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Mellon Seminar Featured in the College Bulletin

This year’s Mellon Collections Seminar, taught by Prof. Elina Gertsman (CWRU) and Dr. Gerhard Lutz (CMA), has been featured in the Case Western Reserve University College Bulletin! The profile highlighted the visit to the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), where students toured the museum’s medieval art galleries and were treated to a visit from the DIA’s curator of medieval arts, Chassica Kirchhoff. The course is keyed to the installation Elina and Gerhard are co-curating, scheduled to open at the CMA in Aug. 2024. Students are producing a robust gallery guide and a series of labels for the show, which will comprise a broad range of objects from the global Middle Ages. Click below for more info and photos!

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Congrats to Yuna Kim, Abigail Adams, Soorya Janakiraman, and Hannah Dorris on their Capstone Presentations!

Congratulations to the undergraduate seniors who presented their fantastic Capstone Presentations today to a packed audience in Mather House! We are so proud of their work. The following students presented their research: Abigail Adams, "Blood, Fireworks, and the Feminine: Ana Mendieta’s Artistic Odyssey and Victory over Exile" Hannah Dorris, "The Fountain of...

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Congratulations to Prof. Erin Benay on her Inaugural Lecture as Distinguished Scholar in the Public Humanities!

Congratulations to our own Distinguished Scholar in the Public Humanities, Prof. Erin Benay, on the astounding success of her inaugural public lecture, "From Campus to Community: Taking Art and its Histories to the Street!" Her talk was delivered to a packed, standing-room-only audience in the Tink on November 15 and...

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New GAMS Events for November

We hope you all are having a wonderful second half of the semester! GAMS is ending the year with several exciting events. Follow CWRU Graduate Association of Medieval Studies for more, and check the GAMS newsletter for RSVP information. Alternately, please email cwru.medievalgrad@gmail.com to be added to the email...

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Congrats to PhD Candidate Alex Kaczenski on New Exhibition!

Congratulations to PhD candidate in medieval art Alexandra Kaczenski on Word as Image, the exhibition she has curated for the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California! The show is on view through February 5, 2024. Word as Image, presented in the Museum’s focus gallery, highlights artworks from the Norton Simon collections that center on or subvert the idea that a text’s legibility is essential for making meaning. Spanning the comical to the political to the conceptual, Word as Image calls our attention to how we are constantly “reading the image” in and out of museum spaces. As such, artists challenge us to consider language and image anew, by positioning words as an essential part of visual culture.

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