This Week in Photos: A Walk in the Park</h1> <article> <h1>This Week in Photos: A Walk in the Park</h1> <p>ygay — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:18:19 +0000</p> <span>This Week in Photos: A Walk in the Park</span> <span><span>ygay</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-09-25T10:18:19-04:00" title="Friday, September 25, 2020 - 10:18">Fri, 09/25/2020 - 10:18</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>On any given day a walk through Tappan Square could lead to a performance, art exhibit, or even a wedding day photo shoot. On this day, grassy spaces were used as outdoor classrooms; a tree trunk, benches, and the Memorial Arch made for great study nooks; and the peaceful atmosphere was used as a place to socialize and recharge.</p> <p> </p> <hr> <div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Photo credit: Yvonne Gay</figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Photo credit: Yvonne Gay</figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Thomas Newlin, professor of Russian, holds a first year seminar on Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Photo credit: Yvonne Gay</figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Drew Wilburn, professor of classics, holds a Magic and Mystery in the Ancient World class near the gazebo. Photo credit: Yvonne Gay</figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Photo credit: Yvonne Gay</figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Photo credit: Yvonne Gay</figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Photo credit: Yvonne Gay</figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>91ֱ�� College student Jenna Ko works on an art installation. Photo credit: Yvonne Gay</figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="obj-center"> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Photo credit: Yvonne Gay</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>This Week in Photos is a selection of images and is not meant to represent a weekly timeline. Images highlight campus, community, people, and events related to 91ֱ�� College.</em></p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2020-09-25T12:00:00Z">Fri, 09/25/2020 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Yvonne Gay</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2545">Tappan Square</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2379">Student Life</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2591">Art Installation</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25426">Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/drew-wilburn" hreflang="und">Andrew (Drew) Wilburn</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/classics" hreflang="und">Classics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/art" hreflang="und">Studio Art</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Yvonne Gay</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>This Week in Photos: February 12</h1> <p>ygay — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:04:59 +0000</p> <span>This Week in Photos: February 12</span> <span><span>ygay</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-02-12T17:04:59-05:00" title="Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 17:04">Wed, 02/12/2020 - 17:04</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p> </p> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Guest performer KAINA gives a concert in the Cat in the Cream Coffeehouse. Photo credit: Jack Lichtenstein ’23</figcaption> </figure> <p> </p> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Donna Akiba Harper ’75 and Kofi Lomotey ’74 returned to campus and Afrikan Heritage House to speak with students about their experiences on campus and life outside of 91ֱ��. Photo credit: Yvonne Gay</figcaption> </figure> <p> </p> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Cuban Ambassador José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez discusses the future of United States and Cuban government relations. Photo credit: Dale Preston ’83</figcaption> </figure> <p> </p> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Professor of Studio Art and Africana Studies Johnny Coleman handmakes shotgun structures and stools for the In Celebration of Toni Morrison: A Gesture of Love and Reflection event to be held in 91ֱ�� on the late author’s birthday, February 18. Photo credit: John Seyfried</figcaption> </figure> <p> </p> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties takes place in the Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater. The play portrayed the lives of five very different New York women named Betty. Photo credit: John Seyfried</figcaption> </figure> <p> </p> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>91ֱ�� College student athletes and coaches meet in Williams Field House with Play Like a Girl participants to celebrate National Girls and Women in Sports Day. Photo credit: Courtesy of 91ֱ�� College Athletics</figcaption> </figure> <p> </p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2020-02-12T12:00:00Z">Wed, 02/12/2020 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Yvonne Gay</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2771">Athletics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2415">Sports</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2547">Policies & Procedures</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2379">Student Life</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2591">Art Installation</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/art" hreflang="und">Studio Art</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/theater" hreflang="und">Theater</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/africana-studies" hreflang="und">Africana Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Afro-Puerto Rican dance group Instituto Folclórico Puertorriqueño Rafael Cepeda Atiles celebrates percussion-driven music and dance in Finney Chapel.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Yevhen Gulenko</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Add Your Voice to the 91ֱ�� History Lessons Project</h1> <p>Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:20:42 +0000</p> <span>Add Your Voice to the 91ֱ�� History Lessons Project</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:20:42-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:20">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:20</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Editor’s note: Last semester, three students, seniors Sarah Cheshire and Cuyler Otsuka and sophomore Lillian White, had an idea for a community-wide project that would be held in conjunction with U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s March 4, 2014, visit to campus. With support from the Office of the Dean of Students, the Multicultural Resource Center, the Bonner Center for Service and Learning, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, and 91ֱ��’s Convocation Series, submissions to the project,</em> 91ֱ�� History Lessons, <em>will be incorporated into an art work to be installed in Finney Chapel in time for Trethewey’s Convocation address. The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 24.</em></p> <p>Cuyler Otsuka, Lillian White, and I invite you to participate in community affirmation/conscientious self-reflection/installment art project to be produced in conjunction with United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s March 4 Convocation.</p> <p>A biracial artist, Trethewey was raised in Mississippi in the period immediately following the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Her poem <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47538/history-lesson-56d2280d442a7">“History Lesson”</a> speaks to the memory of a photograph taken of her standing on a beach in Mississippi in 1970, in the same spot her grandmother stood 40 years earlier while the beach was still segregated. More broadly, the poem grapples with both her subjective positioning within this photograph and her emergent awareness of the larger histories framing it.</p> <p>For this project, we invite you to write your own “History Lesson” statement. This statement can take the form of a poem, a story, a monologue, a stream-of-conscious narrative, or any other written medium you see fit. Your voice can take any form: abstract or concrete, lyrical or prosaic, methodical or haphazard, angry or nostalgic, bold or soft. The only requirement is that it should be rooted in your own experiences. Your lived and embodied knowledge is powerful. Speak your truth!</p> <p>We hope that this project will serve as a platform through which to examine the plurality of experiences that exist within the 91ֱ�� community and the ways in which our individual identities have been sculpted by and within larger sociopolitical, historical, and interpersonal contexts.</p> <p>For our installation, we envision each individual statement hung in a web to symbolize how each story stands on its own but also is informed by/connected to each other. After Trethewey’s Convocation, we will move the installation to the Science Center, and later, we hope, to 91ֱ�� Community Services and the 91ֱ�� Public Library.</p> <p>For more information, guidelines, and helpful tips, download the project’s statement of purpose and guidelines. You may make your submission by e-mailing it to oberlinhistorylessons@gmail.com or send them to OCMR 0378. The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 24.</p> <p>If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at <a href="mailto:oberlinhistorylessons@gmail.com">oberlinhistorylessons@gmail.com</a>.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2014-02-11T12:00:00Z">Tue, 02/11/2014 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Sarah Cheshire</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2591">Art Installation</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2496">91ֱ�� History</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2383">Convocation Series</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> </article> </main></body></html>