Tyler Blog

Three large-scale paintings by Norman Akers lean against a studio wall
August 4, 2025

Announcing the 2026 Edgar Heap of Birds Family Artist Residency

Author: Faith Kellermeyer

Residency Applications are now open for the spring 2026 Edgar Heap of Birds Family Artist Residency at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.The Tyler School of Art and Architecture invites applications for a spring 2026 residency in the Art Department, which encompasses undergraduate and graduate programs in Ceramics, Fibers and Material Studies, Glass, Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, and Sculpture. The residency duration is flexible, ranging from one to five months, and will be scheduled within the spring 2026 semester (January–May 2026) based on the selected artist’s availability. Read More

Emily Schollenberger examining a manuscript
April 29, 2025

Emily Schollenberger (PhD candidate) awarded fellowship

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Emily was awarded Clayton Lewis Fellowship in American Culture at the Clements Library. In January, Emily visited the Clements Library at the University of Michigan as the inaugural fellow of the Clayton Lewis Fellowship in American Culture. She conducted dissertation research, studying several late 19th and early 20th century travel albums documenting the trips of American and Canadian tourists to British Columbia, along with promotional material from the same timeframe published by the Canadian Pacific Railway. The research she did at the Library will be part of her dissertation. Read More

book cover Constantinople Occupee
April 29, 2025

Merve Koksal (PhD student) co-authors book chapter

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The article, "Art, solidarité et lutte. Expositions de peinture pendant l’occupation d’Istanbul," can be found in Constantinople Occupée 1918-1923: Une Histoire Culturelle, edited by Frédéric Hitzel and Timour Muhidine. CNRS Éditions, 2025 (the cover is pictured here). Merve's co-author is Prof. Seza Sinanlar Uslu of Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul. The article is part of the international research project titled "La Danse sur le Volcan: Istanbul 1918-1923, une Capitale sous Occupation," directed by Frédéric Hitzel (CNRS-EHESS) and Timour Muhidine (INALCO). Congratulations on this fine work, Merve! Read More

April 4, 2025

Prof. Alpesh Patel to give talk at the Kinomuzeum in Warsaw

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Nécessité concert + ENDLESS screening + talk with Alpesh Kantilal Patel06.04.2025 18:00KINOMUZEUM invites you to a Nécessité light concert by Stefan Węgłowski, a screening of the film Endless (dir. Wojciech Puś), and a conversation with film director conducted by Alpesh Kantilal Patel, in which Magdalena Wawrzyńczak, Pat Dudek, Stefan Węgłowski i Jorge Benavideswill take part. The conversation will be in English. Read More

March 31, 2025

Prof. Erin Pauwels to give Smithsonian American Art Museum Lunchbag Seminar

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The virtual lecture is Thursday, April 3, 12–1 PM ETIn her role as Terra Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, and Associate Professor of American Art, Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, Pauwels will be lecturing on her latest research, "Unsettled Ground: Richard Throssel’s Photographic Portrait of Apsáalooke Nation". Read More

headshot of Emma Holter
March 19, 2025

Emma P. Holter (PhD candidate) awarded Kress Fellowship

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Emma has been awarded the 2025-2027 Kress Institutional Fellowship hosted at The Courtauld Institute of Art and The Warburg Institute! As a Kress Fellow, Emma will research and write her doctoral dissertation "Refuting the Disegno-Colore Paradigm: Underdrawing and Monochrome Painting in Renaissance Venice," which is advised by Dr. Tracy E. Cooper. This highly competitive fellowship, sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, will offer Emma the opportunity to conduct object-based and archival research on 15th- and 16th-century Venetian drawings, underdrawings, and monochromatic paintings throughout museum collections in the UK and Europe.  Read More