Tyler Blog

February 13, 2024

70 Years of Art: Arlene Love Reflects on Tyler

Author: Jordan Cameron

The year 2024 marks seventy years of Arlene Love’s career as a prolific artist. As part of the (re)FOCUS: Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts festival, Arlene Love: Selections from Seven Decades presents a solo exhibition of Love’s impactful work. It is the inaugural exhibition at the Interactive Museum for Contemporary Art (iMOCA), and spotlights Love's pioneering feminist sculptures, as well as her figurative drawing and photography.Love’s professional journey as an artist began at Tyler, where she earned her BFA in 1952 and BSEd in 1953. She spent five years at the school, which was then located in Elkins Park, PA. Read More

Installation view, Amze Emmons: Playing the Grid
February 8, 2024

Recent Faculty Achievements Roundup

Author: Alina Ladyzhensky

Across disciplines and programs, Tyler's accomplished faculty have been curating and participating in exhibitions, writing and editing books and other publications, receiving recognition for their work through grants and awards, and more. Below is a roundup of their recent achievements and activities.  Read More

“Gospel of Three Dimensions” by Mika Obayashi
February 7, 2024

Tyler Graduate Student Wins First Prize in Fiber Art Now Juried Exhibition

Author: Jordan Cameron

Fibers & Materials Studies graduate student Mika Obayashi received first prize in Excellence in Fibers IX, a juried exhibition by the publication Fiber Art Now. Over 1,200 artworks were submitted for consideration. The installation, titled “Gospel of Three Dimensions,” was originally on view in the Jewett Art Gallery at Wellesley College from September 6 through October 28, 2022. The piece is made of abaca paper, cotton cord, and indigo dye, and is created to be a partially immersive experience, giving viewers the opportunity to step into the sculpture. This is in line with Obayashi’s interest in examining conventional experiences of space in her work.  Read More

February 6, 2024

The Origins of Tyler Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

Decorative Digitalism, a merger of digital technology and delicate hand craftsmanship in jewelry, is the brainchild of Assistant Professor Doug Bucci, but in many ways its origins can be traced back 62 years to the founding of Tyler’s Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM program by pioneering artist and educator Stanley Lechtzin.“Stanley was looking for new possibilities in the field, and saw in the factory and industry environments tools and practices that could revolutionize the art of jewelry making and metalsmithing,” said Bucci, who co-curated the show with Saul Bell Design Award-winning artist Sungyeoul Lee.  Read More

Sutton Hoo belt buckle
January 30, 2024

Art History Department sponsors lecture: Dr. Rachel Vause

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Wednesday, February 21 5:30-6:45 p.m. Tyler B081 In her lecture Fabricating a Glittering Past: The Origins of the ‘Anglo-Saxons, Tyler alum Dr. Rachael Vause (MA '14) will discuss the art and archaeology of early English art, including the burial mound of Sutton Hoo, and amulets and cross pendants that reconstruct belief systems. An early medieval art historian, Vause holds a PhD in art history from the University of Delaware.  This lecture is free and open to the public Read More

Still life painting of a window with plants, books, and a cat in frame
January 29, 2024

Interview with Natsumi Goldfish (BA '17) Featured in White Hot Magazine

Author: Jordan Cameron

Tyler alum Natsumi Goldfish (BA '17) was featured in the January 2024 edition of Noah Becker's White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art, as part of their interview series, "Artists You Should Know."  Read the full interview on their website here.  Image: Natsumi Goldfish, Untitled Still Life, 2018, 36"x 36", oil on two canvases (Diptych). Read More

Erin Pauwels
January 25, 2024

Associate Professor Erin Pauwels Appointed Visiting Professor of American Art at the University of Oxford

Author: Jordan Cameron

Erin Pauwels, PhD, Associate Professor of American Art and Undergraduate Advisor, has been appointed the 2024-25 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art in the Department of History of Art at the University of Oxford.  During her professorship, Pauwels will teach an undergraduate course about American art from the 17th century to the present day. She will also teach a graduate course on how land, animals, and material resources have inspired the art and visual and material culture of the United States of America, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Pauwels will also be a Visiting Fellow at Worcestor College during her time in Oxford, where she will deliver the annual Terra Lecture in American Art in spring 2025.  Read More

January 3, 2024

Exhibition Supported by Tyler Glass Program On View at Corning Museum of Glass

Author: Alina Ladyzhensky

Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass, currently on view at the Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) in upstate New York, addresses systemic racism, exclusion, and inequality in the field of glass through a research-based, collective exhibition. Previously hosted by the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC, the exhibition includes works that were created during a collaborative studio session hosted at Tyler’s glass studios in 2022.  Read More

View of Up, Up, and Away mural with accompanying augmented reality element
December 18, 2023

Painting Professor Creates First Augmented Reality Experience at Philadelphia International Airport

Author: Jordan Cameron

A group of airborne schoolgirls greets travelers in Terminal F at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL). The young women are depicted in a mural, created by Adjunct Professor of Painting Ziui Chen Vance, in various states of jumping and raising their arms. There is a palpable movement to the brightly colored piece, but there is more to it than meets the eye.  Read More

Andrew Vlady operating a stone lithograph machine
December 18, 2023

Remembering Renowned Lithographer and Printmaking Alum Andrew Vlady

Author: Jordan Cameron

On October 27, 2023, Tyler Printmaking alum Andrew Vlady (BFA ’67 MFA ’70) passed away in Mexico City, the place he worked and called his home for many decades. Along with his wife, Beatriz, he was the co-founder and technical director of the lithographic studio Kyron Ediciones Gráficas Limitadas. Vlady received his BFA in Printmaking from Tyler in 1967, then traveled to the then Tyler School of Art Rome Campus, today Temple Rome, to be a teaching assistant in the Printmaking program there. He stayed in Rome to embark on his MFA, which he completed in 1970, gaining a particular interest in lithography, one of the oldest forms of printmaking. Read More