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Jawnts: Nine in Tyler art residency to display work
JAKE BLUMGART POSTED: Sunday, July 19, 2015, 1:08 AM
Every summer since 2008, Temple's prestigious Tyler School has held a seven-week program for visiting artists and sculptors. The intensive course sends its participants careening around the art museums and galleries of Philadelphia and New York, all while experimenting with their own styles, and undergoing regular bouts of assessment and review.
In addition to regular field trips, Temple puts the participating artists through a critical crucible, as visiting blue-chip artists and Tyler professors analyze their work every week. The rigorous program combines the intensive feedback and critical discourse of grad school (without the grades) with the tight focus on production of a traditional residency program.
"Over the course of seven weeks, everyone's work changes drastically," says program director Erica Prince. "We really encourage risk-taking and experimentation in their work - try new things, encourage them to fail and keep going. It's a little scary."
Beginning this week, the nine members of the 2015 residency program will show their work at the Icebox Project Space in Kensington. The exhibit promises to be an exercise in "anti-curation," although it might be more clearly described as democratic curation. The participants will select their own work and organize its display themselves.
This year participants include artists from as far afield as China, South Korea, and California, as well as regional talent from New Jersey and Maryland. Few of them are full-time artists: Their backgrounds range from finance to politics to literature and media.
The opening reception for the exhibition is 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Icebox Project Space, 1400 N. American St. Free food and drink will be offered. The show runs through Thursday.
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