Interview: Jon Seydl, John G.W. Cowles Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum</h1> <article> <h1>Interview: Jon Seydl, John G.W. Cowles Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum</h1> <p>azaleski — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:54:08 +0000</p> <span>Interview: Jon Seydl, John G.W. Cowles Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum</span> <span><span>azaleski</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-10-31T10:54:08-04:00" title="Friday, October 31, 2025 - 10:54">Fri, 10/31/2025 - 10:54</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Over the summer, 91ֱ�� welcomed Jon Seydl as the new John G.W. Cowles Director of the <a href="https://amam.oberlin.edu" data-entity-type="external">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a>. Seydl, who previously worked for the Cleveland Museum of Art and came to 91ֱ�� after serving as director of the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was already familiar with the Allen. He’s always had a “soft spot” for self-portraits by <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/exhibitions/1335/michael-sweerts-en-tijdgenoten?ctx=205f2323ed8525d645f069d766a8bb53f336ded7&idx=0">Michael Sweerts</a> and <a href="https://allenartcollection.oberlin.edu/objects/12119/portrait-of-theodore-jacobsen?ctx=4868dbe0d9e3ba05aea8f0ccddce6d03e470fcad&idx=59">William Hogarth</a> in the museum’s collection. Years ago, he and the Allen’s former director, Andria Derstine, also worked on a project together that involved museum staff and 91ֱ�� students. “They were so creative and hardworking and really imaginative,” he recalls. “It was a revelation.”</p><p>Seydl earned a bachelor’s degree in art history at Yale University and a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania in early modern Italian art history, giving him a strong background in art from the Renaissance to 1800. “But the older I get—and the more I spend time in museums—I now tend to go to the things I know least about,” he says. “I’m always learning something brand new.” </p><p>Once Seydl began to settle in at 91ֱ��, both on campus and in the city—he says people recognize him by his adorable 30-pound dog, Lenny, a mutt “with a heavy dose of pit bull”—he took time to answer questions about his career and what he hopes to bring to 91ֱ��.</p><p><strong>What drew you to the Allen Memorial Art Museum and 91ֱ��?</strong><br>I mean, who <em>wouldn’t</em> be drawn to the Allen? [<em>Laughs</em>.] There are a whole bunch of reasons. I love university museums. I find them genuinely liberating places to work. You never have to make an excuse for research because research is actually valorized in an academic setting. The fact that you can work with faculty across disciplines is amazing. And Northeast Ohio was a draw for us.</p><p>The intense work the Allen does with students and faculty, along with the use of the collection, is incredible. In the summer, I was meeting faculty who were telling me about their work with the museum. And it comes from so many different disciplines. The museum’s not just there for art history or studio art; it’s for the whole campus. What happens at all academic museums happens so much more deeply here, with such a high level of quality and diverse touch points. It’s really dazzling. </p><p><strong>What drew you to this line of work?</strong><br>When I was a kid, my sister was the one with artistic talent, not me, and she took art lessons. This was in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, and the only place to go was the Allentown Art Museum. It was far enough away from our house that it wasn’t a drop-off/pickup situation; we had to stay. While we were waiting, we only had two options: One was to stay in the museum, and the other was to go shopping. I hated the shopping option—and I loved the museum environment. </p><p>It took me outside of myself into a completely different world. I loved the focused, contemplative environment, but also the one where I was interacting with my parents. We were all looking at things together and learning from scratch. Fundamentally, as a visual person, it was a great place in general. That always stuck with me. I interned at a local museum in high school and college, and I had a job at the campus art museum. </p><p>I’m old enough that mental health was not really a topic you talked about a lot in college. But in retrospect, I realized I was using time in the two campus museums at Yale as a way to rest, restore, heal, and pull myself out of ordinary life and step back and reflect. That’s a really important role for museums—what I often call sanctuaries. And it’s something I always want to emphasize to students, faculty, and really anybody who visits: Think of your museum as a site for mental health and wellness.</p><p>Don’t get me wrong: I also love coming into a museum when it’s incredibly lively and noisy and there’s a lot going on. These spaces—and the Allen is a really great example of that too—can go from calm to bustling to calm again in a really healthy and important way.</p><p><strong>I’m always impressed at the connections the curators at the Allen make in terms of putting art together that you would never expect.</strong><br>Another thing that’s distinctive about the Allen is that many of the exhibitions don’t involve loans from other places because the collection is so astonishing and varied. You can do that work with what’s already here. There’s a Cindy Sherman photograph in a current exhibition [<a href="https://amam.oberlin.edu/exhibitions-events/exhibitions/current/2024/01/02/femme-n-isms-part-ii-flashpoints-in-photography"><em>Femme 'n isms, Part II: Flashpoints in Photography</em></a>]. It’s not in a Cindy Sherman exhibition; it wasn’t held back for some photo-specific project. It’s in a project that’s about women and femme artists, and the juxtapositions are incredibly interesting. [Curators are] guiding you to a particular perspective, but it’s open-ended enough that you’re also able to create space for your own thoughts.</p><p><strong>Of the things you’ve done in your career to date, what are you proudest of?</strong><br>When I was at the Cleveland Museum of Art, I had the opportunity to reinstall the entire collection of European art during 1500 to 1800. That was, like, 12, 14 galleries. It’s a privilege that only a few curators will have in their lifetime; it doesn’t happen for everyone. It was amazing to be able to do that. And I go to the museum today, and there’s still traces of that work on view.</p><p>I had a great opportunity to do some really, really interesting interdisciplinary exhibitions. The students that I’ve worked with over time have all gone on to interesting and successful careers in the arts or in the museum. I was incredibly proud and privileged to work with each of them. And I would say that the turn toward the community in Champaign-Urbana was something that I feel has a lasting impact and was hard won.</p><p><strong>What do you want to bring to your position at the Allen?</strong><br>Like any wise leader, you spend a lot of time observing first. The thing that I’m observing is that there’s some areas where it’s best in business, best in class, and it runs like clockwork. One area for growth I see for the Allen is community engagement. We do incredible work with the college, and we’re a really important part of the city of 91ֱ��. But I also recognize that we are the museum for Lorain County, which is a place that is underserved by arts organizations. And I know there are ways that we could be a much stronger partner across the county. I have experience in precisely that work. It’s something I’ve done in my previous position. Opening the museum up in a more active way to a bigger community is something I’m really, really excited about.</p><p><strong>As we like to say, “Art is for everybody.” You never know who’s going to see something in a museum that’s going to change the course of their life or give them a spark to think that they can be something unexpected. It’s so powerful.</strong><br>Literally inscribed into the frieze on the entrance to the building is, “The Cause of Art is the Cause of the People,” that William Morris quotation. I take that incredibly seriously. That really is like my guide stone. That’s what the building and the collection was created to be, to have that social importance for a much wider group. </p><p>And the thing that I like best is developing longer-term partnerships with community groups—to develop something that can be on a three-to-five-year arc, at the very least. That involves a really intense phase of trust-building in the beginning. But the museum can play a really important part in connecting students to the broader community. Our Gallery Guide program, for example, is one obvious way to do that.</p><p><strong>What else do you want people to know about you?</strong><br>I want to know people. I want them to introduce themselves to me. I don’t want the director’s office to feel like a thing that’s completely apart. I deliberately chose to live in the city of 91ֱ��. I loved living in Cleveland, but I really want to be here, and I want to be an active part of the community. It’s been great. And I feel like having a dog in 91ֱ�� is the key to everything. You just meet everyone.</p><hr><p><em>This article originally appeared in the Fall 2025 </em>91ֱ�� Alumni Magazine.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-subhead field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Get to know the new head of 91ֱ��'s on-campus art museum—and why he's so thrilled to be here</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2025-11-24T12:00:00Z">Mon, 11/24/2025 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Annie Zaleski</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=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">"I love university museums. I find them genuinely liberating places to work," says Jon Seydl, the new John G.W. Cowles Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum.</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">Tanya Rosen-Jones '97</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-article-header field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">0</div> </article> <article> <h1>91ֱ�� College Names Jon Seydl as Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum</h1> <p>bdenneen — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:43:17 +0000</p> <span>91ֱ�� College Names Jon Seydl as Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum</span> <span><span>bdenneen</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-04-14T09:43:17-04:00" title="Monday, April 14, 2025 - 09:43">Mon, 04/14/2025 - 09:43</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Seydl brings to 91ֱ�� a wide-ranging background in museum leadership, curatorial innovation, and community-focused programming. Since 2018, he has served as director of Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he led the museum through a major strategic shift emphasizing equity, care, and institutional accountability. Under his leadership, Krannert strengthened ties with historically underrepresented communities, launched acclaimed exhibitions, and completed a sweeping building renovation.</p> <p>“It is beyond thrilling to join the brilliant team at the Allen Memorial Art Museum,” says Seydl. “I have long admired the Allen; its vibrant student and faculty engagement is the gold standard for university art museums. The stunning collections offer endless opportunities for the college and the broader community to explore the most pressing issues of our time. It’s also a joy to return to the incredible arts ecosystem of Northeast Ohio, where my partner and I have a close-knit community of friends. After eight fulfilling and exciting years at Krannert, I look forward to maintaining the Allen’s excellence, supporting the faculty and staff, and building new partnerships across the city of 91ֱ�� and the region.”</p> <p>Seydl’s career includes roles at several of the country’s leading institutions. He previously held curatorial posts at the Worcester Art Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum and has served in academic roles at Case Western Reserve University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Pennsylvania. His scholarship and curatorial practice reflect a deep commitment to accessibility, historical rigor, and contemporary relevance.</p> <p>The search committee for the directorship was chaired by Laura Baudot, senior associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. Members included faculty from both the college and conservatory, as well as members of the museum’s visiting committee. “We are deeply grateful to the search committee for their thoughtfulness and care throughout this process,” says Baudot. “Jon rose to the top of a competitive pool as a visionary, sensitive, and collaborative leader—someone who commands respect while genuinely caring for the people he leads. As one committee member noted, ‘He has a PhD in early modern Italian art but also understands the complexities of contemporary repatriation politics in Peru.’ That breadth is exactly what the Allen needs in this moment.”</p> <p>Katie Solender, who has served as interim director since December and participated in the search, praised Seydl’s unique mix of academic and civic experience. “Jon’s background working at major civic museums and his focus on public engagement ensures he brings both curatorial depth and a commitment to visitor service,” she says. “He’s an ideal match for the Allen’s dual role as a teaching museum and public institution.”</p> <p>David Kamitsuka, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, also enthusiastically welcomed Seydl’s appointment. “Jon understands the power of museums in academic settings to be catalysts for student learning and community connection. We are excited for the vision and energy he will bring to 91ֱ��.” Kamitsuka also extends sincere gratitude to Katie Solender for her exceptional leadership during this transition: “Her deep knowledge of the Allen, steady guidance, and unwavering commitment ensured continuity and care for both the museum staff and our broader community during this pivotal period.”</p> <p>Seydl’s arrival at the Allen follows a decade of impressive growth under the stewardship of Derstine, who was recently appointed deputy director and chief curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art. During her tenure, the Allen expanded its collections—especially in works by women and artists of color—and secured significant endowments and conservation projects, cementing the museum’s national reputation for excellence and innovation and status as one of the premier academic art museums in the country.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-subhead field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Accomplished curator and academic leader to helm one of the nation’s premier teaching museums</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2025-04-14T12:00:00Z">Mon, 04/14/2025 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p> 91ֱ�� is pleased to announce the appointment of Jon Seydl as the new John G. W. Cowles Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Seydl becomes the 11th director in the museum’s distinguished history, succeeding Andria Derstine, who stepped down in December 2024 after more than a decade of transformative leadership. He will begin his tenure on July 1.</p></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=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2359">Administration</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">courtesy of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-flex-content field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden vertical-spacing--basic field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div id="obj-40400" class="paragraph paragraph--type--para-el-copy paragraph--view-mode--default o-flex--basic-copy basic-copy"> <h2 class="h4">About the Allen Memorial Art Museum</h2> <p>The <a href="http://amam.oberlin.edu/">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a> is free and open to the public, with a collection of more than 16,000 works spanning 6,000 years. As one of the finest academic art museums in the United States, it serves as an essential hub for interdisciplinary learning, creative exploration, and community engagement.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Longtime Allen Memorial Art Museum Director Andria Derstine Announces Departure</h1> <p>elutes — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:47:08 +0000</p> <span>Longtime Allen Memorial Art Museum Director Andria Derstine Announces Departure</span> <span><span>elutes</span></span> <span><time datetime="2024-10-14T11:47:08-04:00" title="Monday, October 14, 2024 - 11:47">Mon, 10/14/2024 - 11:47</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>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 91ֱ�� College, recognized as one of the best academic art museums in the nation. 91ֱ�� is pleased to name Katherine Solender as interim director during the search for a new leader. Derstine will begin her role as deputy director and chief curator of the Cleveland Museum of Art in December. </p> <h2>A Legacy of Achievement</h2> <p>Derstine, who has been the Allen’s director since 2012, having joined the museum as a curator in 2006, leaves behind an impressive legacy of growth, collaboration, and institutional advancement, marked by key accomplishments in expanding the museum’s endowments, collection, and facilities. Throughout her tenure, Derstine led significant initiatives to secure the museum's future. Working with colleagues, she played an instrumental role in raising and securing endowments to support curatorial positions, art acquisitions, and museum programming. </p> <p>Derstine also worked to preserve the museum’s historic buildings and infrastructure. Notably, she oversaw the conservation of Frederick Wiley’s ceiling and clerestory paintings in the King Sculpture Court, partnered to secure a new roof for the museum’s flagship Cass Gilbert building, supported efforts to maintain the Weltzheimer-Johnson Frank Lloyd Wright House, programming at which the museum oversees, and laid the groundwork for a future museum expansion.</p> <p>Building the museum's collection was another highlight of Derstine’s directorship. Under her leadership, the AMAM made significant acquisitions, particularly of works by women and artists from diverse backgrounds. In addition, she championed numerous exhibitions and public programs featuring acclaimed artists such as Dawoud Bey, Audrey Flack, Mary Miss, Pat Steir, and Fred Wilson.</p> <p>“I am proud of completing a new strategic plan for the Allen, overseeing the museum's reaccreditation by the American Alliance of Museums, and finding ways to connect 91ֱ�� students with the public through our work,” says Derstine. “The Allen has an unparalleled collection for an academic museum of its size, encompassing works that span six millennia and representing cultures from around the world. It has been an honor to lead such an extraordinary institution."</p> <p>David Kamitsuka, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at 91ֱ�� College, praised Derstine’s leadership: “Andria’s tenure has transformed the museum in countless ways. Her success in securing financial resources, her stewardship of our collection and historic buildings, and her commitment to enhancing the museum’s role in public and academic life have cemented her legacy. Under her direction, the Allen has become a national model for how a college art museum can serve students, faculty, and the broader community.”</p> <h2>Welcoming Katherine Solender as Interim Director</h2> <p>91ֱ�� alum Katherine Solender is the ideal leader to take the reins of the AMAM as the museum searches for a permanent successor. Solender is a highly respected museum professional with more than 40 years of experience, including prior service as interim director of the AMAM in 2003-2004 and again in 2011-2012.</p> <p>“We are thrilled to have Katie return to lead the Allen during this transition,” says Kamitsuka. “Her extensive experience, both with the Allen and the Cleveland Museum of Art, and her expertise in museum operations make her the ideal person to ensure the museum's continued success.”</p> <p>Solender expressed her enthusiasm about stepping into her new role: “I’m looking forward to serving 91ֱ�� once again as interim director of its extraordinary museum. Every time I enter the Allen, I’m impressed by how its collections and programs bring the world to 91ֱ�� and engage students and faculty. My primary goal will be to ensure stability and continuity for our staff and community partners as we prepare for the museum’s next chapter."</p> <p>Solender has long been a consultant for the AMAM, working on various projects since 2006, and served as acting director during Andria Derstine’s sabbatical in 2018-2019. Her distinguished career includes leadership roles at the Cleveland Museum of Art and other institutions, where she oversaw exhibitions and major projects.</p> <p>“I believe academic museums like the Allen can be effective forums for experimentation and discussion, providing access to diverse ideas and encouraging visitors to think critically about complex issues,” added Solender. “I’m honored to help continue this mission as we search for a new director.”</p> <h2>About the Allen Memorial Art Museum</h2> <p>Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at 91ֱ�� College is one of the finest academic art museums in the United States. Its collection includes more than 16,000 works spanning 6,000 years and representing a broad range of cultures. Free and open to the public, the museum serves as a vital resource for 91ֱ�� students, faculty, and the wider community, promoting public education, interdisciplinary learning, and cultural engagement.</p> <p>For more information, please visit <a class="go" href="http://amam.oberlin.edu">amam.oberlin.edu</a></p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-subhead field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Katherine Solender Named Interim Director</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2024-10-14T12:00:00Z">Mon, 10/14/2024 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</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=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2377">Arts & Humanities</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2597">Faculty and Staff</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>Omar Tells His Story</h1> <p>srasmuss — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 17:33:55 +0000</p> <span>Omar Tells His Story</span> <span><span>srasmuss</span></span> <span><time datetime="2024-10-11T13:33:55-04:00" title="Friday, October 11, 2024 - 13:33">Fri, 10/11/2024 - 13:33</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>As every 91ֱ�� graduate knows, you’re bound to meet fellow Obies everywhere. And the initial workshop for <em><a href="https://rhiannongiddens.com/omar">Omar</a></em>, the first opera by <a href="https://rhiannongiddens.com/">Rhiannon Giddens ’00</a>, was no exception.</p> <p>Conductor <a href="https://www.johnkennedymusic.com/">John Kennedy ’82</a> was there in New York City to witness the work in its early stages. “I said to Rhiannon, ‘You know, I went to 91ֱ�� too.’ And then a couple of the singers said they did. And she was like, ‘Man, we gotta do it at 91ֱ��,’” he says with a laugh.</p> <p>Years later, that vision will finally come true when the 91ֱ�� Orchestra and choral ensembles present a concert version of <em><a href="/events/concert-performance-omar">Omar</a></em> on December 6 and 8. The Pulitzer Prize-winning opera loosely follows the life of Omar ibn Said, a 19th-century Islamic scholar from West Africa who was enslaved in South Carolina.</p> <p>Kennedy, who conducted the work’s premiere and a later production, will lead the students and a cast of 91ֱ�� alumni soloists. Giddens herself will be among them.</p> <p>“I know it's extremely meaningful to Rhiannon that this be performed at 91ֱ��,” Kennedy says. It’s also a bit of a homecoming for himself, as he hasn’t visited campus in almost 15 years. After arriving in just a couple of weeks, he’ll rehearse with the students for more than a month to prepare for the big undertaking.</p> <p>Rather than perform <em>Omar’s Journey</em>, a truncated version of the opera scored for a small ensemble, 91ֱ�� will present the entire 170-minute work, minus the staging. Giddens, singing the role of Julie, will be joined by <a href="https://www.limmiepulliam.com/">Limmie Pulliam ’98</a>, <a href="https://www.michaelpreacely.com/">Michael Preacely ’99</a>, <a href="https://www.danielokulitch.com/">Daniel Okulitch ’99</a>, <a href="https://www.danielmcgrewtenor.com/">Daniel McGrew ’15</a>, and <a href="https://www.krystyswann.com/">Krysty Swann</a>.</p> <p>“Opera is, first, music and singing, and it's sometimes really wonderful to distill an opera just to its music and to listen to it that way,” Kennedy says. He adds that the strength of the score speaks for itself. Giddens wrote the libretto and composed the music together with Michael Abels, who also provided orchestrations.</p> <p>“I think that the two composers have accomplished something remarkable in sort of fusing the African American musical traditions that are so important to Rhiannon’s aesthetic with the idiom of opera,” Kennedy says. “To me, they're expanding what we might consider to be classical cultural traditions.”</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2024-10-11T12:00:00Z">Fri, 10/11/2024 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Stephanie Manning '23</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=2356">Conservatory</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3878">Conservatory of Music</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3449">91ֱ�� College Libraries</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2974">Conservatory Alumni</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2368">Alumni</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-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-flex-content field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden vertical-spacing--basic field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div id="obj-32155" class="paragraph paragraph--type--pb-el-bq paragraph--view-mode--default"> <blockquote class="blockquote--quotemark" data-text-color-red data-text-size-giant> <p><em>Omar</em> has a visceral and powerful impact on people."</p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"> <div id="obj-28172" class="paragraph paragraph--type--para-el-copy paragraph--view-mode--default o-flex--basic-copy basic-copy"> <p>He has especially high praise for Giddens’ gift for writing arias — “‘Omar’s Aria,’” he says, is “one of the great arias of the last hundred years” — as well as Abels’ ability to draw out different sounds from the orchestra. “There's no banjo. There's no kora. And yet the orchestra sometimes is able to evoke one in a really fantastic way.”</p> <p>Though audiences won’t hear a real kora during the opera, they can on December 7, when <a href="https://www.seckoukeita.com/">Seckou Keita</a> performs on the West African instrument as part of the <a href="/artsguide/artist-recital-series">Artist Recital Series</a>.</p> <p>“I've actually been an admirer of Seckou’s music even before the <em>Omar</em> opportunity came up,” says <a href="/sally-takada">Sally Takada</a>, the Conservatory’s Associate Dean of Artistic Programming and External Relations. “However, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to bring him for the Artist Recital Series during our <a href="/events/series/omar"><em>Omar at 91ֱ��</em></a> weekend because we wanted to present the opera in the context of all the other topics and themes it covers.”</p> <p>Two days before his performance, Keita will lead a lecture demonstration on West African music and performance practices. And that’s just one of numerous campus events that weekend open to the public.</p> <p>The Contra Dance Club will host a lesson and dance session, 91ֱ�� faculty will organize several academic panels, and the <a href="https://amam.oberlin.edu/">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a> will have a specially curated collection of works on display —as will the <a href="https://libraries.oberlin.edu/">College and Conservatory Libraries</a>. There will also be pre-and post-concert discussions around the opera’s December 8 performance at the <a href="https://case.edu/maltzcenter/calendar-events/concerts-events-silver-hall/oberlin-conservatory-music-presents-omar">Maltz Performing Arts Center in Cleveland</a>.</p> <p>Even with so much going on, <em>Omar</em> itself remains at the heart of it all. Kennedy recounts the music's effect on a singer who performed in the work’s premiere. During the first rehearsal, “he comes up to me at the break, and he goes, ‘This is the greatest opera I've ever sung in my life,’” the conductor says.</p> <p>Whether the students will react similarly remains to be seen, but Kennedy is optimistic. “I think that <em>Omar</em> has a visceral and powerful impact on people. So it would surprise me if that doesn't happen again."</p> <hr> <p>Stephanie Manning’23 completed her bassoon performance degree while finding her way into journalism as a classical music critic. She recently returned to Cleveland after finishing a graduate diploma in journalism at Concordia University in Montreal. Her writing has appeared in The Montreal Gazette, Early Music America, and ClevelandClassical.com.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>3 Things with Matthew Rarey</h1> <p>eburnett — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:44:15 +0000</p> <span>3 Things with Matthew Rarey</span> <span><span>eburnett</span></span> <span><time datetime="2024-01-31T14:44:15-05:00" title="Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 14:44">Wed, 01/31/2024 - 14:44</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="/node/5126">Matthew Rarey</a> researches and teaches the art history of the Black Atlantic, with a focus on connections between West Africa, Brazil, and Portugal from the 17th through 21st centuries. It’s a path he first encountered in an African art history course as an undergrad at the University of Illinois.</p> <p>“I realized African art history was asking all these formative questions—about race, gender, colonialism, diaspora, and personhood—that I felt weren’t just important to the discipline; they were important to understanding the <em>world</em>,” he says.</p> <p>Chair of 91ֱ��’s <a href="/node/318461">Art History Department</a> and an associate professor of African and Black Atlantic art history, Rarey is deeply focused on curating African and Black Atlantic art histories. He co-curated the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s 2019-20 exhibition <em>Afterlives of the Black Atlantic</em>, which won an Award of Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators.</p> <p>Now Rarey’s work is in the spotlight again: This year, he won the College Art Association’s prestigious Charles Rufus Morey Book Award for his first book, <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/insignificant-things"><em>Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic</em></a> (Duke University Press, 2023). It traces the history of the African-associated amulets made and carried as tools of survival by enslaved people from the 17th to the 19th centuries.</p> <p>We asked Rarey to share three things about how he uses art history to tell new stories about the African diaspora. Here’s what he had to say.</p> <p><strong>1) “Western” art history is deeply entangled with Black Atlantic art history.</strong></p> <p>African art and artists have always been instrumental to the development of visual culture of the so-called “West.” One great example I often teach with is at 91ֱ��’s Allen Memorial Art Museum: an ivory saltcellar carved around 1500 by a Sapi artist who worked in what is now Sierra Leone. It was commissioned by Portuguese traders active on the West African coast, and its design demonstrates the artist’s strategic negotiation of Sapi and Portuguese aesthetics. The traders—some of whom eventually initiated into Sapi society—later took the saltcellar to Lisbon and displayed it as a prestige object. Keep in mind that by 1550 Lisbon also had a large, diverse Black population who forged lives at all levels of Portuguese society. Categories like “African” and “European” don’t seem helpful to me in describing the saltcellar and the worlds it moved through. Rather, I’m interested in exploring how Black art and artists routinely challenge or upend efforts to categorize them by revealing the longstanding circulations of African and European visual culture in the wider Atlantic world.</p> <p><strong>2) Black Atlantic art history demands creative, ethical approaches.</strong></p> <p>Consider the amulets discussed in my book, which I think are critical to understanding Black Atlantic art history. Often made by Africans enslaved in Brazil, these small pouches had the power to protect their users from violence. Perhaps hundreds of thousands of these amulets existed in the 1700s. Today only two known examples survive—and only because they were confiscated as part of the Portuguese Inquisition by officials who declared the amulets evil and sacrilegious. How can we look to these objects to understand the lives of their makers while also reckoning with the violent histories that made them available as objects of study? To me, these questions are what makes Black Atlantic art history exciting and important: It demands we come up with innovative ways to tell ethical stories from small, fragmentary sources.</p> <p><strong>3) Contemporary artists rewrite history.</strong></p> <p>Though my book is primarily about the 1700s, I teach and write about a lot of contemporary artists. That’s because Black artists throughout the diaspora—like María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Ayana V. Jackson, Jaime Lauriano, Fabiola Jean-Louis, and Rosana Paulino, just to name a few—all engage historical documents and archival sources in their work. Their artistry reckons with, and calls out, the dominant ways history and art history have been written to obscure Africans’ lives. And often, what the archival sources obscure—and what the artists want to help us see—are the anti-racist and egalitarian worlds that enslaved people have always fought to bring into being.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-subhead field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">How the 91ֱ�� professor uses art history to tell new stories about the African diaspora.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2024-01-31T12:00:00Z">Wed, 01/31/2024 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</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=2597">Faculty and Staff</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2373">Awards and Honors</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=25301">Art History</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25436">Studio Art</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=4821">Africana 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="/matthew-rarey" hreflang="und">Matthew Rarey</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-history" hreflang="und">Art History</a></div> <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/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">In early 2024, Matthew Rarey won the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Book Award for his first book, “Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic.”</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">Tanya Rosen-Jones '97</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Chloe Lai Receives Fulbright to Taiwan</h1> <p>anagy — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:49:24 +0000</p> <span>Chloe Lai Receives Fulbright to Taiwan</span> <span><span>anagy</span></span> <span><time datetime="2022-06-07T10:49:24-04:00" title="Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 10:49">Tue, 06/07/2022 - 10:49</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Spring graduate Chloe Lai will reconnect with her family’s heritage and hone her skills in language pedagogy in Taiwan as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA).</p> <p>During her Fulbright year, Lai will live and learn in Hualien county, a rural mountainous region on the eastern coast of the island. She applied for a Fulbright ETA because she is passionate about learning and teaching. </p> <p>“I enjoy all parts of the teaching process, from planning to reflection, and am constantly striving to become a better educator,” says Lai, an <a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/art-history">art history</a> and <a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/east-asian-studies">East Asian studies</a> major with an education concentration. </p> <p>Lai has taken Chinese at 91ֱ�� for three years, and she has worked as an America Reads tutor in the same fourth-grade classroom in the 91ֱ�� elementary school for all four years. She has also taken a course in language pedagogy, and she has been a teacher with the <a href="https://www.oberlinsites.org/">Spanish in the Elementary Schools</a> (SITES) program. </p> <figure class="captioned-image"> <figcaption>Lai speaks with one of her faculty mentors, Associate Professor of Art History and East Asian Studies Bonnie Cheng. Photo credit: Tanya Rosen-Jones '97</figcaption> </figure> <p>“I love language teaching and learning because for me, these classes make the world seem so big,” she says. “Through (SITES), I learned a lot about language acquisition and leading student-centered classes.”</p> <p>Outside of the classroom, Lai has been a member of the Third World Co-op, a writer in the Arts Students Committee, and a gallery guide at the <a href="https://amam.oberlin.edu/">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a>. A resident of Redwood City, California, she plans to continue teaching in the future, and possibly pursuing graduate studies. </p> <p>“I think I am prepared to adjust to challenges, and I'll be able to find questions and pathways to pursue my interests. During my year in Taiwan, I am most excited to learn about the nuances of cultural identity, explore the natural landscape, and try new foods!” </p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-subhead field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Through courses and experiences at 91ֱ��, Lai developed a particular interest in education and language acquisition.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2022-06-08T12:00:00Z">Wed, 06/08/2022 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Amanda Nagy</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=2373">Awards and Honors</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2363">Academics & Research</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2377">Arts & Humanities</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2391">Languages & Literatures</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</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=25226">Education Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25301">Art History</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25336">East Asian 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="/bonnie-cheng" hreflang="und">Bonnie Cheng</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/east-asian-studies" hreflang="und">East Asian Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/art-history" hreflang="und">Art History</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Chloe Lai '22 has been selected as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Taiwan.</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">Tanya Rosen-Jones '97</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Sound and Sport Converge in Season-Opening Festival October 9-10</h1> <p>eburnett — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:36:56 +0000</p> <span>Sound and Sport Converge in Season-Opening Festival October 9-10</span> <span><span>eburnett</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-09-29T09:36:56-04:00" title="Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - 09:36">Wed, 09/29/2021 - 09:36</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Athletes and musicians share plenty in common, from their determination to perform at the highest levels to their strategies to stave off anxiety.</p> <p>At 91ֱ��, they’ve even shared a gym: One year ago, the athletics department offered up its wide-open spaces for use by conservatory students, as sports seasons were canceled and musical instruction was retooled for an age of social distancing.</p> <p>Out of that shared experience—and inspired by the return of the Olympic Games in the summer of 2021 and the winter of 2022—violin professor <a href="/node/44016">Sibbi Bernhardsson</a> devised a season-opening festival that links the worlds of musicians and athletes, as well as the influential culture that exalted them both.</p> <p>“Music, Sports, and the Enduring Influence of Ancient Greece” features concerts, symposiums, sporting events, and more taking place throughout Saturday and Sunday, October 9 and 10. The programs draw upon resources from across the campus, including conservatory musicians, college and conservatory faculty, student athletes, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum.</p> <figure class="captioned-image obj-right"> <figcaption>Sibbi Bernhardsson</figcaption> </figure> <p>“I love sports, and I’ve always been interested in the many similarities between music and sports,” says Bernhardsson, an avid fan of soccer and a former longtime member of the Pacifica Quartet. Every Tuesday last year, Bernhardsson held his violin studio classes on the auxiliary basketball courts of Philips Gymnasium, across campus from the conservatory. He and his students felt right at home. “91ֱ��’s conservatory students and its athletes have more in common than perhaps anyone else, in terms of time management and so many other factors,” he says.</p> <p>This year’s celebration marks the third time in recent years Bernhardsson has opened a new academic year with a festival of music and more. In fall 2018, he organized “Creative Arts and Music in the Shadow of War,” a commemoration of the centenary of World War I; in fall 2019 he followed it with “End of Life, End of Time,” an interdisciplinary examination of mortality and the late-career works of artists across the creative spectrum.</p> <p>For Bernhardsson, programming this year’s festival came with no rigid constraints. “As we celebrate hosting public events again, I was looking for music that was fun, or beautiful—or fun <em>and</em> beautiful,” he says with a grin. “That’s the only thing I’m looking for in the repertoire!”</p> <p>The schedule of events is as follows:</p> <p><strong>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9</strong></p> <p><a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/music_sports_and_the_enduring_influence_of_ancient_greece_faculty_recital"><strong>Faculty Recital I: 1:30 p.m. (Warner Concert Hall)</strong></a><br> Conservatory faculty and staff present music by Beethoven, Handel, Mendelssohn, and Haydn. Performers include cellist <a href="/node/183156">Dmitry Kouzov</a> and pianist <a href="/node/314061">Yulia Fedoseeva</a> (Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 5); soprano <a href="/node/130681">Katherine Jolly</a> and pianist <a href="/node/351766">Kyung-Eun Na</a> ("E pur così in un giorno...Piangerò la sorte mia" from Handel’s <em>Giulio Cesare</em>); bassoonist <a href="/node/46376">Drew Pattison</a> and pianist <a href="/node/6831">Brian Alegant</a> (Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words, Op. 109); and the 91ֱ�� Trio, which features violinist <a href="/node/6956">David Bowlin</a>, pianist <a href="/node/6786">Haewon Song</a>, and cellist Kouzov (Haydn’s Piano Trio in D Major, Hob. XV:16). Between selections in the program, creative writing professor <a href="/node/171156">Robin Beth Schaer</a> will recite poetry related to the festival’s themes, penned by poets ranging from the classic to the contemporary.</p> <hr> <p><a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/music_sports_and_the_enduring_influence_of_ancient_greece_symposium_i"><strong>Symposium I: 4 p.m. (Stull Recital Hall)</strong></a><br> <em>The following topics will be explored:</em></p> <p><strong>“Athlete-Heroes and Civic Politics in Ancient Greece”</strong><br> 91ֱ�� College classics professor <a href="/node/5306">Kirk Ormand</a> explores examples of athletes from the ancient world who were worshipped as heroes and commemorated with statues and ongoing religious rituals. The presentation also addresses ways in which these athletes often used their status as athletic victors to influence local politics in their home city-states, much as today’s athletes often become societal influencers.</p> <p><strong>“Musicians and Athletes: United in Commitment”</strong><br> A panel representing the conservatory and athletics discusses the many common themes in the lives of 91ֱ�� musicians and athletes, from their dedication to performing at their best to their strategies for overcoming performance-related stress. Included are conservatory professors Bernhardsson and Jolly, psychology professor <a href="/node/6331">Paul Thibodeau</a>, head softball coach Sara Schoenhoft, and head lacrosse coach Kim Russell. They will be joined by student lacross player Caroline Lee and softball player Caley Dunlop.</p> <p><strong>“Herodotus Goes to the Olympics”</strong><br> Classics professor <a href="/node/5301">Ben Lee</a> explores the non-athletic cultural events that were a vital part of the ancient Olympic festival: religious feasting, art, even oratory and readings by famous historians of their contemporary work.</p> <hr> <p><strong>Family Field Day: 5:30 p.m. (Heisman Field House)</strong><br> Students from 91ֱ��’s varsity teams as well as the Conservatory Council of Students lead athletic and musical activities for children.</p> <hr> <p><a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/music_sports_and_the_enduring_influence_of_ancient_greece_faculty_recital_ii"><strong>Faculty Recital II: 7:30 p.m. (Warner Concert Hall)</strong></a><br> Day 1's evening performance includes pianists <a href="/node/6726">Angela Cheng</a> and <a href="/node/6736">Alvin Chow</a> (Astor Piazzolla’s <em>Oblivion</em>, arranged by Kyoto Yamamoto, and a movement from Carlos Guastavino’s <em>Tres Romances</em>); violinist Bowlin and pianist Tony Cho (Stravinsky’s Divertimento from<em> The Fairy’s Kiss</em>); violist <a href="/node/6996">Peter Slowik</a> (Hindemith’s Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 25, No. 1; violinist <a href="/node/182896">Francesca dePasquale</a> and pianist Scott Cuellar (Mozart’s Six Variations for Violin and Piano, K. 360); and the <a href="/node/304811">Verona Quartet</a>, 91ֱ��’s ensemble in residence (Reena Esmail’s <em>Ragamala</em>). Between selections in the program, creative writing professor <a href="/node/51951">Chanda Feldman</a> will share poetry related to the festival’s themes.</p> <hr> <p><strong>Listening Party: 10 p.m. (Warner Concert Hall)</strong><br> Three varsity athletes will share their pregame playlists, and three conservatory musicians will share the sounds that inspired them to pursue lives in music. Featured will be Darien Knowles (men’s basketball), J.T. Starke (men’s lacrosse), and Vianca Dagnino (softball).</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10</strong></p> <p><a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/music_sports_and_the_enduring_influence_of_ancient_greece_faculty_recital_iii"><strong>Faculty Recital III: 1:30 p.m. (Warner Concert Hall)</strong></a><br> The program includes flutist <a href="/node/7131">Alexa Still</a> and pianist <a href="/node/6756">James Howsmon</a> (performing Aaron Jay Kernis’ Air for flute and piano); pianists <a href="/node/6801">Peter Takács</a> and Cuellar (Debussy’s <em>Six épigraphes antiques </em>for piano four hands); cellist <a href="/node/6946">Darrett Adkins</a> and pianist Cheng (Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70); pianist Cheng, violinist Bernhardsson, violist <a href="/node/6971">Kirsten Docter</a>, and cellist Kouzov (Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60); and vocalist <a href="/node/6696">La Tanya Hall</a> and guitarist <a href="/node/6686">Bobby Ferrazza</a> joining forces for a jazz set. Feldman once again will share poetry between pieces.</p> <hr> <p><a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/music_sports_and_the_enduring_influence_of_ancient_greece_symposium_ii"><strong>Symposium II: 4 p.m. (Stull Recital Hall)</strong></a><br> <em>The following topics will be explored:</em></p> <p><strong>“Alcimedon: An Olympic Victor from Aegina”</strong><br> Classics professor <a href="/node/5311">Chris Trinacty</a> offers a reading of a poem by the Greek poet Pindar about an Olympic victor from the island of Aegina. By connecting this young man to mythological heroes from the island and stressing his familial honor, the presentation illuminates Greek values and the historical situation of the time (460 BCE).</p> <p><strong>“Diversity and Inclusion in 91ֱ�� Athletics”</strong><br> Representatives from numerous 91ֱ�� athletic teams discuss the work 91ֱ�� has done, how they have handled various challenges related to students’ social-justice initiatives, and underscoring the ways in which today’s athletes use their platform to bring attention to important social issues. Featured panelists include women’s basketball coach <a href="https://goyeo.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/coaches/stephany-dunmyer/938">Stephany Dunmyer</a>, director of track and field and cross country Ray Appenheimer, and admissions counselor and former 91ֱ�� athlete <a href="/node/169251">Ana Richardson ’18</a>.</p> <p><strong>“Reimagined Approaches to Music Theory”</strong><br> Music theory professor <a href="/node/6866">Megan Kaes Long</a> discusses influences related to the implementation of 91ֱ��'s new music theory curriculum and examine how music theorists around the country are responding to the recent critique of music theory's historical bias toward the Western European tradition.</p> <p><strong>“Cheating and Magic in Ancient Sports”</strong><br> Classics professor <a href="/node/5316">Drew Wilburn</a> traces the origins of today’s sports scandals to the pervasive instances of cheating perpetrated by early athletes. Even before the first Olympiad in 776 BCE, mythical heroes had cheated in sport and gotten away with it. This talk explores foul play in ancient sports in Greece and Rome, focusing on how magic could be used to ensure a win and defeat one’s enemies.</p> <hr> <p><a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/music_sports_and_the_enduring_influence_of_ancient_greece_faculty_recital_iv"><strong>Faculty Recital IV: 7:30 p.m. (Warner Concert Hall)</strong></a><br> Performances include flutist Still (Eve Beglarian’s<em> I will not be sad in this world</em> for flute and electronics), baritone <a href="/node/7046">Timothy LeFebvre</a> and pianist Takács (Ravel’s<em> Don Quichotte à Dulcinée</em>), the Verona Quartet with pianist Cuellar (Grażyna Bacewicz’s Piano Quintet No. 1), and an ensemble featuring faculty trombonist <a href="/node/6671">Jay Ashby</a> and percussionists <a href="/node/7081">Jamey Haddad</a> and <a href="/node/321206">Pablo Rieppi</a>, alongside guest percussionist Dylan Moffitt and student musicians from the conservatory’s Performance and Improvisation program (performing works by Edu Lobo and Claudio Roditi). Between musical selections, Schaer will recite poetry.</p> <hr> <p>On Saturday, <a href="/node/33031">TIMARA</a> technical director <a href="/node/49256">Abby Aresty</a> and students from the Crafting Sound Lab will present the <strong>sound installation <em>Gratitude Showers</em></strong> near the east entrance to Bibbins Hall. (Powered by solar energy, the work is best experienced during midday.)</p> <p>91ֱ��’s <a href="https://amam.oberlin.edu/">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a> will join in the fun as well: Curators <a href="/node/180311">Alexandra Letvin</a> and <a href="/node/183146">Hannah Wirta Kinney</a> have prepared a <strong>self-guided tour</strong> accessible <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mytoursapp.android.app2820&hl=en_US&gl=US">using the museum’s cell phone app</a>. It features works of art from across the collection related to the festival’s themes: Learn how ancient Greek athletes removed dirt and oils from their bodies after competition with a bronze scraper and explore the continuing resonance of Greek mythology in later European and American paintings. The museum is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays (closed Mondays).</p> <p>As the fall 2021 semester begins, plans are in place for 91ֱ�� students and faculty to perform live concerts with audiences—a significant step closer to normal compared to the previous year, when most performances were recorded for virtual audiences and strict social distancing guidelines were enforced.</p> <p>Likewise, 91ֱ�� sports are back to full competition with spectators welcome, and athletes will be in action on campus throughout the weekend: <a href="https://goyeo.com/sports/field-hockey">women's field hockey</a> plays DePauw on Saturday (11 a.m.) and Earlham on Sunday (noon); the <a href="https://goyeo.com/sports/womens-volleyball/stats/2021/john-carroll-university/boxscore/6129">volleyball team</a> takes on St. Vincent College Saturday at 3 p.m.; <a href="https://goyeo.com/sports/womens-soccer">Women's soccer</a> hosts Wittenberg Saturday at 4 p.m., followed by <a href="https://goyeo.com/sports/mens-soccer">men's soccer</a> vs. Wittenberg at 7. Visit <a href="https://goyeo.com/index.aspx">GoYeo.com</a>—the 91ֱ�� College Athletics website—for details on each event.</p> <p>Through October 18, all 91ֱ�� students, employees, and guests are required to wear masks indoors and outdoors, regardless of vaccination status. Learn more about 91ֱ��’s COVID-19 policies and precautions on the <a href="/obiesafe">ObieSafe website</a>.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-subhead field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">“Music, Sports, and the Enduring Influence of Ancient Greece” draws upon resources from across 91ֱ��’s campus.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2021-09-29T12:00:00Z">Wed, 09/29/2021 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Erich Burnett</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=2356">Conservatory</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2771">Athletics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2583">College of Arts and Sciences</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=29541">Piano</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=35116">Violin</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=35261">Cello</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=36206">Viola</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=33031">TIMARA</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="/sibbi-bernhardsson" hreflang="und">Sibbi Bernhardsson</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="/conservatory/divisions/music-theory" hreflang="und">Music Theory</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/strings" hreflang="und">Strings</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/winds-brass-and-percussion" hreflang="und">Winds, Brass, and Percussion</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/jazz-studies" hreflang="und">Jazz Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/creative-writing" hreflang="und">Creative Writing</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/psychology" hreflang="und">Psychology</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/keyboard-studies" hreflang="und">Keyboard Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/vocal-studies" hreflang="und">Vocal Studies</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-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Use the Allen App to see—and hear about—works of art as never before</h1> <p>swargo — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 17:07:05 +0000</p> <span>Use the Allen App to see—and hear about—works of art as never before</span> <span><span>swargo</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-06-23T13:07:05-04:00" title="Wednesday, June 23, 2021 - 13:07">Wed, 06/23/2021 - 13:07</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Imagine encountering the large Coiling Dragon upon entering the museum and using your cell phone to hear a musical composition inspired by the bronze sculpture, or to hear the label translated into Mandarin Chinese. Well, now you can!</p> <p>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.</p> <p>“One of the things I like about the app is how it inspires collaboration with faculty and students in many different disciplines,” said Jill Greenwood, the AMAM’s Eric & Jane Nord Family Curator of Education. “Content for the app is just exploding,” she says, and new features are continually added to heighten interaction with works in the galleries. For example, a Chinese-language tour of 14 important works was translated and narrated by Jessie Yuan ’21, a curatorial assistant funded by the Freeman Asian Arts & Culture Initiative.</p> <p>As a senior project, Leina Fieleke ’21 created a Composers’ Tour in collaboration with 91ֱ�� Conservatory students, each of whom composed a musical interpretation of a particular artwork in the collection. In the Allen App, recordings of the music being performed by conservatory students are paired with other content about these works. The easy-to-navigate application allows users to choose a highlights tour, a tour by gallery, or a tour of the special exhibition Mobility and Exchange, 1600–1800.</p> <p>One reason the Education Department opted to build an app—a replacement for the audio wands previously available at the museum’s front desk—was to provide new ways for people with sensory impairments to access the collection. The Allen App has high-verbal descriptions for dozens of works (with more to come). These narrations, intended for those with low or no vision, use nonvisual language to help people form mental images of what they cannot see. The decision to build an app that visitors can use on their own cell phones has another advantage: visitors with vision or hearing loss often carry devices already adapted to meet their specific needs. A tablet also will be available, upon advance request.</p> <p>Efforts to develop an app accelerated due to the pandemic; a no-touch audio tool became imperative. Liz Yearsley ’20, curatorial assistant in the Education Department, coordinated content from 20 different 91ֱ�� students, creating a set of guidelines for writing and narrating the app’s high-verbal descriptions. She also narrated many of the sections herself and uploaded all of the content to STQRY, developer of the mobile tour platform.</p> <p>At least one app entry came from each of the six students who participated in this year’s SOAR Internship in Museum Education: Biba Duffy-Boscagli, Gillian Ferguson, Fudi Fickenscher, Ursula Hudak, Natalie Ivy, and Alia Schreiber-Goldstein. All are from 91ֱ��’s class of 2023.</p> <p>The Allen App is in the beta-testing phase, and we invite your feedback. Please visit allen.stqry.app to browse the application (preferably in the galleries), then email your comments to education.amam@oberlin.edu or complete the in-app survey.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2021-06-23T12:00:00Z">Wed, 06/23/2021 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Megan Harding</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=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</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">Kevin G. Reeves</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Watson Fellowship will take Madi Goetzke ’21 to Panama, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Brazil</h1> <p>swargo — Fri, 07 May 2021 16:04:25 +0000</p> <span>Watson Fellowship will take Madi Goetzke ’21 to Panama, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Brazil</span> <span><span>swargo</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-05-07T12:04:25-04:00" title="Friday, May 7, 2021 - 12:04">Fri, 05/07/2021 - 12:04</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>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. Her project, Reimagining Access to Communal Cultural Heritage Sites, will take Goetzke through the Global South, including Panama, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Brazil.</p> <p>An <a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/art-history" target="_blank">art history</a> major, Goetzke first became interested in cultural heritage during a semester abroad in Senegal, when she spoke with residents of Saint-Louis about the relationship between the state, the community, and culture. Upon noticing a clear class divide in the city, Goetzke began asking questions. “I wanted to know, what does heritage look like for people? What does heritage look like for people as a daily lived experience? What can relationships to cultural heritage look like?” From there, her project began to take shape.</p> <p>The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship is a one-year grant for purposeful, independent exploration outside the United States, awarded to graduating seniors nominated by one of 40 partner colleges. Fellows conceive original projects, deciding where to go, who to meet, and when to change course. The fellowship provides a one-year stipend of $30,000.</p> <p>Goetzke developed an interest in the Watson program during her first year at 91ֱ�� when she began thinking about opportunities for art historical research. The freedom offered by the program would allow her to explore new ways of thinking about art and accessibility.</p> <p>“Watson was the first opportunity I saw that really embraced on-the-ground relationship building as a critical part of art history. I thought it could be an opportunity to bring what already feels like a heady, academic study of art history into a more pragmatic framework of how people live and how they live amongst what we consider art history.”</p> <p>To incorporate these ideas into her project, Goetzke plans to lead a map-making activity among groups of people in the Global South, asking them to draw their ideas of culture and community. The activity, Goetzke hopes, will transcend language barriers and encourage an authentic expression of different perspectives.</p> <p>Goetzke will begin studying these perspectives in San Felipe, Panama, researching alongside a local university professor how UNESCO world heritage sites impact access to housing. In order to understand the effects of gentrification and tourism on San Felipe locals, Goetzke will meet with housing activist groups advocating for basic rights.</p> <p>From there, Goetzke will travel to George Town, Malaysia, to study clan jetty villages. “Jetties have the largest collection of postwar architecture and as a result, they've been prized by UNESCO. At the same time, rising sea levels and tourism really impact the locals there. I’ll be conducting interviews with shopkeepers in the area and doing wide ranging research at universities and local hotels, from massive chains to basic hostels to see the impact of tourism,” Goetzke said.</p> <p>In Nigeria, Goetzke plans to visit Osun-Osogbo, home to a sacred river dedicated to the Yorùbá orisha Oṣun. There, she plans to analyze the upkeep of UNESCO sites in more natural environments.</p> <p>Finally, Goetzke will arrive in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she will study life on the wharfs and favelas of the city, and participate in candomblé religious ceremonies to better understand Brazilian relationships to cultural heritage.</p> <p>Goetzke chose to focus her project around the Global South because of the wide scope of environments offered.</p> <p>“The themes that you see in the Global South are largely gentrification, tourism, environmental impacts, as well as art-historical and archeological efforts to preserve. Each of these places offers a different environment, different relationships to culture and heritage, new political systems and new economic systems. They offered the most diverse scope for an already diverse project. I wanted to embrace that.”</p> <p>A native of Saint Louis, Missouri, Goetzke is a Bonner Scholar and has served in the Ninde Scholars program, spending time as a docent and student volunteer in the Education department at the <a href="https://amam.oberlin.edu/" target="_blank">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a> where she develops educational programming for K-12 students to improve visual literacy in 91ֱ�� and Lorain County. After her Watson year, she plans to pursue a master’s and PhD in art history. She plans to work in the public programs and learning and engagement fields to “make the arts into an accessible community resource.”</p> <p>Goetzke is thankful for the support of friends and faculty at 91ֱ��. “Those are people who will always feel proud of you whenever you don't feel proud of you,” she said. “Those are the perspectives that matter.”</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2021-05-07T12:00:00Z">Fri, 05/07/2021 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Kyra McConnell ’22</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=2373">Awards and Honors</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</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=25301">Art History</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-history" hreflang="und">Art History</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Madi Goetzke '21</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">Jonathan Clark '25</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>New York Times names catalogue of AMAM’s Eva Hesse collection a Best Art Book of 2020</h1> <p>swargo — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:29:25 +0000</p> <span>New York Times names catalogue of AMAM’s Eva Hesse collection a Best Art Book of 2020</span> <span><span>swargo</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-12-08T12:29:25-05:00" title="Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - 12:29">Tue, 12/08/2020 - 12:29</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Eva Hesse: 91ֱ�� Drawings</em>, a catalogue of the artist’s works held by the Allen Memorial Art Museum at 91ֱ�� College, has been selected by the <em>New York Times</em> as one of its Best Art Books of 2020. Published by Hauser & Wirth, the 428-page book reproduces for the first time 350 drawings and works on paper by Hesse in the Allen’s extensive collection and in its Eva Hesse Archive of 1,200 items donated by the late artist’s sister, Helen Hesse Charash.</p> <p>Best known for her audacious post-minimalist sculptures, Eva Hesse is widely considered one of the most important figures in postwar American art. In her brief career, Hesse produced a prodigious body of work that collapsed disciplinary boundaries and forged innovative approaches to materials, forms, and processes. </p> <figure class="captioned-image obj-right"> <figcaption>Eva Hesse in her Bowery Studio, New York, NY, ca. 1968. Gift of Helen Hesse Charash, 1977.52.72.27</figcaption> </figure> <p>The 91ֱ�� catalogue shows the special role drawing played in Hesse’s artistic practice, from early figurative studies and expressive ‘‘doodles’’ to erotic diagrams and preliminary sketches for sculptures.</p> <p>‘‘When Eva Hesse died at 34 in 1970, she left behind an influential body of sculpture as well as a mass of drawings and works on paper whose extent is sumptuously revealed by this monumental volume,’’ co-chief art critic Roberta Smith wrote of her selection of the book for the <em>New York Times</em> list. </p> <p>Born in 1936 in Hamburg, Hesse and her family fled Nazi Germany and ultimately settled together in New York in 1939. Hesse studied at the Pratt Institute of Design, Art Students League, Cooper Union, and Yale University. After graduating from Yale, she moved back to New York in 1959, where she met many young artists, including Sol LeWitt, who became a close friend and mentor. In 1965, in a dramatic departure from her previous work, Hesse began making freestanding sculpture—organic forms in latex, fiberglass, rope, wire, and other materials.</p> <p>In 1968, Hesse spent two days as a visiting artist in the 91ֱ�� College art department. Art history professor Ellen Johnson and AMAM curator of modern art Athena Tacha staged an impromptu exhibition of her drawings in the halls of the classroom building. The following year, as Hesse’s work began to achieve major recognition—an exhibition at the Whitney Museum and a purchase by New York’s Museum of Modern Art—she was diagnosed with brain cancer and underwent two surgeries. </p> <figure class="captioned-image obj-left"> <figcaption>Eva Hesse (American, born in Germany, 1936–1970), Laocoön, 1966. Fund for Contemporary Art and gift from the artist and Fischbach Gallery, 1970.32</figcaption> </figure> <p>Hesse died in 1970, as the Allen was finalizing the purchase of <em>Laocoön</em>, a major freestanding sculpture that had never been shown publicly.</p> <p>91ֱ��’s early interest in Hesse’s work motivated Helen Hesse Charash, the artist’s sister, to consider the Allen as the repository for photographs, journals, notebooks, and other material related to Hesse’s career. Over a number of years, Charash generously donated both archival materials and artworks by Hesse. Today, the Eva Hesse Archive numbers about 1,200 items, providing a resource for students and art historians.</p> <p><em>Eva Hesse: 91ֱ�� Drawings</em> features works on paper from 1952 to 1970: her earliest drawings, which chart the origins of her enduring engagement with the medium as a primary site for her experimentation with new ideas and processes; drawings from her first mature bodies of work, in the early 1960s; drawings she made in Germany in the mid-1960s, which include collages in an abstract expressionist mode—“wild space,” as she named them in a letter to Sol LeWitt; so-called “machine drawings” from the same period; and a selection of working sketches and diagrams from 1967 to 1970, which shed light on some of Hesse’s most significant sculptures. </p> <p>Edited by Barry Rosen, manager of the Eva Hesse estate, the book accompanied the 2019–20 exhibition <em>Eva Hesse: Forms Larger and Bolder</em>, curated by Rosen and Andrea Gyorody, the Allen’s Ellen Johnson ’33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibition traveled to Museum Wiesbaden, Hauser & Wirth New York, and mumok in Vienna. Due to the pandemic, a fall 2020 exhibition that had been planned for the Allen Memorial Art Museum will be rescheduled. The 91ֱ�� exhibition is the most comprehensive of the tour, comprising more than 70 works on paper, materials from the Eva Hesse Archive, and the 1966 sculpture <em>Laocoön</em>.</p> <p><em>91ֱ�� Drawings</em> is available on the Allen’s website for $70, which includes shipping. Extensively illustrated, the publication features essays by Andrea Gyorody, Briony Fer, Gioia Timpanelli, Manuela Ammer (mumok), and Jörg Daur (Museum Wiesbaden), as well as a preface by Charash and a foreword by Andria Derstine, director of the Allen.</p> <p>Read More In the <em>New York Times</em></p> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/arts/design/best-art-books-2020.html">Best Art Books of 2020: The art critics of The Times select their favorites from this year’s crop of art books</a></p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2020-12-09T12:00:00Z">Wed, 12/09/2020 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">AMAM Staff</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=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2385">Community</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Eva Hesse (American, born in Germany, 1936–1970), No title, 1960, gouache, watercolor, and India ink on paper. Gift of the Eva Hesse Estate to the Rental Collection; Art Rental Collection Transfer via Art Museum Gift Fund, 1994.36</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">Allen Memorial Art Museum</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> </main></body></html>