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 art making. 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 bas
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 art making. 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.
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