Congratulations to Erin Benay who was promoted to Associate Professor effective July 1! Professor Benay, an expert in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, explores the ways in which early modern objects are manufactured, how they move through space and time, and in what ways they contribute to the production...
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This academic year concludes with a pair of successful events, held in Cleveland and at Princeton. On May 13, Professors Elina Gertsman and Vincent Debiais led a graduate student workshop on issues of studying medieval abstract art. Participants included Aimee Caya, Angelica Verduci, Nikki DeLuca, Reed O'Mara, Alex Kaczenski,...
By Kate Hublou
When the CMA’s textile conservator, Robin Hanson, unrolled a warm-toned textile with leaves, I was immediately intrigued. While I had been looking at other Swedish modern textiles for some time, I was struck by how different this design looked. The textile features a subdued color palette of...
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...
Professor Elina Gertsman's exceptional mentoring has been acknowledged very publicly by Provost Vinson! Dr. Gertsman is the recipient of the 2019 John S. Diekhoff Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring.
The John S. Diekhoff Mentoring Award is presented to two full-time faculty members who make exemplary contributions to the...
World-renown artist William Harper gave a fascinating lecture on campus, on April 8, 2019, to a packed crowd. He explained some of the vast array of global sources that he uses for inspiration for his work, and discussed aspects of his working practice. Professor Henry Adams gave a scintillating...
We are proud that 2017 alumna Meghann McMahon will be attending the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Virginia this coming fall. Meghann graduated with a double major in Civil Engineering and Pre-Architecture. What is particularly notable about this is that the programs are in two different...
Assistant Professor Eunyoung Park is a finalist for the John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching. Congratulations to Professor Park — what an honor to receive this nomination during one’s first year in the department!
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...
Lauryn Smith, a third-year doctoral student in early modern Dutch and Flemish art, is one of fifteen emerging professionals who were selected to participate in the Rijksmuseum and Netherlands Institute of Art History (RKD) Summer School Program, “Northern Renaissance Art: Collections, Research, and Recent Developments.” Lauryn was awarded a...
Lauren Lovings-Gomez, a second-year MA student in Art History and Museum Studies, has been awarded the Eva L. Pancoast Memorial Fellowship! This fellowship will enable Lauren to travel to England this fall to view the “Pre-Raphaelite Sisters” exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, as well as to visit additional...
The art history faculty at CWRU is deeply committed to undergraduate education, and this commitment has earned recognition for two departmental faculty members. Erin Benay, Climo Assistant Professor, has been nominated for the 2019 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, which honors faculty who have demonstrated excellence...