Sponsored by the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences . Weintraub is Oberlin's first Henry R. Luce Professor in the Emerging Arts. The new professorship has been funded for a period of six years by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. A limitless inventory of alternatives is now included within the creative act. Participants in any of today's art-related disciplines confront a tumultuous array of options that tease and stretch the traditional constructs of their professions.
Artistic possibilities are as bountiful as they are eclectic and chaotic.
The Emerging Arts program seeks to examine the concepts, ethics and aesthetics of the moment and aspires to bridge contemporary art making with academic scholarship. The Marriage of Music and Art, both as a touring exhibition and as a book. This year her exhibition The Art or Body Crafting opens an international tour in Santiago, Chile. Besides having an established career in the visual arts, Weintraub has studied dance with Merce Cunningham, Jose Limon and Martha Graham. With her husband, Andrew R. Weintraub, she has designed and constructed eight homes based on experimental architectural principles.