May 24, 2019
Author: Zachary Vickers
On May 23, 2019, in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture’s Green Hallway Gallery, Philadelphia Sculptors hosted the opening of its 20th annual 5 into 1 exhibition (on view through June 23, 2019). The show features the work of some of the best up-and-coming artists who have graduated from five local institutions: the Moore College of Art & Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the University of the Arts, the University of Pennsylvania and Tyler.
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May 15, 2019
Author: Michael Smaczylo
On Saturday, March 27, 2019, Dr. Lisa Kay, Chair of the Art Education and Community Arts Practices Department, hosted student teachers as well as art educators from the Philadelphia Art Teacher's Alliance at workshop about creating safe spaces for students. Attendees explored and experimented with the idea of safe space and learned practical strategies for weaving related theories and concepts into both art and teaching practice.
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May 6, 2019
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.
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April 26, 2019
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.
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April 25, 2019
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)
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April 25, 2019
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!
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April 11, 2019
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.
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April 9, 2019
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.
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