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February 18, 2022

Tyler School of Art and Architecture Issues Formal Land Acknowledgment

Author: Emily Herbein

The Collegial Assembly at Tyler School of Art and Architecture recently adopted use of an Indigenous Land Acknowledgment, developed by a faculty committee spearheaded by Art History Chair Jane DeRose Evans, to recognize the history of the native peoples who originally lived on the lands where the school sits.   Read More

February 18, 2022

Dr. Alpesh Patel contributions to the study of queer/trans theory

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Dr. Patel's speaking engagements and publications in the fall of 2021 highlight his research: KINSEY INSTITUTE, FORSCHUNGSSTELLE KULTURGESCHICHTE DER SEXUALITÄT, WEAM - WILZIG EROTIC ART MUSEUM, December 2021. Moderator for panel, part of the online conference, “Exhibitionism – Sexuality at the Museum International”WOPHA: WOMEN, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND FEMINISMS CONGRESS, Miami, Florida, November 2021. Conversation with Carlotta Boettcher: “Productive Failure and Queer Photography”FULBRIGHT PRISM, September 2021. Panelist for “Art and Queer Community” for Fulbright Prism’s organization’s first online virtual conference (invited) Read More

February 18, 2022

Nicole Emser Marcel to participate in Stanford Under-Mapped Spaces Workshop

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Nicole Emser Marcel (PhD Student) will participate in "Under-Mapped Spaces: New Methods and Tools for Critical Storytelling," with a project entitled "Whose Golden Age?: Correcting the Imagined Cartographies of the Pan-Am Flying Clipper Ships." The five-day intensive interdisciplinary workshop tests the utility of digital tools in the creation of compelling, accessible narratives of “under-mapped” places and is co-hosted by Stanford University, the David Rumsey Map Center and Stanford Geospatial Center, and Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections.  Read More

February 17, 2022

Dr. Tracy Cooper interviewed in The Art Newspaper

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Dr. Cooper's remarks are quoted in the story, "Venice's great women artists step into the limelight through major restoration project", an initiative undertaken by Save Venice. Dr. Cooper is an active board member of the organization. You can see the entire article here:  https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/15/save-venice-women-artists-res... Read More

February 17, 2022

Art History's Linda Earle Discusses the Importance of Philanthropy and Cultural Equity

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. Read More

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