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Arts Program Schedule

MAVERICK ARTISTS/VISIONARY EDUCATORS SERIES KICKS OFF AT OBERLIN COLLEGE

SEPTEMBER 7, 2001-- A high wire artist, Argentine experimental music, and Star Wars-inspired choreography are among the free, public programs offered this semester by the Emerging Arts Program at Oberlin College. The performances are part of the "Maverick Artists/Visionary Educators" Series, sponsored by the Henry Luce Initiative in the Emerging Arts.

Henry Luce Professor of Emerging Arts Linda Weintraub established the cutting-edge Oberlin program. It integrates, she says, "the intractably avant-garde into the content of college courses, and explores the manner in which these art works necessitate innovative teaching strategies." As part of that integration, Weintraub has crafted a fall season of programming featuring these guest artists:

• Monday, September 17, 2001. 8:00 p.m. King Building, Room 306. Phillippe Petit, high wire artist and artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.
• Monday, October 1, 2001. 8:00 p.m. Carnegie Building, Root Room. Choreographer Arthur Aviles, founder of the Typical Theatre.
• Monday, October 29, 2001. 8:00 p.m. Location TBA. Reynols, an Argentine experimental music band led by Miguel Tomasin, a musician with Down's Syndrome.
• Monday, November 5, 2001. 8:00 p.m. Campus Green. Japanese-American performance artists Eiko and Koma.
• Friday, November 30, 2001 4:00 p.m. Allen Art Building, Lecture Room. Visual artist Eve Andree Laramee.

Weintraub was appointed Luce Professor in the Emerging Arts in July 2000. Her professorship, funded by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, prepares students to contribute to the arts in today's technologically enhanced and genre-crossing environment¨an environment that demands new, interdisciplinary models of arts education, and an exploration of the intellectual framework supporting it. Weintraub integrates contemporary art making with academic scholarship, examining the concepts, ethics and aesthetics of the moment in the process.

Established in 1968, the Luce Program encourages academic innovation and creativity through integrative and interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research in American private higher education.

The Emerging Arts Program at Oberlin College builds upon Oberlin's distinguished tradition of pedagogical experimentation. For more information, please contact Linda Weintraub at 440-775-8160 or at 845-758-9289.

Media Contact: Marci Janas