Reverberation

Dan Tranberg of the Plain Dealer offers an insightful review of Audra's solo exhibition "Audra Skuodas: Reverberation." The show was originally scheduled to run through Friday, Dec. 21, but has been extended through Sunday, Jan. 13.

1point618 Gallery (6421 Detroit Ave. on Cleveland's West Side) is open by appointment only. Call 216-281-1618 or go to www.1point618gallery.com.

ART WALK: Saturday December 15th from 7:00-9:00 PM

Come and see the art produced in various classes this year. Students are exhibiting their artwork in various buildings throughout the campus so you can walk from one to the other. Refreshments will be served!

EVENTS WILL BE HELD IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:

+ THE ALLEN ART BUILDING INCLUDING THE ART LIBRARY:
Featuring the work of our Drawing, Sculpture, Artist Books and Painting Students.

+ THE "DOMES"
Featuring the work of our drawing and color theory students

+ THE CLARENCE WARD ADDITION
Featuring the work of our Painting Students.

+ FISHER HALL GALLERY
Featuring the work of our Senior Studio and Thesis Students.

+ HALES GYMNASIUM
Featuring the Work of the Advanced Individual Projects Class

ALSO! NOT TO BE MISSED!
Digital Art And Public Space: “Everything But The Hall Auditorium”
Thursday, December 13 @ 5PM, Hall Auditorium

Students in Digital Art and Public Space have created site-specific installations for Hall Auditorium, with one catch: they are not allowed to use the theater. We can expect sound installations in bathrooms and projections on the façade, amongst many other wonders of site-specific digital art and public space!

Creative Resistance Book Launch

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12 @ 5:30 PM
AZARIAH'S CAFÉ, MUDD LIBRARY

The students in Creative Resistance have made completed an amazing book project that has digital, analog, and hybrid components. We will be displaying the book, in all its parts (via book, projectors, speakers, analog circuits, and computers), at the new Azariah Café in Mudd Library. Please join us!

18th c. digital

John Hugens, OC '08, has created a 21st century 3-D model of an 18th
century English Palace, Blenheim Palace originally designed by Sir
John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. John used Cinema 4D, a 3D
package used by many architectural firms to digitally reconstruct the
complex palace with the measured drawings published in Vitruvius
Britannicus (Art Library Special Collections ), a multi-volume
collection of engravings by Colen Campbell, the first volume of which
was published in 1717. Vitruvius Britannicus contains nearly every
important work of contemporary architecture in England starting with
Inigo Jones as well as many original designs by Campbell himself.


Blenheim was constructed between 1705 and 1722 after the First Duke
of Marlborough won victories against the French and Bavarians
during the Second War of Spanish Succession. Blenheim Palace is the
birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill - his birth room is now a tourist
attraction. John's virtual Blenheim can be explored from many angles
and provides an understanding of the architects' play of depth and
light. Traveling through the model provides a feeling of envelopment,
which Vanbrugh's architecture is known for.

The Creativity Fund: Get funding for your brilliant idea!

Announcement, Posted Nov. 14
Deadline: December 4th
Sponsored by the Creativity & Leadership: Entrepreneurship at Oberlin Project, The Creativity Fund offers awards of $500 to $1,500 to support a range of student ventures. Open to students of any year and major (including graduating seniors), these awards are ideal for students who have developed entrepreneurial ideas and are poised to take the next step toward realizing their projects. Strong candidates will have demonstrated leadership and project management skills, as well as a compelling commitment to their proposed idea/venture.

Full description, application, and FAQs are available from the Creativity & Leadership website at www.oberlin.edu/creativity/opportunities.html

Posted by Creativity

Earth Water Air Fire

Tomorrow [Fri. 16 Nov.] @ 5:30 in the evening, the students in my Digital Art and Public Space class will be showing video projections they have made for the courtyard of the art building. Their assignment was to figure out how to make multiple projections appear simultaneously using only one projector, no peripheral equipment. They have to project on to a "found" surface (no screens!), and were to create video that worked with the surface. They are allowed two speakers for sound. There are four groups of students, and each group was given one word, Earth, Water, Air, or Fire. That word is the impulse point to drive the projection pieces.

Come by! We will be there for an hour or so!

Best wishes,
Julia

from Julia Christensen
date Nov 14, 2007 10:03 PM

Funding for student exhibits

From Susan Morse:
Please share information about this opportunity with your students and advisees.

Funding is available to students on a competitive basis through The PoGo Family Foundation for student-curated exhibitions of 2-D or 3-D art. The grants are intended to cover the costs of materials to mount the exhibit, documentation and related marketing materials for a gallery and/or Internet-based exhibit. The exhibition requires faculty sponsorship and should be developed either in conjunction with an existing course, an approved independent study program or a Winter Term project.

The maximum amount available for each grant is $500. One or two grants will be awarded for projects undertaken during Winter Term, with additional grants awarded for projects undertaken during the spring semester.

Applications for Winter Term projects must be received by November 27, 2007, with awards announced on December 3, 2007. Applications for spring semester projects must be received by February 29, 2008, with awards announced on March 14, 2008.

Full guidelines and the required cover page and budget form are available on the Sponsored Programs Blackboard site, which may be accessed through the Offices & Departments listing of the campus directory online.

Questions about the program and possible grant applications should be addressed to Professor Johnny Coleman, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Art (johnny.coleman@oberlin.edu or x56908).

from Susan Morse Invited
	♫ susan.morse@oberlin.edu

Global Compass brings the art world to Oberlin

To better understand the effect of globalization on contemporary art,
five international curators and critics will discuss their views at
Global Compass, a free public symposium to be held on Friday, November
9, and Saturday, November 10.

Cleveland Plain Dealer art and architecture critic Steven Litt will
moderate the discussions, which will be held in the West Auditorium of
Oberlin College's Science Center, beginning at 1:30 p.m. on Friday.
The event will conclude with a reception at 6 p.m. Saturday at the
College's Allen Memorial Art Museum.

Five distinguished speakers will each speak for one hour, exploring
how "the advent of digital communication, the reduction of
international barriers, and the rise of an international economy have
changed the rules of art forever," says John Pearson, Oberlin's
Young-Hunter Professor of Studio Art, who planned the symposium.

"By the end of the 20th century, contemporary art had truly become
global in scope," says Pearson. "New York could no longer claim its
distinction as the major center of 'new art.' Indeed, the 'new'
contemporary art was proliferating internationally.

"London, Berlin, Leipzig, Beijing, Tokyo, and other cities became
centers of creative explosion. Further, the 'new art' did not appear
to have just one major movement – one set of attitudes – that could
claim center stage. 'New art' had become multicultural, multifaceted,
and multiconceptual.

"The loosening of economic, cultural, political, and social-system
boundaries – globalization – had broadened creative possibilities, or
perhaps the very definition of art, to challenge and inspire artists
everywhere," Pearson says.

riday, November 9
1:30 - 2:30 pm - Hans Ulrich Obrist
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Roger McDonald
3:30 - 4:30 pm - Steve Litt
4:30 - 5:30 pm - Q&A

Saturday, November 10
10:00 - 11:00 am - Roberta Smith
11:00 - Noon - Chrissie Iles
12:15 - 1:30 pm - Lunch
1:45 - 2:45 pm - Kay Heymer
2:45 - 3:30 pm - Q&A
3:45 - 5:45 pm - Panel discussion with further question time
(moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist)

6:00 - 7:30 pm - Reception, Allen Memorial Art Museum (East Gallery)

[excerpted from Oberlin Online, "News and Features" November 5, 2007 &
www.oberlin.edu/amam/GlobalCompass.htm.]

ARTIST and ALUM Aimee Lee

will be lecturing on her work
MONDAY NOVEMBER 5TH
4:45
CLASSROOM ONE

AIMEE LEE 'OC 99 worked for NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) as an arts administrator, finished a masters in Book Arts and Sculpture at Columbia College has been successfully exhibiting her work. In addition she has attended many residencies throughout the us. She has a rich breadth of experience and insight to share with our majors.

from Nanette Yannuzzi-Macias <Nanette.Yannuzzi@oberlin.edu>

LoVid

LoVid will be giving a presentation on their work on
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16
2PM
KULAS CONCERT HALL, OBERLIN CONSERVATORY

"LoVid is an interdisciplinary artist duo composed of Tali Hinkis and Kyle
Lapidus. Our work includes live video installations, sculptures, digital
prints, patchworks, media projects, performances, and video recordings. We
combine many opposing elements in our work, contrasting hard electronics
with soft patchworks, analog and digital, or handmade and machine produced
objects. This multidirectional approach is also reflected in the content of
our work: romantic and aggressive, wireless and wire-full. We are interested
in the ways in which the human body and mind observe, process, and respond
to both natural and technological environments, and in the preservation of
data, signals, and memory."
http://www.lovid.org/

For questions and more information, please call the office of Julia
Christensen, Visiting Assistant Professor of Emerging Arts @ (440) 775-8519,
or email @ julia.christensen@oberlin.edu

Coriana Close at Haverford

The October 2, 2007 issue of the The Bi-College News (a newsletter for Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges) highlights three exhibitions including one by Obie art student Coriana Close. Her photographs “A Journey Towards Hope” are now on display at Haverford.
[Thanks to Erik Inglis for this information.]

Frank Lloyd Wright Acoustics

Thursday, Oct. 18 5PM
Physics Prof. Bruce Richards: "Weltzheimer-Johnson House: Good for Performance?'
A gallery talk about the accoustics of the FLW house, 534 Morgan Street.

For more information, visit
http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/flwright.html

Public Art for Public Schools, Winter Term 2008

Julia Vogl (OC 07) says:"I am writing to inform you about a Winter Term opportunity at my office in NYC. 

I have attached the description below and if you could spread the word to those that you think might be interested, that would be great."

Public Art for Public Schools, Winter Term 2008
Are you interested in Architecture, Art, and visiting tons of New York City Public Schools?
Come to NYC for Winter Term and be an intern for the Public Art for Public Schools program run through New York City School Construction Authority.

The program, is somewhat like Art Rental for New York City schools, yet it does a lot more then lend out art. Public Art for Public Schools (PAPS) commissions artists to create installations for new schools that are being constructed. It also runs an art adoption program, letting schools that are already in existence choose works from 1,200 pieces in our warehouse for their walls. The Program seeks out artists to create curriculums with students to develop a collaborative public installation for their school. And finally, PAPS maintains a conservation program, visiting the massive collection spread over all five boroughs, and preserving artworks that are in need of attention.

(For more info: http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/SCA/Programs/PAPS/default.htm )
What you would do: As an intern over Winter Term, your main responsibility would be to go on site visits to Public Schools in all five boroughs and do inventory of the collection, as part of a team. There would be some data entry, and site planning, but mostly it would be traveling and seeing different schools and different art works. The collection ranges from Romare Bearden murals, to WPA murals, sculptures, to contemporary installations. You would also spend time with an Oberlin Alum (Julia Vogl 07).

How to Apply: Looking for someone passionate in art/architecture, who is detail oriented. Please send cover letter and resume by November 15th to :

Dr. Michele Cohen
Public Art for Public Schools
mcohen@nycsca.org

More art as political engagement: Melanie Friend

Sarah Schuster said...

The Yes Men brought an exciting perspective on art to the campus...I have seldom seen a turnout like the one at West Lecture Hall when they gave their lecure! I hope some, if not all of you, will join the Art Department and GAWS in welcoming visiting artist/photographer, Melanie Friend, (from England) when she lectures on her Photographs in Classroom 1 on Tuesday, October 16th at 4:30. Melanie's work also uses art as a form of political activism, though she does this through the medium of photography. For students interested in political engagement through art this lecture will be an interesting follow up on the Yes Men. Hope to see you there!

Sarah Schuster
October 13, 2007 11:21 AM

Oberlin Arts in the News

Hi Everyone,
I just glanced at the Oberlin in the news page and found a remarkable number of stories relating to the work we do, from alum Andre Emmerich, to Art Rental, to press coverage of Pipo's show in LA, to Archeology Major Sarah Arriaga. I've pasted in the synopses below; to find the articles they summarize go to:

http://www.oberlin.edu/news-info/oberlin_in_news/

all the best,
Erik

New York Times Reports Death of Andre Emmerich '44 September 26, 2007 - André Emmerich, the renowned Manhattan art dealer,died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82. The Times described Emmerich, who graduated from Oberlin in 1944 at the age of 19, as "an early champion of the 1950s and '60s school of Color Field painting." He also represented, among others, David Hockney and Anthony Caro. His much-photographed 150-acre sculpture park in Pawling, New York,displayed large-scale works by Caro, Alexander Liberman, Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, George Rickey, Keith Haring, and Hockney.

Oberlin Students Discuss Art Rental Program on CNN September 21, 2007 – CNN aired a feature on the College's art rental program that was broadcast the previous day on Cleveland's NBC affiliate WKYC. "I think it's pretty amazing that this program exists here and that it's continued so long successfully," said Natasha '09, at the Allen Memorial Art Museum on art rental day. "It's not a privilege the students take lightly," commented the WKYC reporter Jacque Smith. "People ask what happens when college students spill beer on their Picassos," said Raphael '09. "The only answer is: They don't."

Archeology Major Sarah Arriaga '07 Values Multiple Internships, reports
Plain Dealer
September 21, 2007 - Students, such as archeology major Sarah Arriaga '07, find that doing two or more internships helps them zero in on a specific occupation in a broad field, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In the article, Arriaga cites several reasons why her internship was important to her [career] goals. Also interviewed for the article was Oberlin Career Services Director Leo Charette, who explained why internships have to be "meaty." "We want it to be a broader experience than just something employers might need done in the month of January."

Los Angeles Times Reviews Exhibition by Pipo Nguyen-duy
September 21, 2007 – In its review of Associate Professor of Art Pipo Nguyen-duy's East of Eden exhibition at the Sam Lee Gallery, the Los Angeles Times says, "Pipo's pictures read as allegorical tableaux, slightly stilted scenes orchestrated to emblematize a particular condition. The Vietnamese-born photographer, a refugee at 13 and now a professor at Oberlin College, started this East of Eden series in the summer after Sept. 11, 2001." Hosts of KPFK Pacifica Radio's Sound Exchange also interviewed the artist in a walk+talk through the Chinatown gallery.

Erik Inglis
Associate Professor of Art
Co-Chair for Art History
Art Dept
Oberlin College
440-775-8554

Obie Sighting -- Carleton Varney, Interior Designer

Carleton Varney, OC'58, (the Dorothy Draper company) is a top international designers. See his CV at:
http://www.dorothydraper.com/cv.htm

Yes Men agree....

... to come to Oberlin.
When: Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, 6:30 pm
Where: Science Center: West Lecture Hall
Cost: free
Sponsor: Art Department, Ellen H. Johnson Contemporary Art Fund

The "Yes Men" -- Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno -- have received international acclaim for their work publicly impersonating powerful individuals and corporations such as Exxon, Dow Chemical, and the George W. Bush presidential campaign staff, at conferences, on television, radio, film, and the internet. These political activists/tricksters stage these events in order to "correct" the identities of these institutions, portraying them in a light that the public is not used to seeing. Each of these events sparks huge media attention, harnessing the mass media as a vehicle for activism.

Among other accomplishments, their work has resulted in a feature film, The Yes Men, distributed by United Artists and directed by Chris Smith (American Movie, American Job, Home Movie). They have written a book, The Yes Men, published by Disinformation Press. Members of the Yes Men have received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Rockefeller Fund for Media Artists, Creative Capital, and the Herb Alpert Foundation. Their work has been shown at major museums such as the Whitney Museum of American Art and Mass/MoCA


[from the Oberlin Events Calendar; copied 8Oct'07 BQP]