The joint program’s exciting projects have been highlighted in the museum’s members’ magazine. Read more here on the current and upcoming exhibitions and the Mellon short-term fellows program!
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Join us for the talk co-sponsored by the Department of Art History & Art and the Expanding Horizons Initiative on September 25 at 5 PM. Dr. Scott D. Miller, a specialist in Burgundian art, will speak about visual and material culture of late medieval itinerant courts — a fantastic and fantastically understudied topic! Dr. Miller’s visit to CWRU is part of the EHI grant supporting Prof. Elina Gertsman’s work with the Interactive Commons that aims to build a set of immersive multisensory environments.
CONGRATULATIONS to MA Candidate Madalyn Fox and PhD Candidate Jillian Kruse, who both published articles in the current issue of the Cleveland Museum of Art magazine! As the Nord Family Director’s Fellow in Interpretation, Madalyn worked first-hand with artist Rose B. Simpson on her site-specific installation Strata, now on view in the museum atrium. Jillian’s exhibition “Imagination in the Age of Reason” was developed during her third year doctoral internship with Britany Salsbury, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the CMA. The exhibition will feature prints and drawings that juxtapose eighteenth and nineteenth notions of fantasy & folly, logic & objectivity. The show opens at the CMA on Sept. 28th. Read both articles in Cleveland Art here: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM-2024-03
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...