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Lighting Demo In Art Studio

Some of the curriculum developments in the Photo Minor and purchasing some new lighting and camera equipment, we were able to teach lighting for the first time here at CWRU. The students were enthusiastically engaged in the process and it was equally rewarding for Intructor Jerry Birchfield. Here is a...

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Please join us on March 27 for the Distinguished Lecture in Medieval Art to be delivered by Prof. Stephen Perkinson (Bowdoin College) on the late medieval process of creating extraordinary books where manuscript illumination and printed technologies collided.

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Reed O'Mara joined Prof. Gertsman at the Ornamented Membranes conference in Cologne, the home of the bone-lined Golden Chamber as well as of the amazing Schnutgen and Wallraf-Richartz collections. They subsequently traveled to see some fantastic sites and objects: to Aachen, to explore the Palatine Chapel and the extraordinary Praymobil exhibition...

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You are cordially invited to a lecture as part of the departmental seminar Wednesday, 25 Tevet 5786, January 14, 2026 at 16:00 (Israel time), on Zoom Human and Animalic Tongues in the Brussels Liturgical Pentateuch Luke Hester, Case Western Reserve University Click to Join: https://biu-ac-il.zoom.us/j/81750893434 Previous lectures are available on the Department of Jewish Art...

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Join Prof. Elina Gertsman in her exploration of phantasmagorical images of matzah in medieval Hebrew manuscripts at the Ornamented Membranes conference. Held in hybrid format at the Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne, this conference tackles medieval spaces of transition and exclusion, permeable or semi-permeable...

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We are delighted to announce that Zoe Appleby, Rebekkah Hart, Cecily Hughes, and Madeline Newquist defended their dissertation prospectuses with flying colors!  Materiality and environment clearly rule the day here. Zoe's dissertation is provisionally titled "Earth, Water, Gems, and Lava: Eco-Materiality and Environmental Agency in the Medieval Mediterranean," while...

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If you have never stopped to examine this exquisitely wrought citrine cameo of Philip II in Gallery 118 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, there is now added reason to do so--it is the subject of Prof. Erin Benay's new article, published in Artibus et Historiae! Special thanks to...

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Google Arts and Culture Page Live

A Google Arts & Culture digital exhibition focusing on the Getty Museum's Department of Manuscripts's first acquisition to include a female author was recently made its premier. The piece was written by PhD candidate in medieval art and Mellon Fellow Reed O'Mara. The manuscript is from the late fifteenth/early sixteenth...

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Congratulations to Rebekkah Hart, a fourth-year PhD student in medieval art, who received the Schallek Fellowship from the Medieval Academy of America! This extremely competitive year-long fellowship will underwrite her dissertation research in the UK. Rebekkah is now interning at the Getty's Sculpture & Decorative Arts curatorial department.

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