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March 12, 2019

Scott Gratson, "Fire in my Belly: Reflections on Censorship and Images of AIDS and Activism through the Art of David Wojnarowitcz"

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Scott Gratson (Professor of Instruction in Communication and Social Influence, Klein College of Undergraduate Studies; PhD in AH anticipated May 19) presented a lecture on the art of David Wojnarowicz on Temple's Tokyo campus, as part of the Feminist Art and Theory class on that campus.  Picture: Scott Gratson enjoying an after-lecture dinner with Toshiaki Yokozawa (TUJ Board Member), and Assoc Dean George Miller and his wife. Read More

February 4, 2019

Art History faculty and alumni at the PMA Symposium "Worlds Among US"

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Tyler Art History faculty and alumni reconnected at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Symposium "Worlds Among Us: Across Geographies" on January 31, 2019. Squeezed into the frame are James Merle Thomas; Jerry Silk; Yana Balsom (MA 19xx), Associate Director of Exhibition Planning at the PMA; Jennifer Zwilling (MA 2001), Curator of Artistic Programs at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia; Nicole Elizabeth Cook (MA 2010), Coordinator for Academic Partnerships at the PMA. Read More

January 28, 2019

Dr.Emily Neumeier awarded the 2018 Margaret B. Sevcenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Dr. Emily Neumeier, currrently fulfilling a Getty post-doc in Athens, was awarded the Margaret B. Sevcenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture for her paper, "The Church the Pasha Built: Towards a Multi-Confessional History of Islamic Architecture". This competitive award is  conferred annually by the Historians of Islamic Art Association for the best unpublished essay written by a junior scholar. The essay is part of Neumeier's larger project on the buildings of Ottoman Greece and Albania, and will be considered for publication in the journal Muqarnas. Read More

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