Temple Contemporary

Join us Weds, Oct 21 at 6pm for BFAMFAPhd! Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard will introduce Making and Being: Embodiment Collaboration and Circulation in the Visual Arts. Making and Being offers a framework for teaching art that emphasizes contemplation, collaboration, and political economy. Authors Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, two visual arts educators and members of the collective BFAMFAPhD, will share ideas and teaching strategies that they have adapted to spaces of... learning which range widely, from self-organized workshops for professional artists to Foundations BFA and MFA thesis classes. Free for all. More info + link to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bfamfaphd-tickets-104545584658 Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University

Tonight's event in Theodore Kerr's own words! Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/theodore-kerr-tickets-10478101

Philadelphia: Did you #vote yet? There's still time! The deadline to register to vote in Philadelphia is 10/19. Learn how you can register to vote and make your... voice heard here: https://www.philadelphiavotes.com//vot/registering-to-vote And once you vote, make sure you grab an "I Voted" sticker designed by Tyler Graphic & Interactive Design student Katie Fish!

Join us tomorrow, Oct 15 at 6pm for Theodore Kerr! Canadian born artist Theodore Kerr brings people together for community, care and action. In this lecture, he’ll share some of the projects he has been a part of, including the What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective, of which he is a founding member, as well as how he uses image making, writing, collaboration, conversation, curation, editing, publishing and oral history in his work. More info + tickets: https://www.eventbrite....com/e/theodore-kerr-tickets-10478101 Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University

Join us tonight at 6pm for an online lecture featuring Indira Allegra! Indira Allegra is an American artist and writer based in Oakland, California. Their work, which includes installation, sculpture, poetry, and performance art, explores memorial as a genre and a vital part of the human experience. Allegra's work re-imagines what a memorial can feel like, the scale on which it can exist and how it can function through the practices of performance, sculpture and installation.... More info + registration: indiraallegra.eventbrite.com In collaboration with Critical Dialogues, Fiber & Material Studies and The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University Image courtesy of the artist. Grammar of Grief, Cake, 2020. Photography by Dorothy R. Santos

a big ole stack of rainbows incoming for our Double Rainbows project! Remember those bleak early pandemic months when families were finding joy in putting rainbows in their windows for neighborhood scavenger hunts for kids? In collaboration with @pleasetouchmuseum , we are collecting those rainbows, exhibiting them, and then donating them! Visit Doublerainbows.org to learn more or participate #templecontemporary #tylerschoolofartandarchitecture #pleasetouchmuseum #rainbowhunt

Join us TONIGHT for our 2020 Jack Wolgin Visiting Artist, CECILIA VICUÑA! This online event is free to all. For more info + registration visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cecilia-vicuna-tickets-1045488 Image: Detail of Cecilia Vicuña's, Boogie Woogie Quipu, installed at Temple Contemporary. Photo by Quinton Maldonado. Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University

Please join us Monday, Oct 5 at 6pm for our 2020 Jack Wolgin Visiting Artist lecture featuring visiting poet, artist, filmmaker and activist Cecilia Vicuña at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. Vicuña’s work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, she has been in exile since the early 1970s, after the military coup against elected ...president Salvador Allende. Vicuña began creating "precarious works" and quipus in the mid 1960s in Chile, as a way of "hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard." Her multi-dimensional works begin as a poem, an image that morphs into a film, a song, a sculpture, or a collective performance. These ephemeral, site-specific installations in nature, streets, and museums combine ritual and assemblage. She calls this impermanent, participatory work lo precario (the precarious): transformative acts that bridge the gap between art and life, the ancestral and the avant-garde. Free for all! For more info + registration, follow the link in our bio. [Image: Installation view of Cecilia Vicuña’s, Boogie Woogie Quipu, at Temple Contemporary. Photo by Quinton Maldonado.]

Join Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University Monday, October 5 at 6pm for an online lecture featuring 2020 Jack Wolgin Annual Visiting Artist, Cecilia Vicuña! More info + registration below or by following this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cecilia-vicuna-tickets-1045488

In collaboration with Critical Dialogues, please join us tonight at 6pm for an online lecture by visiting artist, Sarah Kavage! More info on the event and registration here: sarahkavage.eventbrite.com #tylerschoolofartandarchitecture

Please join Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University this Wednesday at 6pm for an online lecture featuring Noel W. Anderson. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Anderson is known for his explorations into the evolving makeup of black male identity through the medium of textiles. Using found imagery from various media and archives, including television and magazine, Anderson adds, subtracts, manipulates and distorts the original pictures, which are then woven into... tapestries. Anderson then re-works each tapestry, distressing, dyeing and sometimes dissolving the image until it is only partially legible. This literal blurring of the object metaphorically highlights issues of race and gender, as the artist attempts to dissect the distortion of black males in contemporary culture and media. This lecture will look at a variety of recent works by Noel Anderson, from his erased Ebony pages to his woven jacquard tapestries. Link to register: noelanderson.eventbrite.com

Over the summer, our country engaged in renewed conversations and reckonings around the racist history of some of our public monuments. Here in Philadelphia, debates around monuments of Frank Rizzo and Christopher Columbus led to those monuments being removed. And conversations continue around a lack of diverse representations in Philly monuments. Join us and Temple University Libraries Sep 22, 5:30-7:00pm as we consider the past, present, and future of Philly’s monuments wi...th the editors and contributors of Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia from Temple University Press. Featuring a special introduction by artist Hank Willis Thomas, speakers include Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University faculty: Karyn Olivier, as well as Paul Farber, Jane Golden, Homay King, Ken Lum, and Stephanie Mach. More info + link to register https://charlesstudy.temple.edu/calendar/events/monuments

Sep 20 and 27th--as a part of Black Quantum Futurism's Black Womxn Temporal Portal project, Black Womxn Time Camp is a two-day program exploring time, alternative temporalities, time travel, time experiments, temporal shifts and other temporal technologies from the frameworks, rituals, and cultural traditions of Black women, femmes, girls, non-binary, and gender non-conforming folks. The program includes a tea ceremony and over 20 workshops, presentations and portals from local, national, and international presenters. You can find a full schedule at blackwomxntemporal.net Black Quantum Futurism is a 2019 Added Velocity Grantee. The Velocity Fund was established in 2018 by Temple Contemporary at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture with the support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.