News
3 Things with Matthew Rarey
January 31, 2024
Communications Staff
Matthew Rarey, the chair of Oberlin’s art history department and an associate professor of African and Black Atlantic art history, won the College Art Association’s prestigious Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in 2024.
![Matthew Rarey.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/matthew_rarey_2022_by_tanya_rosen-jones.jpg?itok=FXoD4sC-)
Paintbrush Empowerment
May 15, 2023
Grant Segall
Mufalo Mufalo devotes the summer to empowerment through art across his native Africa.
![Mufalo Mufalo.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/mufalo_mufalo_courtesy_of_mufalo_mufalo.jpeg?itok=PpHoXrJj)
Jamie Overstreet Earns YB Staff Award for 2023
April 26, 2023
Office of Communications
Program coordinator for studio art and art history hailed for orchestrating the success of both departments.
![Jamie Overstreet.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/jamie_jacobs_by_bryan_rubin.jpg?itok=jYFEEqqC)
Community Mural Project Highlights Aspects of Oberlin
September 14, 2021
Yvonne Gay
More than 100 town and college members picked up artists' brushes and applied their painting skills to a 32-foot mural in Carpenter Court late last month during Community Paint Day. The result is an expressive collage that the organizer of the project hopes will fill passersby with Oberlin pride.
![A large mural collage of an owl, people, and the words we are Oberlin.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2021/upperweareoberlinmural.tanyarosen-jones97.jpg?itok=QI6Uw7r4)
Upgrade Available: A Conversation with Julia Christensen, Associate Professor of Integrated Media
October 27, 2020
Amanda Nagy
Christensen’s new book and multidisciplinary art exhibition explores society’s perceived need to perpetually update our electronics.
![Julia Christensen e-waste photography A gallery wall of photographs.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2020/artcenter_jc_e-waste_pics-news.jpg?itok=ru_Hdi4x)
The Allen Memorial Art Museum Reopens
September 1, 2020
Yvonne Gay
Late last month, a small group of new Oberlin faculty members stood in a large circle, six feet apart, in the King Sculpture Court of the Allen Memorial Art Museum. The invited group were among the first visitors inside the space since it closed in late March. This month the museum reopens with regular hours to members of the college community.
![Photo Credit: Dale Preston '83 People wearing mouth and nose masks walk through an art gallery.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2020/amamreopening.dalepreston.jpg?itok=3SaDo_zD)
Brian Tom ’20 Wins AICUO Grand Award For Visual Arts
April 29, 2020
Kyra McConnell ’22
A senior studio art student, Tom received the top prize for his 10-piece sculpture submission that explores the human responses to death.
![Asian man smiling and wearing a black shirt and jean shirt.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/brian_tom_head_shot-edit-ns.jpg?itok=saIog7GY)
Staff and Alumni Use 3D Printing to Help Fight the Spread of COVID-19
April 17, 2020
Hillary Hempstead
College staff and alumni are part of a growing number of individuals and entities using 3D printers to make personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers and others on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic.
![green 3D printed headband.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/mohler-v4.png?itok=HMENZaGW)
Bridget Conway Honored as Newman Civic Fellow
March 17, 2020
Amanda Nagy
Students selected for the fellowship are leaders on their campuses who demonstrate a commitment to finding solutions for challenges facing communities.
![Bridget Conway Newman Civic Fellowship Blond woman standing in tweed jacket standing on street sidewalk.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2020/bridget_conway_fellowship_2-jack_lichtenstein_23.jpg?itok=I4tylBb1)
Applying Experience: Nia Owen ’18
May 6, 2019
Phoebe Pan ’20
Nia Owen ’18 is heading to Cambridge University to pursue a Master of Philosophy in film and screen studies.
![Nia Owen ’18 Nia Owen against a city backdrop](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/nia_owen_headshot.jpg?itok=YtgfjYVi)