-run event organized by Tyler’s Fibers and Materials Studies program that has rapidly grown into the school’s signature, high-energy closing statement of the spring semester. The event is organized by students in adjunct faculty member Paige Fetchen’s Sculptural Garments class and adjunct faculty member Timothy Belknap’s Body Art and Adornment class. They solicit entries from students all over the school The event will take place in the green hallway at Tyler on April 25th, 2019 at 7:30pm Read More

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