Ellen C. Caldwell | ECLAIRE.me

“Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer lends momentum to a ‘public reckoning’ in art history to account for how violence against women and minority groups and sexual violence are glorified in revered works and are too often left unaddressed in studies of prominent artists throughout history.” —Mahaliah Little, University of California, Irvine

I am so pleased to announce that the book that Cynthia Colburn, Ella Gonzalez, and I have been co-editing and working for about 5 years won a CAA Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant (Spring 2023). We are so excited to share the volume with the world and hope that educators, curators, students, and the general […]

Elected as the 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church in 2013, Pope Francis has been full of surprises and has redefined the papacy, including the ways in which he considers the role and power of art.

As hospitals today continue to grow and expand, who is thinking about nurturing patients and visitors with healing art and beautification projects?

In these days following the killings in Isla Vista, I’ve been in a bit of a fog trying to process the tremendous loss and complex implications of the shooter’s motivations and words. In this wake of bitterness, sorrow, and frustration, I felt an even greater, yet unrelated sadness when I heard that Dr. Maya Angelou […]