Tim Shuckerow, who has led the studio and art education part of our department for over 30 years, will be retiring at the end of the summer. As part of his last semester, he hosted a spectacular exhibition of work by African-American alumni, and also exhibited his collection of...
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Congratulations to Kylie Fisher who has been invited to submit an essay about the history of printmaking in Europe, ca. 1400-1800 to Smarthistory. Smarthistory is the most-visited, open-access art history resource in the world. It is the official provider of art history for khanacademy.org, and supports AP art history and A-level...
Elizabeth S. Bolman published an article for the Wall Street Journal's Masterpiece series (June 5, 2020), on her work at the Red Monastery Church, in Upper Egypt. She founded and directed a twenty-year project to conserve, clean, document, study and publish this late fifth-century monastic church. Read the article here.
Congratulations to Reed, whose peer-reviewed article, “‘On Golden Tablets’: The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Manuscript as a Self-Referential Icon,” was just published in Religions, as part of the Special Issue Seeing and Reading: Art and Literature in Pre-Modern Indian Religions, guest-edited by Phyllis Granoff and Sonya Rhie Mace. Read it here: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/6/274/pdf
Please join Professor Bolman for a lecture on an amazing and historic 20-year long Egyptian/American collaboration. Together, three churches and a painted tomb were conserved. All of this work was funded by USAID and administered by the American Research Center in Egypt.
This lecture took place on Wednesday, June 3....
Throughout the history of art, wall painting has told stories, recorded myths and histories, and called groups to action. Read this post by Mackenzie Clark, who reflects on her participation in Painting on Walls, a collaborative art history and service learning course.
Prof. Elina Gertsman was recently interviewed about her Guggenheim Fellowship on NPR's Ideastream! Listen here.
Huge congratulations to Angie Verduci for receiving the ICMA Student Travel Grant, which will support research for her dissertation on Northern Italian “Triumph of Death” imagery. Only three such awards are annually given.
Congratulations to Reed on receiving the Graduate Student Appreciation Award for the second year in a row! Reed’s nominator described her as a consummate student — active, engaged, kind, sharply intelligent, extremely personable — with a zeal for learning and discovery.
Professor Erin Benay's article, "Of Rhinos, Peppercorns, and Saints: (Re)presenting India in Medici Florence," was just published in an exciting new anthology about the Global Renaissance!
This summer, first-year MA student Katie DiDomenico will work as a digital content creator for the Akron Art Museum. The collection at the Akron Art Museum features regional, national, and international artworks created since 1850, with particular strengths in contemporary painting and sculpture and 20th-century photography. Katie has worked...
Announcing a new course offering for Fall 2020! Professor Elina Gertsman will be teaching ARTH 545 The Breath of All That Lives: Topics in Medieval Jewish Art.
This seminar will explore late medieval Jewish art from western Europe and beyond. The first part of the seminar will focus on broad historical and historiographic...