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...
Art and Life During a Time of Plague: Success Stories in the Department of Art History and Art
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...
Samantha Truman, second-year PhD student in medieval art, delivered (by Zoom!) a fantastic paper at the University of Oregon graduate student symposium, "Lives/ Afterlives/ Futures: Engagements with the Archive." Graduate students and Professor Gertsman, who virtually attended the talk, were extremely impressed not only with the paper itself but...
Sarah Curry and David King met many years ago, picking up student artwork from the Regional Scholastics Art Exhibition on display at The Cleveland Institute of Art. Despite the fact that Curry & King have a background in Painting, they dusted off their sewing machines in an effort to...
The Midwest Center for Photography has announced the recipients of The Director’s Choice Awards for their 2020 MWCP Juried Exhibition. Barney Taxel, an instructor of digital photography at CWRU, received the award for the ‘closeup’ category. This image is a composite of three digital captures made during the ARTS 322...