Tyler Blog

January 24, 2023

Tyler's AED Presents Lecture Series Announces Lineup of Speakers

Author: Anonymous

The spring season of Tyler School of Art and Architecture's major speaker series — Critical Dialogues, AED Presents, and the Jack Wolgin Visiting Artist Lecture — begins this month featuring both in-house and internationally acclaimed practitioners. On the AED side, lecturers include a handful of Tyler's own faculty, who will discuss their research and how it informs their teaching, architects from local firms, and an architectural critic from the Philadelphia Inquirer.  Read More

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January 20, 2023

Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Dr. Laura L. Watts

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

"Passion of Place: Nineteenth-century Italian Painting in the Service of Politics" Monday Feb 27, 2023 5 (reception) 5:30-7 EST Tyler B082 Dr. Laura L. Watts (MA 1993; PhD 1999) is a Professor at Daemen University in Amherst, NY and author of the award-winning book, Italian Painting in the Age of Unification (Routledge, 2021). Event sponsored by the Art History Department and supported by Temple's GAF. This lecture is free and open to the public. Read More

January 11, 2023

Tyler Presents Lineup of Spring Visiting Artists and Lecturers

Author: Emily Herbein

The spring season of Tyler School of Art and Architecture's major speaker series — Critical Dialogues, AED Presents, and the Jack Wolgin Visiting Artist Lecture — begins this month featuring both in-house and internationally acclaimed practitioners. Areas of study include an absurdist approach to depicting the ecological crisis through sculpture, futuristic, multimedia landscapes that explore immigrant identity, new media and technology, museum curation, and the intersection between art and literature. A full schedule of events can be found here. Read More

November 30, 2022

The Art of Student Teaching Encourages Confidence and Creativity

Author: Emily Herbein

Assistant Professor and Program Head of Art Education Renee Jackson, PhD, delves into this year’s The Art of Student Teaching exhibition, on view this month from November 30-December 4. Last year, the department celebrated 30 years of student teaching shows, originally created by Art Education Professor Emeritus Jo-Anna J. Moore.   Read More

November 17, 2022

Karyn Olivier Reveals Temporal Display for the Newark Airport

Author: Emily Herbein

Professor of Sculpture Karyn Olivier recently unveiled her commission for the Newark Liberty International Airport, two stacks of 17 floating metallic rings that dangle 52 feet in the air. This is Olivier's largest installation to date. The sculptures, titled Approach, feature "panoramic photographs of New Jersey imprinted on the top and bottom of each flat circle, ranging in diameter from 5 to 19 feet. The fluid, telescoping shape of the sculptures, in opposite yin-yang configurations, seem to compress and expand as they are circumnavigated. Fragmented views of New Jersey’s skylines, shipping ports, salt marshes and infrastructure, like its infamous turnpike, conflate and realign in dizzying mosaics," New York Times writer Hilarie M. Sheets describes. Read More