March 2010
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A First Year's Experience with Art Rental →
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The Future of "Audio" Tours? →
This New York Times article offers an interesting look at what many museums across the country are already doing to offer more resources and ‘education-on-demand’ to their visitors. Creating content-rich multimedia tours has been much on the mind of educators at the AMAM over the past several months. Some of what is mentioned in this article we could do, and some of it we can’t....
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AMAM @ The Met - Opens Today!
“Side by Side: Oberlin’s Masterworks at the Met” opens today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Twenty masterworks from the AMAM’s collection will be on view from March 16 through August 29, 2010 in the Met’s galleries before moving on to an exhibition at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
Don’t miss the opportunity to see...
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First of Many AMAM-Organized Field Trips to Local...
This past Saturday, funds from a Mellon grant enabled Oberlin College students to visit Cleveland’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) to view 13 of the AMAM’s most significant works of African-American art in From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African-American Art. Led by the Curator of Academic Programs and their professors, students from a variety of courses whose topics address the...
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Staying Engaged, Part Two
During the museum’s renovation project, the Education Department will still be actively engaged in teaching about the museum’s collection through public programs, continued development of online resources, and outreach activities to regional school districts.
One of these public programs is “Art Potluck,” held on ‘early release’ days in the Oberlin City School district. This event, organized in...
