The Department of Art History and Art offers opportunities to study art history, to participate in a broad range of studio offerings, to pursue state teacher certification in art education, and to engage in pre-professional museum training. The Bachelor of Arts degree is granted in art history and in pre-architecture, and the Bachelor of Science degree in art education. In addition, the department offers graduate programs leading to the degrees of Master of Arts in art history, in art history and museum studies, and in art education; and the Doctor of Philosophy in art history.
All art programs are considerably enhanced by close cooperation with and access to the facilities of cultural institutions located in University Circle, in particular The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Institute of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.
The Cleveland Museum of Art/CWRU Art History Program has been in existence since 1967. The museum’s curators serve as adjunct faculty, and graduate research projects under their direction often result in exhibitions and publications. The museum Studies course and internships provide experience in curatorial practices, connoisseurship, conservation, design, and museum education, and the program has a history of producing leaders in the museum field. Graduate students are exposed to both traditional and newer theoretically based art historical approaches in classes taught by faculty renowned for their expertise in a diversity of fields.
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NBN Podcast profiles The Middle Ages in 50 Objects
Listen here for the latest podcast to delve into Elina Gertsman's and Barbara Rosenwein's The Middle Ages in 50 Objects, which explores material culture from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds through the artefacts in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The podcast was put together by the Medieval History division of the...
Congratulations to Dr. Angie Verduci on Her Defense!
Congratulations to Dr. Angie Verduci, who defended her fantastic dissertation on late medieval Triumph of Death murals with great enthusiasm and aplomb! Her committee members (Professor Elina Gertsman, Professor Elizabeth S. Bolman, Dr. Gerhard Lutz, and Professor David Rothenberg) were extremely impressed with the superb quality of this dissertation,...
Current and former grad students rock Medieval Academy Meeting
For the second year in a row, graduate medievalists stole the show at the MAA's annual meeting, earning themselves, to borrow from the meeting's attendees, "a legendary status." On Friday, March 24, as Professor Gertsman was being given the award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies, signs and pompoms...
Professor Henry Adams publishes Lino Tagliapietra: Sculptor in Glass
Congratulations to Professor Henry Adams on his newest book, Lino Tagliapietra: Sculptor in Glass (Phaidon, 2023)! Lino Tagliapietra has been described as the world’s greatest glassblower, a figure born from the five-hundred-year-old culture of Venetian glass, but one who also revolutionized glass as a discipline, inventing new techniques to...
Julius Fund Lecture in Medieval Art: Nina Rowe (Fordham University), “Nero’s Pregnancy and the Body Politic”
The ancient Roman emperor Nero often figures today as a stock embodiment of an abominable ruler. In the late Middle Ages, Nero also was deplored, but for crimes long forgotten in modern accounts—including a bizarre impregnation, orchestrated by a team of doctors. Please join us on March 1 at...
March 6: Angelica Verduci’s dissertation defense
Please join us on March 6 at 9:30 am in Mater 100 for the public portion of Angie Verduci's dissertation defense. Angie's dissertation explores late medieval Italian murals that feature the extraordinary Triumph of Death imagery.
Congratulations to HILLS Post-Doctoral Fellow, Nicolas Savard, on the Publication of Their Article!
Congratulations to HILLS Post-Doctoral Fellow, Nicolas Savard, on the publication of their article "Do We Get More Points if We Take Bigger Risks? Modeling Boundary-Setting in Devised Performance with Undergraduate Actors" in the Journal of Consent-Based Performance. The article is available open-access here: https://www.journalcbp.com/v2i1p61-86. Nicolas Savard is one of just three post-doctoral...
Professor Erin Benay Named Distinguished Scholar in the Public Humanities by the Provost’s Office
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Prof. Benay, who has been named Distinguished Scholar in the Public Humanities by the Provost's Office. This inaugural honor recognizes Professor Benay's contributions to the field and to the university in working to achieve "greater social impact" through disciplinary ingenuity and community collaboration. As part of her appointment, Prof....