Campus News

Dozens of handcrafted mugs of varying shapes, shades, and textures rest on tables throughout a large meeting space at First Church in Oberlin. These small, handheld items make for terrific gifts, and are traditionally sold in December. They also serve as inspiration for this week’s photo series.

Silhouettes and attentive audience members facing a bright glow is one photographer’s artistic interpretation of the energy during a concert inside Finney Chapel. The photo also serves as inspiration for this week’s photo series.

The Studio Art division of the Art Department hosts an art walk at the end of each semester that serves as a chance for students to showcase their work in exhibit spaces around campus. This fall, with the pandemic limiting viewing opportunities, the showcase became virtual. 

During Commencement/Reunion Weekend, graduating studio art majors display their work in an on-campus year-end show. This year works are displayed in a virtual exhibit. 

Inks, oil pastels, watercolors, and woodblock are just some of the materials current students in Oberlin’s Art department used to create interpretive self portraits and other pieces in this art walk.

Department of Art faculty periodically share their artwork in a faculty exhibition held in Richard D. Baron ’64 Art Gallery during the academic year. This time, we invite you to step inside a virtual exhibition and experience the works of some of our talented professors.

The students enrolled in the winter-term workshop Blades on Wood: Relief Printmaking for the Strongly Devoted display their work on Friday, January 22, in the South Dome of the Art Department in

On display at the Allen Memorial Art Museum through December 13, Body Proxy: Clothing in Contemporary Art examines contemporary approaches to clothing as a material in art. The exhibition highlights

The exhibition An Exercise in Freedom: The Mail Art of Edgardo Antonio Vigo is on display in Mudd Center library through Friday, June 5. Vigo was a pioneer of the mail art movement, which involved