By Michelle Orioha, CMA Student Guide The CMA Student Guide Program is the museum’s undergraduate training program. Students learn close-looking and engagement techniques and are given a variety of research and educational projects to draw connections between art and its relevance to our lives today. In this blog post, a […]
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Beyond the Wall Text: Contextualizing Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved! | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker
By Key Jo Lee, associate curator of American art Some of the reasons why curators place certain objects in certain places in the galleries are very apparent. This is by design. Typically, the goal is for each artwork to tell some part of a larger story that illuminates a time […]
Small but Mighty: Nano-Cellulose Applications in Photograph Conservation | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker
By Marissa Maynard The Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) superb photography collection encompasses the history of the medium and offers a tremendous range, from cased photographs to salted paper prints to colored digital prints. For most photographic processes, the image layer is composed of silver particles in an emulsion. Some […]
What gratitude looks like to the CMA Docents
The Columbus Museum of Art Docents volunteer their time and talent by leading tours and roaming in the galleries. We’re grateful for their ongoing commitment to providing great experiences with great art, and we asked several current docents to share what CMA works make them think of gratitude this Thanksgiving. […]
“TEXTURES” of “The New Black Vanguard”: A Glimpse into the Intersection of Artists Musing on Black Hair | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker
By Dr. Tameka Ellington, Speaker, Author, and Cocurator of “TEXTURES: the history and art of Black hair” People of African descent have hair that is like no other race of people. It is the number one racial identifier, skin tone being the second. Afro or Black hair grows out of […]
Looking into the Wishing Well. By Matthew Gengler, Access Services and… | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Oct, 2022
By Matthew Gengler, Access Services and Reference Librarian In a pivotal scene from The Kid from Cleveland, actors George Brent and a young Russ Tamblyn stand over the Cleveland Museum of Art’s wishing well. Tamblyn, playing the kid, is invited to make a wish Johnny. The movie, set in 1949, […]
Component Parts of Collections Management: Who’s Who? | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Oct, 2022
By Sydney Slacas, Assistant Registrar When you stop by the Cleveland Museum of Art, have you at any time thought about who cares for the amazing collection? With the collection spanning nearly 6,000 decades of artistic accomplishment, the CMA’s Collections Management crew works tricky every day to put in exhibitions, […]
Artists’ Collections in the Archives: Digitizing Cleveland’s Artistic History | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Sep, 2022
By Sara Kunkemueller, Digitization Intern, Ingalls Library and Museum Archives This summer months, I joined the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives as a digitization intern. My function involved numerous jobs, from updating metadata to scanning publications for the World wide web Archive, but a great deal of my time was […]