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Fired up about clay, the tour — Part 2

By libby and roberta | April 3, 2010

This post continues the tale of our NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) shuttle bus tour on Mar. 31 of ceramics exhibits in the Fishtown/Northern Liberties parts of town. Little Berlin “Scene,” an international show organized by Jennifer Woodin at Little Berlin is spare and a little chilly. The grid of ceramic knots [...]

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Fired up about clay–we take a tour

By libby and roberta | April 2, 2010

We talk too much. So when we go out looking at art, we end up talking to everyone we see, which means we see less than we ought to. Imagine therefore how we jumped at the chance to take a bus ride and see lots of the NCECA clay shows on an enforced schedule. Otherwise [...]

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Ox Gallery–now you see it, now you don’t

By libby | December 8, 2009

Subject to Change, a juried group show in an unheated squat of a loft space in Kensington, is certainly subject to change, given its location and its history. But it’s well worth seeing. The one-week show is up to Dec. 11 by appointment only (see below for more on getting in). Nicole Wilson and Sheila [...]

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Sheryl Conkelton leaves Tyler!

By libby | July 16, 2009

Tyler School of Art’s gallery director, Sheryl Conkelton, is leaving! Oh, horrors.

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Temple Gallery opens amid hoopla and discussion of horses (Trojan)

By roberta | March 20, 2009

 Here’s a little news from Tyler that doesn’t involve Trojan horses — oh well maybe just a little bit at the end…  Temple Gallery had its grand opening last night and we were there to check out the space which we hadn’t seen since our hardhat tour last year.  We also wanted to see the [...]

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Trojan Horses of Tyler, but not doom

By libby and roberta | March 18, 2009

Dated 2:59 am, Mar. 18, a mystery missive sped into our mailboxes. It declared: “On the night of Tuesday March 17th, Tyler School of Art waged war on 4 fellow Philadelphia art schools.” Along with this declaration of war, the email contained some megabytes of photos documenting the stealth “attack.” We at artblog are in [...]

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Weekly Update — Tyler’s shiny new building

By roberta | October 14, 2008

This week’s Weekly has my story about Tyler School of Art’s move to Center City. Below is the copy. I’ve added back some of the text that was cut or changed in the edited version. Lots of photos at my flickr and at Libby’s flickr. See our earlier post. North-facing painting studios on the 3rd [...]

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Make Room for Books

By andrea kirsh | September 25, 2008

Installation view of Volume Attempts; the space of books at Tyler Gallery The premise of the extraordinary exhibition, Volume Attempts: The Space of Books at Tyler School of Art’s Temple Gallery in Old City (through October 25, 2008) is that books are more than passive containers for ideas. Rather they are malleable objects with which [...]

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