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Please join me in congratulating Susana Montañés-Lleras, whose dissertation, "The Sleeping Princess and the Creeping Briar: Book Illustration, Pictorial Language, and the Rhetoric of Fantasy" was unanimously and enthusiastically approved by her committee today!  On behalf of my fellow committee members, Dr. Henry Adams, Dr. Britany Salsbury, and Dr....

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Prof. Benay and Dr. Britany Salsbury--Curator of Prints and Drawings at the CMA--have won BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR from the International Fine Prints and Drawings Foundation for their exhibition catalogue Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community (Yale, 2025). The IFPDA Book Award "highlights and promotes published books, articles, or catalogues on fine...

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Now Pitching! Congratulations to Prof. Benay and Dr. Ken Schneck, executive director of the Buckeye Flame, Ohio's only LGBTQ+ Newsroom, on the success of their pitch at Accelerate! They WON the Arts & Culture category!! Hosted by the Cleveland Leadership Center, Accelerate is an annual competition that funds innovative, non-profit...

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Elina Gertsman receives highest teaching award in the field of art history

  Congratulations to Prof. Gertsman, who received the 2026 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award from the College Art Association (CAA)! Recipients are evaluated on several criteria, including Inspiration to a broad range of students who pursue humanities studies; rigorous intellectual standards; contributions to the advancement of knowledge and methodology...

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Lighting Demo In Art Studio

Some of the curriculum developments in the Photo Minor and purchasing some new lighting and camera equipment, we were able to teach lighting for the first time here at CWRU. The students were enthusiastically engaged in the process and it was equally rewarding for Intructor Jerry Birchfield. Here is a...

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Please join us on March 27 for the Distinguished Lecture in Medieval Art to be delivered by Prof. Stephen Perkinson (Bowdoin College) on the late medieval process of creating extraordinary books where manuscript illumination and printed technologies collided.

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Reed O'Mara joined Prof. Gertsman at the Ornamented Membranes conference in Cologne, the home of the bone-lined Golden Chamber as well as of the amazing Schnutgen and Wallraf-Richartz collections. They subsequently traveled to see some fantastic sites and objects: to Aachen, to explore the Palatine Chapel and the extraordinary Praymobil exhibition...

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You are cordially invited to a lecture as part of the departmental seminar Wednesday, 25 Tevet 5786, January 14, 2026 at 16:00 (Israel time), on Zoom Human and Animalic Tongues in the Brussels Liturgical Pentateuch Luke Hester, Case Western Reserve University Click to Join: https://biu-ac-il.zoom.us/j/81750893434 Previous lectures are available on the Department of Jewish Art...

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Join Prof. Elina Gertsman in her exploration of phantasmagorical images of matzah in medieval Hebrew manuscripts at the Ornamented Membranes conference. Held in hybrid format at the Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne, this conference tackles medieval spaces of transition and exclusion, permeable or semi-permeable...

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