From Prints to Power 2025

SAVE THE DATE!   Dr. Benay will examine relief prints created in the 1940s by Black artists whose contributions have been largely overlooked. By repositioning their work, Benay will illustrate how these artists helped foster an enduring Black art and collecting scene in Cleveland.

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Cecily Hughes receives the Haugen Memorial Scholarship

Congratulations to Cecily Hughes, third-year PhD student in medieval art, on receiving the Einar and Eva Lund Haugen Memorial Scholarship! Administered by The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS). The Haugen scholarship provides generous support for doctoral research in and about the Nordic regions. Cecily will use the award funding to travel to Norway and Sweden this summer and do research for her dissertation.

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Reed O’Mara named the 2025-27 Kress Institutional Fellow in Munich

Congratulations to the Department of Art History and Art Ph.D. candidate and Mellon Fellow Reed O’Mara, who has been selected as the 2025-2027 Kress Institutional Fellow at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, Germany. As a Fellow, Reed will conduct research on her dissertation, “Materializing Sacred Language: Picturing and Performing Hebrew in Late Medieval Art.” This extremely competitive fellowship will offer Reed the opportunity to visit museums, libraries, archives, and sites throughout Germany and Austria pertinent to her dissertation, which is being advised by Professor Elina Gertsman. Reed is the second PhD student in the Department to receive this prestigious fellowship; Sam Truman, a PhD candidate in medieval art, is currently completing her 2023-2025 Kress Fellowship at The Courtauld Institute of Art and Warburg Institute in London, UK. 

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Jillian Kruse awarded Chester Dale Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Congratulations to Jillian Kruse who was awarded the 2025-2026 Chester Dale Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she will be hosted by the Department of Drawings and Prints under the leadership of Dr. Nadine M. Orenstein, Drue Heinz Curator in Charge in the Department of Drawings and Prints. The highly competitive 12-month residential predoctoral fellowship will support her dissertation “Printing Utopia: Experimentation, Collaboration, and Anarchy in the Prints of Camille Pissarro.” The fellowship offers unparalleled access to the Met’s collection and resources as well as opportunities to actively participate in the museum’s larger scholarly community. Jillian will also assist with museum projects relevant to my research under the supervision of Dr. Ashley Dunn, Associate Curator of Drawings and Prints in charge of nineteenth-century French works on paper.

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Madalyn Fox named the fifth annual Keithley Fellow in Community-Engaged Art History

Congratulations to Madalyn Fox, a first-year MA candidate in Art History and Museum Studies, who has been named the fifth annual Keithley Fellow in Community-Engaged Art History! Maddy will work with the director of Arts & Culture at Cleveland Public Library on a number of initiatives including the launch of PRISM: Seeing Beyond Mass Incarceration, a multi-disciplinary exhibition across several CPL branches seeking to change the narrative related to mass incarceration in the United States. 

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A Cultural History of Love in the Middle Ages arrives just in time for Valentine's Day! Co-edited by Barbara H. Rosenwein, prof. Gertsman's co-author on The Middle Ages in 50 Objects, it features prof. Gertsman's article, "Love in Art and Material Culture" that includes several Cleveland Museum of Art...

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