Please join us in congratulating doctoral candidate Susana Montañés Lleras on the opening of her brilliant exhibition, Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art! On view through September 8 in the Prints and Drawings galleries of the Cleveland Museum of Art (Galleries 101A & 101B), Susana’s exhibition was developed as part of her third year doctoral internship under the supervision of Dr. Britany Salsbury, Curator of Prints and Drawings.
PhD candidates Sam Truman and Reed O’Mara both recently published pieces with their advisor, Professor Elina Gertsman. Sam contributed to a chapter, “The Sensory Aesthetics of Death,” for the edited volume A Cultural History of Death in the Middle Ages (Bloomsbury, 2024). Earlier this month, an article co-written by Reed and Professor Gertsman, “Wrathful Rites: Performing Shefokh ḥamatkha in the Hileq and Bileq Haggadah,” was published in a special issue of Religions, “Devotion, Practice, and Performative Expression in the Religious Art of Medieval Europe.” Congratulations to Sam and Reed on their publications! Click below to know more.
Congratulations to Prof. Andrea Rager who has been awarded a large Expanding Horizons Initiative Award for the interdisciplinary project “Ecology, Attention, Action.” Prof. Rager is serving as co-principal investigator on the project, with Prof. Fey Parrill (Chair, Dept. of Cognitive Science) as principal investigator, and Prof. Francesca Brittan (Dept. of Music) as co-principal investigator, along with co-investigators Dr. Nárcisz Fejes (Dept. of English),
Congratulations to MA candidate Rebekah Utian, who has just been named a 2024 Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellow!
We are delighted to announce that MA candidate Emma Zavodny will be the 4th annual Keithley Fellow in Community-Engaged Art History!
Please click on the following link to learn more about our Photography Minor and classes!
Please join us for the annual Undergraduate Research Showcase on Friday, April 19 from 12:45-2:00 in Mather 100. Refreshments will be served!
We are thrilled to announce that Sarah Lavin, MA class of 2023, will be joining the prestigious Winterthur program in Art Conservation at the University of Delaware this fall! Sarah held positions in conservation at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Intermuseum Conservation Association and attended the San Gemini School of Preservation Studies in Italy. Congratulations Sarah!
The International Center for Medieval Art News just published a wonderful feature penned by Reed O’Mara and Ariella Har-Even on their FUSE collaboration — with a great shoutout to the department, our medieval studies program, GAMS, and our marvelous colleagues at the CMA. Many of us benefited from the fantastic enameling workshop Ariella and Reed masterminded, and we look forward to more!