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Sarah Lavin to join Winterthur program in Art Conservation at the University of Delaware

We are thrilled to announce that Sarah Lavin, MA class of 2023, will be joining the prestigious Winterthur program in Art Conservation at the University of Delaware this fall! Sarah held positions in conservation at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the  Intermuseum Conservation Association and attended the San Gemini School of Preservation Studies in Italy. Congratulations Sarah!

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Ruth Bryant’s, Vivian Lewis’s, and Maddy Fox’s Papers Accepted into the 2024 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium

Ruth’s paper, “Analyzing the Torah Shield: Understanding the Abundance of Animal Imagery through the Zohar,” aims to explain the unusual presence of abundant animal imagery on a Boston MFA Torah shield through the relevance of the Zohar.  Vivian’s paper, “Royal Family Feud: Cordelia Parting from her Sisters as a Pre-Raphaelite Social Commentary,” delves into Ford Madox Brown’s 1854 painting Cordelia Parting from her Sisters, now housed at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maddy’s paper, “The Adoption of Aesthetics: Borrowing Byzantium and Looking West in the Russian Romanesque,” seeks to address and expand the notion of amalgamation between the Byzantine and European tradition in Slavic architecture during the 12th century.

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Professor Elina Gertsman Awarded Expanding Horizons Interdisciplinary Grant

Congratulations to Professor Elina Gertsman, who was awarded a large Expanding Horizons Interdisciplinary grant for her project that aims to build a series of interconnected mixed-reality spaces -- spaces that would provide multisensory, embodied experiences for its users. Entitled "Immersive Realms and Cognition: Multisensory Approaches to Teaching with The HoloLens,"...

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