Hannah Hilditch, a Postgraduate Fellow in Academic Affairs at the Cleveland Museum of Art and alumna of the MA in Art History and Museum Studies program, recently wrote an essay for the CMA’s Thinker blog. Hilditch compares the theme of isolation and craft from the CMA’s Gold Needles: Embroidery Arts from Korea exhibition with our current experiences of self-imposed isolation and craft. Read her essay on the CMA’s Thinker blog here.

A detail from an embroidered piece in the museum’s collection is also a particularly apt image for the present pandemic context. According to Curator of Korean Art Sooa McCormick, “In its mouth, the crane is holding a lingzhi fungus, a medicine to cure any illness.”

A Pair of Rank Badges with Single Crane Motif, 2019.78