14 / AMAM.OBERLIN.EDU INSIDETHE ALLEN LEARNING OUTSIDE THE TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM Curator Kevin Greenwood works with Parker Niles (OC 2023) to examine several Himalayan gilded bronze statues currently on display at the Allen. Niles, also a Gallery Guide at the museum, is writing their senior capstone on Tibetan Buddhist consecration rituals. They search for a symbol on the underside of the statues that indicates they had been properly consecrated. BUILD-A-BARRICADE Community Day is a free family-friendly event offered each semester. Open to art lovers of all ages, the Allen’s Education Department creates an activity inspired by a work of art on view in the museum and offers tours designed to spark creativity. During the fall semester’s event, visitors created their own barricades in relation to Bakunin’s Barricade by artist Ahmet Öğüt then on view. Don’t miss our next Community Day on April 15. See page 19 for more details. CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF JEWISH STUDIES AT OBERLIN Oberlin’s Jewish Studies Program celebrated its 50th anniversary in October. To mark the occasion, the Allen hosted a two-part workshop with attendees including Oberlin students, staff, and faculty, alumni, and community members. Curator SamAdams facilitated a conversation on Jewish identity in 20th century art that ranged fromCamille Pissarro’s sephardic-Caribbean background to the transatlantic movement of modernist styles through Alfred Stieglitz, Lotte Jacobi, Ben Shahn, Marc Chagall, Eva Hesse, and others. The takeaway message for many was that, although Jewish artists may not explicitly address Jewish themes in their work, their religious and cultural backgrounds impacted the course of their lives and the modernist traditions to which they contributed. A student examines a painting in the Print Study Room at the Allen. Marc Chagall (French, born in Russia, 1887–1985), Green Dream, 1945. Oil on canvas. Gift of Joseph and Enid Bissett, 1956.24. JONATHAN CLARK (OC 2025)
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