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Kylie Fisher’s Award From the Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fund at The Pittsburgh Foundation

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...

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The Cleveland Symposium

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...

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Lauren Lovings-Gomez’s “Antiquity, Exoticism, and Nature in Gold ‘Lotus and Dragon-fly’ Comb with Cyprian Glass Fragment”

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...

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Lacunae and their Phantoms

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.

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Students in front of Swedish Modern Design
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Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design

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....

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