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Some of the curriculum developments in the Photo Minor and purchasing some new lighting and camera equipment, we were able to teach lighting for the first time here at CWRU. The students were enthusiastically engaged in the process and it was equally rewarding for Intructor Jerry Birchfield.
Here is a...
Please join us on March 27 for the Distinguished Lecture in Medieval Art to be delivered by Prof. Stephen Perkinson (Bowdoin College) on the late medieval process of creating extraordinary books where manuscript illumination and printed technologies collided.
Join Prof. Benay and Dr. Ken Schneck at this year's annual Accelerate Pitch Competition, featured here in Freshwater Cleveland! Freshwater Cleveland
Reed O'Mara joined Prof. Gertsman at the Ornamented Membranes conference in Cologne, the home of the bone-lined Golden Chamber as well as of the amazing Schnutgen and Wallraf-Richartz collections. They subsequently traveled to see some fantastic sites and objects: to Aachen, to explore the Palatine Chapel and the extraordinary Praymobil exhibition...
Earlier this month, students in the Joint Program past and present made an impressive showing at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Art Studio Ceramics Intructor Benjamin Lambert Exhibit
You are cordially invited to a lecture as part of the departmental seminar
Wednesday, 25 Tevet 5786, January 14, 2026 at 16:00 (Israel time), on Zoom
Human and Animalic Tongues in the Brussels Liturgical Pentateuch
Luke Hester, Case Western Reserve University
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https://biu-ac-il.zoom.us/j/81750893434
Previous lectures are available on the Department of Jewish Art...
Join Prof. Elina Gertsman in her exploration of phantasmagorical images of matzah in medieval Hebrew manuscripts at the Ornamented Membranes conference. Held in hybrid format at the Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Cologne, this conference tackles medieval spaces of transition and exclusion, permeable or semi-permeable...
We are delighted to announce that Zoe Appleby, Rebekkah Hart, Cecily Hughes, and Madeline Newquist defended their dissertation prospectuses with flying colors! Materiality and environment clearly rule the day here. Zoe's dissertation is provisionally titled "Earth, Water, Gems, and Lava: Eco-Materiality and Environmental Agency in the Medieval Mediterranean," while...
Congratuations to Art Studio instructor Adriel Meyer was recently awarded OAEA Outstanding Art Teacher Award at the OAEA annual conference in Columbus, Ohio.
If you have never stopped to examine this exquisitely wrought citrine cameo of Philip II in Gallery 118 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, there is now added reason to do so--it is the subject of Prof. Erin Benay's new article, published in Artibus et Historiae! Special thanks to...