The first professional African American sculptor, Edmonia Lewis attended Oberlin College from 1859 through 1862. While her time at Oberlin ended in scandal, she went on to have a successful career as an American expatriate artist living in Rome.
Mary Edmonia Lewis attended Oberlin College from 1859 to 1863. Her time in Oberlin was cut short due accusations that Edmonia Lewis poisoned two of her white classmates. Edmonia Lewis had a successful career as a sculptor, although critics have not…
Graduating from Oberlin in 1957, Sylvia Louise Hill Williams went on to have an illustrious career in Art History. Becoming Director of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. in 1983, she helped move the…
The collection of images brings together formal portraits of Oberlin College presidents, faculty, trustees, and other important figures in the institution's history.
This digital project explores the contributions of art history professor and curator Ellen Johnson to Oberlin's Department of Art History and its art museum, as well as to the American and European contemporary art world. Johnson received both a BA…
Chalk mural of Maya Angelou with a quote from "Still I Rise" from the Oberlin 2014 Chalk Walk sponsored by the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts