Members-Only Online Talk: Collection Connections with the Walters Art Museum

A senior instructor in adult education at the Barnes, Jewell has been teaching art history for nearly 15 years. She holds degrees in photography and art history from the University of Louisville and a PhD in ancient and medieval art history from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Jewell has presented at various international conferences and received support from the International Center for Medieval Art and the Byzantine Studies Association of North America. She is trained as an archaeologist and has worked on projects in the American Midwest and Sicily.

Sciacca is curator of European art, 300–1400 CE, at the Walters Art Museum. She has a PhD in art history from Columbia University and previously worked at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Met Cloisters, and the British Library. She studies Italian, German, and Ethiopian medieval art, with a focus on liturgy, devotional practice, and patronage, and wrote Illuminating Women in the Medieval World (2017). In 2024, she curated Ethiopia at the Crossroads at the Walters, which was named exhibition of the year by Apollo magazine.