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Congratulations to our 2019 MA graduates!

August 7, 2019

Jacob Emmett started his job at the Cleveland Museum of Art as an Assistant Registrar this June. Kate Hublou, currently the Center for American Art Summer Silver Fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will start as Research Associate in European Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago at the...

Announcing Ben Levy’s publication

July 24, 2019

Benjamin Levy, a second-year doctoral student, was invited to contribute an essay to artist Amze Emmons’s mid-career retrospective exhibition catalog. Ben conducted a studio visit with the artist this spring in Philadelphia. His essay, “Visible and Easily Moved: Process and Authority in the Work of Amze Emmons,” is joined...

Sherry Lindquist and Asa Simon Mittman,”Medieval Monsters: Far and Near”

June 30, 2019

Save the date for Sherry Lindquist's and Asa Simon Mittman's "Medieval Monsters: Far and Near"! Friday, September 27, 2019, 5:30 Thwing Center, 2nd Floor Ballroom, 11111 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106 Reception to follow Medieval artists used visual cues of monstrosity to depict both foreigners and people who did not conform to restrictive social norms,...

Charles Little, “The Gothic Renaissance: A Pivotal Moment in the Art in the Middle Ages”

June 27, 2019

Save the date for the September 11th Julius Fund talk by Charles Little, Curator Emeritus of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art The catastrophic fire of Notre Dame of Paris on 15 April brought global attention to the world of Gothic art and the cathedral as one of its...

Cleveland Symposium: Visualizing Sound & Silence in Art & Architecture

September 5, 2019

Visualizing Sound & Silence in Art & Architecture 45th Annual Cleveland Symposium Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Friday, October 25, 2019 When we examine visual images, we often concentrate solely on the sense of sight. In contrast, art and architecture, whether employing musical, ritual, or acoustic...

“Beast or Monster? Animals in the Medieval World”

June 19, 2019

Save the Date! Dr. Elizabeth Morrison Wednesday, August 14, 6:00 p.m. Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art Explore animals both real and imaginary in the Middle Ages with Elizabeth Morrison, senior curator of the Department of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Although Europeans in the medieval era were familiar with domesticated...

Lauen Lovings-Gomez wins the Gunther Stamm Prize

April 28, 2019

Lauren Lovings-Gomez won the 2019 Gunther Stamm Prize for her paper “Antiquity, Exoticism, and Nature in Gold Lotus and Dragonfly Comb with Cyprian Glass Fragment,” presented at the 36th Annual Graduate Student Symposium hosted by the Department of Art History at Florida State University. There are plans to include her article in the next volume...

Friends of Art Graduate Awards Announced

April 6, 2019

Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural Friends of Art graduate awards! Dominique (Nikki) DeLuca: Best Overall Performance by a PhD Student Nikki, who completed her MA in the department as well, is working on her dissertation under the guidance of Prof. Elina Gertsman. Nikki's nominator stressed her strong work ethic...

Professor Elina Gertsman and the John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring

March 29, 2019

Professor Elina Gertsman is a finalist for the 2019 John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the education of graduate students at CWRU through advising and mentoring. This is Professor Gertsman's fourth nomination for the graduate mentoring (she was the finalist last year as...

Photography Exhibit and Butoh Dance Performance

March 4, 2019

There is currently a photo exhibit being put on by Abe Frajndlich and students as well as a Butoh dance being performed by Minami Azu (an internationally known Tokyo based dancer). The photographs in this exhibition feature Minami Azu, international Butoh dance master from Tokyo, Japan. She has performed...

Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design

February 20, 2019

The Class of 2019 Art History and Museum Studies MA students (Jacob Emmett, Hannah Hilditch, Kate Hublou, Tori Laser, Julia LaPlaca, Lauren Lovings-Gomez, and Tom Martis) spent the 2017-2018 school year proposing an exhibition that would showcase the Cleveland Museum of Art's extensive collection of textiles by mid-twentieth-century Swedish designers....

Undergraduate JP Peralta

February 8, 2019

JP Peralta '19, a major in Art History and Theatre, has been selected to be an educator and interpreter at the American Pavilion of the 2019 Venice Biennale. He will be working under acclaimed sculptor Martin Puryear on a team of educators representing the United States at this renowned...

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Congratulations to our 2019 MA graduates!

Announcing Ben Levy’s publication

Sherry Lindquist and Asa Simon Mittman,”Medieval Monsters: Far and Near”

Charles Little, “The Gothic Renaissance: A Pivotal Moment in the Art in the Middle Ages”

Cleveland Symposium: Visualizing Sound & Silence in Art & Architecture

“Beast or Monster? Animals in the Medieval World”

Lauen Lovings-Gomez wins the Gunther Stamm Prize

Friends of Art Graduate Awards Announced

Professor Elina Gertsman and the John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring

Photography Exhibit and Butoh Dance Performance

Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design

Undergraduate JP Peralta

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