October 2, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Elizabeth writes,
We had the formal opening day of the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities at our work/home, La Capraia in the Reale Bosco di Capodimonte, this past weekend. The opening began with a press conference, a lunch in the Giardino Torre hosted by the Port of Naples and the Naples Propeller Club, followed by a colloquium during which I and the other residents presented our projects. Details of the event appeared in a number of local news outlets. La Reppublica featured a story with a wonderful photo gallery, including shots of La Capraia (our home in the Bosco), and the residents with the museum director, Sylvain Bellenger, our director at the center, Sarah Kozlowski, and other invited guests and scholars. Here is the link:
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September 5, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Cities in Crisis: Emergency Measure in Architecture and Urbanism, 1400-1700
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August 20, 2018
Author: Hillel Hoffmann
The Velocity Fund, a new program created by Temple Contemporary at the Tyler School of Art to directly support visual artists living in the city of Philadelphia, has announced its inaugural grant winners. Fourteen new art projects conceived by Philadelphia artists—most of them proposing to work collaboratively—were selected from more than 120 applicants to receive awards of up to $5,000. The 2018 Velocity Fund grantees:
Davelle Barnes* — The Black Veterans Art Conference
Timothy Belknap* and Taji Ra'oof Nahl, a.k.a. TR7 — Drape and Cladding
Steve Burns*, Alexa Smith, Warren Longmire, Kai Davis, Kareem Groomes and Miriam Harris (APIARY Magazine) — APIARY X
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July 10, 2018
Author: miranda.westrick
Students in Eric Oskey's studio class submitted designs to the Land Art Generator Initiative's Melbourne design competition this past semester. "The goal of the Land Art Generator is to accelerate the transition to post-carbon economies by providing models of renewable energy infrastructure that add value to public space, inspire, and educate—while providing equitable power to thousands of homes around the world."
Students were tasked to create a design that responds to the question "What does renewable energy infrastructure look like when it is woven into the fabric of the city?"
Kyle Taveira placed 4th out of hundreds of submissions for his project Dreamtime. (Pictured above and below) As his elements sway in the wind they generate clean energy, read more about the technology and his project here.
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July 10, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Opening reception for Infinite Spaces: Rediscovering PAFA's Permanent Collection, Thursday June 28th, 2018, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Left to right, at the podium: Brooke Davis Anderson (Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum), Mechella Yezernitskaya (co-curator, PhD candidate at Bryn Mawr College), Natalia Angeles Vieyra (co-curator, PhD candidate at Temple University, Tyler School of Art), and Laurel McLaughlin (co-curator, PhD candidate at Bryn Mawr College).
Picture used by permission of photographer and participants.
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July 10, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Natalia will be conducting her research on her dissertation, "Beyond the City of Light: Impressionists in the Americas and the Caribbean".
Terra Foundation International Research Travel Grants offer US-based scholars working on American art and visual culture prior to 1980 the opportunity to conduct research abroad. Grant funding is available for projects that require study of materials outside the United States and that will enable scholars to:
Discover new primary source material;
Experience works of art first-hand in museums and private collections;
Make contact with artists, critics, art dealers, archivists, curators, and university scholars;
Consult archives and library collections outside the US;
Establish professional networks for future research.
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July 5, 2018
Author: Olivia Menta
Last May, Yixuan Pan earned her MFA in glass at Tyler and received the Laurie Wagman Prize, a prestigious award given to just one graduating student in the school's Glass program each year. We sat down with Pan to hear about her experiences as a Tyler student and what the past year has been like since graduating.
What have you been up to since graduating?
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June 28, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Emma Roberts (BA Art History anticipated 2019) is interning at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum this summer. She is working in the curatorial department, working with Associate Curator Susan Thompson. Her projects include the Hugo Boss Prize 2018, both phases of the 2019 Mapplethorpe exhibition, and research for potential acquisitions.
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June 14, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Emma Pilker (BA, Art History, 2018) is working as an intern at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this summer on a Honekman Diversity Scholarship.
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June 14, 2018
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Elizabeth (PhD candidate, Art History) writes, "I am pleased to share that I have accepted a 9-month Research Residency at the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities/Centro per la Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura delle Città Portuali, in Naples, Italy. I will be part of an inaugural group of Ph.D. candidates invited to live and work on the grounds of the Museo e Real Bosco Capodimonte, at La Capraia. This residency will facilitate unprecedented access to resources in the city, foster professional connections with other graduates and scholars, and create a platform to share research across academic, museum, and public spheres. The residency project I have proposed to complete will contribute a vital strand to my dissertation research, which re-centers port cities, including Naples, as hubs of cultural production, to examine how art and architecture negotiated constructs of chronic infection and healing during the sixteenth century.
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