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Corinne Bishop Finishes Diamond Research Scholars Project

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Diamond Scholar recipient Corinne Bishop has spent the last semester working on researching, finding inspiration, and creating her jewelry collection, “Material Lineage.”

The Diamond Research Scholars Program gives Temple students the chance to focus on a research or creative arts project during their summer and fall semester while registered for an independent study/research course. Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies, Emily Moerer, explains that the faculty-mentored research program promotes high-impact activity to enhance student learning.

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Tyler Professor’s Work on Display at Museum of Art & Design

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Adjunct Jewelry Professor Doug Bucci makes all of his jewelry on a 3D printer. His piece “Sweetmeat” is currently on display for the Museum of Art & Design’s “Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital” exhibition.

“Two years ago, I was invited by MAD’s curator Ron Labaco to be a part of the Out of Hand exhibition,” Bucci said. “Labaco had seen the beginnings of my new series ‘Sweetmeat’ at the 2011 SOFA New York exhibition. The work was presented by Sienna Gallery as part of the exhibition ‘Covet’.”

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Photography Student Works on Susquehanna River Project

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After taking her first darkroom class in high school, Havre de Grace native Hannah Close fell in love with photography. When she decided to further her education, Close found that Tyler’s Photography Department was a fit for her.

“I wanted to be further away from home than Baltimore, and Philly is a great city,” Close said. “Both of my parents went to Temple, plus Tyler was a beautiful, brand new facility. By far the nicest facilities of any of the art schools I applied to.”

Now Close is a senior and has recently been awarded both a Diamond Peers Teaching Award and a CARAS Project Grant.

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Canal Convergence Features Work From Joy Holland (BFA Sculpture ’06)

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Joy Holland (BFA ’06) studied Sculpture, Art History, and Italian when she was a student at Tyler. Now, her work in public art is being recognized everywhere from Pero, Milan to Scottsdale, Arizona.

“I’ve worked really hard to develop projects–to some degree of success–in which my audience is connected to me personally through collaborative relationships that develop over time,” Holland said. “In many public art works that is not the case.”

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