Fall 2011
Tuesday, October 18 at 7:00pm
Classroom 1, Allen Art Building
Artist Talk: Grisha Bruskin,
“I and It (Works from ‘The Soviet Project’)”
Born in Moscow in 1945, New York-based artist Grisha Bruskin figures prominently in the
history of the non-conformist art movement in the Soviet Union and Russia. His work is
represented in the permanent collections of MOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Jane
Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, the Jewish Museum of New York, the Tretyakov Gallery,
the State Russian Museum, and many other institutions. In this lecture (the first of two) he will
show and discuss various works that form part of his on-going "Soviet Project" and deal with the
theme of "I and It"— the interrelationship/alienation between the individual and the collective,
the citizen and the state.
Co-sponsored by the Oberlin Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, and the departments of Art, German, Jewish Studies and Russian.
Wednesday, December 14 at 7:15pm
Heiser Auditorium, Kendal at Oberlin
Diana Tittle, “Elisabeth Severance Prentiss: Oberlin’s “Forgotten” Angel”
Neither the Allen Memorial Art Museum nor the Allen Memorial Hospital would have been built had it not been for the generosity of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss. Her legacy has, however, been overshadowed by the good works of her father, Louis, and her brother, Cleveland Orchestra benefactor (and Oberlin College graduate) John L. Severance. The Severances' longstanding involvement with and allegiance to Oberlin will be traced by journalist Diana Tittle, author of a 2010 biography of this remarkable Western Reserve family, in an illustrated lecture examining the life, times, and motivations of the now-often unheralded philanthropist Elisabeth Severance Prentiss.
This lecture is sponsored in conjunction with the Oberlin Heritage Center.
