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Congratulations to our own Distinguished Scholar in the Public Humanities, Prof. Erin Benay, on the astounding success of her inaugural public lecture, "From Campus to Community: Taking Art and its Histories to the Street!" Her talk was delivered to a packed, standing-room-only audience in the Tink on November 15 and...
We hope you all are having a wonderful second half of the semester! GAMS is ending the year with several exciting events. Follow CWRU Graduate Association of Medieval Studies for more, and check the GAMS newsletter for RSVP information. Alternately, please email cwru.medievalgrad@gmail.com to be added to the email...
Our medievalists had so much fun at the Graduate Association of Medieval Studies book club event this October! We read Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon, a swashbuckling story of two unlikely friends set in about 1000 CE. Thanks to all who came to take part in our lively discussion!
Congratulations to PhD candidate in medieval art Alexandra Kaczenski on Word as Image, the exhibition she has curated for the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California! The show is on view through February 5, 2024. Word as Image, presented in the Museum’s focus gallery, highlights artworks from the Norton Simon collections that center on or subvert the idea that a text’s legibility is essential for making meaning. Spanning the comical to the political to the conceptual, Word as Image calls our attention to how we are constantly “reading the image” in and out of museum spaces. As such, artists challenge us to consider language and image anew, by positioning words as an essential part of visual culture.
We hope you have enjoyed fall break! Please remember that the GAMS book club, led by Prof. Elina Gertsman, will be meeting this week on Thursday, October 26 at 7:30 PM at Craft Collective, a brewery and cocktail bar in Shaker Heights.
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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.
We are excited to announce an upcoming lecture from our very own Dr. Erin Benay on November 15th, entitled “From Campus to Community: Taking Art and Its Histories to the Street”! This lecture will speak to Dr. Benay’s work with Cleveland art non-profits to foster public engagement with art...
Big congratulations to Rebekkah Hart and Zoe Appleby on the fabulously orchestrated Cleveland Symposium: seamlessly fitting papers, a fascinating keynote, and fantastic tours. Thanks so much to all the volunteers who made this gorgeous event possible, and a special shoutout to Cecily Hughes for representing the department...
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.”