18 / AMAM.OBERLIN.EDU INSIDETHE ALLEN INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO EXHIBITIONS Curators Hannah Kinney and SamAdams discuss Where Is Consent in Art (Museums)? during a gallery talk scheduled for Consent Month at the college. This experimental installation explored the ethics of presenting images of power and sexuality. The gallery space known as the Northwest Ambulatory—just inside our main entrance— has been used to look at some of the most topical subjects for museums today such as antiracism, land acknowledgments, the collecting and care of Indigenous objects, and listening to voices outside of the museum profession when considering the meaning of art. DONOR VISIT TheWu family visited the Allen to see the exhibition Riding the Strong Currents: 20th and 21st Century Chinese Paintings from the AMAMCollection in which some of their gifts of paintings by Liú Hǎisù were displayed. Pictured left to right: Dr. GregoryWu, curator Dr. Kevin Greenwood, Dr. Jennifer Pédussel Wu (OC 1990), and DJWu-Wong. Jennifer and GregoryWu’s father Shih-Yen “Sam” Wu (OC 1954) corresponded with the artist for many years. FOR EDUCATION’S SAKE Curator SamAdams holds a study session to discuss an upcoming exhibition on HIV/AIDS. Faculty members from across the curriculum offered insight into the subject and how they could incorporate the works into their courses. You have one of my favoriteAmerican paintings, Harmonizing by Horace Pippin. So thrilled to see it face to face after teaching about it for 30plus years! — Bobbie Bell Noted in the Allen’s visitor book Horace Pippin (American, 1888–1946), Harmonizing, 1944. Oil on canvas. Gift of Joseph and Enid Bissett, 1964.26.
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