Luce Professor of Emerging Arts Linda Weintraub Explains It All For You By Marci Janas '91
	RELATED Con Portrait: Linda Weintraub		Yes, but is it art? Luce Professor of Emerging Arts Linda Weintraub illuminates and explains art that challenges cultural norms and common expectations. Photo by Al Fuchs. The Oberlin program established by Henry Luce Professor of Emerging Arts Linda Weintraub integrates, she says in the current Conservatory Portrait, "the intractably avant-garde into the content of courses and explores the manner in which these art works necessitate innovative pedagogical strategies." As part of that integration and exploration, Weintraub has crafted a season of programming for the fall semester that offers these "maverick artists" for the Oberlin community's pedagogical consideration: Phillippe Petit, high wire artist and artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City; Choreographer Arthur Aviles, founder of the Typical Theatre; Reynols, an Argentine experimental music band led by Miguel Tomasin, a musician with Down’s Syndrome; Japanese-American performance artists Eiko and Koma; and Visual artist Eve Andree Laramee. These guest artists are part of the "Maverick Artists/Visionary Educators" Series, sponsored by the Henry Luce Initiative in the Emerging Arts. All events are free and open to the public. Weintraub was appointed Luce Professor in the Emerging Arts in July 2000. Her professorship, funded by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, prepares students to contribute to the arts in today's technologically enhanced and genre-crossing environment—an environment that demands new, interdisciplinary models of arts education, and an exploration of the intellectual framework supporting it. Weintraub integrates contemporary art making with academic scholarship, examining the concepts, ethics and aesthetics of the moment in the process. Established in 1968, the Luce Program encourages academic innovation and creativity through integrative and interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research in American private higher education. The Emerging Arts Program at Oberlin College builds upon Oberlin's distinguished tradition of pedagogical experimentation. For more information, please contact Linda Weintraub at 440-775-8160 or at 845-758-9289.
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