October 7, 2019
Author: Zachary Vickers
Amze Emmons, associate professor and program head of Printmaking at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, recently had a mid-career, solo exhibition entitled Amze Emmons: Pattern Drift at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland from August 2 to October 2, 2019. The exhibition featured a 15-year survey of Emmons’s printed work, selected drawings and artistic exploration.
“For the past several years I have actively noticed certain kinds of visual phenomena such as portable and ephemeral building structures, improvised street furniture, and informal sites of exchange that tell a story of local agency, adaptation, and community," said Emmons. "When I travel in other cities around the US and abroad, I inevitably discover parallel phenomena.”
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October 7, 2019
Author: Zachary Vickers
Tyler alumni Mark Ellis (BFA ’06) and Danielle Ruttenberg (BFA ’06), two of the three co-owners and co-founders of Remark Glass. Image courtesy of the artists.
Remark Glass—a majority women-owned studio co-owned and co-founded by two Tyler School of Art and Architecture alumni, Mark Ellis (BFA ’06) and Danielle Ruttenberg (BFA ’06), along with artist Rebecca Davies—is the first business to earn the “Zero Waste” designation from the City of Philadelphia’s Zero Waste and Litter Cabinet, which is charged with creating a comprehensive plan for waste reduction and litter prevention.
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October 4, 2019
Author: Zachary Vickers
Multimedia artist Piotr Szyhalski, with the help of Tyler School of Art and Architecture faculty and students, performed his monumental, socially-driven THEM in North Philadelphia on Wednesday, October 3, 2019.
Students and faculty carry Piotr Szyhalski's 450-foot long THEM banner around the block of the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.
On October 2, 2019, faculty and students from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture paraded a three-foot high, 450-foot long banner around the building, engaging Temple’s campus and stunning community members with a performance of artist Piotr Szyhalski’s THEM, in partnership with Tyler’s Printmaking Program and Temple Contemporary—the visionary center for Tyler’s exhibitions and public programs.
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October 3, 2019
Author: Zachary Vickers
In spring 2019, Tyler School of Art and Architecture Community Development alumnus Jon Fiamoncini (BSCD ‘19) helped create a mural and garden at Philadelphia’s George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science (GWC), with the help of students and generous donors.
“Originally, I’d been assigned the task of assisting a group of GWC students with a community engagement project through my Placemaking: Revitalizing Urban Communities class at Tyler,” Fiamoncini said. After the class ended, he continued to volunteer at GWC. That’s when plans were discussed for the creation of a mural and garden.
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October 3, 2019
Author: Zachary Vickers
Work by artists in the inaugural Case Project Space, from left to right: Leo Tecosky (photo by Jose Menendez), Yixuan Pan, Abbey Uffelman, Kate Clements.
New at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2019, the Case Project Space is an alternative exhibition space located outside of the Glass Studio.
Jessica Jane Julius, assistant professor and program head of Tyler Glass, discusses this new program:
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September 27, 2019
Author: Zachary Vickers
Four Tyler School of Art and Architecture Graphic & Interactive Design BFA students and one Temple University Klein College of Media and Communication student were among the “Top Talent” recipients of the 2019 Adobe Design Achievement Awards—the world’s premier digital media competition for students and emerging creators.
This annual competition is a great opportunity to expose students to creative leaders, influencers and fellow designers, illustrators, thinkers and problem solvers. It also helps them deepen their understanding of what goes into building a career in the design field.
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September 23, 2019
Author: Zachary Vickers
Come experience the work of Tyler alumni and other artists at the We the Women Poster Exhibition at The African American Museum in Philadelphia from Wednesday, October 2 through Sunday, October 13, 2019.
We the Women is a visual initiative made up of female, female-identifying and non-binary designers who are bringing awareness to the general public focused on women’s rights in the United States. Women designers were invited to contribute their talents in the form of poster designs. Each designer’s unique perspective is represented in the collection and is a response to the attacks on women’s rights.
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September 13, 2019
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Leah Modigliani, head of the Tyler School of Art and Architecture's Visual Studies Program, had her recent book, Engendering an Avant-Garde: The Unsettled Landscapes of Vancouver Photo-Conceptualism, reviewed in RACAR 2019. The reviewer called her book "an admirable work that brings dispassionate clarity to persistent hegemonic structures in the art world." Read more here.
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September 12, 2019
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The International Journal of Islamic Architecture, where Tyler art history faculty Emily Neumeier has been serving as an assistant editor, is the 2019 winner of the Mohamed Makiya Prize for Architecture (a.k.a. the “Middle Eastern Architectural Personality of the Year Award”). The journal was among an impressive list of
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August 22, 2019
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Jessica Sternbach traveled to London, Amsterdam, Leiden and the Hague to research Dutch 17th –century songbooks and instruments, for her dissertation research. She was funded by a Temple University Summer Research Grant through the Graduate School.
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