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Student teachers display youth’s artwork at final reception

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Tyler School of Art hosted a closing reception Sunday, Dec. 2, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., for student teachers to showcase artwork they have done with their respective K-12 students during the semester.

Student teachers showed off their students’ work, including hand-crafted jewelry, ceramic creations, paintings, sculptures and even strategically designed cardboard chairs.

The final show was put together by the faculty of the art education department and the student art teachers.

According to an email Art Education Program Head Jo-Anna Moore sent out to the art teachers, K-12 students and their families after the event, approximately 400 people were in attendance.

Trojan horse construction

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The creativity of the Tyler Trojan horse war doesn’t end with the delivery and attack on four area art schools. Tyler students have posted a Youtube vidoe of the construction of the horses. The photo slideshow gives you a beginning to end view of the horses set to some pretty quirky music.

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Check out the Temple News article on the Trojan war.

Tyler not ‘artsy’ enough for one critic

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Inga Saffron, the Inquirer’s architecture critic, had some harsh words to share about the new Tyler School of Art building at 12th and Norris streets. Agreeing with some Tyler students, she’s not happy.

Despite Tyler’s importance to the university, Temple dumped what should have been a statement building at the far end of the campus universe, plopping it down seemingly at random, so that its main entrance looks out onto the dumpsters for the Biology-Life Sciences Building.

Saffron goes on to say the “enormous, sprawling building, whose exterior resembles a run-of-the-mill high school, fails to forge a desperately needed sense of place,” as it lies among a hodgepodge of campus buildings.

She also takes a jab at the “morbidly obese” Alter Hall, “a mausoleum for the egos of the nation’s financial titans.”

Your thoughts? Do Temple’s newest buildings have a place on the crowded campus?

Photo courtesy of Temple.

Tyler dean responds to Inqy quote

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therese-dolan.jpgThe Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article Tuesday about the Tyler School of Art’s relocation to Main Campus.

One source interviewed was interim dean Therese Dolan, who was discussing funding for the school — and implied that alumni aren’t able to give much for the effort.

“I wish I was the law, medical or business school dean,” said interim dean Therese Dolan. “Their alumni have deep pockets. Ours are still waitressing.”

That quote prompted an e-mail from Dolan to the Tyler listserv about the article. She said she was “pleased” to see the long article featured but “dismayed” that her words were “taken out of context.”

She goes on to list a series of notable Tyler alumni and to mention the 56 grants available to Tyler students.

Before providing a link to the article, Dolan ended the e-mail by saying the following:

I could not be prouder to be Interim Dean of our nationally anked art school with its extraordinarily talented faculty and students.