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January Art Talks

January brings us three Art Talks presented by the department’s graduate students! All will be held in the Ingalls Seminar Room.

On January 23, at 1 PM, join us for two medieval art papers! Sara Frisbie will present “One God, One Light, One Cause’: Materialities of Stained Glass in an Auvergnois The Trinity” in preparation for the Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Newberry Library, immediately followed by Cecily Hughes’s grant-winning paper, “The Measure of a Saint: Size, Landscape, and Meaning in St. Olaf Pilgrim Badges,” which she will deliver at the College Art Association’s conference in February. Also at the CAA conference, Jillian Kruse will present “Collective Labors: Collaboration as Motif and Method in Pissarro’s Prints,” and her Art Talk is scheduled for January 27 at 11 AM. We hope you can attend all three!

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Congratulations, everyone, on the fabulous prospectus-cum-QP session on Friday! Arielle Suskin, Clara Pinchbeck, and Claire Sumner presented their dissertation research, while MA students Sarah Frisbie, Sara Miller, Darren Helton, Megan Alves, and Sydney Collins took us on a dizzying visual tour  that ranged from contemporary cyborg theory to medieval theology of light, and from ancient Etruria to Byzantine Rus. Pictured here with Prof. Gertsman wielding the Chicken of Power and Timekeeping.

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Creation and (Re)Birth Curatorial Talk

We were delighted to host the curatorial talk for the Creation and (Re)Birth Exhibition on November 14 to a full house! Co-curators Prof. Elina Gertsman and Dr. Gerhard Lutz talked about the concept of the exhibition and then focused on specific objects, with the all-important participation from Dr. Sonya Rhee Mace and three PhD students — Zoe Appleby, Rebekkah Hart, and Cecily Hughes. The repeat of the event, this time for the university audience, will take place on January 22.

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Tracing Jewish Histories

Save the date for a two-day symposium titled Tracing Jewish Histories: The Afterlives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture! Co-organized by Reed O’Mara and Laura Feigen, this symposium will take place in London at The Courtauld Institute of Art on May 19th and 20th. It will include scholars...

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Congratulations to Alex Kaczenski on joining LACMA!

We are delighted to announce that Alex Kaczenski, a doctoral candidate in medieval art, just started her new position as the Assistant Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art! Alex joins LACMA from the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, where she has been a curatorial assistant. LACMA’s vast European painting collection comprises works ranging from the twelfth to the early twentieth century. In her role as Assistant Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, Alex will be responsible for collection research and development through exhibitions, publications, and acquisitions.

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Cosmic Ecologies Podcast released!

What divides the animal and the human? Do animals form families? What do images of animals in Hebrew manuscripts signify? Consider these questions and more in this episode of the Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast, sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America and produced by Jonathan Correa-Reyes, Logan Quigley, Will Beattie, Reed O’Mara, and Loren Lee. This episode features Elina Gertsman, David Shyovitz, Julie A. Harris, Sara Offenberg, and Beth Berkowitz in conversation with Reed. Click on the link to hear the episode on the Multicultural Middle Ages website or click here for the direct link on the podcast’s RSS feed.

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Creation and (Re)Birth in the Global Middle Ages Opens at the CMA!

We are delighted to announce that the exhibition on Creation and (Re)Birth in the Global Middle Ages just opened at the Cleveland Museum of Art. This ambitious show pulls together objects from several museum collections to explore some of the fundamental moments in the sacred narratives of the medieval world. The exhibition, co-curated by Professor Elina Gertsman and Dr. Gerhard Lutz, is a culmination of several years of collaboration between the department’s medieval art program and the CMA, made possible by the support of the Mellon Foundation. Graduate students contributed to wall text, object labels, and the gallery guide. For more on the show, featured already in Cleveland Art Events and This is Cleveland, please see here.

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