art history

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to the Cleveland Arts Prize’s “A Celebration of Music and Art” Saturday, Dec. 4, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Cleveland History Center. The event will be held in honor of the opening of the “Honoring Our Past Masters: The Golden Age o...

The Keithley Symposium is a biannual event co-hosted by the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) and Case Western Reserve University joint program in art history that brings together artists, scholars, thought leaders and community members to explore the role of visual arts in contemporary society. For the...

The Department of Art History and Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art will present the 47th Annual Cleveland Symposium, on the topic “Aura: Authenticity, Experience, and Art” at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Art and art history student speakers will be joined by keynote speaker, Adam Lowe, co-autho...

Major: Art historyMinors: Materials science and engineering, Italian, pre-architectureClass: Fourth-year When Winston Kam was in second grade, his art teacher showed his class one of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian’s red, blue and yellow composition paintings and asked them what stood out. Kam vividly ...

Attributing paintings to specific artists is a complex task. What if artificial intelligence (AI) could help? Join an interdisciplinary team of students for a LIFT (Local Inspirational Figures Talk) about “Art Identification with AI” Tuesday, Oct. 12, from 5 to 6 p.m. This discussion will be led b...

Maggie Popkin, the Robson Junior Professor and associate professor of art history, was recently interviewed about her work with the American Excavations at Samothrace (Greece). The story appeared on the cover of the most recent issue of Archaeology magazine. Learn more about the magazine....

Major: Art History and ArtYear: PhD Candidate Lauryn Smith When she was younger, Lauryn Smith used to get into spirited debates with her grandfather over Martin Luther and other topics relating to the Protestant Reformation. It’s very fitting that she now specializes in that time period. Smith,...

Adolf Dehn belongs to a group of distinguished midcentury American artists who were eclipsed by abstract expressionism and the following movements in American art. His lithographs of the “roaring twenties” introduced a note of social satire into American printmaking. He was one of the most gifted an...

Elina Gertsman, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II and professor of art history, penned a new book, recently published by Penn State University Press. The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books is the result of Gertsman’s the American Council of Learned Societies fell...

Majors: BS in chemistry, BA in art historyMinor: Studio artYear: Fourth-year When Sarah Lavin first arrived as an undergraduate student at Case Western Reserve University four years ago, she knew she wanted to study chemistry, but couldn’t shake her love for studio art. So she decided to combine th...