News
Oberlin Shansi Announces Summer 2019 In-Asia Grant Recipients
Erin Ulrich ’18
Four students have received In-Asia grants for summer 2019.
Calibrating Approaches to Art: Elka Lee-Shapiro ’18
Phoebe Pan ’20
Elka Lee-Shapiro ’18 is working with various arts organizations and museums to show how engagement with art can result in social and political impact.
History Major to Curatorial Assistant: Ava Prince ’18
Erin Ulrich ’18
Ava Prince ’18 is exploring her dual passions for art and outreach in her position as curatorial assistant in the education department at the Allen Memorial Art Museum.
Museum’s Revered Ainsworth Collection Travels to Exhibitions in Japan
Megan Harding
For the first time ever, the Allen Memorial Art Museum will loan a large selection of woodblock prints in the ukiyo-e art form.
Creating Space, In Oberlin
Erin Ulrich ’18
Alumni panelists who participated in Creating Space: Curating Black Art Now, a symposium hosted by the Allen Memorial Art Museum, reflect on the museum and their experiences as students.
Students to Curatorial Assistants: Ava Prince ’18 and Emma Laube ’17
Erin Ulrich ’18
In their first post-grad jobs, Emma Laube ’17 and Ava Prince ’18 are working as curatorial assistants in the Allen Memorial Art Museum.
Counternarratives Installation Examines Bias in the News Media
Megan Harding
Brooklyn-based artist Alexandra Bell will mount large-scale works on two campus buildings, prompting viewers to think critically about how race and violence are portrayed in the New York Times.
Lessons from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919
Amanda Nagy
A historian of the First World War, Professor of History Leonard V. Smith’s newest book deepens the dialogue between history and international relations theory.
Barbara Bloom Gives First Thursday Talk
Erin Ulrich ’18
Barbara Bloom addressed the Oberlin College community in a public talk about her FRONT installation at the Allen Memorial Art Museum.
Beauty Amid the Brutality
Erich Burnett
Cross-campus collaboration celebrates artistic master works and hidden gems made in the shadow of WWI.