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Kylie Fisher, a Ph.D. candidate in early modern Italian art, received a scholarship award from the Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fund at The Pittsburgh Foundation to help fund her dissertation research in Europe this summer. Kylie's dissertation, advised by Professor Erin Benay, explores the formidable role that engravings played in how...
The Cleveland Symposium is hosted each fall by the Case Western Reserve University–Cleveland Museum of Art Joint Graduate Program in Art History and Museum Studies. It began in 1974 as the Ohio Area Student Symposium and included presentations by art history students from Ohio and the surrounding regions. Now...
On Saturday, March 9, second-year MA student Lauren Lovings-Gomez presented her paper “Antiquity, Exoticism, and Nature in Gold ‘Lotus and Dragon-fly’ Comb with Cyprian Glass Fragment” at the 36th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium at Florida State University. She was also able to see CWRU alumna Alexa Amore (MA, Class...
On February 28, Prof. Elina Gertsman delivered an invited talk at the Northwestern Medieval Colloquium, which brings distinguished speakers to campus for evening lectures and informal lunches with graduate students. Her paper, "Lacunae and their Phantoms," was drawn from her forthcoming book that explores medieval concepts of absence.
William Harper will be giving an artist talk titled "The Beautiful and the Grotesque" on Monday, April 8, 2019, at 5:30pm. It will be held in Clarke Hall 206, CWRU and will be followed by a reception. Harper will have an exhibition in the Reinberger Gallery at Cleveland Institute...
There is currently a photo exhibit being put on by Abe Frajndlich and students as well as a Butoh dance being performed by Minami Azu (an internationally known Tokyo based dancer). The photographs in this exhibition feature Minami Azu, international Butoh dance master from Tokyo, Japan. She has performed...
Congratulations to Tori Laser, second year MA student in Art History and Museum Studies, on this fabulous feature in the The Daily! Make sure to check out the article to learn more about her achievements and her experiences. Click here to visit the article!
On Saturday, February 23, Nikki DeLuca, a PhD student in medieval art, presented her paper “Images of Truth and Magic in Arthurian Romance” at the Popular Culture and the Deep Past conference, “Fairies and the Fantastic,” at The Ohio State University. While there, she also learned about the history...
The Class of 2019 Art History and Museum Studies MA students (Jacob Emmett, Hannah Hilditch, Kate Hublou, Tori Laser, Julia LaPlaca, Lauren Lovings-Gomez, and Tom Martis) spent the 2017-2018 school year proposing an exhibition that would showcase the Cleveland Museum of Art's extensive collection of textiles by mid-twentieth-century Swedish designers....
Prof. Erin Benay delivers her talk at the annual meeting of the College Art Association to a packed, standing-room-only room! Her NEH-sponsored research on cultural exchange between Italy and India was presented in a session on Global Missions and Artistic Exchange in the Early Modern World with respondent Clara...
A competitive ThinkBig Seed Sprint award from the Office of the Provost at CWRU was granted to
the collaboration “Seeding Technical Art History,” an endeavor initiated by PhD students Lauryn
Smith (Art History) and Michael McMaster (Physics). The faculty and staff team leaders are Prof.
Catherine B. Scallen, (Art History), Prof. Ken...