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Partnership will yield host site for new BA/BFA combined degree program.

The question of obsolescence—whether a technology, artwork, product, or idea remains relevant—is crucial to the work of artists and scientists. Obsolescence is relevant for myriad reasons. For one, we are often left wondering how much time we have left, with both our technology and life itself. At the same time, contemporary scientific and artistic developments are informed by previous trends.

Five-year path toward two degrees includes focused work in the thriving arts world of nearby Cleveland.

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.

Mufalo Mufalo devotes the summer to empowerment through art across his native Africa.

Program coordinator for studio art and art history hailed for orchestrating the success of both departments.

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.

Christensen’s new book and multidisciplinary art exhibition explores society’s perceived need to perpetually update our electronics.

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. 

A senior studio art student, Tom received the top prize for his 10-piece sculpture submission that explores the human responses to death.