In addition to the Ukrainian flags placed around Case Western Reserve University and the campus buildings lit up with yellow and blue lights, students in David King’s painting class took artistic action, painting the Ukrainian flag on a mural wall outside of the art studio.
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We are excited to share the accomplishments of our alumni, members of the MA class of 2019!
Lauren Lovings Gomes, now a PhD candidate at Rice University, has a recent publication "The Lost Narratives of Natalia Shabelsky" which was originally presented as a paper for the Textile Society of America...
The Department of Art History and Art and the Department of Music at CWRU invite the campus community to the 21st Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, taking place THIS WEEK! This in-person graduate student conference will take place Thursday, March 24, and Friday, March 25, at the Cleveland Museum...
Huge congratulations to Dr. Bing Wang, who successfully defended her dissertation, “William Pryor Floyd: The Art and Business of Photography in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong”! It is an outstanding dissertation that represents a significant contribution to the field of nineteenth-century photography and the history of British Hong Kong. Bing extends...
Grad students stole the show at Professor Elina Gertsman’s induction as a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. Right after the breathtaking laudatio and at the solemn moment of inscription of her name in the Book of the Fellows, Prof. Gertsman turned around to see them in the audience, brandishing a glorious poster and an empty frame, to loud applause and raucous laughter. Thank you, Reed, Sam, Angie, and Marina for making this ceremony doubly unforgettable!
Congratulations to PhD students Reed O'Mara and Sam Truman for their splendid participation in the Medieval Academy of America's annual meeting! Sam spoke in the session, co-organized by Reed, on alternative publication venues for graduate students.
Please join us for the annual Buchanan Lecture, presented this year by Dr. James Clifton and entitled "Chaos and the Limits of Representation."Dr. Clifton is the director of Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation and Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The lecture will...
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Prof. Benay, whose third book, Italy by Way of India: Translating Art and Devotion in the Early Modern World has just been published! The research for this interdisciplinary, transcontinental study was supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Institute of Indian Studies....
The new exhibition curated by Professor Henry Adams "Honoring Our Past Masters: The Golden Age of Cleveland Art, 1900–1945" has been recently reviewed on the Collective Arts Network website. According to CAN, the exhibition is "not to be missed."
The exhibition runs at the Cleveland Historical Society, Western Reserve Historical Society...
Graduate students in Prof. Gertsman’s and Dr. McCormick’s Mellon seminar explored images of the Pure Land through the close study of extraordinary CMA objects, including the Lotus Sutra handscroll (1970.64) and several hanging scrolls featuring the Amitabha Triad. A meditation exercise complete with the visualization of the Pure Land...
Undergraduate and Graduate Students in Professor Erin Benay's Pressing Matters: Prints, Power, Revolution class print their own linocuts at the midtown nonprofit Zygote Press. The class is working in partnership with Zygote Press and the CMA's new Community Arts Center to develop art-historically grounded, social-justice print projects for teens in the...
Please join us for Dr. Philippe Cordez's lecture, "Music and Youth in the Kingdom of France: The Roman de Fauvel and the Cleveland Fountain (Paris, ca. 1320)," on Friday, March 18, at 5:30 PM. The lecture, co-sponsored by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Department of Art History...