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Cecily Hughes, second-year PhD student in medieval art, is delighted to be a recipient of one of this year's Cuttler Graduate Student Travel Grants from the Midwest Art Historical Society (MAHS). Cecily will be using the funds to attend the 50th Annual MAHS Annual Meeting in Chicago this spring,...
Congratulations to undergraduate seniors, Maddy Fox and Vivian Lewis, whose papers have been accepted for the 2024 SUNY New Paltz Art History Symposium from a highly competitive pool. 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. Vivian’s paper focuses on Madox Brown’s Cordelia Parting from her Sisters and discusses Pre-Raphaelite social commentary about Victorian values; in 2023 it won an award for the best undergraduate art history paper. The conference sessions will be held in April via Zoom.
Please join us for the Julius Fund Lecture in Byzantine Art on March 22, at the Cleveland Museum of Art. This year's speaker, Dr. Helen Evans, Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator Emerita in Byzantine Art, will discuss her decades of experience presenting Byzantine art to the public at the...
Congratulations to professors Elina Gertsman and Erin Benay, who have been selected as finalists for the 2023-2024 John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring/Teaching. The award, created in 1978, recognizes exceptional contributions to graduate student education at CWRU through exemplary advising, teaching, and mentoring. Up to four...
On January 27th, CWRU graduate students and faculty joined Cleveland Museum of Art curators and conservators at the Cleveland Institute of Art to learn about champlevé enamel from Cleveland-based contemporary jeweler and enamelist Ariella Har-Even firsthand. This initiative was coordinated by Ariella and Reed O’Mara, a PhD candidate in...
This weekend, Rebekkah Hart, second-year PhD student in medieval art, presented a talk entitled “The Lithic and the Liquid in the Virgin’s Womb” at the 2024 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Premodern Studies at the Newberry Library. Her talk focuses on Tilman Riemenschneider’s The Virgin of the Annunciation (c....
GAMS is delighted to announce its schedule of exciting February events!
First, we will meet on Friday, Feb. 9 at 1:30 PM in Ingalls Library (Floor 2R of the Cleveland Museum of Art) to look at some amazing facsimiles of medieval manuscripts, including examples of Haggadahs, bestiaries, books of hours, Islamic manuscripts,...
Professor Maggie Popkin and doctoral candidates Madeline Newquist, Clara Pinchbeck, and Arielle Suskin attended the recent Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting in Chicago. Congratulations to Madeline, Clara, and Arielle, who each gave a superb and very well-received paper!
Throughout the Middle Ages, affluent women expressed their social and political power as well as their piety by commissioning luxurious art objects. Sam Truman, PhD student in medieval art, just published an article in the Getty’s News and Stories, where she explores images of these women in a broad variety of medieval manuscripts. Read it here!
Please save the date for a collaboration between Fuse: Museum to Studio Connections and Trobár on January 20th from 11:30am to 1:00pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. This will be a hands-on Muck About on medieval architectural drawing and geometry! This free event is open to all, but RSVPs are encouraged! See more details below and feel free to...