Congratulations to this year’s Friends of Art Awards winners, Reed O’Mara, Mackenzie Clark, and Bing Wang!
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Congratulations to Ben Levy, who has been appointed an officer of The Association of Print Scholars! APS is one of the primary professional organizations that encourage innovative and interdisciplinary methodological approaches to the history of printmaking. Ben will be responsible for developing and implementing programming for his 2021-2022 term....
Congrats to Reed who will be giving two conference papers this spring. One, "The Monstrous Script: Instances of Pseudo-Hebrew in Fifteenth-Century German Prints," will be presented at the Medieval Academy of America's annual meeting, Saturday, 17 April, at 11:00 EDT. Another, "'The voice is the voice of Jacob, but...
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities has announced that the recipient of its 2020-21 Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Humanities is Elina Gertsman, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II and Professor of Art History. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in a field of humanistic scholarship. ...
Click here to read the new issue of the university art/sci magazine, which features an article on Prof. Gertsman’s Guggenheim Fellowship and includes a woodcut created by Ben and Reed in her honor!
Join us for a CV workshop with Prof. Gertsman on December 11 at 1:30 EST! Come for advice, stay for destructive fun! Click on “Learn more” for the Zoom link.
Click here to watch a recording of Dr. Ananda Cohen-Aponte's lecture, "Hiding in Plain Sight: Artistic Effacement and Erasure in the Age of Revolutions."
The Julius Fund Lecture in Early Modern Art was held on Friday, Dec. 4.
Join us for a lecture by Dr. Ananda Cohen, one of the leading experts on Colonial Latin American Art, on Friday, Dec. 4, at 3:00! Register here.
All six lectures / discussions drawn from medieval Jewish art seminar have been uploaded here, and are available to anyone with the CWRU email account. Please note that we were treated to two lectures by Prof. Diane Wolfthal: one on late medieval Yiddish manuscripts and another on the lives and afterlives of the Houston Mahzor!
ARTH 350/450, Wednesdays, 7:00pm–9:30pm
Dominique DeLuca, PhD
In this course we will examine medieval romance imagery with special focus on illuminated manuscripts produced from the 12th through the 15th centuries in northern Europe. We will study depictions of historical people and events, mythological tales, and episodes from popular poetry and literature...
We had a fantastic crowd of attendees for Robert Mills’s Julius Fund Lecture in Medieval Art! If you missed it, you can watch it here by clicking on “Learn More.”
Scent and Sense: Olfaction and Memory in Medieval Material Culture (sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art)
Although we are used to thinking that the sense of sight reigned supreme in the Middle Ages, medieval scholars of all stripes were quite obsessively preoccupied with questions of olfaction. This session will explore the multivalent relationships between objects, smells, and memory, especially as they existed in the later Middle Ages.
Abstracts, one page in length, should be sent to Elina Gertsman (exg152@case.edu) by 10.15, 2020