News
Oberlin Joins Park Arts, Bringing World-Class Programs to Historic Synagogue
April 9, 2025
Office of Communications
Partnership will yield host site for new BA/BFA combined degree program.

A Cosmic Duet
March 21, 2025
Eloise Rich ’26
The question of obsolescence—whether a technology, artwork, product, or idea remains relevant—is crucial to the work of artists and scientists. Obsolescence is relevant for myriad reasons. For one, we are often left wondering how much time we have left, with both our technology and life itself. At the same time, contemporary scientific and artistic developments are informed by previous trends.

Oberlin Launches Combined BA/BFA in Integrated Arts
February 21, 2025
Communications Staff
Five-year path toward two degrees includes focused work in the thriving arts world of nearby Cleveland.

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.

Paintbrush Empowerment
May 15, 2023
Grant Segall
Mufalo Mufalo devotes the summer to empowerment through art across his native Africa.

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.

Community Mural Project Highlights Aspects of Oberlin
September 14, 2021
Yvonne Gay
More than 100 town and college members picked up artists' brushes and applied their painting skills to a 32-foot mural in Carpenter Court late last month during Community Paint Day. The result is an expressive collage that the organizer of the project hopes will fill passersby with Oberlin pride.

Upgrade Available: A Conversation with Julia Christensen, Associate Professor of Integrated Media
October 27, 2020
Amanda Nagy
Christensen’s new book and multidisciplinary art exhibition explores society’s perceived need to perpetually update our electronics.

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.

Brian Tom ’20 Wins AICUO Grand Award For Visual Arts
April 29, 2020
Kyra McConnell ’22
A senior studio art student, Tom received the top prize for his 10-piece sculpture submission that explores the human responses to death.
