Student Resources – Art Department

• Do you have something that requires a faculty or chair signature? Drop it off in the office for expedited service. Arts Program Coordinator Jamie Jacobs can track the status of the signature to ensure that your paper is signed promptly, and not lost. As a bonus, Jamie will email you or call to make sure that you don’t waste any time trying to get in touch with the faculty.

• Looking for faculty office hours? They are listed on the Art Department website under the faculty and staff tab, as are the faculty phone numbers and office locations.

• Looking for job opportunities and internships? Subscribe to the department blog, and like the Studio Art at Oberlin College and Art History at Oberlin College Facebook pages. We post all student opportunities online, so check back weekly for updates.

• Want to know what Art events are happening around campus? Make sure you read our department newsletter, it should arrive in your inbox at the beginning of each month. If you know of an Arts related event that should be included in the newsletter, please send it to [email protected] the month prior for inclusion in the newsletter. Want to know what’s going on across campus? Check out the Obie events calendar. Want to know what’s happening across Lorain County? Check out the Lorain County, OH events calendar to immerse you into the community.

• Looking for support for student-led events? The department offers limited financial support for arts related events hosted by official student organizations. Apply early in the semester to help your chances at securing support. We also offer support in the form classroom spaces to house the events, and assistance publicizing your event through email blasts and exposure in our newsletter. Get in touch with the Art Program Coordinator at least a month and a half ahead of the event for these services.

• Having trouble with class access? If you have already tried to call, email, and visit faculty during their office hours to no avail, you should always plan to show up to class on the first day. Remember, faculty members are not always able to answer individual emails. If this is not satisfactory, stop into the department office for some creative troubleshooting.

• Need some guidance? The department offers sample resumes, CVs, and cover letters from successful alumni applications. We also offer sample honors proposals. Stop into the department office to review the files.

• Need access to a restricted space? Please send your request via email to the faculty member who oversees the space.

Useful Web Links

PRESTO Blackboard Art Library ARTStor Art Department Website Department Blog, Studio Art at Oberlin College Facebook Art History at Oberlin College Facebook

Regular Semester Building Hours

Allen Art Building ’75 Mon.- Fri. 7am-11pm Weekend 9am-6pm

Allen Art Building ‘37 Mon.- Fri. 7am-6pm Weekends – CLOSED

Clarence Ward Art Library Mon.-Thurs. 8:30am-5:30pm, 7:00pm-11:00pm Friday 8:30am-5:30pm Saturday 12:30pm-5:30pm Sunday 12:30-5:30pm, 7:00-11:00pm

Woodshop Mon.- Wed. 8am-12pm & 1:00-4:30pm Thursday – 8:00am 12pm, 1:00-4:30pm, 6:00-10:00pm Sunday – 6:00pm-9:30pm

Want to get involved in the Arts outside of the classroom?

College Organizations

Exhibition Initiative (ExI)

• Description: Exhibition initiative (ExI) is a student arts organization that works to organize and curate student exhibitions and projects, bring artists and art-related speakers to campus, and to be a resource for learning about student art events on campus and in the community. • Contact: at [email protected] • Hours of Operation: meetings every Thursday at 5 pm in Wilder 215 • Links: o https://www.facebook.com/exhibition.initiative/info?tab=page_info, o @exhibition.initiative o http://exhibitioninitiative.com

Arts Student Committee

• An organization representative of the arts student body as a whole. ASC will weigh in on important decisions such as faculty hires, curricular planning and creation of the annual Senior Studio and Thesis catalog publication.

Film Co-Op • Contact: [email protected] • Website: http://www.oberlin.edu/stuorg/ofc/ • Description: The Oberlin Film Co-op is a student run organization dedicated to promoting filmmaking on the Oberlin campus. It is an alternative to the Media Depot for film equipment, editing supplies, and offers Super8 and 16mm film at subsidized prices. Members of the Film Co-op are willing to help with training other students as to how to set up for, shoot, and edit film. We also send out film to be processed at subsidized prices approximately twice a year.

Pottery Co-op • Hours of operation: o Student Helper Office hours: Monday 8:00-10:00 PM Tuesday 4:00-6:00 PM Friday 10:00-12:00AM and 2:00-3:00 PM Sunday 12:30-1:30 PM If you need to join or pay, please come during one of these times to sign up. These office hours are for anyone who wants instruction in how the co-op works, glazing, throwing, or anything involving ceramics.

Individuals are able to access to the pottery co-op with a key available for checkout at Wilder. • Links: o https://www.facebook.com/groups/113030065453663/ o https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/oberlin-pottery-coop

Letterpress Exco • Description: The Letterpress Studio extends Special Collections to include opportunities to learn to compose text by hand using cold type, and to operate both cylinder and iron platen presses. Students can create their own original work while consciously making decisions about paper, impressions, layout, typography, color, illustrations and ornaments, format and special effects. Find out more info at http://www.oberlin.edu/library/special/letterpress-studio.html • Contacts: Those wishing for more information or wanting to make appointments for visits should contact Ed Vermue at x55043 or [email protected]. • Hours of operation: Opportunities to use the studio can take the form of class visits, a January Winter Term intensive, a student co-op and ExCo, and private use for those with training and permission. Class visits can range from a quick tour to a 1-hour overview with a preclass setting of type and a demonstration (for up to 25 students). With 1.5 hours to 3 hours it is possible to have students set a simple –2-line - composition using type of a preset line length for a class print, or cut a small linoleum block (limit up to 10 students at a time). • Links: http://www.oberlin.edu/library/special/letterpress-studio.html

Clarence Ward Art Library • Description: Named for Professor Clarence Ward, Museum Director & Art Department Chairman, 1917-1949. Located on the top floor of the Allen Memorial Art Museum addition designed by the noted architectural firm Venturi and Rauch. • 100,000 volumes • Covers all the visual arts worldwide, all time periods, and all art forms such as Architecture, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Prints, Photography, New Media, etc. • In-depth coverage of Western European, Chinese, Japanese, and American art • Contacts: Barbara Prior- Art Librarian 775–5143 [email protected] Kay Spiros- Administrative Assistant 775–5144 [email protected] Circulation Desk- 775-8635 • Hours of operation: Mon-Thu: 8:30am-5:30pm, 7p-11p Fri: 8:30am-5:30pm Sat12:30pm-5:30pm Sun 12:30pm-5:30pm, 7pm-11pm • Links: http://www.oberlin.edu/library/art/ • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-QUZzhB65Y

Comics Collective • Description: We: draw comics, publish comics, eat comics, teach comics, sleep comics • Contacts: [email protected] • Hours of operation: • Links: https://www.facebook.com/OberlinComics • http://comixcollective.tumblr.com

Weekly Figure Drawing Club • Figure drawing club with live model, no enrollment in an arts course necessary. • Contact [email protected] for more information

3-D Printing • Oberlin’s one-and-only 3D print lab and MakerSpace. • http://3dprintlab.oberlin.edu/ • Contact at [email protected] • Mon-Thurs: 7-9:30pm in Wilder 329

Oberlin College Media Center (OCMC)

• OCMC is a program within Oberlin Center for Technologically Enhanced Teaching (OCTET), which connects technically trained students with courses, faculty, staff, and other students to increase creative media literacy, exploration, and innovation. We train our media associates in mentoring, technical skills, and collaborating across disciplines. M.A.’s then provide: workshops, playshops, drop-in lab assistance, and individual appointments.

• Available drop in hours on the website http://ocmc.oberlin.edu/

LCCC Fab Lab

The Lorain County Community College Fab Lab is based upon the concepts of Dr Neil Gershenfeld, the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Bits and Atoms. A Fab Lab is a collection of commercially available machines that can be used to "make just about anything with features bigger than those of a computer chip." Realistically, it offers the tools needed to "conceptualize, design, develop, fabricate and test” a wide variety of things. The best part is that the equipment is surprisingly easy to use. Faculty, staff, students and the general public are welcome to check out the LCCC Fab Lab during the hours shown below. If someone is interested in using the equipment, lab personnel should also be available to help during these times. Nord Advanced Technologies Center Room AT113 Lorain County Community College 1005 North Abbe Rd., Elyria, Ohio 44035 Phone: (440) 366-4760 Email: [email protected]

Fab Lab Coordinator R. Scott Zitek Engineering Technologies Division (440) 366-7024 [email protected] •

Oberlin Publications

Plum Creek Review Description: Started in 1964, The Plum Creek Review is Oberlin's oldest literary and arts magazine. It is devoted to publishing as many different creative forms as possible, including, but not limited to, prose, poetry, plays, translations, artwork and photography. Contacts: [email protected] Website: http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/plmcreek/index.html

Wilder Voice Description: Wilder Voice is Oberlin College's magazine for creative nonfiction and long-form journalism. Wilder Voice was founded in 2005 under the name The Journal of Proper Thought. We also publish several short dispatches, one faculty submission, one piece of fiction, and a smattering of poetry. Contacts: [email protected] Website: http://wildervoice.org/

The Grape Description: Oberlin’s alternative newspaper Contacts: [email protected]

The Oberlin Review • Website: http://oberlinreview.org/ • The Oberlin Review is the newspaper of record for Oberlin College and the city of Oberlin, Ohio. Established in 1874, it has published continuously for 140 years, making it one of the oldest college newspapers in the United States. The printed edition of the Review is published every Friday during the fall and spring semesters, except during holidays and examination periods, with a circulation of 2,000 issues. The web edition of the Review is published online continuously.

The Synapse • The Oberlin College Science Magazine - it is a student run publication whose content is primarily science based, but is always looking for art and artists • Email: [email protected]

City of Oberlin

Firelands Arts Association (FAVA) Founded in 1979, The Firelands Association for the Visual Arts is an independent, non-profit art organization in Oberlin, Ohio dedicated to enhancing public appreciation of and participation in the visual arts through exhibitions and related educational and community activities. FAVA presents changing exhibitions of high quality artwork in a variety of styles and media. New Union Center for the Arts 39 South Main Street Oberlin, Ohio 44074 Phone: (440) 774-7158 E-mail: [email protected] Hours of Operation: Tuesday-Saturday: 11:00am - 5:00pm Sunday: 1:00 - 5:00pm Closed Mondays

Apollo Outreach Initiative Apollo Outreach helps bring Oberlin College and community together through COLLABORATIVE media making and mentorship. Apollo Outreach could not exist without the support and partnership of the Cinema Studies Program and its student mentors. Apollo Outreach makes full use of Oberlin College students’ creative power by integrating community outreach directly into the Cinema Studies curriculum. http://www.apollooutreach.org/ [email protected] The Apollo Outreach Initiative 19 East College Street Oberlin, OH 44074 440.985.8726

Baron Gallery Located inside the Dewy Ward ’34 Alumni Center, the gallery is named for 1964 alumnus Richard D. Baron, a supporter of the arts and mentor to the city's East College Street Project, who has worked to rebuild communities across the country. The gallery was dedicated October 9, 2010. The space is used to showcase a variety of art created by faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

Museum Institutions

Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) is recognized today as one of the five best college and university art museums in the United States. Since it’s beginning, the museum has always been free for everyone. The collection is housed in an impressive Italian Renaissance-style building designed by Cass Gilbert and named after Dr. Dudley Peter Allen, a distinguished 1875 graduate of Oberlin College. Dr. Allen and his wife Elisabeth Severance Allen (later Prentiss) were the principal benefactors of the new museum.

http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/default.html

87 North Main Street Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Sunday, 1:00pm - 5:00pm; Closed Mondays and major holidays Always Free and Open to the Public 440-775-8665

Frank Lloyd Wright Weltzheimer-Johnson House The Weltzheimer/Johnson House holds public open house hours on the first Sunday of each month, from April through November. Hours are 12pm until 5pm. Presentations on the architecture and history of the house begin on the hour (12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, and 4pm). http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/flwright.html

Greater Cleveland Area

• Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) • Akron Museum • Toledo Museum • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MoCA) • Morgan Art of Papermaking conservatory and educational foundation • Zygote Press • SPACES • The Transformers Station

Art Supply • Ginko Gallery • Utrecht • Dick Blick • Hollo’s

Winter Term Students are expected to complete winter term projects that are academically relevant, rigorous, experiential, and educationally rewarding. Viable projects include those that involve academic study, field experience, and/or experiential learning—including internships and community service. Your advisor and/or your project sponsor will help you craft a winter term project that meets these goals. Past Winter Term Projects have included: • Papermaking • Letterpress • Animation • Weaving • Practicum in Museum Education Practicum in Museum Education will teach you about the extensive collection of art on display at the AMAM, will train you to give tours to a variety of age groups, help you hone your public speaking, and give you a chance to participate in the many exciting events that take place each semester at the AMAM. For more information, contact [email protected].

On Campus Employment

Visit the Jobs at Oberlin (Student Workers) webpage to apply for a job on campus.

Internship Opportunities

Visit the Art Department Blog for internship and job opportunities, updated daily.