Dr. Cecelia Dorger will be leading an Advent group on a tour of sacred art at the Cincinnati Art Museum. More details TBA.

About Dr. Dorger:

Cecelia Dorger recently retired from a long career teaching art history at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has taught art history courses at the University of Dayton, Northern Kentucky University, and Thomas More University. Currently she is an adjunct teaching an art history course about sacred art and sacred Scripture at Mount St. Mary Seminary and School of Theology in Cincinnati. Her Ph.D. in art history is from the University of Louisville and her research focuses on Medieval and Renaissance sacred art, specializing in images of the Virgin Mary, specifically the Madonna lactans. She is a four-time recipient of the Donald Payton Graduate Award in Art History and twice the recipient of the Frederick and Elizabeth Cressman Scholarship from the University of Louisville. Other awards include four Mount St. Joseph University outstanding teaching awards and an Ohio Magazine’s Excellence in Ohio Education Award. Her publications about the Madonna lactans image can be found in Chicago’s Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies selected proceedings publication, and in the International Marian Research Institute’s publication, Marian Studies. She was the guest speaker at the Centre for Marian Studies, London in 2023. She is a lecturer for the Adult Spirituality Institute, the Lunch with the Lord series at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral Basilica in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a regular lecturer for The Angelico Project – touring area churches and cathedrals and the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Sacred art collection. She is the co-author of a book about images of the Virgin Mary, with artist Holly Schapker titled “Universal Mother A Journal for Finding Yourself in Mary.” Franciscan Media is the publisher. Cecelia is a member of the Mariological Society of America. She is a prison volunteer for Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Covington, KY.