Join us for the 36th Annual Cleveland Symposium

The Art of Exchange
Cross-Cultural Ideas in a Visual World

An Art History Graduate Student Symposium
hosted by Case Western Reserve University,
Department of Art History and Art


Friday, February 26, 2010
Presentations begin at 10:30

Cleveland Museum of Art, Recital Hall
Cleveland, Ohio

 

The 2010 Cleveland Symposium will feature graduate students presenting research that explores cross-cultural influences throughout the history of art. The exchange of ideas across local, regional, national, and continental borders has been one of the major vehicles by which art changes over time. Papers will employ various methodologies that explore these convergences. Examples include cases of artists influenced by other artists, places, time, culture, history, and other relationships that are ultimately expressed in visual and material culture. Discussions will span all disciplines of art history including Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Contemporary and Non-Western. A monetary prize will be awarded to the speaker who presents the most innovative research in the most successfully delivered paper.

Go here for a list of presenters and their abstracts

The symposium is open to the public. Museum visitors and employees as well as students and university faculty are encouraged to attend. Stay for just one talk, a whole session, or the whole day if you like! See the schedule of presentations to plan your visit.

Now in it's 36th year, the Cleveland Symposium is one of the longest-running art history graduate student symposia in the United States. Organized by students in the joint graduate program between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Symposium provides a forum in which graduate students from art history programs across the United States come together to present topics on the history of art.



Above, Detail: Abraham van Beyeren (Dutch, 1620/21-1690). Silver Wine Jug, Ham, and Fruit, c. 1660-1666. Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 82.6 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1960.80   Above, Right: Designed by Alexis Falize (French, 1811-1898), executed by Antoine Fard (French). Locket, 1868-1870. Gold and cloisonné enamel, 5.4 x 3.1 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1979.11