April 6, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Michael's project is to start preliminary research for his dissertation on mosques in Azerbaijan.
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April 5, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Congrats to the winners of competitive awards for internships for this summer:
Jessica Aguilar has been selected as Summer 2021 Curatorial Intern with the Brandywine River Museum of Art
Triana Cancel has been selected for the Barnes Foundation's Summer internship program
India Thorne has been selected for an internship with the Near Eastern Deptartment of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
congrats to all, and kudos for the successful work you put into the applications!
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April 1, 2021
Author: Zachary Vickers
Landscape Architecture students, Sidney Buckingham, Alyssa Hannigan and Abigail Long, of the Tyler School of Art and Architecture have received Pennsylvania-Delaware American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Student Merit Awards for their visionary projects that represent the bright future of the field.
Buckingham and Hannigan’s project “ReTHINK The Refinery: 2100,” is based on thorough environmental and social site analysis of Philadelphia Energy Solutions, the oldest oil refinery on the East Coast. The recommendations in the proposal embrace the potential for the site to become reintegrated into Philadelphia by harmonizing ecological restoration, community development and a growing economy.
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April 1, 2021
Author: Zachary Vickers
Three Tyler School of Art and Architecture alumni, Will Villalongo (MFA ‘01), Jennifer Packer (BFA ‘07) and Erin M. Riley (MFA ‘09) are among the 18 artists to receive 2021 awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. The winners were chosen from a group of 125 established and emerging artists who had been invited to submit work.
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March 30, 2021
Author: Zachary Vickers
Two faculty members at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture have recently received awards for distinguished teaching.
Kelly Holohan, professor and program head of Graphic & Interactive Design, has received The Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award from the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation. More than 50 institutions, primarily across the Greater Delaware Valley area, participate in the Lindback Foundation’s program, making the prestigious award competitive.
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March 25, 2021
Author: Zachary Vickers
The Trust for Public Land Heat Response PHL project was launched to create public art that addresses the question: “Why should we care about urban heat and what can we do about it?” The organization, along with its team of artists and community leads, will help elevate community voices and creatively amplify their lived experiences to drive policy change and achieve equity across Philadelphia neighborhoods in response to rising temperatures.
Members of the Tyler School of Art and Architecture’s Community Arts Practices (CAP) are supporting this project.
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March 23, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Kira will be presenting "Embroidered Samplers: Self-Portraits of America's Forgotten Artists" on Friday April 9 at 2:15.
We are pleased to invite you to explore the website for the 2021 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium at https://hawksites.newpaltz.edu/arthistorystudentsymposium/
The website contains the event’s full schedule along with the 98 speakers’ abstracts and photographs. Talks will be given during twelve sessions held over three days, from April 9th to 11th.
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March 23, 2021
Author: Zachary Vickers
The installation piece Badge of Honor by Pepón Osorio, The Laura H. Carnell Professor of Community Art, in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture’s Community Arts Practices, will join the renowned collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
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March 23, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Liam will be giving a paper, "The Elegy in the Expanse: Water as a Medium of Memory in Afterlives of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" on Thursday April 22 in the 1:00-2:45 panel, "Material Memory". The conference, Mnemonic Aesthetics: Memory and Trauma in Art, April 22 and 23, hosted by the Rutgers University Graduate Students.
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March 23, 2021
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
I'm thrilled to share that I was awarded a Getty Research Institute postdoctoral fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year devoted to the theme of "The Fragment." Due to covid, the fellowship will be fully remote.
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