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Started by MI Leggett ’17 in their Oberlin dorm room, the anti-waste, gender-free fashion line Official Rebrand is expanding aesthetics one outfit at a time.

Anna Bario ’03 and Page Neal ’04 build their jewelry brand around fair sourcing, sustainability, and heirloom-quality design.

Partnership will yield host site for new BA+BFA in Integrated Arts dual 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.