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2023 Harvey Buchanan Lecture: October 20

Join us on Friday, October 20th at 5:00 pm at the Cleveland Museum of Art Lecture Hall for the 2023 Harvey Buchanan Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Art History at Case Western Reserve University, which will be given by Carolyn Kinder Carr, PhD. Dr. Carr is the former Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery and alumna of the Department of Art History and Art at CWRU. The lecture is entitled “Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Advisor in the Gilded Age.”

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Degas and the Laundress Opening | Congrats to Jillian Kruse and Dr. Britany Salsbury

Please join us in congratulating doctoral candidate Jillian Kruse and Dr. Britany Salsbury, Curator of Prints & Drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art and CWRU alumna (BA Art History and English), on the opening of the exhibition Degas and the Laundress! On view in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Gallery of the CMA until January 14, the exhibition is the first to explore Impressionist artist Edgar Degas’s representations of Parisian laundresses, as well as to place this important series in context with paintings, drawings, and prints of the same subject by the artist’s contemporaries.

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Professor Elina Gertsman Awarded Distinguished University Professor at Convocation

Congratulations to our very own Professor Elina Gertsman for her appointment as Distinguished University Professor, the highest distinction granted to faculty at CWRU. Professor Gertsman is not only the youngest faculty member at CWRU to ever be awarded this title—she is also the first professor from our department and the second woman in all of the humanities. Read more and see more photos by clicking below!

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A group of about 15 smiling medievalists gathered at Harkness Chapel in front of a projector image of the title of the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Successful First GAMS Meetup!

Students in the Graduate Association of Medieval Studies (GAMS) had a fantastic time at the first GAMS event of the semester last night—Pizza and Movie Night (with nothing less than Monty Python and the Holy Grail playing)! Lots of laughs and discussion among our medievalists, musicologists, and more. We're...

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In a mixture of medieval calligraphic and modern digital font, the words "Graphic Design in the Middle Ages," annotated with red writing to suggest a graphic design mock-up of an illuminated manuscript.
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Graphic Design in the Middle Ages | Congrats to Sam Truman!

Congratulations to Sam Truman on the opening of the exhibition Graphic Design in the Middle Ages (https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/manuscript_design/)! The show explores the role of graphic design in the making of medieval manuscripts and considers how visual elements guided the ways readers experienced their books. Sam contributed to the exhibition under the...

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