Arts & Culture
Michael Austin Argentieri, B.A. Anthropology. During his time at Temple, Austin Argentieri became part of a unique collaborative research project to produce a visual ethnography of the Vietnamese community in Philadelphia.
May 4, 2012
Kia Gregory, B.A., Journalism. After balancing classes with a job at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Gregory was offered a job with The New York Times as the Harlem beat reporter, where she will cover the politics, the schools, the people, the tone and the tenor of the neighborhood.
May 4, 2012
Rebecca “Bexx” Rosenbloom, Mus Ed and Voice, Boyer College of Music and Dance; Rachel Pogolowitz, Judaic Studies, College of Liberal Arts; Marguerite Zacharovich, Psychology and Economics, College of Liberal Arts. The seniors of the co-ed singing group Owlcappella prepare for graduation.
May 3, 2012
Elisa Mosley, B.A., Art. One of Mosley's best known undertakings includes the creation of AKA, "the box" structure her erected with two classmates at the entrance to Tyler.
Nicole Ianni, B.A. Strategic Communications. Ianni is heading to Washington DC with a job in the Humane Society.
Students from several artistic disciplines demonstrated the power of creativity at Arts Night, held Wednesday in the atrium of the Tyler School of Art. Planned by a Student Advisory Committee established by Vice Provost for the Arts Robert T. Stroker, the evening featured performances, installations and exhibitions from the Art History, Architecture, Dance, Film, Fine Art, Graphic Design and Music departments.
The Temple Jazz Band, directed by Terrell Stafford, will pay homage to unknown women instrumentalists at the Philadelphia premiere of The Girls in the Band, a documentary that looks at the history of women in jazz, at a sold-out performance and screening Monday at the Franklin Institute.
Singers, dancers and step-team performers captivated the audience at Spotlight 2.0, a celebration of Asian-American culture held at the Temple Performing Arts Center. For the event, students shared the stage with YouTube sensations Clara C, a singer/songwriter from California, and D-Pryde, a rapper/singer from Toronto, Canada.
A plywood shanty at the front entrance to the Tyler School of Art building has fast become a venue for the free exchange of ideas and interests among Temple students, faculty and community members.
Last Thursday, students gathered by the skate park at Cecil B. Moore Ave. to watch the Leah Stein Dance Company perform an outdoor site-specific dance piece. Sponsored by Temple’s GenEd Program, the performance was held to celebrate the city of Philadelphia as a place of learning and interaction.
As the world marks the one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of northeastern Japan and sparked a crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a group of Temple alumni, faculty, staff and students is offering up a message of hope through the universal language of music. Led by Temple Associate Professor Jack Klotz, the group has recorded “Fukkatsu no Uta” or “The Song of Rising,” a spirited song expressing support for those who have suffered from the disaster.
A new advertising campaign launched this month throughout Philadelphia, southern New Jersey and northern Delaware is designed to promote Temple's arts offerings as accessible and affordable. The campaign will reach over 1 million people in the region — many of whom are Temple alumni, friends, faculty and students.
Students and faculty in Temple Ambler’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture are busy preparing for their 2012 Philadelphia International Flower Show exhibit, “Aloha ‘āina: A Return to Life with the Land,” which seeks to show how the Hawaiian concept of living with the land can be applied in the northeast. The show runs runs March 4-11 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
