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March 5, 2019

Tara Kaufman awarded the William H. Truettner Graduate Fellowship

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Tara Kaufman (MA anticipated) has been awarded the William H, Truettner Graduate Fellowship to work with Dr. Eleanor Harvey, Senior Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in the summer of 2019.  Her project, "Antartic Encounters: Perceiving Ecological Change in Frank Wilbert Stokes's Landscapes", an American artist who accompanied several scientific explorations to arctic regions. Stokes's representations of both Arctic and Antarctic landscapes raise critical questions regarding ecological implications of scientific and commercial exploration to regions that are now of urgent concern. Kaufman will consider his landscapes in the context of their being produced on the heels of the Hudson River School of painting, whose artists similarly embedded their landscapes with a sense of national progress. Read More

Jim Thomas Jerry Silk Yana Balsom Jennifer Zwilling Nicole Elizabeth Cook
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

Little Berlin
January 28, 2019

Adjunct Professor Frances Beaver in SITE Seeing at Little Berlin

Author: tuj81552

SITE Seeing is a show about challenging the constructs of time and space and the potential to create new realities. Shifting possibilities of the real offers political agency and promise of new utopias. It is easy for us to imagine what could go wrong; and to see what has already gone wrong, but while we fight for a better world, it’s important to dream about what could be. The artists in this show slice through the fabric of reality to give us a glimpse of what could be on the other side. Artists: Lani Asuncion Frances Beaver Phaedra Call Juliana Foster Josh Graupera Ron Tarver Ellie Tomlinson Zines from Martaleah Sandler, Josh Graupera and Metropolarity Thursday, November 1, 201812:00 PM  Saturday, December 1, 201812:00 PM Read More

Lip Sync Parade
January 28, 2019

Jesse Harrod and Amy Cousins in Lip-Sync Parade at Fjord

Author: tuj81552

Jesse Harrod, department head and Amy Cousins, department tech (and Tyler Printmaking MFA alum) are both in this group show at Fjord! Curated by FJORD member, Doah Lee Opening Reception: Thursday, December 13th | 6-9pm On view: November 29th – January 12th Closing Reception: January 12th | 2-6pm Lip-Sync Parade: Queer meditations on history and visibility Read More

GIFC
January 28, 2019

Fibers Grad Student Mollie Caffey in group show at Pilot Projects

Author: tuj81552

First year Fibers Grad Mollie Caffey has work in the show Got It For Cheap at Pilot Projects in Philadelphia. The one-night event will occur on January 26, 2019. Pilot+Projects is pleased to announce Got It For Cheap, a traveling series of group shows organized by LA curators Chirs Rexroad and Charlie Roberts of 0-0 LA. Featuring dozens of local artists and 750+ national/international artists, this sprawling, unwieldy exhibition takes the form of a one night art market where everything is a similar size and same price, presenting the opportunity for anyone to pick up one of a kind artwork by artists both famous and unknown. All works are original works on paper in various media at a maximum size of 8.5 x 11 inches and sold for the low price of $30 USD. The goal of GIFC is to make buying original art accessible to all people and to give young artists a platform to sell their work and be exposed to a worldwide audience.  Read More

Dr Emily Neumeier
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

Pictures of temporary parks
November 28, 2018

Tyler Associate Professor Baldev Lamba Receives Several Awards and Honors for Design, Publication, Teaching and Community Service

Author: Gracie A. Laychock

American Society of Landscape Architects, Pennsylvania/Delaware Chapter Merit Award, General Design Category, Project “Pop Up Parks: Low Cost, Low Risk, High Impact Installations.” 2018.  These temporary Pop Up Park installations, located in Doylestown, PA, represent creative and innovative design experiments that have helped overcome resistance against losing parking, and have changed public perceptions about green spaces as catalysts for social, economic and environmental benefits. These Pop Up Parks have attracted a following asking for its annual return, they were used as models for similar installations in other locations and communities, and they have started serious conversations about ways of making them permanent. Read More

Buy Shaver gallery view
November 26, 2018

Buy Shaver site specific exhibition

Author: sfritch

“ Matter”, Hicks Art Center Gallery, Bucks County Community College, OCT 29 DEC 10, 2018. A site specific exhibition pairing the sculpture of Michael Grothusen and text mural by Buy Shaver. “Matter” brings together two new works by midcareer Philadelphia based artists, Michael Grothusen and Buy Shaver. This pairing of sculpture and wall text strives to explore the gaps between perception and belief in order to speculate how we might know and share anything with certainty. The exhibition takes its title from Shaver’s text piece, Faith as sm. Matter, originally composed in 2012 and adapted for this exhibition as an installation. Rendered by hand in black paint on the gallery walls, the phrase envelopes a grouping of mobiles by Grothusen entitled Self Portrait, by weight, not touching the floor. Read More

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