About Exhibitions
The mission of the Exhibitions
and Public Programs department of
Tyler School of Art is to explore
and encourage experimentation in
artistic practice and
interpretation. The department
provides a platform for young
artists for the production and
presentation of their work and a
forum for the larger community to
examine the most recent developments
in contemporary art and their
relationships to broader cultural
contexts.
We design Tyler Exhibitions’
programming to engage an array of
constituencies as participants and
audience in an ongoing regional
conversation about the changing
roles of art, artists and artmaking.
Our core audience is the community
of young artists in the region; part
of the motivation for this focus is
to bring our students and
pedagogical mission into
conversation and relationship with
that larger community, as well as to
provide a sustained dialogue between
the local community and art, ideas
and individuals that circulate
internationally.
Exhibitions are organized and
presented on a regular basis by
staff and visiting curators and
scholars in the department's
galleries on campus and at our Old
City (downtown Philadelphia)
gallery. Programming includes
lectures, roundtables, symposia,
exhibition tours, and in-gallery
commentaries (by local artists as
well as area professors whose
disciplines offer different insights
and interpretations). In addition,
the department commissions artists
and hosts them in residencies, so
they might create work while
engaging our visitors and
participants in longer-term and
deeper conversations about their
ongoing work and their specific
projects. We publish essays on-line
and in brochures that accompany the
exhibitions and are available free
of charge to the public.
Staff
Sheryl Conkelton,
Director of Exhibitions & Public
Programs
Robert Wuilfe, Exhibitions
Coordinator
Matt Pruden, Preparator
Administrative Offices
Department of Exhibitions &
Public Programs
7725 Penrose Avenue
Elkins Park, PA 19027
215.782.2776
exhibit@temple.edu
