Tyler Blog

April 11, 2019

Ali Printz (PhD student, Art History) to attend Emerging Curators Retreat and Casa Lu's Parque Hundido Residency

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Ali Printz will be attending the Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles) Emerging Curators Retreat. The leading scholar of the Retreat will be curator Jeffrey Deitch (formerly Director of MOCA, now an independent curator). She will then head to Mexico City for a residency at Casa Lu Parque Hundido, where she will be creating a new body of paintings based on the history and fabric of Mexico City. Read More

April 9, 2019

Dr. Erin Pauwels awarded two post-docs for her sabbatical leave

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Dr Erin Pauwels, who will be on leave AY 2019-2020, was awarded both the Post-Doctoral Fellow in Residence at the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library (where she will be housed in a gardener's "cottage") and the Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship for research in American art and print culture from the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. Her research centers on the late 19th-century American photographer Napoleon Sarony. Read More

Joseph Kopta teaching at the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy
April 5, 2019

Joseph Kopta (PhD Candidate) awarded Kress Institutional Fellowship at the Zentralinstitute für Kunstgeschichte

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Joseph Kopta (PhD Candidate) has been awarded a two-year Kress Institutional Fellowship at the Zentralinstitute für Kunstgeschichte (Central Institute for Art History) in Munich, Germany, supporting his dissertation research on the materiality of Byzantine manuscripts.   The Samuel H. Kress Foundation devotes its resources to advancing this history and conservation of European art from antiquity through the nineteenth century. It regularly awards six pre-doctoral Fellowships each year in the History of European art in association with one of six European host institutions.   Read More

April 3, 2019

Wearable Art Show

Author: tuj81552

Hundreds of students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends and parents gather at Temple’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture for the annual Wearable Art Show, a student-run event organized by Tyler’s Fibers and Materials Studies program that has rapidly grown into the school’s signature, high-energy closing statement of the spring semester. The event is organized by students in adjunct faculty member Paige Fetchen’s Sculptural Garments class and adjunct faculty member Timothy Belknap’s Body Art and Adornment class. They solicit entries from students all over the school The event will take place in the green hallway at Tyler on April 25th, 2019 at 7:30pm Read More

March 28, 2019

Summer Course - Rule Breakers and Makers: Artist, Identity, Society

Author: Michael Smaczylo

Rule Breakers and Makers: Artist, Identity, SocietyHow does society shape and influence artists? How do artists find their individual voices and make an impact? Explore your own creative vision as you take inspiration from artists in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in this two-week long collaboration with Art Education, Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Structured looking, responding, and connecting led by Art Museum Educators builds a foundation for intensive studio practice exploring a variety of materials and media.  SCHEDULEJuly 22 - August 2  Monday through Friday  9:30am-1:30pm Course taught by  Carol Royer, Tyler Art Education Faculty member and PMA educators and curators. Read More

March 27, 2019

Jesse Harrod "steals the show" at Spring/Break Art Show

Author: tuj81552

Fibers and Material Studies Chair, Jesse Harrod, exhibited work at the Spring/Break Art Show in New York City March 5-11, 2019 in a booth curated by Danny Orendorff Jesse's work was featured in Artsy.Net's review of the show - 7 Artists Who Stole the Show at Spring/Break . Congrats Jesse!! Read More