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Please join us tomorrow, MAY 15, at 155 South Main Street [in the room between Mickey Mart and Dominos] from 5-9pm to see an interactive installation project put on by the QUARTER COLLECTIVE with the help of Mickey Mart and Dominos.

Please come by to see this work that experiments with projection mapping, video, and sound installation - and learn more about our mission as an artist collective in Oberlin.

See attachment below for more information. Thanks so much.


-QUARTER COLLECTIVE-
Aria Dean
Myles Emmons
Ellen Giddings
Paris Gravley
Tom Kearney
Robb Pears

On Friday, May 10 at 7:15 pm at the
Heiser auditorium at Kendal at Oberlin,

The Kendal Art Committee is putting on a program about Emeritus Professor of Fine Arts, Paul Arnold’s, printmaking. Chair Nina Love will make introductory remarks, and DVDs of Paul at work, and being interviewed, are slated to be shown.

The Kendal Art Committee invites anyone interested in Paul and his work, and printmaking in general, to attend.

oberlincollegearchivesstudents:

Perhaps the most visually stimulating record of student life on campus is our poster collection. These student-made posters tell us a lot – they give us not only an idea of past events on campus, some of which would otherwise go undocumented, but they reveal the culture and visual aesthetic of Oberlin students at a given point in time.

Our most recent accession, a collection of 34 silkscreened event posters gifted by Raphael Martin ‘02, does exactly that.  During his four years at Oberlin, from 1998 to 2002, Martin collected these posters, most of which were silkscreened by students of Prof. John Pearson. They present a wide range of visual styles and advertise dances, concerts, art openings, parties, film screenings, speakers, and Oberlin’s Big Parade. Only a few duplicate posters already in our collections; together they represent an important cross-section of posters from the turn of the millennium.

I think the “Scotographs” poster is a particularly cool one. The word itself, popping against the blue, leads my eye back in space towards the guitar, which seems to be exploding riffs outwards through the stripes. The whole poster has a loud, screaming sound to it, and if I saw this poster today hanging in the Mudd stairwell today, I’d definitely go check these photos out.

-James

(top photo courtesy of Raphael Martin ‘02)

Read about a man’s collection of miniature books in his miniature library, as well as some other out-of-the ordinary books:

Neale Albert, 75, is a collector of miniature books, and he may be the most serious collector living in New York. By definition, miniature books are properly printed and bound, and for the most part no larger than three inches. Mr. Albert has over 4,000 of them, some the size of matchboxes and others smaller than a tab of chewing gum. Some of the books are worth many thousands of dollars.

For interesting books right on campus, come to the art library and learn about our collection of artists’ books, some of which are on display!

Full article here.

Come celebrate Clarence Ward’s birthday at the Art Library on April 15th with the opening of a special exhibit, In Solidarity- One Peace A Day:

February 2013 was marked by a growing level of stress on campus, generated by a series of bias-based incidents (graffiti, defaced posters, fliers and stickers placed under doors and in public areas, etc.).

Our students and faculty have used the recent incidents to spark teaching and discussion of a wide range of issues relating to diversity and inclusion at Oberlin and in the wider world. Student and faculty attended a series of community-wide educational events that included a teach-in, rally, and convocation.

The Art Library celebrates Clarence Ward’s Birthday with a display of over 14 photographs called ‘Oberlin: In Solidarity’.  These photos were taken by Sela Miller (Class of 2015), during the events.

Sela Miller is a second year student from Sharon, MA studying psychology at Oberlin College.  She began taking photographs for fun in the years preceding high school, and since then has moved on to working for the Office of Communications.  She enjoys photojournalism and portraits, but she has also been known to do nature and architecture photographs.

The productive reactions to the challenge we have faced, is very much in line with Oberlin’s history. The response from our students, faculty, staff, and fellow citizens has highlighted our devotion to Oberlin’s educational mission, as well as the strength and vitality of our community.

The exhibit will be up through the end of April. Stop in on the 15th to celebrate both Clarence Ward and our Oberlin community at large (there’s the possibility of winning prizes, too!)