Current Exhibitions

Representing the Word: Modern Book Illustrations
Ripin Print Gallery
February 5 through July 31, 2013

This exhibition features 19th-20th century works from the AMAM collection designed by artists to illustrate texts such as William Blake’s Book of Job, Edouard Manet’s The Raven, Claire Leighton’s Wuthering Heights, and Oskar Kokoschka’s King Lear.

Private Prayer, Public Performance: Religious Books from the Later Middle Ages
and Renaissance
Ripin Print Gallery
February 5 through July 31, 2013

This exhibition showcases a large selection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and leaves from the AMAM, as well as works from Oberlin College Library’s Special Collections.

Illuminating Faith in the Russian Old Believer Tradition
Ripin Print Gallery
February 5 through July 31, 2013

This exhibition draws on the holdings of the AMAM and Oberlin College’s Special Collections to present late-18th- to early-19th-century illuminated manuscript leaves of the Russian Old Believers, an extant Christian faction that separated from the Russian Orthodox Church in the middle of the 17th century.

Beyond the Surface:  Text and Image in Islamic Art
Ripin Print Gallery
September 6 through July 31, 2013

Featuring Islamic textual works and manuscript leaves from the AMAM, as well as generous loans from Oberlin College Library's Special Collections.

Ritual and Performance in the Yorùbá World
West Ambulatory
January 29 through July 31, 2013

The exhibition features art and instruments of ritual Yorùbá performance from Nigeria and the broader Yorùbá world.