A new mission in Libya: Professor Susan Kane leads program to preserve endangered sites in Cyrene
Nov. 4, 2011
Buried Treasures: Students Showcase Jefferson’s Architectural Books During Visit by Library of Congress Chief
Nov. 2, 2011
Claire Jenson '12 wins Forum on Education Abroad award
Nov. 3, 2011
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Art History Professor Receives NEH Fellowship, Franklin Grant, and Residency in Florence
May 04, 2011
Christina Neilson, Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History, has been awarded two prestigious fellowships and a grant in support of her research on the mixed media works of Andrea del Verrocchio, an artist best known as Leonardo da Vinci’s teacher.
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April 08, 2011
The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named Pipo Nguyen-duy, associate professor of art and photography at Oberlin College, a 2011 fellow in creative arts. The foundation recognized him for his body of work titled East of Eden: Vietnam, a series of staged, large-scale, color photographs that explore hope and renewal 30 years after the Vietnam War.
Learn MoreStudent artists compete at MoCA
December 08, 2010
Oberlin College is known for creativity and artistic talent, and recently this artistry has found a home at Cleveland’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA). Oberlin students participated in two art competitions at MoCA, Another Vibrant “Fight,” and the Student Slideshow at MoCA, where Oberlin swept the awards.
Learn MoreJuxtapose This: Oberlin’s Masterworks at the Phillips
September 15, 2010
When you and I decide to renovate our kitchens, we don’t have the luxury of putting our best appliances and nicest knife set on display over at a friend’s house while the cabinets get installed and the floors are torn up. But, when you’re a museum under renovation, that’s exactly what you do. With its space full of sawdust and plaster drippings, Oberlin College’s Allen Memorial Art Museum decided to lend some of its best-known works to the Phillips Collection. The resulting show, “Side by Side: Oberlin’s Masterworks at the Phillips,” takes 25 pieces from the Allen’s collection and puts them in conversation with one 40 from the Phillips’.........
Learn MoreTwo Art Majors are awarded the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship
April 29, 2010
Lisa Chung, Oberlin College The Medium and the Message: Mapping Electronic Art Around the Globe Brazil, China, Japan, Germany, Netherlands A mixed culture of idealism and skepticism has long surrounded popular views of technology. Yet it is important to remember the human aspect: technology inherently contains the imperfections and idiosyncrasies of the people who created it. I intend to spend my Watson year immersed in electronic art, attempting to find out who is actively shaping technology and our experience and perception of it. I plan to find technologically-based artists, participate in sharing artistic ideas, and be an active part of a community that exists both locally and internationally. Maia Brown, Oberlin College Sumud with Tzedek: Can Ireland and South Africa Inform Palestine-Israel? Ireland, South Africa Ireland and South Africa have become iconic of “conflict resolution.” Their oft-studied political development can overshadow the underlying process of grassroots reconciliation. Inherent in that process are narratives of remembrance and profound reimagining. Working with NGOs focused on reconciliation, I hope to explore their successes and limitations; collaborating and collecting oral histories, I seek to engage with participants’ ongoing understanding of what enables an end to violence—understandings that might be applied to peace initiatives in the Middle East. http://www.watsonfellowship.org/site/fellows/10_11.html
Learn MoreArt Review: Artistic Matchmaking in Met Galleries
April 29, 2010
By KEN JOHNSON The Metropolitan Museum of Art will display 19 paintings and one sculpture from Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art Museum.
Learn MoreBetty Bowen Award recipient, Josh Faught, 2001 Oberlin College Graduate
February 19, 2010
"Josh Faught, an art history major who graduated in 2001, now teaches art at the University of Oregon. He has a new show in New York, and recently received the Betty Bowen Award from the Seattle Art Museum." Additional links: http://www.lisa-cooley.com/exhibitions/ http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/josh-faught-while-the-light-lasts/
Learn More"Major Retrospective for Athena Tacha, Professor Emerita of Art."
February 17, 2010
Athena Tacha’s private and public explorations By Iota Mirtsioti - Kathimerini THESSALONIKI – In the USA, Athena Tacha is well-known in the field of environmental public sculpture, yet her multifaceted creativity – largely unknown to Greek audiences – ranges from environmental site-specific sculpture to conceptual art. With her view that art should serve a functional purpose, in the last 40 years Tacha has been working on public space commissions, designing squares and fountains from Florida to Alaska on the one hand, while studying the development of mankind and nature on the other. “Athena Tacha: From the Public to the Private” is a retrospective exhibition that strikes a balance between Tacha’s public and private works has now been organized by the State Museum of Contemporary Art, the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki (CACT), the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation and the Larissa Municipal Art Gallery – G.I. Katsigras Museum. The show, which opens this Saturday, reveals the multifaceted oeuvre of the 70-year-old Greek-American artist. “Greece’s nature, its mountains and sea have always been my source of inspiration; they still are. As I grow older, I’m increasingly detecting influences from my native city, Larissa, in my works,” Tacha told Kathimerini. The more than 100 works going on display at CACT’s Warehouse B1, in the city’s port complex, will reveal the artist’s creative path as a sculptor of urban space, as well as her inner explorations through conceptual projects developed in series, with the body and nature serving as the research field. “Whether designing parks or going in search of the universe’s rhythm, the artist operates as a research scientist,” noted CACT director Syrago Tsiara, who curated the exhibition in tandem with Katerina Koskina, the president of the State Museum of Contemporary Art’s board of directors. The wealth of Tacha’s public space projects are documented through large-scale photographic reproductions, models and designs stemming from 45 architectural-sculpture landscape configurations (including squares, recreation areas and fountains) carried out in various places, including Florida, Ohio, Arizona, Alaska, Pennsylvania and New York, beginning in the 1970s. The dimension of the artist’s conceptual work is seen in her autobiographical portraits: “36 Years of Aging,” for instance, is a work-in-progress project set to continue throughout her life. By photographing herself every year and developing a collage of visual material, Tacha traces her biological evolution as time goes by. “I started observing myself at the age of 35 and in order to fight off the fear of growing old, which invariably surrounds us, I turned myself into a guinea pig, while unearthing the beauty of mature age along the way,” she said. Works with a feminist slant include a series of sculpted garment-shields. In this case, the body is clad in fragile natural raw materials, reflecting the efforts made by women to arm and protect their bodies from internal or external aggression. “Athena Tacha: From the Public to the Private” opens this Saturday at Warehouse B1 and runs to April 11.
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