“Outsider” or “Self-Taught” art continues to gain acceptance in the larger art world and its inclusions in large general museums signals that changing attitude.  But the ultimate form of acceptance - inclusion in the art history textbooks - continues to elude.
As a supplement to her feature about the place of Outsider Art in the art [...]

A few months back, Alex Schmidt got a tour of the new Tyler School of Art building on Temple University’s main campus.
Over at Fallon and Rosof’s artblog, Roberta Fallon has gotten a recent look at the facility.  There’s plenty of pictures to go along.  If you’re an art student or aspiring art student or just [...]

To accompany her piece for WHYY 91FM, Arts and Culture reporter Alex Schmidt produced a video profiling one of the music teachers she interviewed for her story.  Angela Beidler’s story is a model for what the School District would hope is the path for a lot of teachers: expertise in a subject combined with a [...]

Temple University’s Tyler School of Art is currently ranked in the top 15 art schools in the country. It’s about to make the move from its suburban setting in Elkins Park to join the rest of the Temple Campus in North Philadelphia.  From WHYY’s Arts and Culture desk, Alex Schmidt took a tour of the [...]