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Michael and friends in Azerbaijan
January 24, 2025

Michael Ernst (PhD candidate) Awarded Title VIII CRLT Fellowship

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Michael was accepted into the Title VIII Combined Research & Language Training (CRLT) Program and awarded a fellowship for his dissertation research in Azerbaijan. Included in the grant is funding for language instruction to further his Azerbaijani and Russian language skills while there. The Title VIII CRLT Fellowship is awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence & Research and administered through American Councils for International Education. photo: Michael and friends in 2022 at the Alinja Castle in Nakhchivan,  Azerbaijan Read More

January 21, 2025

Art History Chair Jane DeRose Evans named next President of ASOR

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

Jane DeRose Evans, chair of Tyler's Art History Department was elected as the next President of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) by its Board of Trustees. She will serve as the President-elect during 2025, shadowing current President Sharon Herbert, and will work on developing ASOR’s strategic plan that is set to begin in 2026. Jane will step into her three-year term as President of ASOR in 2026. Read More

January 8, 2025

9 Questions for Art Ed Professor David Herman Jr. About "An Opus of Love"

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

In An Opus of Love, a new exhibition at the TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image by Tyler Assistant Professor of Art Education David Herman Jr., collage plays a central role as an artistic technique and a tool for introspection and narrative construction. Through such creative practice, they capture the subtle ways in which the past is always present and creates non-linear, seemingly fragmented narratives in which past and future coexist in meaningful dialogue.In this Q&A, Herman, a lens-based artist and distinguished visual art education scholar, reflects on the exhibition as it opens and the ways in which An Opus of Love (January 9-February 22) uses his personal archival material to explore themes like fatherhood, Black visualities, Gullah Geechee culture, and perception. Read More

Joe Kopta with students, standing with materials
December 18, 2024

Byzantine Art History Class Launches Virtual Exhibition

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Students in Tyler Assistant Professor Joseph Kopta's art history class on the art of the Byzantine Empire have launched a virtual exhibition, Fragments of Byzantium. The collaborative project features works of art from the Eastern Roman Empire (ca. 300—1453 CE), which students studied in person at local collections in Philadelphia and New York. The class collaboratively chose the objects for the exhibition, individually researched them, grouped them together into galleries, and designed the virtual exhibition. Contributors include Miranda Aebersold-Burke, Ethan Bisselberg, Jay DaCruz, Virginia Edwards, Casper McNew, Maggie Miller, Evan Morgans, Winton Petty, Teni Real, and Jericho Steele. Read More

December 12, 2024

Art History students and faculty presenting at CAA meetings!

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Tyler Art History is being represented by an excellent group of students and faculty at the CAA Annual Meetings, Feb 12-15 2025. The Students and Emerging Professionals Committee’s (SEPC) Guide To All Things CAA*: · Discussant: Li Machado (PhD candidate)Prof. Leah Modigliani, “Killer Buildings, Verticality and Warped Space: the Catastrophic Return(s) of Tower Block Failure”Alexandra Schoolman (PhD candidate), “Virginia Errázuriz and Alternative Solidarity Networks in Chile during the Pinochet Dictatorship”Reimagining British Art: The Contributions of Transnational Artists in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s· Chair: Jessica Braum (PhD candidate) Read More

Lynn S. Dolby headshot
December 10, 2024

Lynn S. Dolby (MA 2004) featured in Penn Today

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Lynn Smith Dolby (MA, 2004) is the Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Fine Art Collection.  Lynn has also been an active alum contributor to departmental workshops. You can read about her work with the Penn Collections here: Penn Today link Read More

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