College of Arts and Sciences

We are delighted to announce that Lou Adrean, the longtime librarian at the Ingalls, just received the ARLIS/NA distinguished service award. The award was presented to Lou at the Society’s 50th anniversary conference and convocation ceremony in Chicago, on April 7, by Beth Owens and Rachel McPherson. "The Distinguished Service Award...

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FEATURED in TODAY's Freshwater Cleveland! CWRU Grad Students Jess Long and Lauryn Smith worked with LANDStudio on their new "The City is Our Museum" app. The app brings to life a carefully curated collection of public art in Cleveland and is an example of Engaged Art History! Jess was the...

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CWRU Art History Club invites students to pin their home on world map in campus-wide exploration of home and identity.  The museum is presented alongside a curated exhivit of personal mementos of home from the Department of Art History and Art. WHEN: April 11th-April 13th WHERE: Tink Veale University Center  

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What a fabulous event this was! From sessions to keynotes, from workshops to the music performances, from HoloLens experiences to gallery and library visits, it was a resounding success. Kudos to Reed, Sam, Alex, and Anna for helming this extraordinarily ambitious enterprise! — and special thanks to Angie, Clara,...

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We are excited to share the accomplishments of our alumni, members of the MA class of 2019! Lauren Lovings Gomes, now a PhD candidate at Rice University, has a recent publication "The Lost Narratives of Natalia Shabelsky" which was originally presented as a paper for the Textile Society of America...

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The Department of Art History and Art and the Department of Music at CWRU invite the campus community to the 21st Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, taking place THIS WEEK! This in-person graduate student conference will take place Thursday, March 24, and Friday, March 25, at the Cleveland Museum...

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Huge congratulations to Dr. Bing Wang, who successfully defended her dissertation, “William Pryor Floyd: The Art and Business of Photography in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong”! It is an outstanding dissertation that represents a significant contribution to the field of nineteenth-century photography and the history of British Hong Kong. Bing extends...

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Please join us for the annual Buchanan Lecture, presented this year by Dr. James Clifton and entitled "Chaos and the Limits of Representation."Dr. Clifton is the director of Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation and Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The lecture will...

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