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November 30, 2023

Dr. Erin Pauwels elected to the Print Council of America

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Pauwels was nominated by two museum colleagues based on her publications about the histories of photography and lithographic printmaking. The Print Council of American was founded in In 1956, by Lessing J. Rosenwald and a group of museum directors and curators as a non-profit organization “fostering the creation, dissemination, and appreciation of fine prints, new and old.” Since then, the Council has continued to grow and evolve as a professional organization with an elected membership, reflecting tremendous expansion in the fields of print curatorship, scholarship, and museum practice, and embracing the specialties of drawings, photography, and conservation.  Read More

November 30, 2023

Emma Holter (PhD student) to present at a conference in Lyon, France

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Emma will present at the CIHA (Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art) 2024 conference which is taking place in Lyon, France from June 23-28, 2024.  Her paper "Between North and. South: A New Reading of Andrea Mantegna's Distemper and Monochromatic Paintings" was accepted into a panel entitled "Painting the Materials, Imitating the Techniques: A Dialogue Between Mediums in Early Modern Art" . Read More

November 14, 2023

Recent Faculty Achievements Roundup

Author: Alina Ladyzhensky

This fall and summer have been an exciting and prolific time for Tyler’s faculty members. Across every discipline and program, our accomplished faculty have been curating and participating in exhibitions around the world, writing and editing books and other publications, receiving recognition for their work through grants and awards, and more. Below is a roundup of their recent achievements and activities.  Read More

November 14, 2023

Mariola Alvarez invited to become co-editor of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Alvarez is co-editor of the journal Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, published by the University of California Press. The journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing the most current international research on the visual culture of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, as well as that created in diaspora. A defining focus of the journal is its concentration of current scholarship on both Latin American and Latinx visual culture in a single publication. The journal aims to approach ancient, colonial, modern and contemporary Latin American and Latinx visual culture from a range of interdisciplinary methodologies and perspectives. Read More

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November 9, 2023

Tyler Art History grad students participate in Islamic Art Study Day at the Freer

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Özlem Yıldız (PhD candidate), Ryan Mitchell (PhD student) and Miray Eroglu (PhD student) participated in an Islamic Art Study Day at Freer Gallery of Art in the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art as part of the awarding ceremony of the Charles Lang Freer Medal and lecture honoring Gülru Necipoğlu on October 28, 2023. On October 29th 2023, Yıldız, Mitchell and Eroglu visited the Freer Collection's special collection with curators Massumeh Farhad and Simon Rettig to look at works of art in the collections inspired by Professor Necipoğlu's lecture: "From China to Europe: A Topkapi Palace Album with Images in the Persianate, Cathayan, Frankish Manners (c. 1350-1500)." Read More

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