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Winter Term: Creating Music Miles Apart
September 23, 2020
Yvonne Gay
Seniors Arthur Welsh and Mark Ligonde had an ambitious goal for Winter Term. The pair planned to release a seven-song album with six different genres and subgenres of music, while residing miles apart. The project would challenge their compositional and production skills, but the end result was even more complex and creative than they imagined.
Winter Term: The Art of the Artist Book
September 15, 2020
Yvonne Gay
After spending a month researching artist books and creating a book of her own, Marie Romanelli ’21 is officially hooked on the craft, both as an artist and as a short-form poet.
Winter Term: Butterflies, One of Nature’s Flashiest Pollinators
September 14, 2020
Yvonne Gay
Mary Perchlik adores butterflies. That interest led to her month-long project in August, which combined the study of butterflies on a species level while maintaining a broader focus on environmental systems that support butterflies and their interactions between different plants, insects, and habitats.
Winter Term: Recording the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with Piano
September 10, 2020
Yvonne Gay
Fourth-year violin major Peiwen Su took on the ambitious project to learn and record the entire Stravinsky Violin Concerto in D major. The project was both challenging and inspirational—and demonstrated to Su what is possible in this new reality.
Winter Term: The Auto Drink Dispenser
September 8, 2020
Yvonne Gay
Creating an auto drink dispenser is something Thomas Heffer ’21 had toyed with for quite some time. However, his busy schedule wouldn’t allow him to actively pursue it.
Winter Term - Summer 2020
September 3, 2020
Yvonne Gay
More than 200 students performed individual and group projects during this year’s Winter Term. Although typically held in January, it was shifted to August this year under the same premise: a time for students to explore opportunities outside of their regular course of study.
Film by first-year Alba Robledo Díaz Accepted into Two Festivals
May 21, 2020
Hillary Hempstead
The cinema studies major's short film Accidentes takes a slightly satirical point of view on death.
How Organs Become Vital
May 18, 2020
Erich Burnett
International travel—and Oberlin opportunities—proved pivotal for Fulbright Finalist Celina Kobetitsch ’18.
Resounding Runout
February 12, 2020
Erich Burnett
First-year students complete a winter term tour, bridging cultures along the way.
Sonic Arts in Society Develops Innovative Music and Technology Workshops for Hospital Community
February 3, 2020
Amanda Nagy
In this community-based project, students worked on prototypes that will be implemented in the spring.
