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...
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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...
On March 8, Professor Elina Gertsman and Dr. Sonya Mace (Cleveland Museum of Art) presented their joint paper, “The Global Middle Ages in the Classroom: Expanding Geographies, Challenging Borders” at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. On Sunday, March 10th, they were discussants at the...
Professor Vincent Debiais (EHESS, Paris / Stanford University) is giving a lecture title "Images of Silence in Medieval Art: Visual Approaches to Theology and Practices" on Monday, May 13, at 4:30 PM at Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, in Clark 206.
Kylie Fisher, a Ph.D. candidate in early modern Italian art, received a scholarship award from the Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fund at The Pittsburgh Foundation to help fund her dissertation research in Europe this summer. Kylie's dissertation, advised by Professor Erin Benay, explores the formidable role that engravings played in how...
The Cleveland Symposium is hosted each fall by the Case Western Reserve University–Cleveland Museum of Art Joint Graduate Program in Art History and Museum Studies. It began in 1974 as the Ohio Area Student Symposium and included presentations by art history students from Ohio and the surrounding regions. Now...
On Saturday, March 9, second-year MA student Lauren Lovings-Gomez presented her paper “Antiquity, Exoticism, and Nature in Gold ‘Lotus and Dragon-fly’ Comb with Cyprian Glass Fragment” at the 36th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium at Florida State University. She was also able to see CWRU alumna Alexa Amore (MA, Class...
On February 28, Prof. Elina Gertsman delivered an invited talk at the Northwestern Medieval Colloquium, which brings distinguished speakers to campus for evening lectures and informal lunches with graduate students. Her paper, "Lacunae and their Phantoms," was drawn from her forthcoming book that explores medieval concepts of absence.
William Harper will be giving an artist talk titled "The Beautiful and the Grotesque" on Monday, April 8, 2019, at 5:30pm. It will be held in Clarke Hall 206, CWRU and will be followed by a reception. Harper will have an exhibition in the Reinberger Gallery at Cleveland Institute...
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...
Congratulations to Tori Laser, second year MA student in Art History and Museum Studies, on this fabulous feature in the The Daily! Make sure to check out the article to learn more about her achievements and her experiences. Click here to visit the article!