Kantara Crafts Alia Kate '08
Kantara Crafts is an entrepreneurial fair-trade business that exports quality artisanal goods from women's cooperatives in Morocco to the United States. Kantara seeks to establish local and long-lasting relationships on both the supply- and demand-side by bridging the gap between women artisans in Morocco and local, socially conscious communities in the United States.
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Skritter George saines '08
Nick winter '08
Scott erickson '08
We are making Skritter, a web application for students of Chinese (and Japanese) to learn characters and vocabulary through written practice. We are developing stroke-level handwriting recognition algorithms that will give instant and specific feedback on the characters that users write, as well as an intelligent learning system that will manage their vocabulary and select characters for them to learn and review.
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So What Magazine Madeleine Davis-Hayes ’09 (B.A. English and Art History)
Matthew Evans ’08 (B.A. Comparative Literature)
Brittany Taylor ’08 (B.A. English)
So What aims to provide a forum for theoretical discourse in emerging art and culture. So What is less a question than a suggestion for understanding what goes on.
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Trans-masculine Self-Representations: Images of IdentityClara Brasseur ’08
Amy Caes ’08
Trans-masculine self-representations: images of identity was an exhibit that displayed works by Eddie Gesso, Melsen Carlsen, and Cobi Moules. These artists address representations of trans identities through different media, exploring the ways in which bodies and gender are understood and visually presented.
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Music in Non-Traditional SpacesJames Scott Chowning ’08
with Evan Adams ’09
Our goal in this project is to learn about creating music in non-traditional spaces, to create awareness of this perspective in performance practice, and to further our careers as electro-acoustic musicians by analyzing and performing in sonically complex natural and man-made environments.
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Bach’s Suites for Solo Cello (Recording Project and Tour)Steuart Pincombe ’09
The project is a presentation of the complete suites for solo cello by Bach. I will be presenting concerts in nine different cities across the United States in February. My goal is to present Bach’s cello suites as I believe they are intended to be played, with a focus on presenting the original bowings written in the Anna Magdalena Bach copy of Johann Sebastian Bach’s manuscript.
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Summer internships
Last summer, five Oberlin students explored the spectrum of entrepreneurship through NEOCEP-funded internships. Alex Birnie, a junior student in both the Conservatory and College of Arts and Sciences, interned with Gerald Wirth, the Artistic Director of the Vienna Boys Choir. Cher-Wen DeWitt spent her first summer as an Oberlin student preparing for a career path aimed at providing humanitarian medical relief in underdeveloped countries.  Molly Danielsson, a student in Environmental Studies, prepared to launch her own art studio by interning with painter Jennifer Delilah at her New York studio, and Diana Frame, a Comparative Literature major, learned first-hand the ins and outs of film production and editing through an internship with filmmaker Rian Orso. Environmental Studies major Elisa Saltet considered her internship with landscape artist Walter Cudnohufsky a vital element in her education and critical to her entrepreneurial aspirations.

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