Mar 28, 2024  
Course Catalog 2021-2022 
    
Course Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Studio Art


Julia Christensen, Associate Professor of Studio Art, Chair
Johnny Coleman, Professor
Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Professor
Kristina Paabus, Associate Professor
Sarah Schuster, Professor
Nanette Yannuzzi, Professor


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The Studio Art faculty consists of artist-scholars who represent a range of mediums and varied professional studio practices. The department’s curriculum offers hands-on studio art training embedded with the intellectual rigor of the liberal arts context. . The Studio Art complex includes resources such as a fabrication lab, a woodshop, media lab, wet/digital photography lab (color and black & white), and classroom studios to support drawing, painting, bookmaking, and sculpture/installation courses. Junior majors have a large shared studio, and senior majors have their own semi-private studios. The Allen Memorial Art Museum is an important resource for art students. The Studio Art department is interdisciplinary in nature, and all students study within the realms of 2D, 3D, and 4D art and design practices; the curriculum also provides flexibility for students committed to specific mediums. 

Majors in the Art Department

The Studio Art Department insists that its programs of major study be deeply integrated with the overall liberal arts education that Oberlin both endorses and offers, while still offering the rigor of a pre-professional Studio Art program. In planning their programs of study, students should stay on track to complete the Advanced course by the end of their Junior year, keeping in mind that the capstone suite of classes are required in the Senior year

The Studio Art Department insists that its programs of major study be deeply integrated with the overall liberal arts education that Oberlin both endorses and offers, while still offering the rigor of a pre-professional Studio Art program. In planning their programs of study, students should stay on track to complete the Advanced course by the end of their Junior year, keeping in mind that the capstone suite of classes are required in the Senior year. 

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Advanced Placement

The Studio Art department does not accept AP credits to count towards major requirements. The department’s curricular pathway must be consistent across students to prepare majors for a cohesive capstone experience.

Transfer of Credit/Major Credit for Off-Campus Study

The Studio Art Department will accept up to three courses from an approved external institution to count towards major requirements. The chair’s preliminary approval must be obtained before beginning work away from Oberlin if this work is to be counted as credit for the major. Upon return, students must supply both an official transcript and evidence of the nature of the work done. Such requests, as well as those of transfer students (who can also transfer no more than three courses to count towards major requirements), will be handled on an individual basis. The department is not obliged to give credit for work that fails to fit the general patterns of the Oberlin curriculum or that fails to come up to Oberlin’s standards, no matter how valuable a student feels the experience has been, or how much time and effort has been expended.


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