Atheena Frizzell
July 9, 2020
When the College moved to remote learning this past spring, students enrolled in the Historic and Contemporary Debates in African American Education course knew they had to document the experience. Their documentary Boxes Will Be Provided felt like a necessary step in recording the impact of COVID-19 on Black Obies. Director and editor DaQuan Williams, OC ’20, had very little experience in film-making prior to embarking on this project, which clocks in at roughly two and a half hours and involves...
Kushagra Kar, Production Editor
April 23, 2020
Editor’s note: This is the fourth and final article in the Review’s series responding to the “What are you watching, Obies?” survey created by Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies Leah Vonderheide. As the COVID-19 pandemic keeps us tucked away in our homes, it’s clear that a majority of us are finding solace in movies, music, books, and video games. The real world remains behind locked doors, but in the meantime, new worlds await us through pages...
Kate Fishman, Associate Editor
April 17, 2020
Editor’s note: This is the third article in the Review’s ongoing series responding to the “What are you watching, Obies?” survey created by Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies Leah Vonderheide. Last week I made a gorgeous fried egg, salted and peppered it liberally, placed it gingerly over some rice, and had a mini photoshoot before devouring the fruits of my labor. Spending so much time at home over this past month has recentered these sorts of...
Aly Fogel, Associate Editor
April 14, 2020
Editor’s note: This article is part of the Review’s ongoing series responding to the “What are you watching, Obies?” survey created by Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies Leah Vonderheide. For the full survey results, read Professor Vonderheide’s introductory article. Somehow, it’s unsurprising that a gun-toting, gay zoo owner with a bleached mullet has caught the attention of Obies, wherever they may be sheltered-in-place. In Visiting Assistant...
“What are you watching, Obies?” Survey Results: Initial Reflections
April 13, 2020
Canceled Productions: Art in a Time of COVID-19
March 13, 2020
Kate Fishman, Associate Editor
May 3, 2020
Transitioning to online learning in March was disruptive across departments, and for many graduating Dance majors the transition to online learning meant drastically changing their visions for final capstone performances. On top of the energy depletion that comes with being away from Oberlin, plans for these performances — which are a key part of students’ farewells to Oberlin — needed to be significantly altered as a result of social isolation and the shift to digital communication. “It...
Nina Auslander
February 28, 2020
December 13, 2019
It is impossible to sit in on an AndWhat!? rehearsal and not be blown away by the power and energy they build. In their drive to rehearse each piece again and again until it is just right, and their ability to channel complicated and raw emotions into moving pieces, the group’s hard work, energy, and talent are palpable. AndWhat!? is a powerhouse hip-hop group that slays each performance, and creates an important space at Oberlin. “AndWhat!? was founded [in 1999] on the idea of Black female...
Katherine MacPhail, Editor-in-Chief
November 22, 2019
Kara Nepomuceno
November 8, 2019
Six figures in electric blue shorts huddle in a circle on the smooth wooden stage, their arms held tightly around each other. Walking clockwise, their circle begins to spin, whirling faster and faster until every other dancer is able to lift off the ground. Supported on the shoulders of their peers, their legs spiral outwards, and the circle blooms like a parachute with air. Just as suddenly, they land and careen to separate ends of the room, the circle dispersing into blue light. The moment...
Rachel Fang
October 4, 2019
Anna Farber
May 5, 2020
Art is always created in context — a truth made all the more apparent by the events of the past few months. Student artists at Oberlin, separated from campus resources, have had to adapt their creative practices for the semester, using this time to process the pandemic through art or to take a creative break from the world. Second-year Sociology and Studio Art double major Jacob Valero used his creative practices to help him adjust at the beginning of the pandemic. “Back...
Casey Troost, Staff Writer
May 3, 2020
A new collaborative art project created by Oberlin resident Tekikki Walker, OC ’12, and Calgary-based Simone Saunders was unveiled online on April 29 as part of The Social Distancing Festival. The online festival aims to showcase work by artists whose careers have been impacted by COVID-19 restrictions, like the closure of galleries. In an effort to foster an artistic community, festival organizer and curator Nick Green paired artists on the “Long Distance Art” portion of the site. Green...
Jaimie Yue, Arts & Culture Editor
March 13, 2020
As novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, continues to spread worldwide, global populations have responded with fear, anger, and despair. However, amid these emotional reactions, it is easy to forget the need for open communication, especially on campus. Oberlin’s Chinese Student Association seeks to change that with their program “CSA @ AMAM: Culture, Life, and Family Bonding in the Context of Coronavirus” at the Allen Memorial Art Museum today. Event attendees pre-registered for the program,...
Jaimie Yue, Arts & Culture Editor
March 6, 2020
Students, faculty, and community members gathered at the Allen Memorial Art Museum for “Afterwords: An Evening of Poetry at the AMAM” this past Tuesday. The event was in tandem with the “Afterlives of the Black Atlantic” exhibition, also at the AMAM. “Afterwords’’ featured spoken word poetry by nine students who not only responded to the exhibition, but added to the art and left the audience with more to reflect upon. The event was co-organized by members of OSLAM and the Oberlin...
Oberlin Sanctuary Exhibit Opens in Cleveland
March 6, 2020
The Body Behind the Art: Figure Models Discuss The Job
February 21, 2020
Art History Students Curate Exhibition About Abolitionism
February 14, 2020
Alice Koeninger, Senior Staff Writer
February 21, 2020
Only a few weeks after the beloved writer and Lorain native Toni Morrison passed away last August, Professor of Studio Art and Africana Studies Johnny Coleman began planning an event to commemorate Morrison’s first birthday after her death. The culmination of Coleman’s efforts was a nine-hour remembrance service hosted by the Oberlin College President’s office. The event turned out to be a huge collaborative effort, with support from Africana Studies, the Art department, the Lorain County...
Nalin Beckman, Ken Grossi, and Nathan Carpenter
December 6, 2019
In the third grade I, like every other elementary-school student in Oberlin’s public schools, received a copy of an Oberlin history textbook. The book portrayed Oberlin as a utopian community that had transcended issues of gender and race from its inception. Yet my lived experiences and the stories I heard growing up as an Oberlin resident often contradicted this idealistic narrative. I was introduced to the monograph Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio last semester...
Middle School Students Celebrate Poetic Accomplishments
December 6, 2019
November 22, 2019
German Department Celebrates 50-Year Anniversary
November 8, 2019
Book Nook Review: Ill Will Presents Gripping Mysteries
November 1, 2019
October 11, 2019
Book Nook Monthly Reviews: Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home”
September 27, 2019
Athina Apazidis, Staff Cartoonist
March 13, 2020
Clair Wang, Staff Cartoonist
March 6, 2020
Clair Wang, Staff Cartoonist
February 7, 2020
Michelle Liu
December 6, 2019
Gigi Ewing, Senior Associate Editor
July 5, 2020
Editor’s note: Grace Smith has worked as a production editor for the Review, and was uninvolved with the editing of this interview. Smith is not working at the Review during...
Ivy Fernandez Smith, Production Manager
May 25, 2020
College fourth-year Devyn Malouf, a Psychology major, has served as The Oberlin Review’s production manager since 2019’s Commencement & Reunion Weekend. Malouf first...
Casey Troost, Staff Writer
March 13, 2020
Conservatory third-year Amer Hasan is now the clarinet finalist for the 2020 Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition. Hasan’s mentor is Oberlin Professor of Clarinet...
Lauren O’Hear, Staff Writer
March 6, 2020
Anne Trubek, OC ’88, is the founder of Belt Magazine and Belt Publishing. After graduating, Trubek returned to teach at Oberlin as a rhetoric professor from 1997–2015...
Abigail Kopp and Kushagra Kar
February 28, 2020
Melissa Floyd is currently a NASA research biologist who specializes in environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, microbial biogeochemistry, and astrobiology. After graduating...
Nina Auslander
February 21, 2020
Dr. Bernard C. Perley is an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where he teaches anthropology classes such as American Indian...
Mobey Irizarry Lambright, Pop Musician and TIMARA Major
February 14, 2020