September 13, 2024
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
Philadelphia artist and Tyler Sculpture alum Rachel Hsu (MFA '21) has been selected to install a temporary public art installation in Maja Park along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. The interactive artwork, titled The Weight of Our Living, is currently on view through October 2024. Hsu's installation features a six-foot circle of river stones embedded in a concrete base, surrounded by plantings. Visitors are invited to walk barefoot over the stones, and a small, curved bench nearby offers a space for observation and reflection.
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June 6, 2024
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
Bradford Davis (MFA '24), an alum of Tyler's Ceramics program, will join The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, one of the nation's oldest and most respected centers for ceramics, as a Resident Artist this fall. The residency program offers the top emerging ceramic talent in the U.S. and abroad the space, time, and resources to develop their artwork and their professional lives.Davis is an award-winning multimedia artist who uses ceramics to express his emotions and responses to his traumas and life experiences. As a retired Army Artillery Officer, his journey of healing feeds his creative research.
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May 22, 2024
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
Nghi To, a 2024 graduate of Tyler’s MFA program in Graphic & Interactive Design (GAID), has been selected for a prestigious Chronicle Books Design Fellowship, awarded by the independent book publisher to talented, emerging designers. Chronicle Books is a San Francisco-based publisher and distributor of illustrated books, gifts, toys, and games for children and adults. To is one of three early-career designers chosen among a high volume of applicants for this year’s cohort of the publisher’s competitive design fellowship program. The fellowship runs from July 9, 2024, through June 27, 2025.
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May 21, 2024
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
Visual artist Rachelle Anayansi Mozman Solano (MFA ’98), an alum of Tyler’s Photography program, has been selected to receive a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. The illustrious fellowships, administered annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, are awarded to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Mozman is among 188 highly accomplished scholars, artists, photographers, scientists, and writers who were chosen for this year’s award from nearly 3,000 initial candidates through a rigorous peer review process.
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April 25, 2024
Author: Jordan Cameron
Tyler Architecture alum, Emma Castro-Krivanek, BArch '08, was honored as a 2024 Woman of Live by VenuesNow, a trade publication covering live entertainment venues across the globe, serving managers, owners, operators and bookers of arenas, amphitheaters, stadiums, performing arts centers, clubs, theaters and convention centers.Women of Live celebrates women with exceptional leadership and accomplishment in live entertainment and facilities. Castro-Krivanek is an architect and associate principal with Populous, a global architecture and design firm specializing in sports facilities, arenas, and convention centers.
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April 22, 2024
Author: Alina Ladyzhensky
An exhibition curated by Tyler alum Helen W. Drutt English (BFA '52), Beauty and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Crafts, on view at the Nationalmuseum in Sweden, continues Drutt’s extensive legacy of ushering contemporary American crafts onto the global stage.
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April 16, 2024
Author: Jordan Cameron
Art History alum Natalia Ángeles Vieyra (PhD '21) has joined the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in the newly created role of Associate Curator of Latinx Art. This position originated as part of the Advancing Latinx Art in Museums initiative, with the support of the Mellon, Ford, Getty, and Terra Foundations. “This transformative program has provided the support for the creation of several new curatorial positions specializing in Latinx art across the United States and Puerto Rico, including my new role at the National Gallery of Art,” Vieyra, who is Mexican American, said. Vieyra says her top priorities as associate curator include building on the National Gallery’s collection of Latinx art, exhibition programming, and community outreach.
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March 27, 2024
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
The Art History Department was very well represented at the Renaissance Society of America 2024 Annual Meeting, this year held in Chicago from March 21–23, 2024! We’re very proud of the great Early Modern scholarship of our department members and alumni.Emma P. Holter (PhD Student), “Bellini in Black and White: Reconsidering the Uffizi Lamentation;"Jesse Rhian-Yu Sullivan (PhD Candidate), “Ripples on the Surface: Active Dimensionality as a Lens for Understanding Early Renaissance Painting;"Dr. Tracy E. Cooper (Professor), “The Renaissance Book: Lilian Armstrong and Art History;" Dr. Cooper was also the respondent to the Society for the History of Collecting double-panel “Collecting and Knowledge Production through Travel;”
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