Claudia Z. Fechter is an independent curator and researcher. She has spent over forty years as a librarian in the Greater Cleveland area, thirteen of those as director of The Temple-Tifereth Israel library and museum. Born and reared in New York City, a graduate of the Dalton School, she received an A.B. degree from Mather College of Case Western Reserve and an M.A. from Columbia University in Political Science. She has honed her skills over the years in classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art and visiting and studying museum collections around the world. She is an avid reader, and a professional reviewer of books. Mrs. Fechter lives in the Cleveland area with her husband and partner Richard M. Fechter.

John Hunter, Ph.D., is a professor of Renaissance Art History and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cleveland State University, where he has taught since 1982. Before coming to CSU, Dr. Hunter was education curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Academic pursuits include a study of Renaissance cardinals with emphasis on the role of liturgical costume. He wrote a major monograph of the sixteenth-century Roman painter Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta (Girolamo Siciolante: Pittore da Sermoneta, Rome, 1996), and has published numerous articles on Renaissance topics in scholarly journals.

With his co-curator, Claudia Fechter, and Suzanne Tishkoff, Dr. Hunter received Northern Ohio Live's 2001 Award of Achievement for Cultural Exhibitions for the 2000 exhibition, For Everything a Season: Jewish Ritual Art in Cleveland. 

Dr. Hunter earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1983; an M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1977; an M.A. from Wayne State University in 1971; and a B.Ph. from Wayne State University in 1965. Travel, collecting art, and gardening are his major interests; he shares the latter with his Pekinese, Ketut.

For more information about Dr. John Hunter, visit http://www.csuohio.edu/a_and_s/admin/academic/deans/jh.htm