Liberal Arts

Courses  Basic Theories of Psychology | Jung & Creativity

Courses  Art & Design History I: Ancient - 18th C. | Critical Issues Art & Des Hist: 18th C - 1945

Courses  Advertising Images | Critical Issues Art & Des Hist: 18th C - 1945 | Critical Issues Art & Des Hist: 1945-Present | The Body: Tradition, Transformation, Transgression | Visual Culture and the Manufacture of Meaning

Degree PhD, Art History from the University of Michigan; MA, Art History from the University of Denver; BS, Speech Pathology and Audiology from State University of New York

Rita has received several awards and grants through the years including the Lucry Fellowship as well as grants from The Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their Travel Fellowship and Photographic Subvention Program among countless others.

Courses  Poetry Writing

David Hart

Title Associate Professor of Art History, Liberal Arts Department
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7302

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Courses  Critical Issues Art & Des Hist: 18th C - 1945 | Media Arts & Visual Culture: Installation | Race and Representation | Visual Culture and the Manufacture of Meaning

Degree PhD, Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MA, Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; BA, Political Science from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Dr. Hart is an Associate Professor of Art History in the Liberal Arts Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He taught African-American Art at UNC Chapel Hill as well as Wake Forest University before he came to the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Diane Lichtenstein

Title Professor
Department Liberal Arts
Phone 216.421.7362

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Courses  Anthropology | Human Antiquity

Degree PhD, University of Wisconsin; MA, University of Wisconsin; BA, Anthropology with a minor in African Studies and French from Indiana University

Diane Lichtenstein MA and Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, is a professor in the Liberal Arts Department of the Cleveland Institute of Art. She teaches cultural anthropology and other area studies courses, including traditional art of non-western cultures. She has conducted anthropological and archaeological fieldwork in east Africa, Pakistan, Egypt and India. She maintains a long-term research interest in South Asian prehistory and has co-authored several articles focusing on archaeological details of the Indus Valley (Harappan) civilization. She has taken CIA students to India on five archaeological fieldtrips for excavations at a prehistoric site in South India.

Courses  Censorship, Art, & the Law