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3 Things with Matthew Rarey
January 31, 2024
Communications Staff
Matthew Rarey, the chair of Oberlin’s art history department and an associate professor of African and Black Atlantic art history, won the College Art Association’s prestigious Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in 2024.
![Matthew Rarey.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/matthew_rarey_2022_by_tanya_rosen-jones.jpg?itok=FXoD4sC-)
Jamie Overstreet Earns YB Staff Award for 2023
April 26, 2023
Office of Communications
Program coordinator for studio art and art history hailed for orchestrating the success of both departments.
![Jamie Overstreet.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/jamie_jacobs_by_bryan_rubin.jpg?itok=jYFEEqqC)
From Art History Major to Marketing Manager
March 10, 2023
Ava Miller '25
A series of marketing internships and a willingness to be open to new ideas paid off for Jessica Moskowitz, who handles media planning and buying of social media ads for Microsoft.
![Jessica and 3 others at a Microsoft sign outside an office building.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/jessica-moscowitz.jpg?itok=_azorR0C)
Chloe Lai Receives Fulbright to Taiwan
June 8, 2022
Amanda Nagy
An art history and East Asian studies double major with an education studies concentration, Lai is constantly striving to learn more about pedagogy and language acquisition.
![Chloe Lai '22 portrait Chloe Lai.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2022/chloelai-trj.jpg?itok=LCAaCcvS)
Watson Fellowship will take Madi Goetzke ’21 to Panama, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Brazil
May 7, 2021
Kyra McConnell ’22
Madi Goetzke ’21 will spend a year traveling the world as a Watson fellow to analyze the role of communally-based cultural heritage sites which double as UNESCO-designated World Heritage Sites.
![Portrait Photo of Madi Goetzke](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/madi_watson_fellowship_by_jonathan_clark_25.jpg?itok=9Oy248j-)
A Career in the Creative Side of Journalism
March 4, 2021
Yvonne Gay
Justine Goode ’16 has always wanted to work at a print magazine in either a design or an editorial capacity. Today, the former editor of the Grape, Oberlin's alternative student newspaper, is fulfilling both career goals at Vanity Fair.
![A woman stands next to a body of water across from downtown New York.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2021/justinegoode17.courtesy_of_j.goode.jpg?itok=kEeUfBUg)
From Pre-Med to Scientific Illustrator: Tiffany Fung '12
February 23, 2021
Jaimie Yue '22
Fung earned a master’s in scientific illustration at Zuyd University in the Netherlands. She recently founded Biotic Artlab, a medical and scientific illustration studio.
![Tiffany Fung faces medical illustration A medical illustration with three faces. Two of the faces reveal the human anatomy of a face.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/bioticartlab_mia_medicalillustration.jpg?itok=2Nb9W6cm)
The Allen Memorial Art Museum Reopens
September 1, 2020
Yvonne Gay
Late last month, a small group of new Oberlin faculty members stood in a large circle, six feet apart, in the King Sculpture Court of the Allen Memorial Art Museum. The invited group were among the first visitors inside the space since it closed in late March. This month the museum reopens with regular hours to members of the college community.
![Photo Credit: Dale Preston '83 People wearing mouth and nose masks walk through an art gallery.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2020/amamreopening.dalepreston.jpg?itok=3SaDo_zD)
Taking Her Time: Master of Art History Candidate Michelle Fikrig ’18
July 7, 2020
Jaimie Yue '22
Fikrig is carving a niche by incorporating themes of reproductive and queer rights advocacy into art historical research.
![Michelle Fikrig in front of a blue background with tree branches.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2020/filkrig.png?itok=fCRX4aUI)
Oberlin Holds Teach-in on the George Floyd Uprising
June 16, 2020
Communications Staff
The panel session served as a space for faculty to share their perspectives and insights about the recent events.
![After Minneapolis: A Teach-in on the George Floyd Uprising.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/teach-in-title-screen.jpg?itok=9Zsmr_zv)