Tyler Blog

February 4, 2025

Tyler Art History at CAA 2025!

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Tyler is being well represented, by students and faculty at the CAA 2025 Annual Meeting. Congratulations to all!-Feb 12 (Wednesday)Li Machado (PhD candidate) is a discussant in the panel, "The Students and Emerging Professionals Committee’s (SEPC) Guide To All Things CAA*Prof Leah Modigliani is presenting, “Killer Buildings, Verticality and Warped Space: the Catastrophic Return(s) of Tower Block Failure” in the session Environmental Culture, Urban Artscapes and the Urbanocene·Alexandra Schoolman (PhD candidate) is presenting, “Virginia Errázuriz and Alternative Solidarity Networks in Chile during the Pinochet Dictatorship” in the session Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages-Feb 13 (Thursday) Read More

February 4, 2025

Alpesh Patel awarded grants and appointed on editorial committee

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Alpesh has received two research grants for his book project, which explores the conceptual overlaps among glass as a material, “trans” as a prefix, and decolonial theories: a British Paul Mellon Centre research grant to study the glass works (some of which incorporate lethal gas) of British-Pakistani Hamad Bhutt, who died of AIDS in the early 1990s, and a Danish Arts Foundation research grant to meet artists who take a decolonial thematic approach to glassblowing and other artmaking practices. Alpesh is currently on leave working on this book project. And, Alpesh was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Committee for Getty Research Journal. Read More

Michael and friends in Azerbaijan
January 24, 2025

Michael Ernst (PhD candidate) Awarded Title VIII CRLT Fellowship

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Michael was accepted into the Title VIII Combined Research & Language Training (CRLT) Program and awarded a fellowship for his dissertation research in Azerbaijan. Included in the grant is funding for language instruction to further his Azerbaijani and Russian language skills while there. The Title VIII CRLT Fellowship is awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence & Research and administered through American Councils for International Education. photo: Michael and friends in 2022 at the Alinja Castle in Nakhchivan,  Azerbaijan Read More

January 22, 2025

Scholar in Climate Justice and Built Environment Joins Tyler Faculty

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

Billy Fleming, an interdisciplinary scholar of climate justice and the built environment and founding co-director of the Climate and Community Institute, a progressive think-tank focused on climate and political economy, has joined the Tyler community as an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture.Fleming is renowned for his research on clean energy supply chains, social and abolitionist movements in rural landscapes, land-based practices of carbon management, and the communities transformed by each. Read More

January 21, 2025

Art History Chair Jane DeRose Evans named next President of ASOR

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

Jane DeRose Evans, chair of Tyler's Art History Department was elected as the next President of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) by its Board of Trustees. She will serve as the President-elect during 2025, shadowing current President Sharon Herbert, and will work on developing ASOR’s strategic plan that is set to begin in 2026. Jane will step into her three-year term as President of ASOR in 2026. Read More

January 8, 2025

9 Questions for Art Ed Professor David Herman Jr. About "An Opus of Love"

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

In An Opus of Love, a new exhibition at the TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image by Tyler Assistant Professor of Art Education David Herman Jr., collage plays a central role as an artistic technique and a tool for introspection and narrative construction. Through such creative practice, they capture the subtle ways in which the past is always present and creates non-linear, seemingly fragmented narratives in which past and future coexist in meaningful dialogue.In this Q&A, Herman, a lens-based artist and distinguished visual art education scholar, reflects on the exhibition as it opens and the ways in which An Opus of Love (January 9-February 22) uses his personal archival material to explore themes like fatherhood, Black visualities, Gullah Geechee culture, and perception. Read More

The artist in the studio is standing between two images of elk.
January 6, 2025

Native American Artist Norman Akers Joins Tyler as First Edgar Heap of Birds Family Artist in Residence

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

Native American artist Norman Akers, who uses cartographic imagery in paintings and prints to reference the history of a changing Indigenous landscape, has been selected as the inaugural Edgar Heap of Birds Family Artist in Residence at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University.Akers, a member of the Osage Nation who currently teaches painting in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas, will spend January-May 2025 in the Tyler community focusing on his artistic practice and engaging with students and faculty. Read More

December 30, 2024

Two Retiring Professors Leave a Lasting Impact After Decades of Service

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

When retiring Associate Professor Lynn Mandarano reflects on the most rewarding moments of her decades-long academic and professional careers, she doesn’t point to her board memberships, leadership of Tyler’s Planning and Community Development program or her many published works in peer-reviewed journals. Instead, Mandarano speaks of the community-based projects by students in her capstone course for the Bachelor of Science degree in Community Development, such as a partnership with Asociacion Puertorriquenos en Marcha (APM), a Philadelphia-based community development corporation serving the neighborhood just east of Temple University’s main campus.   Read More