This semester GAMS will be hosting a manuscript showcase at KSL, a movie night, two reading circles, a CMA gallery tour, a book club, and a cooking night. Any graduate student, undergraduate student, faculty, or staff member interested in medieval studies or medievalisms are welcome to join GAMS events!
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We are delighted to announce the keynote speaker of the Cleveland Symposium, Dr. De-nin D. Lee!
Dr. De-nin D. Lee (李德寧) is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Visual & Media Arts at Emerson College. She will discuss writing the scholarship of the now, and of the...
This Friday (September 9) of Jitske Jasperse (Humboldt University of Berlin) will present "A Taste for Limoges: Colorful Caskets in Medieval Spain."
WHEN: Friday, September 9, 2022, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Cleveland Museum of Art, Morley Family Lecture Hall
Bright colors, decorative patterns, and polished surfaces define Limoges caskets (also chasses). They were...
Congratulations to Prof. Benay and her undergraduate and graduate students, whose work on the EHI grant initiative Pressing Matters was recently profiled by Humanities for All! Published by the National Humanities Alliance, Humanities for All is the leading showcase for publicly engaged humanities work at colleges and universities.
Read the article here: https://humanitiesforall.org/projects/pressing-matters
We are excited to announce Professor Elina Gertsman's latest publication in Gesta, the flagship journal of the International Center for Medieval Art. Titled “Animal Affinities: Monsters and Marvels in the Ambrosian Tanakh,” the article offers a first look at Professor Gertsman's new area of scholarly interest, medieval Jewish material culture,...
Julie will oversee all areas of gallery management. Her responsibilities include maintaining the organizational calendar of exhibitions, communicating with artists and jurors, managing calls to entry, acting as the courier of artwork, leading the Gallery Committee, managing and executing gallery sales, building relationships with artists, and coordinating the hanging...
Angie Verduci and Prof. Elina Gertsman are delighted to announce that their first collaboration has been published. Their article on late medieval Dance of Death murals in northern Italy has just appeared in Source 41, no. 3 (2022). It focuses on an extraordinary fresco cycle in Nosate, bringing it...
Third-year PhD student Reed O’Mara began working this summer at Special Collections and Archives of CWRU’s Kelvin Smith Library. In addition to managing the Hatch Special Collections Reading Room, Reed has been assisting with archiving materials from Cleveland’s own Karamu House as well as studying Special Collection’s various medieval...
Congratulations to fifth-year PhD student Alex Kaczenski who has been selected as the next Curatorial Intern for the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA! She will spend the 2022-23 academic year working on a range of curatorial projects at the renowned institution.
On June 8th, doctoral student Angie Verduci was invited as a guest speaker for the 9th Summer School conference for doctoral students in Humanities at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. Angie was very thrilled to be back to her former university in Italy, where she met old friends...
Huge congratulations to PhD student Sam Truman, who has been accepted into the highly competitive Graduate Internship Program at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles! Sam will be working as the curatorial intern in the Manuscripts Department for the 2022-2023 academic year. The holdings of the Department of...
Huge congratulations to our alumna Shayla Croteau who has just accepted a position in the education department at the Michigan State Capitol Building in Lansing, MI! Shayla she will be giving tours, completing research projects, and contributing to future exhibitions about the art, architecture, and history of the Capitol...