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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

October 18, 2024

On the Block: 5 Questions for Byron Wolfe

Author: Wanda Motley Odom

Professor Byron Wolfe is an accomplished photographer whose work is widely published and exhibited, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the current chair of the Art Department at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.He is passionate about collaborative research projects that investigate topics that span the visual arts, humanities and natural sciences, and uses photography and other visualization tools to tell stories that reflect upon broader notions of culture and the constructions of landscape, perception and time. Read More

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