Oberlin Portrait: Linda Weintraub on the Edge of Art By Emily Manzo ’02
	RELATED Back to the main story Emerging Arts Program Fall 2001 Schedule		Henry Luce Educators Oberlin's Henry Luce educators are: Visiting Professor of Theater and Dance Mirla Agnir; Assistant Professor Art Rian Brown-Orso; Visiting Professor of Biology Joel Dopp; Professor of English Phyllis Gorfain; Allen Memorial Art Museum Curator of Academic Programs and Exhibitions Stephan Jost; Assistant Professor of Music Education Jody Kerchner; Assistant Professor of Computer Music and Digital Arts Tom Lopez; Associate Professor of Dance Nusha Martynuk; Professor and Chair, Theater and Dance, Paul Moser; Professor of Electronic and Computer Music Gary Nelson; Associate Professor of History Steven Volk; and Associate Professor of Art Nanette Yannuzzi-Macias Formation of this group of educators fulfills one of the essential mandates of the Emerging Arts program: the expansion of its relevance across the disciplines. Being Luce Educators allows these professors to participate in the week-long workshops taught by the "maverick artists" who are guests of the program. They also attend a dinner with "these exemplary individuals," says Luce Professor of the Emerging Arts Linda Weintraub, where they have the chance "to explore the applicability of their innovative didactic techniques to courses taught at Oberlin." Weintraub is also overseeing the establishment of a pedagogical archive of the guest artists in the Maverick Artists class, and of particularly innovative members of the Oberlin faculty. "Inclusiveness and accessibility," says Weintraub, motivated this project. "The archive will generate a collection of videos of these inspired teachers teaching. Its formation is based upon the assumption that educational reform in the arts would be well-served if the initiative were led by the artists who are supplying current definitions of vanguard art … The ingenuity [artists] apply in their studios is also apparent in the classroom. Their studio work is widely known, but their classroom activities have never been documented." At least until now.