College of Arts and Sciences

Read the interview with Lee Warshawsky, the Co-Director of Friends of Art, here. The Friends of Art is a volunteer organization that seeks to promote and support the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University through advocacy and educational activities. The group offers opportunities to attend...

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Please join us for our annual QP and prospectus presentations on November 20th at 1 pm! Angie Verduci will first speak about her dissertation research, focused on late medieval Triumph of Death murals in northern Italy; Annapoorna Moore will follow with a discussion of the gorgeous fourteenth-century silver belt...

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Read Prof. Benay's recent article about collaboration in the Humanities, published by the H-Net Book Channel forum, Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications!  Click here to read the article.

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Last Friday, the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University hosted the 46th Annual Cleveland Symposium, "Bodily Realities: Engaging the Discourse of Dis/Ability." Thank you to everyone who made this event possible! We are pleased to announce that a recording of the event, as well...

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ARTH 341/441 T/TH 4:00–5:15 Sinéad Vilbar, Curator of Japanese Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art Rinpa is a style of Japanese art focused on abstracted natural motifs, often made with mineral and metallic pigments as well as ink. Classical literature features in some Rinpa works. Coined in the early 1900s, Rinpa means “Rin School,”...

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Professor Bolman will be presenting a lecture hosted by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens! The remarkable Red Monastery Church, located in the Egyptian desert, surprises us. It is not in a city, or even near one. What is it doing, in its isolated environment? The church is...

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Prof. Benay has been awarded a generous Faculty Research Grant from the Baker Nord Center for her innovative work with area non-profit Edwin's Institute!  Edwin's provides the recently incarcerated with job training in the culinary arts. During her sabbatical next semester, Prof. Benay will work with students at Edwin's...

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Ever wondered what an art history degree can do for you? For society? Join us this Friday, October 23 at 12:00 pm for an informal meet and greet with the faculty in the art history department! After the meet and greet, Greg Peckham, the Director of LAND Studio, will be...

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We are delighted to announce that the medievalist graduate students in the Department of Art History and Art and the Department of Music will jointly host the annual Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies in the spring of 2022 at Case Western Reserve University. Art history doctoral students Russell David...

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Watch a recording of Professor Robert Ousterhout's lecture, "Heaven on Earth: Justinian’s Hagia Sophia," here. Julius Lecture in Byzantine Art Heaven on Earth: Justinian’s Hagia Sophia Oct. 12, 5:00 p.m. This talk addresses the transformation of the basilica as an architectural form and its subsequent impact on architecture in the eastern Mediterranean. Justinian’s...

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