News
Reed O’Mara, a PhD candidate in medieval art, was featured in the @cwruartsci monthly newsletter. Mellon Fellow and now a curatorial intern at the Getty, Reed recounts a fabulous summer filled with research and conference travel, and funded, in part, by the International Center of Medieval Art and the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. See more here!
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.
Congratulations to Sarah Frisbie who has been selected to receive a SECAC Gulnar Bosch Travel Award. The award will serve to support her travels to the SECAC 2024 conference this October. The Gulnar Bosch Travel Award recognizes merit and emerging scholarship in art, design, and art history. Well done, Sarah!
Congratulations, Susana! Susana's exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, "Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustrations and Storytelling in Art," received a rave review in the New York Times by the art critic Will Heinrich. Catch Susana's show, which is still on view through September 8th!
This academic year, the Department will be particularly well represented at the International Congress! Take a look at the program to see Reed O’Mara’s session on Jewish Women in the Middle Ages; Cecily Hughes’s and Rebekkah Hart’s session on Scales of Devotion and Embodied Religious Experience, inspired by the directed study they completed last year; Sarah Frisbie’s session on medieval graffiti; and Prof. Gertsman’s session on medieval materialities, fueled by the graduate seminar on the same topic that she recently taught. And, of course, the Interactive Commons will bring our fabulous medieval spaces apps to the Congress as well, the Red Monastery and Immersive Realms. View calls for papers and submit your abstract here!
The CWRU Office of Research and Technology recently featured Prof. Benay’s work in this video! It is the first faculty spotlight to focus on a member of any Humanities department. Prof. Benay has published three books and numerous articles related to global circulation and artistic production in early modern Italy.
Congratulations to Professor Henry Adams, who just published a new book on the architecture and travel drawings of his older brother, Douglas Adams. Additionally, be on the lookout for his recent article in the American Art Review on the Wyoming artist Harry Jackson, who at various times was a...
Congratulations to Marina Mandrikova on being selected for two highly prestigious fellowships! The Council of the American Overseas Research Centers named Marina a recipient of the Multi-Country Research Fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. This fellowship supports advanced research in the humanities and...
Congratulations to PhD candidates Benjamin Levy and Jillian Kruse for their superb papers delivered as part of the 36th Congress of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art in Lyon, France!
We are thrilled to share Prof. Benay’s feature article, published in Panorama, the flagship journal of the Association of Historians of American Art! This essay argues for the central role of the Karamu Artists in the cultivation of a midwestern African American art market from the 1930s-1980 and positions printmaking as a prominent, rather than peripheral, medium in the Black Arts Movement. The Karamu Artists will be the subject of a historic exhibition and catalogue (published by Yale University Press) at the Cleveland Museum of Art in March, 2025. The exhibition will be curated by Professor Benay and Dr. Britany Salsbury, Curator of Prints and Drawings, with the collaboration of CWRU graduate students in a Mellon seminar taught this year.