Dr. Elizabeth Bolman will be giving a live Zoom lecture on Wednesday, May 6 at 5 p.m on the Red Monastery Project. Please see the flyer below for details.
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The Department of Art History and Art will celebrate the end of the semester on May 4 at 10:30 a.m. See the flyer below for details.
Congratulations to Nikki DeLuca (PhD 2020) who just published "Medieval Art and the Cult of Saints" in Oxford Bibliographies in Art History, ed. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (New York: Oxford University Press). The piece was co-authored with Prof. Gertsman.
Hear William Griswold, Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, on the Keithley's amazing gift to the CMA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jngXrZbNYSs&feature=youtu.be
Courtney Toelle, a first-year MA student in Art History and Museum Studies, will be a Family Programs intern for the HARN Museum Art at the University of Florida. She will develop virtual experiences for families to engage with the museum from home. Congratulations, Courtney!
Check out this article about Professor Elina Gertsman who has recently been awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship! The story will run as the main feature in The Daily on Thursday, but you can read a sneak preview here.
Huge congratulations to Professor Elina Gertsman, who has been named a Guggenheim Fellow! According to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, this year's 175 fellows, "appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise ... were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the Foundation’s ninety-sixth...
First-year MA student Annapoorna Moore will be an intern at the Grove Museum in Tallahassee, Florida this summer. The Grove Museum preserves the Call-Collins house—one of the best-preserved antebellum residences in Florida—and uses the home and museum collection to engage the public in a dialog about civil rights and...
Mackenzie Clark, a first-year MA student in Art History, has been awarded a Baker-Nord Graduate Research Grant to fund research for her Qualifying Paper. With this grant, Mackenzie will travel to special collections of libraries to view examples of seventeenth-century collector's catalogues with printed frontispieces of the collection. Congratulations,...
Congratulations to Professor Gertsman who has been nominated for the International Leader Award as a part of the Center for International Affairs’ Global Citizen Awards! Nominations honor commitments to fostering global citizenship on our Campus, and efforts to build a more inclusive, diverse, and exceptional community.
Hannah Hilditch, a Postgraduate Fellow in Academic Affairs at the Cleveland Museum of Art and alumna of the MA in Art History and Museum Studies program, recently wrote an essay for the CMA's Thinker blog. Hilditch compares the theme of isolation and craft from the CMA's Gold Needles: Embroidery...
When I envisioned the various possible situations for my dissertation defense, I had never imagined a scenario in which it would take place over Zoom and during a pandemic no less. Yet, despite all the craziness happening in the world, my defense took place as scheduled, albeit without the...