News
Longtime Allen Memorial Art Museum Director Andria Derstine Announces Departure
October 14, 2024
Communications Staff
After more than a decade of exemplary leadership, Andria Derstine is leaving her post as the John G. W. Cowles Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) at Oberlin College
Omar Tells His Story
October 11, 2024
Stephanie Manning '23
This December, Oberlin will present a concert version of Rhiannon Giddens’ award-winning opera, both at Finney Chapel in Oberlin and the Maltz Performing Arts Center in Cleveland. Surrounding it are all kinds of cross-disciplinary events for campus and community.
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.
The Art of Difficult Decisions
January 29, 2024
Annie Zaleski
The museum world is known for posing big questions. The Allen Memorial Art Museum has a plan for addressing them.
Illuminating the Intangible
December 6, 2023
Annie Zaleski
The Allen Memorial Art Museum’s latest exhibit, Picturing the Intangible: Oberlin Looks at Dawoud Bey’s Night Coming Tenderly, Black, is part of a series exploring the Underground Railroad.
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.
Sound and Sport Converge in Season-Opening Festival October 9-10
September 29, 2021
Erich Burnett
“Music, Sports, and the Enduring Influence of Ancient Greece” draws upon resources from across Oberlin’s campus.
Use the Allen App to see—and hear about—works of art as never before
June 23, 2021
Megan Harding
Launched over the summer, the Allen App is a new tool for museum visitors to learn about and experience the collection. The application is loaded with audio and visual content on more than 60 works of art.
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.
New York Times names catalogue of AMAM’s Eva Hesse collection a Best Art Book of 2020
December 9, 2020
AMAM Staff
Eva Hesse: Oberlin Drawings, a catalogue of the artist’s works held by the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, has been selected by the New York Times as one of its Best Art Books of 2020.
