Tyler News
Tyler School of Art Grad Blog
www.tylergrads.blogspot.com is a student/artist run blog whose main purpose is to increase
exposure for the MFA candidates at Tyler School of Art. The blog includes interviews with and insight on the grads’ artwork, show announcements and other information that is pertinent to emerging artists. Starting in 2007, artists’ web page will be added as they are produced and alum will have the
opportunity of having their website in a link list that is at the bottom of the page, therefore always guaranteeing them exposure to a wide audience.
Support Tyler Student Finalist in Fox School Competition
Rachel Escenbach, a sculpture major at Tyler is tied for first place in a Temple University/Fox School of Business competition known as the Temple Sports ENTHUSIASM Competition.
This competition has been sponsored by a Temple University Alumnus in an attempt to get more students to attend Temple sporting events and challenges those who compete to come up with an original idea to boost student attendance at these events.
Rachel is one of five finalists, but the only one who is not from Fox Business School.
WE NEED as many Tyler students as possible TO ATTEND the final judging of the competition on Wednesday, February 27 at 5:00 pm at the Liacouras Center (main campus). Part of the voting is based on audience response. the more students who show up to support her increases her chances of winning, so PLEASE SUPORT OUR TYLER FINALIST!
Food is provided IS PROVIDED for all who attend and it will be loads of fun.
Again, the competition final is Wednesday, February 27 at 5:00 pm at the Liacouras Center.
PLEASE COME AND SUPORT AS WE GO UP AGAIST THE FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS!
Dr. Bolman Wins Heritage Preservation Award
Dr. Elizabeth Bolman has won the College Art Association “Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation” for her work on the Red and White Monasteries in Egypt. College Art Association, the professional association of artists and art historians, gives the prize is given for “outstanding contributions by persons who have enhanced understanding of art through the application of knowledge and experience in conservation, art history, and art.’ As Director of the Red and White Monasteries projects, Professor Bolman successfully nominated them to the World Monuments Watch 2002 List of 100 Most Endangered Sites of cultural heritage. She has raised over a million dollars for the work, principally from the United States Agency for International Development and the American Research Center in Egypt. She has published and lectured widely on work and research associated with this project.
January 10, 2008 – February 10, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 10, 2008
Reception and Curator/Artist Talk: Friday, February 1, 2008
Ice Box Project Space
1400 N. American St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Crane Arts
www.cranearts.com
Something to Stand On
Curators:
Sophie Sanders, PhD candidate, Art History Department, Tyler School of Art, Temple University; MA, Slade School of Art, University College London
Shervone Neckles, MA Art Education, Columbia Teacher’s College, MFA Queens College
From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout is a part of African Impressions / Contemporary Art, a series of symposia and events that explore modern and contemporary art from the perspective of African influences and voices. This exhibition presents artwork in all media that explores the concept of Africanist aesthetics and the taboo or iconic aspect of these influences in contemporary western culture. Contemporary artists from diverse origins respond to the censoring, impact, and celebration of Black and African Diaspora cultural aesthetics, which have been considered taboo in some historical contexts and iconic in others. These artists also re-investigate the omissions in history and contemporary American culture by questioning appropriation and what is seen and unseen in popular culture and fine art.
From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout will transform the Ice Box gallery into what philosopher bell hooks terms as a “Learning Community,” which invites the public to become active participants in action and reflection. The exhibition will be engaged to think about how all forms of visual representation have the ability to become iconic when they achieve prominence and familiarity through frequent repetition. Some works deal with preserving relics, memories, history, and tradition which are often associated with the sacred and venerated, while others connect with ancestral heritage of the African Diaspora and honor the individuals who are often less visible in fine art contexts. A number of works in the show will also challenge or complicate the very notion of traditional African aesthetics in a changing global context.
Participating Artists
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Sophia |
Ainslie |
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Ruby |
Amanze |
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Terry |
Bodie |
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Kimberly |
Camp |
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Syd |
Carpenter |
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Colin |
Chase |
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Sonya |
Clark |
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Sahar |
Coston |
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Jamal |
Cyrus |
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John |
Dowell |
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Maya |
Freelon Asante |
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Earl |
Fyffe |
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Lonnie |
Graham |
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Theodore |
Harris |
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Melvina |
Lathan |
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Lucy |
Lau |
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Franky |
Laude |
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Betty |
Leacraft |
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Simone |
Leigh |
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Ghariokwu |
Lemi |
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Heather |
Marie Davis |
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Tyrone |
Mitchell |
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Ayanah |
Moor |
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Keith |
Morrison |
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Karyn |
Olivier |
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José |
Ortiz |
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Pepón |
Osorio |
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Nadine |
Patterson |
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Agnes |
Poitevin-Navarre |
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Debra |
Priestly |
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Roy |
Reid |
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Juana |
Valdes |
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Deborah |
Willis |
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Hank |
Willis Thomas |
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Emna |
Zghal |
Major funding for the symposium provided by the Provost’s Commission for the Arts / Office of the Provost. Other funding provided by the General Activity Fee and the Art History Department, Tyler School of Art. Additional support donated by Exhibitions and Public Programs of Tyler School of Art, the Graduate Art History Organization, and an anonymous donor. Special thanks to all individuals who made this possible.
Hauswerk
Student show, Hauswerk, Article in the Philadelphia Inquirer: For students, home is where the art is
Inquirer Video, At Work with HausWerk
http://www.hauswerkshow.blogspot.com
HausWerk and
Tyler student founded, Flux Space
reviewed on
artblog
Trenton Doyle Hancock Lecture
Thursday, November, 15, 11:00am
Presidents Hall Auditorium
La Dolce Vita
by C. Pazia Mannella
Saturday November 17 2007
7-9pm
Tyler Hall
more info:
thebarbershopgallery@gmail.com
Works In Progress by Zoe Strauss
Vanessa, 2006, digital print, dimensions variable
Tyler Gallery
October 24 - November 3 2007
curated by Produce Exhibitions
listed as a Critic's Pick on Artforum.com
Tyler Alumni, Lindsay Feuer's work featured on the cover of American Style Magazine
Erin Arnold,MFA 2007 is the recipient of the Virginia Commonwealth
University Painting and Printmaking Residency Fellowship
"Beyond
Hypotheticals"
Support Art
career Workshop Students at this weekend's
Rittenhouse
Square Fall Fine Art Show
September 14th, 15th and 16th in
Rittenhouse Square
Amanda Eck
Dan Eells
Fred Dimeglio
Orlando Rivera
Brooke Somers
Archaeologist from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Philip P. Betancourt, a professor at the Tyler School of Art of Temple University, is one of the distinguished scholars elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. The Academy, founded in 1780, is an independent policy research center with a current membership of 4,000 American Fellows and 600 Foreign Honorary Fellows. In the words of Keith Morrison, Dean of the Tyler School of Art, “Those elected to the Academy are among the finest minds of their generation, including John Adams, George Washington, Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alexander Graham Bell, Marian Anderson, Alexander Calder, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost.” Other recently elected fellows include former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton and former Vice-President Al Gore.
Betancourt has been a faculty member at Temple since 1970. He holds the rank of Laura H. Carnell Professor of Art History and Archaeology in the Art History Department at Temple. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Betancourt is an archaeologist who has helped uncover the Minoan civilization of Bronze Age Crete where he has directed a series of excavations at Bronze Age cities and towns. As a specialist in pottery and metallurgy, his main interests have centered on the Early Bronze Age, during the third millennium B.C. when European civilization was just beginning. He has written extensively on Minoan archaeology and history, publishing over a hundred articles and more than 20 books.
Betancourt is regarded as one of the American scholars who have helped transform the field of modern archaeology by bringing together large teams of scientists in many fields to focus on specific problems. His most recent book, The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and its Territory (Princeton, 2007) is a detailed and highly technical presentation of the results of an excavation he directed that demonstrated the Minoans were already smelting copper at the beginning of the Bronze Age, using primitive bellows and small furnaces to extract the metal from its ore. It was once thought that only the Balkans and the Near East were using smelting furnaces this early in history. Typical of Betancourt’s approach to archaeological research and publication, the book has 31 co-authors, with contributions from metallurgists, physicists, geologists, specialists in faunal studies and paleobotany, and scholars in many other fields, all making important contributions to an understanding of what was excavated and helping to write a new chapter in man’s early history.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It sponsors conferences, meetings, and symposia to examine a wide range of important issues. It will hold its ceremony for the newly elected members in October of 2007.
Professor Betancourt received his undergraduate degree from Southwest Missouri State University, his Master’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Athens, in Greece. He was elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences in 2003 and as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2006. In 2003, the Archaeological Institute of American awarded him its annual Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement, which is the highest honor in the field of archaeology in the United States.
Professor Betancourt lives in Moorestown with his wife Mary. They have two grown children and two grandchildren.
Graduating Senior, Sarah House, is awarded Windgate Fellowship.
Ceramic work by Sarah House
The Windgate Fellowship Award program was established to help encourage and advance the
development of serious, innovative artists in the United States whose work is in some way related
to, or informed by, the process, material, or idea of craft. While artists working in any media are
welcome to apply, we ask the partner institutions to develop a careful selection process to help identify
two graduating who best meet the following criteria:
• Their work must demonstrate a balance of content and design and a mastery of materials
• Their work must in some way be informed by craft process, materials, traditions and/or
sensibilities
• Successful applicants will demonstrate innovation and curiosity, be committed to growth of their
own work, and show evidence of how their work might stimulate creative thinking or dialogue
among other artists.
Fifty-four universities were invited to each nominate two graduating seniors who they felt best exemplified
the above criteria. Eighty-one students completed the online application, uploading 10 images of their
work and a proposal on how this award would advance their artistic goals and career. Panel members for
the 2007 awards included: Glenn Adamson, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; JoAnn Edwards, Director,
San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design; Bennett Bean, painter, ceramic artist New Jersey; Robyn Horn,
wood sculptor and collector, Arkansas.
Natasha Bowdoin, MFA painter and Asuka Goto MFA sculptor have been awarded the Joan
Mitchell Foundation Grant.
The Joan Mitchell Foundation "MFA Grant Program" was begun in 1997. This program is conducted annually, with the selection of ten recipients who are to receive a Masters in Fine Arts degree from a recognized graduate art facility in painting or sculpture. Each recipient is awarded a Grant of $10,000 in
recognition of artistic merit. The purpose of this award is to assist in furthering the recipient's artistic career and their transition from academic to professional studio work.
Work by Natasha Bowdoin:
Work by Asuka Goto:
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Temple Young Alumni Art Reception
Tyler MFA Thesis Art Exhibition
Hosted by Temple’s Young Alumni (TUYA) and
Tyler School of Art Alumni Association
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Temple Gallery, Old City
259 North Third Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
6 – 9 p.m.
Mix and mingle with young alumni professionals for an evening of art, wine, beer and appetizers hosted by Temple’s Young Alumni and Tyler Alumni Association. The exhibition will feature work presented by graduating MFA students, Robert Geyer and Corey Antis. |
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To RSVP, please e-mail your full name, year of graduation and the name of your college/school to Marena Ariffin at mariffin@temple.edu.
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The Foundation Department at Tyler School of Art of Temple University
is pleased to announce a lecture by artist
Allan McCollum
Wednesday, March 14th, 7PM
President’s Hall
Tyler School of Art
7725 Penrose Avenue, Elkins Park, PA 19125
For more information call 215-782-2894
For information on McCollum’s recent “Shapes Project” (pictured)
http://home.att.net/~amcnet2/album/shapes/intro.html
McCollum’s web site:
http://home.att.net/~allanmcnyc/
This lecture is free and open to all.
Art History Lecture Series Spring 2007:
“Pictures and Tears”
Dr. James Elkins, E.C. Chadbourne
Professor, Department of Art History,
Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art
Institute of Chicago
“Pictures and Tears”
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 6pm
Engineering and Architecture Building 126
Presented in conjuction with the ongoing
exhibition “Empathy” at the Temple Gallery
in Old City in Philadelphia.
James Elkins holds a Masters of Fine Arts in
painting and a MA and PhD in Art History,
completed in 1989, from the University of
Chicago. He has taught at the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago and is currently
E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of
Art History, Theory, and Criticism. He also
teaches in the Department of Visual and
Critical Studies, and is Head of History of
Art at the University College Cork, Ireland.
Among his publications are: Six Stories from
the End of Representation (Stanford
University Press, forthcoming), Visual
Studies: A Skeptical Introduction Master
Narratives and Their Discontents (Routledge,
2003), Why Art Cannot be Taught (University
of Illinois Press, 2001), Pictures of the
Body (Stanford University Press, 1999), The
Domain of Images (Cornell Univesity Press,
1999),The New PhD in Studio Art (Sculptors
Society of Ireland, 2005), Our Beautiful,
Dry, and Distant Texts (Penn State Press,
1997), The Poetics of Perspective (Cornell
University Press, 1994), Chinese Landscape
Painting as Western Art History (National
Academy of art, Hangjhou, China, 1999), and
Art History versus Aesthetic (Routledge,
2005).
Dr. Elkins’ writing focuses on the history
and theory of images in art, science, and
nature. Several of his books concentrate on
the fine arts (What Painting Is, Why Are Our
Pictures Puzzles?); others include
scientific, non-art images, writing systems,
and archaeology (The Domain of Images, On
Pictures and the Words That Fail Them); and
still others explore questions of natural
history (How to Use Your Eyes). Some of Dr.
Elkins’ current projects focus on humanist
methods, including Success and Failure in
Twentieth-Century Painting and Writing about
the World's Art. He has also edited books on
the late German writer W.G. Sebald, and
representations of pain in art.
Sponsored by Tyler Exhibitions and Public
Programs, the Department of Art History, the
Graduate Art History Organization, with
cooperation from the Department of
Philosophy
LEARNING FROM LEARNERS:
Being Open to Possibility and Dialogue
Lecture Presentation
Dr. Judith M. Burton
Sponsored by Tyler School of Art
Art and Art Education Department & Tyler Student Services
Thursday, February 22nd 4:00PM
Tyler School of Art
President's Hall 102
For information please call: 215.204.7191
Dr. Judith M. Burton is Professor and Director of Art & Art Education at Columbia University Teachers College. Before that she was Chair of Art Education of Boston University and taught at the Massachusetts College of Art. Burton received her Ed. D. from Harvard University in 1980. Her research focuses on the artistic-aesthetic development of children and adolescents and the implications this has for teaching and learning. In 1995 she co-founded the Center for Research in Arts Education at Teachers College, and in 1996 founded the Heritage School – a comprehensive high school featuring the arts – located in Harlem, NYC. She is author of numerous articles and chapters and currently has two books in process of publication: A Guide for Teaching and Learning in the Visual Arts, and Creative and Mental Growth, 3rd. Edition Revisited. She received the Manuel Barkan Award for excellence in research writing, and the Lowenfeld Award for lifetime achievement in art education from NAEA. Dr, Burton is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in Great Britain, a Distinguished Fellow of the NAEA, and serves as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, China.
A L L A R E W E L C O M E ! ! !
African Impressions / Contemporary Art
Program II: From Taboo to Icon: Images of the Black Body
Click Here for More Details
Tuttleman Learning Center
Room 105 1809 North 13th Street
(Northeast corner of 13th and Montgomery Avenue)
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 5:30PM - 8:30PM
African Impressions / Contemporary Art is a series of three symposia that explore modern and contemporary art from the perspective of African influences and voices. The second symposium in the series, From Taboo to Icon: Images of the Black Body, presents artists who are reflecting on entrenched racial constructs and shifting attitudes in popular culture and contemporary art. The symposium is curated by Sophie Sanders, PhD candidate, Tyler School of Art of Temple University. From Taboo to Icon: Images of the Black Body
Critical Dialogues Lecture Series
Sponsored by the Department of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture
Public Lecture, every Wednesday at 11:00a.m.
President’s Hall
Tyler School of Art
Click Here to view the schedule of lecturing artists and curators.
Please join Tyler School of Art faculty and friends for two festive New York City receptions on Thursday, February 15, 2007 held in conjunction with the College Art Association (CAA) annual conference.*
The receptions are open to all Tyler alumni and their guests, whether registered for the conference or not.
*For more information about the CAA Conference, please call 212.691.1051 or visit http://conference.collegeart.org/2007.
Tyler Alumni Reception
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Mercury Rotunda, Third Floor
New York Hilton and Towers Hotel
1335 Avenue of the Americas
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
CAA New York Area MFA Exhibition
February 10 – March 24, 2007
Exhibition Opening Reception
Hunter College/ Times Square Gallery
450 West 41st Street, NY
6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
RSVP to one or both receptions by calling 215.204.8812 or emailing rsvptyler@temple.edu by February 12th.
Important Facilities, Services and Security Information during the Winter Holiday Break
Temple University will be closed for a winter holiday break between the Christmas
and New Year’s holidays. Click here for more information.
Recent Exhibitions
by alumni of the B.F.A and M.F.A
Program in Painting.
Click
here to view the alumni photo gallery.
Marfa Texas Field Trip
On May 7, 2006 the MFA students in
Painting and Sculpture traveled to Marta,
Texas to see the Chinati Foundation, The
Judd Foundation, The Heiner Fredrick
Foundation, Ballroom, Marfa, and several
other Galleries.
Click here to
view the field trip photo gallery.
African Impressions / Contemporary Art
Program I: Mining History for African Voices
Click Here for More Details
Anderson Hall, AL14
1114 West Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
5:30PM - 8:00PM
African Impressions / Contemporary Art is a series of three symposia curated by Sophie Sanders, a PhD candidate in Art History at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. The conference series will explore modern and contemporary art from the perspective of African influences and voices. Many visual artists have been impacted by aesthetics and social history of the African Diaspora, yet this remains under-represented in art historical scholarship. As a more global outlook develops, there is an opportunity to explore the ways in which cultural fusions occur. Each event brings a multi-faceted and holistic experience of art and art criticism to the university audience and to the broader Philadelphia public by including established artists, scholars, and curators.
The first symposium in the series, Mining History for African Voices, will focus on artists who respond to and interpret history and contemporary culture. It will take place on Tuesday, November 7, 2006, from 5:30 - 8:00 PM at Anderson Hall, lecture hall AL14, located at 1114 West Berks Street at Temple University’s main campus in Philadelphia. The event is free. For further information, please call (215) 204-7837 or fax (215) 204-6951.
Current Exhibition
Temple Gallery, Old City
November 4, 2006-February 17, 2007
Click to visit the Empathetic Exhibition Website
Spring 2006 gestures
Spring 2005 Gestures
