Congratulations to Reed O'Mara who passed her doctoral exam with flying colors! The committee was extremely impressed with Reed's command of both subjects -- medieval Hebrew manuscripts and German Gothic sculpture -- and not at all surprised by her ability to formulate a sophisticated and compelling argument for the...
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Congratulations to Dr. Maggie Bell and Alex Kaczenski (PhD candidate CWRU History of Art), on the opening of the exhibition All Consuming: Art and the Essence of Food at the Norton Simon Museum! The show explores how artists responded to and shaped food cultures in Europe from 1500 to 1900. Explore a bite-sized...
Art History was extremely well represented at tonight’s Grad Awards ceremony! Congratulations to our fabulous winners:
Angie Verduci, who received the Friends of Art Best Overall Performance by a PhD student Award
Cecily Hughes, who received the Friends of Art Best PhD Paper Award for her methods paper, “Sacred Tides on Secular Shores”
LukeHester, who received the Friends of Art Best MA Paper Award for his QP, “Greening Power”
Katie Young, who received the Instructional Excellence Award
Katelyn Jones, who received Graduate Appreciation Award
Jess Long, Rebekah Utian, Clara Pinchbeck, Arielle Suskin, Katelyn Jones, and Susana Montanes-Lleras, who received Pancoast Awards
Thanks to all those who came to support the winners! Click below for more photos!
Students in Prof. Benay's course on public art and monuments worked with Megan Jones and Tara Turner of Cleveland nonprofit LAND Studio this semester to create content for their mobile app. With over 3000 users, the app offers curated neighborhood tours of Cleveland's public art and will now feature...
Congratulations to undergraduate Art History major Carissa Aldana who has been named a Smithsonian Conservation Intern for Broadening Access in conjunction with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. We are so proud of our undergraduate majors!
On April 26, Claudia Brittenham (University of Chicago) will deliver the annual Harvey Buchanan Lecture in Art History and the Humanities, titled "Seeing Unseen Art in Ancient Mesoamerica."
Many works of Mesoamerican sculpture were difficult to see in their original contexts. For over three thousand years, from the earliest moments...
Please join Professor Elina Gertsman at the Case Western Reserve University’s Interactive Commons Fellows Showcase on Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023. This open house-style event will include HoloLens demonstrations and is scheduled from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm at the Tinkham Veale Ballrooms B & C. Attendees will have the...
On April 28, Kimberly Cassibry will give a talk entitled "A Colonial Monument: Remembering an Ancient Triumphal Arch in France." Current debates about imperialism, commemoration, and cultural heritage have profound implications for ancient art history. This talk focuses on a triumphal arch constructed around 20 BCE in a Roman...
Congratulations to MA candidate Rebekah will work with public art nonprofit LAND Studio to develop interpretative content and community-based curatorial strategies for LAND's fabulous app The City is Our Museum. Rebekah is a Barbato Fellow and focuses on early modern art history with Professor Benay. She graduated from Kenyon...
Last week, students from Professor Elina Gertsman's seminar on medieval materiality put their studies into practice, when they examined medieval materials first-hand during a visit to the CMA's Art Study Room. Lead by Dr. Gerhard Lutz, Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art, the students were thrilled to interact...
Congratulations to Justin Willson, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History Leadership at CWRU/CMA, who has been awarded an Olivia Remie Constable award from the Medieval Academy of America! Justin will use the award to visit the Hilandar Research Library at Ohio State University and to purchase images for his book manuscript, The...
A sensational exhibition of medieval alabaster sculptures, curated by Gerhard Lutz, opened yesterday at the Cleveland Museum of Art. At the core of the show is the CMA's masterpiece by Tilman Riemenschneider, Saint Jerome and the Lion, produced for the Benedictine abbey church of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany, depicting a...