Last week, students in Prof. Gertsman’s and Dr. Lutz’s Mellon collections seminar, were led by Prof. David Rothenberg (Music) in singing Salve Sancta Parens directly from the late medieval Italian gradual, where the initial letter “S” for “Salve” encloses a stunning image of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. Listen to them here!
Please join us in congratulating Ruth Bryant, senior undergraduate student and double major in Art History and Biology, who is the recipient of a Research Spotlight Award for her work on “Canal to Cuyahoga: Everlasting Plastics in Context”! In announcing the Research Spotlight Awards, President Kaler, Interim Provost Ward, and the AASL Committee of the CWRU Board of Trustees shared how impressed they were with the high caliber of the student projects and presentations.
If you’ve spent any time in a professional small-talk setting, you know how often art comes up and how hard it can be to fumble for a response in front of your future boss. This workshop, Art Appreciation for New Professionals, taught by first-year Master’s student Sarah Frisbie, is designed for people who have no idea what is happening when they walk into a museum—and people who avoid museums altogether.
Join us on Friday, October 20th at 5:00 pm at the Cleveland Museum of Art Lecture Hall for the 2023 Harvey Buchanan Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Art History at Case Western Reserve University, which will be given by Carolyn Kinder Carr, PhD. Dr. Carr is the former Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery and alumna of the Department of Art History and Art at CWRU. The lecture is entitled “Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Advisor in the Gilded Age.”
Please join us in congratulating doctoral candidate Jillian Kruse and Dr. Britany Salsbury, Curator of Prints & Drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art and CWRU alumna (BA Art History and English), on the opening of the exhibition Degas and the Laundress! On view in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Gallery of the CMA until January 14, the exhibition is the first to explore Impressionist artist Edgar Degas’s representations of Parisian laundresses, as well as to place this important series in context with paintings, drawings, and prints of the same subject by the artist’s contemporaries.
Congratulations to our very own Professor Elina Gertsman for her appointment as Distinguished University Professor, the highest distinction granted to faculty at CWRU. Professor Gertsman is not only the youngest faculty member at CWRU to ever be awarded this title—she is also the first professor from our department and the second woman in all of the humanities. Read more and see more photos by clicking below!
