Feature Photo: Guerrilla Girls
Vida Weisblum, Managing Editor
December 11, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Visual Art
Two “broads” of Guerrilla Girls Broadband, a sister organization to the group of women known as Guerrilla Girls, address an audience of largely Studio Art and Art History majors and student activists at a talk in Wilder Hall on Tuesday. Founded in 1985, the Guerrilla Girls’ goal has always been...
In Computer Science Community Art Show, Context Makes All the Difference
Lya Finston
December 11, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Visual Art
The basement dining room of Harkness House was filled with a charged yet casual excitement last Saturday night when it opened its doors for the Computer Science Community Art Show. The Computer Science Majors’ Committee, which serves to represent and bolster Oberlin’s computer science community,...
Acoustics Meet Art in the Allen
Jake Frankenfield
December 4, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Music, Visual Art
Wandering among fine art and listening to Oberlin’s classical guitarists, visitors at the Allen Memorial Art Museum enjoyed a space where visual and sonic art converged Thursday evening. The museum was transformed from gallery to concert hall as two of its more expansive spaces — dedicated to mid...
Grashoff ’s New Book Uncovers Microscopic Life
Elizabeth Akant
October 30, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Visual Art
Photographer Linda Grashoff ’s new book They Breathe Iron brings together two dichotomies: nature versus technology and science versus art. 27 of the photos in They Breathe Iron are on view at Ginko Gallery & Studio through Nov. 15. Sometimes resembling oil spills, the photos demonstrate how a...
Paabus’ Prints, Sculptures Form Layered Landscapes
Lya Finston
October 30, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Recent Stories, Visual Art
The Richard D. Baron ’64 Art Gallery, located in the Ward Alumni Center, is bursting at the seams with Oberlin Professors Kristina Paabus’ and Jacob Ciocci’s vastly different yet equally compelling bodies of work. In their current exhibit, Fear Chaser, which opened Oct. 9 and will remain on displ...
Feature Photo: Nature Revealed
Vida Weisblum, Managing editor
October 2, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Visual Art
Through Nov. 8, the gallery at Firelands Association for the Visual Arts will display papercut art by regional artist Julie Friedman. Founded in 1979, the nonprofit organization located in the heart of Oberlin strives to enhance accessibility to the visual arts by holding various art exhibitions and...
Film Illustrates Printmaker’s Passion for Letterpress Art
Isabel Klein
September 18, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Visual Art
For 40-year-old Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., watching someone work an old-fashioned letterpress in Colonial Williamsburg was inspiration enough to trade in his business suit and high-paying corporate position for overalls and a salary of $7,000 per year. Since opening his own printing company, Kennedy has...
Meiji-Era Sculpture Returns to AMAM
Harley Bosco
September 11, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Visual Art
Upon hearing about the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s new Return of the Dragon exhibit, I couldn’t help but be excited: The exhibit, which honors the return of the infamous Coiling Dragon statue to King Sculpture Court, sounds more like the anticipated sequel to a popular chain of movies than an ar...
Arts Festival Seeks to Revitalize Abandoned Spaces
Lillian White
September 4, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Features, Visual Art
Just up the road in Lorain, Ohio, a festival is heating up. On Sept. 26 from 4 to 10 p.m., the FireFish Festival will rock the local arts scene, bringing people together for an evening of food and drink, music and movement and, as the name might suggest, fire breathers. The venue? A stretch of empty...
Jaar Discusses Major Projects, Artistic Ethos
May 1, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Visual Art
Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean-born visual artist and architect based in New York. Both a Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow, Jaar is most renowned for his work that engages with socio-political issues, such as The Rwanda Project (1994-1998). He has exhibited his work globally, from the Museum of Contemporary...
Feature Photo: AMAM Thursday Lecture Series
Vida Weisblum, Arts Editor
April 3, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Recent Stories, Visual Art
Haitian-born artist Edouard Duval-Carrié addresses an audience at the Allen Memorial Art Museum for the museum’s First Thursday lecture series, which takes place on the first Thursday of each month. Duval-Carrié gave a talk focusing on his painting Justicia, which he created as a response to the 1...
Mudd Library’s Special Collections and Letterpress Thrive Thanks to Vermue
Jeremy Reynolds, Staff Writer
April 3, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Literature & Poetry, Visual Art
Ed Vermue and I failed to acknowledge one another as we impatiently brushed past in the hallway before whirling in a simultaneous double-take, recognition arriving just a second too late. I had caught him miderrand, and rather than pop back into his office (for reasons I discovered later), we settled...