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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

December 10, 2024

Erin Pauwels publishes an essay on contemporary Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Pauwels article, "Kay WalkingStick’s Layered Landscapes and Critical Stewardship in American Art History", is featured in a special section of Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art called "American Artists x American Symbols" that considers how artists working with nationalist symbols teach us to think critically and expansively about the history of art in the Americas.   Read More

November 12, 2024

Meet Addie Peyronnin, Assistant Dean for Development and Alumni Relations

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

Addie Peyronnin, Tyler's new Assistant Dean for Development and Alumni Relations, brings diverse experiences in fundraising with a variety of arts and culture organizations in the Philadelphia area, including the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Barnes Foundation, and Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. Peyronnin shares some reflections on the impact that in philanthropy can have and her current focus for Tyler.  Read More

Emma Holter, Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie, and Jackie Streker posing in front of a poster
November 8, 2024

Tyler Art History at the Sixteenth Century Society conference!

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Emma Holter (PhD candidate), Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie (PhD student) and Jackie Strecker (PhD student) recently represented Tyler at the Sixteenth Century Society conference in Toronto! Their paper titles were: Emma P. Holter: “Allegory of Outrage: Girolamo da Treviso and the English Reformation" Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie: “Fantasey and Materiality: Thematizing Kunst in Archduke Ferdinand II's Court Glass Workshop" Jackie Streker: "Monumental Prints, Miniature Cities" Read More

October 24, 2024

Graduate Students present at Sixteenth Century Society Conference in Toronto and at Corning Museum of Glass

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie (PhD student) will be presenting “Fantasey and Materiality: Thematizing Kunst in Archduke Ferdinand II’s Court Glass Workshop.” Jackie Strecker (PhD student) is giving a presentation, "Monumental Prints, Miniature Cities" Emma Holter (PhD candidate) will also be presenting. Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie also will be presenting at the Corning Museum of Glass’ 62nd Annual Seminar “Objects of Odor: Scent, Medicine, and Decorative Arts in the 16th century Holy Roman Empire Read More

October 21, 2024

Dr. Mariola Alvarez to speak at a conference

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The conference, "The Appearance" is hosted by the Americas Society and the Asia Society will be in-person Oct 29 in New York. the conference was organized in collaboration with the current exhibition, "The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Caribbean". Dr. Alvarez will be one of the roundtable presenters from 3:30-5:00 at the Asia Society (725 Park Ave) https://www.as-coa.org/events/appearance-conference-presented-americas-s... Read More

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