🎭 Theater
Oberlin’s theater program combines intensive mentorship in acting, directing, playwriting, and production, with innumerable opportunities in our production shops and theaters. The theater department produces more than 10 shows a year and employs upwards of 100 students, ensuring ample opportunities for hands-on production experience and creative storytelling.

🖼️ On-Campus Art Museum
The Allen Memorial Art Museum is widely regarded as one of the top five college art museums in the country, and it holds a variety of virtual and in-person programs to ensure accessibility for all. The famous Art Rental Program allows Oberlin students to rent an original work of art for a semester for just $5! You could hang a Picasso, Lichtenstein, or Dalí in your dorm room!

🎨 Studio Art
Oberlin’s studio art department offers studio training in a broad range of 2D, 3D, and 4D mediums. Studio art majors get to design and install their own exhibitions, and all art students can take advantage of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, located right next door.

🕺🏽 Dance
The Oberlin Dance Department provides many opportunities to manage, choreograph, and perform traditional and contemporary techniques. Contact improvisation was founded at Oberlin in 1972 and there are more than 17 movement-based clubs on campus, including And What?! (one of Oberlin's hiphop dance groups), Vibe Tap & Jazz, and OC Aerialists, along with local internships and youth mentorship opportunities. Girls in Motion is an afterschool dance program run by Obies that gets local middle school students moving!

📝 Creative Writing
Oberlin was one of the first institutions to offer undergraduates the rare opportunity to major in creative writing—not as a concentration in another department, but as an independent discipline in its own right. Creative Writing provides an intense and rigorous course of study with instruction, studio training, and coursework in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, translation, screenwriting, and hybrid forms.

🍿 Cinema Studies at the Apollo Movie Theater
The Oberlin Cinema Studies program was one of the first of its kind at the undergraduate level and introduces students to the craft, history and cultural meaning of film, television, and digital media. Students have access to fully-equipped sound stages, green screens, animation rooms, editing suites and classrooms. Many of these facilities are found in the Apollo Movie Theater in downtown Oberlin, which was built in 1913 and is unique in its art-deco theater style. Alumni have gone on to work at companies such as PBS, CNN, and HBO, and have also screened their work at leading film festivals.

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