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]