February 17, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Fine Arts Management Professor Linda Earle recently spoke with Temple Now about the consequential impact that philanthropy and artists have had on building equitable creative spaces. Earle, also associate graduate director for arts management track of the master's program in Tyler's Art History Department, discusses the need for change on an institutional level, and looks at large-scale "tentpole organizations," like the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and how they plan to address and further implement diversity plans. She also addresses the recent change in how donors and art funders look at where to give and consider the need to look at "the whole field" rather than just the big-name artists and institutions.
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February 15, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Temple’s chapter of Scientista, a national foundation built around empowering women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields, recently curated an open-call exhibition for STEMM-related artwork. For students like Hajra Sohail (CST ‘23), a biology major with an art minor, this project was an eye-opener to the kinds of creative collaboration that non-art disciplines can enjoy. Projects were varied, incorporating an array of mediums like painting, drawing, sculpture, and fibers.
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February 10, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
You can listen to/hear Dr.
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February 10, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Natalie's paper, "Memory in Diaspora: The Armenian Genocide and Cultural Resilience in Art" will be presented virtually on March 26, 2022 at the symposium, Envisioning Resilience: Narratives and Counternarratives hosted by the graduate student organization at Indiana University.
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February 8, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Junior GAID students are displaying their vibrant, interactive kiosk posters as part of the annual restaurant identity project, “Crave.” With brightly colored, engaging imagery, enticing language, and scannable QR codes that lead to video and behind-the-scenes content, “Crave” is a showcase of nearly all the skills cultivated in the GAID program.
Curated by Professor Paul Sheriff, who has been coordinating this assignment for the last 25 years since his time at the original Elkins Park campus, “Crave” has grown and changed over the years to reflect a modern student and creator.
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February 8, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The paper, “To Wear, To See: Object Biographies and The History of Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean” will be presented at the "Going Global: New Challenges in the Field of Provenance Research” conference at the Vitromusée in Romont, Switzerland, Sept. 15, 2022.
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February 8, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Catch Dr. Patel's latest work in:
“Queer Chinese feminist Archipelago: Shanghai, San Francisco, and Miami,” philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism. 11:1 (December 2021): 194-212. Special Issue on “Retro” edited by Alyson Cole and Kyoo Lee.
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February 3, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Two AED faculty members, Fauzia Sadiq Garcia, RA, and Eric Oskey, RA were recently named board Directors of the American Institute of Architects' Philadelphia Chapter. Garcia will serve as the Director of Education, while Oskey will be the Director of Technology and Innovation.
What are your plans for your AIA tenure?
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February 3, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Brittany Strupp will represent the Art History Department with a paper titled “The Dignity of Life”: Robert Henri's Portraits of Chinese Americans" at the 26th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art, hosted by the Barnes Foundation (hybrid), February 24-25. Brittany's talk will begin at 10 AM on Friday the 25th.
This annual symposium brings together graduate students from nine mid-Atlantic colleges and universities to present current research in the field of art history.
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February 2, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Allyson Church, graduate assistant with Temple Contemporary and MArch candidate, has been spearheading the gallery’s Seed Packet Project, an initiative to bridge the arts with the built disciplines in a unique and interactive way.
Having initially received her BFA in Printmaking, Church took a gap year between degrees to learn farming methods since she felt like pursuing a career in the fine arts wasn’t necessarily for her. While working at a flower farm in Philadelphia, she learned about land use and regenerative farming.
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