Lecture TOMORROW

“Asian American Art History: Hidden Right Before Our Eyes”
Gordon Chang, Professor of History, Stanford University
Monday, November 1, 2010 ● 4:30 p.m. ● Wilder 101

A professor of American history at Stanford University, Gordon Chang’s research focuses on the history of United States-East Asia relations and on Asian American history. He is particularly interested in the historical connections between race and ethnicity in America and foreign relations, and explores these interconnections in his teaching and scholarship. He is a recipient of Guggenheim and ACLS fellowships, and has been a two-time fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.
Chang is the editor or author of a number of essays and books, including Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present (2006), Asian Americans and Politics: An Exploration (2001), Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Wartime Writing, 1942-1945 (1997), and Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972 (1990). His most recent work, American Asian Art: A History, 1850-1970 (2008) is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of American Asian artists active in the United States before 1970. He is currently at work on a “long” history of U.S.-China relations from the colonial era to the present.

Sponsored by Oberlin College Comparative American Studies Program, Oberlin College Shansi, Oberlin College Art Department (Baldwin Fund), Oberlin College Department of History (Anderson Fund), Oberlin College East Asian Studies Program, Oberlin College Multicultural Resource Center

 

Everyone Loves Colors

Found this great article called “5 Web Design and Development Tools I Simply Can’t Live Without (and Why).”

Our favorite is Kuler. Check out the author’s description below. (but you should still take a look at the other four)

Color is the unsung hero of web design. Seriously, a good color palette can draw your audience into your site and give them a powerful feeling of immersion, and (best of all) keep them coming back to your site (which is one of the points of good design, isn’t it?). When it comes to tools to help you not only build color palettes based on color schemes, but also translate colors into usable hexadecimal codes, there is nothing better than Kuler.  While there are other solutions out there (ColorSchemer Studio comes to mind—which is both Mac and PC), I simply love Kuler. It is hands down my one stop shopping spot for all of my color palette developing needs. One of the cool things about Kuler is that its not only a tool for building your own color palettes (and getting the hexadecimal values of those palettes), but it has social features that let users browse and rate other people’s palettes. The other great thing about Kuler is that is completely online and completely free. The only real “cost” is that you will need an Adobe ID (which is free) in order to take advantage of Kuler’s more advanced features (especially the social stuff).

 

THE UNSUNG TORSOS: AN OPERA IN THIRTEEN PARTS by Julia Christensen and Sarah Paul

Performed by Christensen, Paul, and WAM! (Women and Art Music Ensemble)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Saturday, October 30th
7PM: Reception
8PM: Performance

Music, video, and poetry converge in an original sonic narrative that celebrates the spirit of the innocent victims of the notorious 1930′s Cleveland “Torso Murders.” Experience the beauty and drama of this new, MOCA-commissioned multimedia opera written and performed by artists Julia Christensen and Sarah Paul, with contributions from the Women and Art Music Ensemble (WAM!) of Oberlin Conservatory.
Tickets: $5.  Free for MOCA and Spaces members, and free for college students.  Call 216.421.8671 ext. 71 to reserve your tickets, or click this link: http://www.mocacleveland.org/moca_mail_F10101210.html

Part Two: Edward Andrassy, video still.   Videos for the performance were made by Christensen on a residency at the Experimental Television Center in upstate New York.

 

Tonight!

Debra Yepa-Pappan and Student Art Show Opening

the ELC (76 South Professor), 7pm

This will be an opportunity for Oberlin students to display art that speaks to mixed identities and transnational communities.

Debra Yepa-Pappan is a Chicago-based visual artist. Her work reflects her Jemez Indian and Korean heritage as well U.S. popular cultural symbols and “traditional” symbols of native culture. Much of her work deals with her own multiraciality growing up Native and Asian-American, but also the “mixedness” of symbols and images themselves. Yepa-Pappan is very active in the Chicago urban indigenous community. Her work has appeared in galleries across the city of Chicago.

This event is part of Latino/a Heritage Month, the Indigenous Women’s Speakers Series and A Symposium on Multiracial Identities in the US presented by the MRC

 

Reframed Meanings: Early Photography of Japan as Souvenir/Science

Thursday, October 14 · 5:00pm – 6:00pm

Hallock Auditorium, Lewis Center for Environmental Studies

David Odo is the Bradley Assistant Curator of Academic Affairs at the Yale University Art Gallery. He previously taught in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. Odo received his D.Phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford, and has held numerous research fellowships, including appointments at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the Freer/Sackler Galleries, Harvard University, and the University… of Tokyo. He has edited, curated and published work on early Japanese and Asian photography. His most recent publications are Unknown Japan: Reconsidering Early Photographs, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2008) and “Expeditionary Photographs of the Ogasawara Islands, 1875-76” (in History of Photography, 2009).

Part of the AMAM “Photography & Politics” Lecture Series, made possible by the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Art Department Baldwin Fund, as well as contributions from the History Department and the Department of French and Italian.