THE CAUSE OF ART IS THE CAUSE OF THE PEOPLE Those words byWilliamMorris, inscribed in stone above the museum’s front entrance, exemplify our longstandingmission to bring the power of art to the greatest possible number of people. Your support for the museum continues this important tradition of connecting art and the public. Learn more at amam.oberlin.edu/support. CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE ALLEN? Search the entire collection online: amam.oberlin.edu/collection Take a deep dive into highlights from the collection with the Allen App: allen.stqry.app Visit the galleries, changing exhibitions, and the Frank LloydWright house virtually with Allen Augmented Reality: amam.oberlin.edu/aar DON’T MISS A THING Follow us @allenartmuseum Sign up for our e-newsletter: amam.oberlin.edu/e-news GROUP TOURS Free guided tours are available for adults and K–12 visitors. For information, please call 440-775-8166 or email education.amam@oberlin.edu. FROM THE DIRECTOR Connecting in newways with our audiences, and attentively stewarding the museum’s collection, are both important aspects of the work that the staff and I have set for ourselves in the AMAM’s new strategic plan, entitled A Deep Heritage, A Dynamic Future: Community, Creativity, and a Culture of Care. The plan—including the museum’s newmission, vision, and values statements—is available on our website at amam.oberlin.edu/strategic-plan and we hope you will take time to peruse it. As I wrote in an introduction there, during the past several years the museum field—like society overall—has encountered tremendous challenges in the form of health crises, economic turbulence, and international conflicts. We also experienced much-needed reckonings around racial injustice, a new focus on issues of gender equity and accessibility, concerns relating to ownership of cultural property, and continuing environmental vulnerabilities due to climate change. Along with these important matters has also come a new attention to the proper acknowledgment of Indigenous and other groups—and I’mproud that the the AMAM staff has been working recently both to highlight Indigenous items in the museum’s collection through thoughtful exhibitions and gallery presentations, as well to grapple with the difficult issues that ownership and custodianship of such items present. Importantly, they have been doing so through conversations with members of Indigenous groups, connections that we expect will only increase in future years as we seek to learn from experts of various fields—including Indigenous American and Pre-Columbian cultures, and Islamic and African art—in which the museum has collections, but no curator with significant relevant expertise. Currator of Academic Programs HannahWirta Kinney has recently highlighted Indigenous American items in focused presentations, including Divergent Paths, which reconstructed the different journeys two pairs of moccasins took upon arrival at Oberlin College in the 19th century, one pair ending up in the AMAM and one in a collection without formal institutional oversight (now stewarded attentively by Amy Margaris, Associate Professor of Anthropology, who has been an excellent colleague and advisor regarding proper care for the Indigenous Cover: Artist Anna Von Mertens takes a break during the installation of her work in the Allen’s Ellen Johnson Gallery. Photo by John Seyfried. This page: Maria Martínez (San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1887–1980) and Julian Martínez (San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1879–1943), Black-on-Black Jar with Avanyu Design, mid-1930s–1943. Hand-coiled earthenware. Gift of Maxine Houck (OC 1958) in memory of James A., Pauline A., andWalter E. Houck, 2011.4.1. Opposite left: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (American Indian, b. 1940), Theatres of War, 2006. Color lithograph with monotype. Ruth C. Roush Contemporary Art Fund, 2012.8. Opposite right: Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band Choctaw/Cherokee, b. 1972), One for the Other, 2009. Color lithograph. Gift of Driek (OC 1965) and Michael (OC 1964) Zirinsky in honor of Karl Davis and Nika Blasser, 2023.1.10. 87 North Main Street Oberlin, Ohio 44074 440-775-8665 amam.oberlin.edu Tue–Fri / 10 am–5 pm Sat / 1–5 pm Sun, Mon / Closed Always Free
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