Fall 2019 Course - Art of Floral Design

Tyler Art Education Hosts Safe Spaces Workshop for Student Teachers and Philadelphia Art Teacher's Alliance

On Saturday, March 27, 2019, Dr. Lisa Kay, Chair of the Art Education and Community Arts Practices Department, hosted student teachers as well as art educators from the Philadelphia Art Teacher's Alliance at workshop about creating safe spaces for students. Attendees explored and experimented with the idea of safe space and learned practical strategies for weaving related theories and concepts into both art and teaching practice.   Read More

Student Teachers Attend Workshop with Christina Lukac, Adaptive Arts Educator

On Saturday April 6, 2019, Student Teachers attended a workshop with Christina Lukac, Adaptive Arts Educator at Olney Charter High School, titled "Art Making Strategies for Individuals in the Life Skills & Autism Support Classroom". The workshop focused on strategies for teaching art in a wide range of settings for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities.  Christina Lukac is an artist and educator who has worked with a wide range of individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities in the non-profit and general education setting. She presented her research at the 2017 International Conference on Disability Studies, Art, and Education in Helsinki, Finland. Christina holds BFA with Art Education Concentration from Tyler Scool of Art and a Masters degree in Art Education with a Focus on Special Populations from Moore College of Art and Design.  Read More

In Light & Color: A Workshop by Carol Saylor

On Saturday March 23, 2019, Carol Saylor, Tyler/Temple BFA Painting, BS in Education, will shared her memoir and facilitated a Ceramics workshop. Originally a painter, Saylor gradually turned to sculpture during about 25 years of progressive deafness and blindness.   Read More

Marlise Brown (PhD candidate, Art History) selected to participate in the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice

The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) hosts the seminar, which will be held this summer (2019) in New York. It is a two-week intensive program where participants attend workshops, meet with curators, directors, educators, and trustees from New York museums and cultural institutions. Each participant is paired with a curator in the city who will act as a mentor. Read More

#CDWeek2019

The Tyler School of Art and Architecture's Community Development program partnered with the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations and LISC to celebrate National Community Development Week 2019.  The partners hosted a public workshop "Power and Influence" lead by Rodney Mobley and Tess Donie of New Kensington Community Development Corporation.  Over a dozen residents and community leaders were introduced to tools to identify where they have Influence in their communities and to understand how to best utilize their power to be most effective in their work. This session covered concepts of identity, power mapping, and collective action. Representatives from the Community Development program and Tyler Admissions gave an overview of the Community Development major, admissions and the financial aid process. Read More

Elizabeth Duntemann (PhD Candidate, Art History) awarded the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Research Grant, 2019-2020

Elizabeth Duntemann (PhD Candidate, Art HIstory) has been awarded a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Research Grant to support nine months of dissertation research in Venice, Italy, during the 2019-2020 academic year. Read More

Lauren Rosenblum (MA, Art History 2012) selected to write essay for "Hannah Wilke: Sculpture in the Landscape" catalog

The "Hannah Wilkie: Sculpture in the Landscape"  is at Temple Contemporary from April 25 to July 12, 2019.  Lauren, as an alumna of the Art History program, was selected to help write the catalog of the show by the Hannah Willie Collection & Archive.  As an emerging scholar whose research interests in the history of feminist art practice and the landscape, Lauren was an ideal match for this project.  The work on this essay, "Before her Landscape, a Backdrop of Hannah WIlkie's "California Series"", included a research trip to the Hannah Wilkie Collection & Archive in Los Angeles. Funding for the exhibit was generously provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture's Office of the Dean, and the Department of Exhibitions & Public Programs, and Temple University's General Activities Fund. Read More

Newly elected to Phi Beta Kappa!

Congratulations to the new inductees to Phi Beta Kappa (2019)! Maya Borrero (2019) Lindsey Gilbert (2020) Olivia Hosie (2019) Catharine Lautenbacker (2019) and an AH minor, Aron Skarzenski (Anthro, 2019) Read More

Hannah McCoy (BA anticipated, Art History) and Jessye Storey (BA anticipated, Art History/Communications) awarded a Mellon Foundation Grant for the Summer Academy at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

The program includes workshops,field trips, and networking events with museum professionals. At the end of the Academy, participants are invited to apply for the two-year Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program, which matches them with a museum mentor and provides an internship and stipend. There are 17 Summer Awards annually.  Congratulations to both! Read More