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Ruth Bryant’s, Vivian Lewis’s, and Maddy Fox’s Papers Accepted into the 2024 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium

Ruth’s paper, “Analyzing the Torah Shield: Understanding the Abundance of Animal Imagery through the Zohar,” aims to explain the unusual presence of abundant animal imagery on a Boston MFA Torah shield through the relevance of the Zohar.  Vivian’s paper, “Royal Family Feud: Cordelia Parting from her Sisters as a Pre-Raphaelite Social Commentary,” delves into Ford Madox Brown’s 1854 painting Cordelia Parting from her Sisters, now housed at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maddy’s paper, “The Adoption of Aesthetics: Borrowing Byzantium and Looking West in the Russian Romanesque,” seeks to address and expand the notion of amalgamation between the Byzantine and European tradition in Slavic architecture during the 12th century.

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Professor Elina Gertsman Awarded Expanding Horizons Interdisciplinary Grant

Congratulations to Professor Elina Gertsman, who was awarded a large Expanding Horizons Interdisciplinary grant for her project that aims to build a series of interconnected mixed-reality spaces -- spaces that would provide multisensory, embodied experiences for its users. Entitled "Immersive Realms and Cognition: Multisensory Approaches to Teaching with The HoloLens,"...

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Case Western Reserve University’s Art History Department and the Interactive Commons wowed at the Medieval Academy of America’s annual conference, held this year at the University of Notre Dame. Prof. Elina Gertsman and Reed O’Mara organized a session on the use of immersive technologies in teaching, and in addition staged a HoloLens demonstration with the help of the incomparable Peter Gao and Karen Rhoad from the Interactive Commons. The demonstration focused on Prof. Gertsman’s Gothic Chapel and Prof. Elizabeth S. Bolman’s Red Monastery apps, while the session itself also included a presentation by Sonya Rhie Mace, the curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, which discussed the uses of HoloLens at her recent Revealing Krishna show. Several PhD students and an undergraduate student traveled from CWRU to take part in the conference. It was a riveting show of what may result from the collaborative interdisciplinary projects between university units and between institutions, and with how much excitement these projects are welcomed by the broader academic world.

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Reed O’Mara receives the Getty Curatorial Internship

Fourth-year PhD candidate in medieval art and Mellon Fellow Reed O’Mara will begin working as the curatorial intern in the Department of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum this fall. The Getty houses one of the leading medieval manuscript collections in the United States, and the graduate internship program offers participants hands-on experience with exhibition planning, objects research, and museum work. One of the manuscripts central to Reed’s dissertation on Jewish illuminated manuscripts, the Rothschild Pentateuch, is housed at the Getty. It is an extraordinary achievement, especially so because this same internship was held by our very own Sam Truman a year ago. Congratulations, Reed!

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