The Graduate Art History Association (GAHA) was founded in September 2004 at Case Western Reserve University. The organization holds meetings at least once per month during the academic year. The purpose of these meetings is to inform graduate students of upcoming events and to give them an opportunity to...
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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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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....