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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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Doctoral Candidate Arielle Suskin participated in the American Numismatic Society’s Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar in Numismatics

This summer, doctoral candidate Arielle Suskin participated in the American Numismatic Society's Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar in Numismatics. Arielle researched a fascinating series of coins minted by leaders of the First Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire (66-73 CE), which use agricultural imagery associated with the Jewish harvest...

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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.

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Madalyn Fox and Jillian Kruse Published in Cleveland Museum of Art Magazine

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

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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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