ICMA Annual Meeting, Online Edition on Thursday 11 February 2021, 4-5pm EST

ICMA Annual Meeting. Online Edition

Thursday, February 11, 4-5pm EST

Please join us for a virtual gathering, the Annual Meeting of the International Center of Medieval Art.

Thursday, February 11, 4:00-5:00pm ET - On Zoom
Please RSVP here.

At this yearly reception we welcome new members of the ICMA Board of Directors and Associates, and we thank those who are rotating off positions in the leadership of the organization. Of course, this year things will be different. But we can still connect on screen, raise a glass together, and look forward to the day when we can gather in person again.

Our President, Nina Rowe, will announce and celebrate the new initiatives undertaken by the ICMA. And attendees will have the opportunity to share recent achievements, offer coping strategies, even report on hobbies picked up in 2020-21!

We hope that this online get-together will be a jolly occasion and one that offers hope for better things to come.

ICMA Lecture: Notre Dame of Paris: Past and Present with Dany Sandron and Lindsay Cook, Wednesday 3 February 2021. RSVP today!

Notre Dame of Paris: Past and Present

Online lecture by Dany Sandron and Lindsay Cook
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 1pm EST
RSVP here

The Friends of ICMA invites you to an online lecture/webinar on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. EST by Dany Sandron and Lindsay Cook, Notre Dame of Paris: Past and Present.

Professor Sandron co-authored, with the late professor Andrew Tallon, Notre-Dame de Paris: Neuf Siècles d'Histoire (Parigramme, 2013/2019), whose English version, Notre Dame Cathedral, Nine Centuries of History (Penn State University Press, 2020), was translated by Professor Cook, Assistant Teaching Professor of Art History, Ball State University.

Nina Rowe, President of ICMA and Professor of Art History, Fordham University, and Nancy Wu, Friends of ICMA and Educator Emerita, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will introduce the speakers and moderate the discussion.

To join us on February 3, please RSVP here. A Zoom link will be sent to participants closer to the lecture date.

Attendees will be offered a special discount on the publication.

Credits: Image (l) from Notre Dame Cathedral, Nine Centuries of History, pp. 28-29; images (c,r) by Lindsay Cook.

Join the ICMA! 2021 memberships now available

Join the ICMA for 2021!
Click here to join or renew your membership!
Gift memberships are also available by clicking here

All memberships purchased today are valid until 31 December 2021.

We know it's been a stressful and uncertain year, but the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) continues to bring its members benefits and support to navigate these challenging times. By renewing your 2021 ICMA membership, you'll be helping the ICMA bring timely, meaningful programming to its members. Your membership supports the future of medieval art and architecture studies!

The ICMA is an inclusive organization with members around the globe. We invite anyone with an interest in the art and architecture of the Middle Ages to join, including but not limited to students, teachers of any rank at any institution (elementary, secondary, college, university), independent scholars, curators, librarians, art dealers, and collectors. The ICMA's core mission is to enable appreciation, study, and preservation of visual and material cultures from every corner of the medieval world.

Will you help us?

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2021 Membership Fees

Student ($20), Independent Scholar/Retiree ($55), Individual ($65), Individual + subsidy ($85), Joint ($80), Contributor ($150), Patron ($300), Sustainer ($600), Benefactor ($1,200)

Please note the "individual + subsidy" option for donating beyond your standard membership. Contributing a subsidy of $20 helps keep costs for student membership low and supports new outreach initiatives.
 

All prices in USD. Memberships are valid until 31 December 2021.

January Calendar Page, from Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain, fol., 2r, Flanders, ca. 1500 (Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1963.256.2.a)

In case you missed it...

The ICMA is committed to social justice; read our Statement of Solidarity and Action. We initiated a Diversity Working Group, which will hold a Town Hall Meeting in November. The New Initiatives Working Group is planning for the upcoming year on ways to increase medieval art's presence and inclusiveness.

The Advocacy Committee evaluates concerns of the ICMA Community, including the ICMA Mentoring Intiative.

By vote of its members, the ICMA updated its mission statement to include "every corner of the medieval world." We invite multiplicities into every aspect of ICMA's activities as a guiding principle.

The ICMA created a Teaching Resources and Tips page to help navigate new ways of teaching. Included on this page is the Online Resources for Teaching Art History and Teaching a Global Middle Ages. We also have other digital offerings, including information on Education and Careers.

Our Programs and Lectures Committee sponsors ICMA sessions and Keynote Lectures at the College Art Association Annual Conference, Association for Art History Annual Conference, International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, International Medieval Congress Leeds, Forum Kunst Des Mittelalters, Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians, Andrew Ladis Trecento Conference, and St. Louis Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. If presenting at one of our sponsored sessions, members are eligible for the ICMA-Kress Travel Grants.

The ICMA sponsors the Annual Book Prize, awarding 1,000 USD to best book!

The Grants and Awards Committee sponsors several programs: ICMA-Kress Research and Publications Grant, ICMA-Kress Exhibition Development Grant, Student Travel Grant, Student Essay Grant. Additionally, the ICMA is a nominating body for the Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Grants.

We have a new publication, ICMA Viewpoints, which accepts proposals on an ongoing basis.

Gesta now accepts articles in English and French. Les auteurs peuvent soumettre leurs articles en anglais ou en français.

The ICMA newsletter, ICMA News, is published three times a year and contains up-to-date information concerning the activities of the ICMA, as well as articles about current events and issues in medieval art history. You can read it here - we've made it available to all!

Take a few minutes to visit www.medievalart.org and look around our newly designed website. Add your event, CFP, or other announcement to our calendar there - we'd love to include items from your part of the world!

If you have any questions, you can always email icma@medievalart.org

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As always, ICMA member perks include:

Gesta is the premier scholarly journal for the history of medieval art (two issues annually) and appears in print and online for members.

Study Days and Other Special Opportunities: The ICMA has a robust schedule of Study Days, receptions, and tours held in conjunction with museum exhibitions, conferences, and other special events.

Sponsorship of Conference Sessions and Special Lectures: The ICMA sponsors sessions at major academic conferences, as well as funded special lectures by scholars.

Grants and Awards: The ICMA has funding available for members to support travel, research, publication, and exhibition development. There is also an annual book prize.

Graduate Student Mentorship: The ICMA Student Committee actively promotes the concerns of our student members. Most ICMA Study Days include special opportunities for students to meet with curators and conservators. ICMA also sponsors travel grants and essay awards for student members.

And during the unusual conditions of 2020-21, when we have been unable to gather in person, the ICMA has developed a robust suite of programming aimed at fostering connections and providing professional support.

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Pay online here. 

Or, to pay by check (USD only; payable to ICMA):
1. Print and fill out the form below.
2. Email icma@medievalart.org for the mailing address (ICMA staff is working remotely during the pandemic).

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Want to support the ICMA beyond membership?

Here are ways to give:

• There are two ways to make an unrestricted contribution online:

  • Sign into your account here and go to the "Donate to the ICMA" option on the "What Would You Like To Do?" drop-down menu

  • You can donate here without signing in

• You can make a contribution to one of our named funds here.

• Gift memberships make great gifts for your students, colleagues, or anyone you want to introduce to the ICMA! Click here for information.

• Information about Planned Giving can be found here.

• If you have an idea for a new initiative that you would like to fund, please contact icma@medievalart.org to discuss details and how it fits with ICMA's mission. The ICMA has future projects that are in need of funding, too.

If you’re unable to make an additional gift, you can support the ICMA at no further cost to yourself:

• Go to smile.amazon.com to choose the International Center of Medieval Art as your preferred charity. Amazon will donate a percentage of your total purchases to the ICMA.

• If you are on Facebook, you can amplify our year-end appeal, so that your friends and family can find a way to support your work, your community, and your colleagues through the ICMA. A simple social media post with a personal note to your Facebook audience is an easy way to show your support for the ICMA. Whether it’s $1 or $500, any amount helps ICMA achieve its fundraising goal before 31 December 2020. All donations are tax deductible via Network for Good. Click here to share: https://www.facebook.com/donate/1228088097569143/
  

We mourn the death of William D. Wixom, who served as ICMA President from 1971-74

The International Center for Medieval Art mourns the death of William D. Wixom, who served as the president of the ICMA from 1971-74. Bill served as the Michel David-Weill Chairman of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1979 until his retirement in 1998. Before coming to New York, Bill was curator of Medieval and Renaissance art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Under his stewardship, the medieval collection at The Met grew at a pace not seen since the opening of The Cloisters in 1938. During his tenure, the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters organized numerous exhibitions, both at The Met Fifth Avenue and at The Cloisters, with Mirror of the Medieval World capping off his career. Bill’s passion for works of art extended well beyond Medieval art, as the collection that he and his wife, Nancy Coe Wixom, built together bears witness. They generously donated art to a wide range of departments at the Met, including the American Wing, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Modern and Contemporary Art, and Medieval Art. Bill’s delight in works of art and good humor were legendary and infectious. He remained actively involved in the field until his passing; his mentorship of his staff ranks among the most significant of his many legacies. 

We share the obituary released by his family.

Celebrate the memory of William Wixom at an online event

Mirror of the Medieval World: A Memorial Toast to William Wixom [President of the ICMA, 1971-74] (1929-2020)
Friday, January 15, 2021, 2-3pm ET.

Please join us in a memorial celebration of the life and work of William Wixom, Michel David-Weill Chair of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, 1979-98, and President of the International Center of Medieval Art, 1971-74.

At this Zoom event, friends and colleagues will remember Bill’s contributions as a curator and scholar, and participants will have an opportunity to raise a glass and share memories. Please rsvp here

Give to the ICMA this holiday season

Want to support the ICMA beyond membership?

Here are ways to give:

• There are two ways to make an unrestricted contribution online:

  • Sign into your account here and go to the "Donate to the ICMA" option on the "What Would You Like To Do?" drop-down menu

  • You can donate here without signing in

• You can make a contribution to one of our named funds here.

• Gift memberships make great gifts for your students, colleagues, or anyone you want to introduce to the ICMA! Click here for information.

• Information about Planned Giving can be found here.

• If you have an idea for a new initiative that you would like to fund, please contact icma@medievalart.org to discuss details and how it fits with ICMA's mission. The ICMA has future projects that are in need of funding, too.

If you’re unable to make an additional gift, you can support the ICMA at no further cost to yourself:

• Go to smile.amazon.com to choose the International Center of Medieval Art as your preferred charity. Amazon will donate a percentage of your total purchases to the ICMA.

• If you are on Facebook, you can amplify our year-end appeal, so that your friends and family can find a way to support your work, your community, and your colleagues through the ICMA. A simple social media post with a personal note to your Facebook audience is an easy way to show your support for the ICMA. Whether it’s $1 or $500, any amount helps ICMA achieve its fundraising goal before 31 December 2020. All donations are tax deductible via Network for Good. Click here to share: https://www.facebook.com/donate/1228088097569143/

"Nushirvan Receives Mihras, Envoy of Caesar", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings), Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (Iranian, Paj ca. 940/41–1020 Tus). ca. 1300–30, made in Iran or Iraq. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 6 9/16 in. (16.7 cm), W. 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1934, 34.24.3.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...

The ICMA is committed to social justice; read our Statement of Solidarity and Action. We initiated a Diversity Working Group, which will hold a Town Hall Meeting in November. The New Initiatives Working Group is planning for the upcoming year on ways to increase medieval art's presence and inclusiveness.

The Advocacy Committee evaluates concerns of the ICMA Community, including the ICMA Mentoring Intiative.

By vote of its members, the ICMA updated its mission statement to include "every corner of the medieval world." We invite multiplicities into every aspect of ICMA's activities as a guiding principle.

The ICMA created a Teaching Resources and Tips page to help navigate new ways of teaching. Included on this page is the Online Resources for Teaching Art History and Teaching a Global Middle Ages. We also have other digital offerings, including information on Education and Careers.

Our Programs and Lectures Committee sponsors ICMA sessions and Keynote Lectures at the College Art Association Annual Conference, Association for Art History Annual Conference, International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, International Medieval Congress Leeds, Forum Kunst Des Mittelalters, Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians, Andrew Ladis Trecento Conference, and St. Louis Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. If presenting at one of our sponsored sessions, members are eligible for the ICMA-Kress Travel Grants.

The ICMA sponsors the Annual Book Prize, awarding 1,000 USD to best book!

The Grants and Awards Committee sponsors several programs: ICMA-Kress Research and Publications Grant, ICMA-Kress Exhibition Development Grant, Student Travel Grant, Student Essay Grant. Additionally, the ICMA is a nominating body for the Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Grants.

We have a new publication, ICMA Viewpoints, which accepts proposals on an ongoing basis.

Gesta now accepts articles in English and French. Les auteurs peuvent soumettre leurs articles en anglais ou en français.

The ICMA newsletter, ICMA News, is published three times a year and contains up-to-date information concerning the activities of the ICMA, as well as articles about current events and issues in medieval art history. You can read it here - we've made it available to all!

Take a few minutes to visit www.medievalart.org and look around our newly designed website. Add your event, CFP, or other announcement to our calendar there - we'd love to include items from your part of the world!

If you have any questions, you can always email icma@medievalart.org

Give the gift of ICMA membership for 2021! Gift memberships available

Gift memberships are available by clicking here

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2021 Membership Fees

Student ($20), Independent Scholar/Retiree ($55), Individual ($65), Individual + subsidy ($85), Joint ($80), Contributor ($150), Patron ($300), Sustainer ($600), Benefactor ($1,200)

Please note the "individual + subsidy" option for donating beyond your standard membership. Contributing a subsidy of $20 helps keep costs for student membership low and supports new outreach initiatives.
 

All prices in USD. Memberships are valid until 31 December 2021.

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ICMA MEMBER PERKS INCLUDE:

Gesta is the premier scholarly journal for the history of medieval art (two issues annually) and appears in print and online for members.

Study Days and Other Special Opportunities: The ICMA has a robust schedule of Study Days, receptions, and tours held in conjunction with museum exhibitions, conferences, and other special events.

Sponsorship of Conference Sessions and Special Lectures: The ICMA sponsors sessions at major academic conferences, as well as funded special lectures by scholars.

Grants and Awards: The ICMA has funding available for members to support travel, research, publication, and exhibition development. There is also an annual book prize.

Graduate Student Mentorship: The ICMA Student Committee actively promotes the concerns of our student members. Most ICMA Study Days include special opportunities for students to meet with curators and conservators. ICMA also sponsors travel grants and essay awards for student members.

And during the unusual conditions of 2020-21, when we have been unable to gather in person, the ICMA has developed a robust suite of programming aimed at fostering connections and providing professional support.

ICMA News, Autumn 2020 now available online

ICMA News               

Autumn 2020
Melanie Hanan, Editor

Click here to read.
Also available on www.medievalart.org

INSIDE

Announcing the IDEA (Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, and Access) Committee
Announcing the new Viewpoints Editor
Our Colleague Connection Project
Statement on Executive Orders Regarding Monuments and Federal Architecture

Commemorations
Elly Miller, 1928-2020

Special Features
Reflections: Bodies at the Borders: Momentum in Medieval Studies from 2020 Movements, by Bryan C. Keene
Teaching Medieval Art History: Technology in the Medieval Art History “Classroom,” by Elizabeth Lastra

Report
A Work in Progress: Notre-Dame of Paris Since the Fire, by Lindsay Cook

Events and Opportunities

The deadline for the next issue of ICMA News is 15 February 2021. Please send information to newsletter@medievalart.org 

If you would like your upcoming conference, CFP, or exhibition included in the newsletter please email the information to EventsExhibitions@medievalart.org.

Gesta Fall 2020 (Volume 59, Number 2) now available!

The latest issue of Gesta (Fall 2020) is available to members by logging in to your membership account.

In this volume:

Found in Translation: Images Visionary and Visceral in the Welles-Ros Bible Kathryn A. Smith

The Earls of Hereford and Their Retinue: A Network of Architectural and Sculptural Patronage in Twelfth-Century England, ca. 1130–55
Jonathan Andrew Turnock  

Villard de Honnecourt and Bar Tracery: Reims Cathedral and Processes of Stylistic Transmission, ca. 1210–40
James Hillson

The Admiral, the Virgin, and the Spectrometer: Observations on the Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS W082)
Richard Gameson, Catherine Nicholson, and Andrew Beeby

ICMA membership provides exclusive online access to the full run of Gesta in full text, PDF, and e-Book editions – at no additional charge.

To access your members-only journal subscription, log in to the ICMA site here with your username and password.  If you have any questions, please email icma@medievalart.org.

For ICMA members receiving a print copy along with the online version,  there may be a delay in shipping the journal to you. Thank you for your patience.  

Teaching Resources and Tips from the ICMA

As we head into the fall semester, we are happy to share four announcements about resources, materials, and advice on the ICMA website.
 

The Resources for Online Teaching page has been expanded and re-organized, with contributions by the Digital Resources Committee, to aid with in-person, hybrid, and remote teaching needs this fall. Newly expanded resources for online teaching include:
 
- General Resources
- Articles/Posts
- Monuments and Interactive Imaging
- Manuscripts and Manuscripts Databases
- Image Databases
- Videos
- Online Exhibitions and Museum Resources
- Pedagogy
- Specific Projects
- Platforms for Producing Digital Projects
 
Please send additional suggestons to icma@medievalart.org
 

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The Teaching a Global Middle Ages resource page has also been expanded and reordered. The page brings together a diversity of resources that speak to an interconnected medieval world. These resources include:
 
- Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism Resources
- Global Studies and Global Theory
- Migration, Trade Routes, and Zones and Mechanisms of Exchange
- Selected Bibliography by Geographical Region
- The Global Middle Ages in Museums and Collecting
 
Please send additional suggestions to global@medievalart.org

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We need your announcements, news, and events! Check out ICMA’s new website, and click the “Submit an Announcement or Event” button (the narrow rectangle at the left beneath the top bar) to add to our news carousel and our interactive calendar. We want everyone to know what’s happening in your corner of the medieval universe. Please be sure to include an image!

To stay in touch with all the latest in medieval art history, make medievalart.org your web browser’s new homepage.
 

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Finally, as you plan your syllabi for the coming semester, we remind you of our statement on Article Sharing and Best Practices. To help ensure the future of journals in the humanities, it is crucial that students and scholars download articles from library and journal websites rather than simply sharing pdfs. It is easy to guide students through the steps and they will benefit from the practical experience of locating scholarship on their own.

Mining the Collection: The Morgan Library and Museum with Joshua O'Driscoll; Thursday, November 19th at 11:00 am ET, RSVP today!

Mining the Collection: The Morgan Library and Museum with Joshua O'Driscoll

Thursday, November 19th at 11:00 am ET, RSVP here

We are delighted to invite you to our third installment of Mining the Collection. Joshua O'Driscoll, Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at The Morgan Library and Museum, will present a fourteenth-century Italian Breviary with intriguing illuminations.

Please join us Thursday, November 19th at 11:00 am ET for a brief presentation of this fascinating manuscript followed by an informal discussion. Please sign up here. 

Additional events in this series to follow.

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In case you missed it...
You can watch our most recent Mining the Collection: The J. Paul Getty Museum event with Elizabeth Morrison and Bryan C. Keene here.

ICMA Town Hall on Diversity, Medieval Art History, and 2020 - Friday, November 20, 2.00-3:30pm ET - RSVP today!

ICMA Town Hall on Diversity, Medieval Art History, and 2020
Friday, November 20, 2.00pm-3.30pm ET (on Zoom)

The ICMA, in response to the events of the past few months, but also cognizant of the longstanding need for the field of medieval art history to undertake a sustained campaign of reflection and self-critique, is convening a Town Hall, open to all interested members, on Friday, November 20 from 2.00pm-3.30pm ET.  The Town Hall will provide an opportunity for us, both as an organization and as individuals, to discuss issues of diversity, the state of our discipline, and the needed actions and changes we envision.  The Town Hall, which is organized by the newly formed IDEA (Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) Committee of the ICMA, will serve as a listening session and forum for sharing and collecting experiences, testimonials, calls to action, and proposed strategies for ICMA members.  The Town Hall is intended to serve as a starting point for self-study, brainstorming, and planning as the ICMA moves to address the biases and inequities, historically entrenched and yet recently magnified, of the structures and practices of our work.

The Town Hall, which will be moderated, will consist of structured discussions among attendees. Everyone is most welcome, most enthusiastically: feel free to come to listen and observe, or to ask questions, or to share an experience or an idea.  Please register for the Town Hall here.

In addition, we want to incorporate your own ideas into the planning of the Town Hall.  To that end, if you feel so inclined, we encourage you to submit a question, a topic of conversation, a personal anecdote, or anything else you would like us to consider in advance of the Town Hall.  Please use the Google Form linked here. The Co-Chairs of the IDEA Committee will review the submissions, which will be otherwise kept anonymous, and incorporate some of the submissions into the structure of the Town Hall.  If you would like to make a submission via the Google Form we ask that you do so before the end of the day on Monday, November 16th, 2020.  Please note that the Google Form is optional, and it is separate from registration - you are not obligated to complete it to attend.

If you have questions about the Town Hall, please feel free to reach out to the Co-Chairs of the IDEA Committee, Andrea Achi (andrea.achi@metmuseum.org) and Joe Ackley (jackley@wesleyan.edu).  It is our goal that this Town Hall be a safe space for the full breadth of the ICMA membership, from established scholars to beginning graduate students, to come together to talk, listen, and learn - and, it will be the start of a longer conversation.  We do hope to see you on November 20.

All best,
Andrea Achi and Joe Ackley, Co-Chairs, IDEA Committee 

ICMA MENTORING SESSION: Writing and Publishing, 13 November 2020, 12:30pm ET. Sign up today!

ICMA Mentoring Session: Writing and Publishing
 
Friday, November 13, 2020,  12:30pm ET, to be held on Zoom

Please join us on Zoom on Friday, November 13, at 12:30 pm ET for a mentoring session focused on writing and navigating the publishing process.
 
We will be joined by:

Gregory Bryda, Assistant Professor of Art History at Barnard College

Kirk Ambrose, Professor of Art History and Founding Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
 
Our panelists welcome your questions regarding writing and publishing in an informal discussion. 
 
Please sign up here for this event and please let us know if you have suggestions for future mentoring sessions.

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In Case You Missed It...

Our Mentoring Session on Fellowship Applications is available to view here, featuring Thelma K. Thomas (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University),Kirk Ambrose(University of Colorado, Boulder), and Glaire D. Anderson (University of Edinburgh).

Our Mentoring Session on CV and Job Applications is available to view here, featuring Asa Mittman (California State University, Chico), Susan Boynton (Columbia University), and Doralynn Pines, (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).

You can also find it on our website here.

EXTENDED! Calling all Grad Students! New Initiatives Competition, due 31 October 2020

Calling all Grad Students! New Initiatives Competition!

The ICMA is eager to serve the needs of our expanding community (memberships are at a record high!). To this end, we have created a New Initiatives Working Group (NIWG). The NIWG seeks to progress how the ICMA facilitates professional gatherings, encourages international public engagement with medieval art, and supports scholarly study and outreach strategies in both the real and virtual worlds. We want to hear your ideas about what we can do in the coming months and years to help our members and the field of medieval art history.  

Recognizing that graduate students are the future of the field and often have creative approaches to intellectual and professional life, we are holding a competition for the best initiative idea. Dream big!
 
If you are a graduate student, please submit your suggestion here, where you will find a slot for a 150-word description of your idea. Deadline: October 31, 2020. You must be an ICMA member. Only one entry per person. The NIWG will assess the proposals based on originality, viability, and relevance to the field. 
 
The winner will be notified by November 30, 2020 and will receive 400 USD as an expression of our gratitude. No further involvement is required of the winner beyond the idea submission. 
 
Beyond this competition, we welcome ideas from across the ICMA membership. Please go to “ACTION” on the ICMA website and you will find a link for the New Initiatives Working Group.
 
Best wishes,

The ICMA New Initiatives Working Group
Debra Strickland (Chair)
Laura Tillery
Francesca dell'Acqua
James Sigman
Kathryn Gerry
Sherry Lindquist

Mining the Collection: The J. Paul Getty Museum with Elizabeth Morrison and Bryan C. Keene; Thursday 29 October 2020 at 11am ET

Mining the Collection: The J. Paul Getty Museum with Elizabeth Morrison and Bryan C. Keene

Thursday 29 October 2020 at 11am ET

Please join us for the second online event in a new series entitled “Mining the Collection” in which curators will present medieval objects that offer unusual or challenging opportunities for research and investigation. After each brief presentation, we invite you to bring your questions and expertise to bear on these objects during an informal discussion.

The event will take place on Thursday, October 29 at 11:00 am Eastern. Elizabeth Morrison, Senior Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and Bryan C. Keene, Assistant Professor at Riverside City College, will discuss manuscripts in the Getty collection. Please register for this event here.
 
Additional events in this series to follow.

Mining the Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters with C. Griffith Mann, 15 October 2020 at 11am ET

Mining the Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters with C. Griffith Mann

15 October 2020 at 11am ET

Please join us for our new series entitled “Mining the Collection” in which curators will present medieval objects that offer unusual or challenging opportunities for research and investigation. After each brief presentation, we invite you to bring your questions and expertise to bear on these objects during an informal discussion.
 
The first event will take place on Thursday, October 15 at 11:00 am Eastern. C. Griffith Mann, Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters, will present recent museum acquisitions. Please register for this event here.
 
Also mark your calendars for the second event in this series, on Thursday, October 29 at 11:00 am Eastern. Elizabeth Morrison, Senior Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and Bryan C. Keene, Assistant Professor at Riverside City College, will discuss manuscripts in the Getty collection. Please register for this event here.
 
Additional events in this series to follow.

ICMA AT THE COURTAULD LECTURE, 14 OCTOBER 2020, LIVE ONLINE EVENT: KATHRYN A. SMITH, SCRIPTURE TRANSFORMED IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF MEDIEVAL ART AND THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART RESEARCH FORUM PRESENT:

SCRIPTURE TRANSFORMED IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND: THE RELIGIOUS, ARTISTIC, AND SOCIAL WORLDS OF THE WELLES-ROS BIBLE (PARIS, BNF MS FR. 1)

KATHRYN A. SMITH
PROFESSOR, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

 
14 October 2020, 5:00pm - 6:00pm BST
Live online event

REGISTER HERE

Initial for Ecclesiasticus, Welles-Ros Bible (Paris, BnF fr. 1, fol. 205v)

About the talk:
This introduces to a wider audience the manuscript that I call the Welles-Ros Bible (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 1), the most complete surviving witness and sole extant illuminated copy of the Anglo-Norman Bible, the first full prose vernacular Bible produced in England.  I argue that this grand, multilingual manuscript and the vernacular translation preserved in its pages were probably commissioned in the 1360s by the widowed baroness Maud de Ros to serve as a primer, mirror, guide, family archive, and source of consolation for her son, John, 5th Baron Welles of Welle, Lincolnshire, and other estates.  I discuss the circumstances of the commission and the volume's functions and principal intended audience; and show how the Bible's rich pictorial and heraldic program reframes Christian salvation history as Welles family history.  In addition, I show how the manuscript's main artist strove to visualize scripture in a manner that was at once faithful to the particularities of the vernacular biblical text, evocative of its most elevated themes, and relevant to the values, environment, and lived experience of its principal intended reader-viewer.  My talk contributes to our picture of lay literate and religious aspiration; women's cultural patronage; artists' literacy and working methods; the history of Bible translation and reception; the fundamental roles of images in lay religious experience; late medieval ideas about sexuality, health, memory, and the emotions; and English society and culture after the Black Death.

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ICMA AT THE COURTAULD LECTURE
Series made possible through the generosity of William M. Voelkle

Wednesday 14 October 2020
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm BST 


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Organized by 
Dr. Alixe Bovey - The Courtauld Institute of Art
Dr. Tom Nickson - The Courtauld Institute of Art

ICMA MENTORING SESSION: CV and Job Applications, 7 October 2020, 3pm ET. Sign up today!

ICMA Mentoring Session: CV and Job Applications
 
Wednesday 7 October 2020,  3pm  ET, to be held on Zoom

Please join us on Zoom for a mentoring session centered around CV and job applications. Facilitating the discussion will be:
 
Asa Mittman, Professor of Art and Art History at California State University, Chico            

Susan Boynton, Professor of Music, Historical Musicology at Columbia University; Gesta co-editor
 
Doralynn Pines, Consultant. Associate Director (retired), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Our panelists welcome your questions regarding CVs and applications in an informal discussion.
 
Please sign up here. If you would like advice on your CV, please send to mentoring@medievalart.org

Our next mentoring event focused on writing and publishing will take place in November. Watch your email for more information!

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In Case You Missed It...
Our Mentoring Session on Fellowship Applications is available to view here, featuring Thelma K. Thomas (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), Kirk Ambrose (University of Colorado, Boulder), and Glaire D. Anderson (University of Edinburgh). You can also find it on our website here.

EXTENDED! Call for Proposals, ICMA at IMC Leeds 2021, due 25 Sept 2020

Call for Proposals 
International Medieval Congress (IMC 2021)
5–8 July 2021, University of Leeds
due 25 September 2020 

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2021 at the International Medieval Congress (IMC) at Leeds, England.  

While session proposals on any topic related to the art of the Middle Ages are welcome, the IMC also chooses a theme for each conference. In 2021 the theme is 'Climates'. For more information on the Leeds 2021 congress and theme, see:  https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/2021-climates/

Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members. Proposals must include a session abstract, and a list of speakers, as one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title, and a CV, again as a Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title. Please upload here by 25 September 2020.

Please direct inquiries to the Chair of the ICMA Programs and Lectures Committee: Bryan Keene, Riverside City College, bryan.keene@rcc.edu

EXTENDED! CFPS, ICMA AT IMC LEEDS 2021 (STUDENT COMMITTEE), DUE 25 SEPT 2020

Call for Papers for ICMA Student Committee Session Proposal
International Medieval Congress
5–8 July 2021, University of Leeds

Seeing Climate through Medieval Art and Architecture

In keeping with this year’s theme at the Medieval Congress, this session aims to explore medieval objects and buildings created with an awareness of climate. Climate is intimately intertwined with nature and environments, with as much of a profound impact on medieval lives as on ours today. It can be a cooperative partner, nourishing and stimulating growth, or a hostile threat to life—with scorching heat or forbidding storms preventing sustainable human settlement. Medieval climate might be construed as the literal, experiential, or perceived weather, geography, topography, or environment. We are especially interested in medieval awareness of change in climate that impacts well-being, health, and security—similar to effects felt today. How did the Medieval Warm Optimum or Little Ice Age affect the objects of trade or the construction of buildings and towns?

While there is much to be found in written sources on the effects and changes in climate, we hope to organize a session around the traces of climate in the material record of medieval art and architecture. Climate may be grasped through regional differences in architecture—whether through mundane changes in irrigation or the complex physics of buttresses. It can be seen in depictions of weather or landscape, as images reveal attitudes towards both quotidian and extraordinary natural phenomena. Climate can also emerge in the uses of certain materials—like the quality and availability of ivories or the uses of certain types of wood.

Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Depictions of weather, nature, landscape, or natural disasters
- The portability and utility of media as related to climate
- Variances in architectural form as responses to climate

Please submit a 250-word proposal for a 15–20-minute paper. Proposals should have an abstract format and be accompanied by a one-page CV, including e-mail and current affiliation. Please notice that this session is primarily intended for graduate students and first-time presenter. Please submit all relevant documents, as PDF or Word.doc, by 25 September, 2020, to both:

Francesco Capitummino, University of Cambridge; fc484@cam.ac.uk
Ziqiao Wang, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; zwang27@artic.edu