Studio Art

Kristina Paabus, Associate Professor of Studio Art and Director of the Oberlin Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies; chair

Julia L. Christensen, Eva and John Young-Hunter Professor of Studio Art
Myles Dunigan, Lecturer of Studio Art
R. Kauff, Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art
Jacob Koestler, Lecturer of Studio Art
Pipo H. Nguyen-Duy, Professor of Studio Art
Michael B. Roman, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Studio Art
Sarah C. Schuster, Professor of Studio Art
Abby Sherrill, Fabrication Laboratory Supervisor
Laura C. Truitt, Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art
Jefferson (Zé) Wille Kielwagen, Assistant Professor of Studio Art
Richard Wood, Lecturer of Studio Art and Arts Facilities Manager

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The faculty of the Department of Studio Art at Oberlin College consists of artist-scholars who represent a range of mediums and varied professional studio practices. The studio art complex includes resources such as a fabrication lab, a woodshop, media lab, wet/digital photography lab (color and black-and-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 studio art students.

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Majors and Minors 

• Studio Art Major  
• Studio Art Minor  

Curriculum

The department’s curriculum offers hands-on studio art training embedded within the intellectual rigor of the liberal arts context. Interdisciplinary in nature, the department provides for study within the realms of 2D, 3D, and 4D art and design practices; the curriculum also provides flexibility for students committed to specific mediums.

Courses

• ARST 110 - Introduction to Drawing
• ARST 111 - Introduction to 2D Design
• ARST 112 - Introduction to Color in Context
• ARST 114 - Introduction to Figure Drawing
• ARST 120 - Introduction to Figure Painting
• ARST 121 - Introduction to Icon Painting
• ARST 122 - Introduction to Perceptual Painting
• ARST 123 - Intro: On Location
• ARST 124 - Intro to Painting: Imagined Worlds
• ARST 130 - Introduction to Mixed Media and Sculpture
• ARST 131 - Introduction to Sculpture: Material and Space
• ARST 132 - The Pile On: Introduction to Multiples and Accumulation
• ARST 133 - Introduction to Sculpture: In/With/About Wood
• ARST 134 - Introduction to Performance: Poetic Action
• ARST 135 - Intro to installation: Site-Specificity
• ARST 140 - Introduction to Digital Photography
• ARST 141 - Introduction to Black-and-White Photography
• ARST 150 - Introduction to Obsolete New Media
• ARST 151 - Introduction to Media Art Studio / Seminar
• ARST 158 - Introduction to Digital Painting / Mark Making
• ARST 159 - Introduction to the Body & Technology
• ARST 160 - Intro to Print through Text and Image
• ARST 161 - Introduction to Screenprinting
• ARST 162 - Introduction to Relief and Intaglio: From Drawing to Print
• ARST 163 - Introduction to Monotype and Lithography: The Painterly Print
• ARST 170 - Intro: Reimagining the Book
• ARST 172 - Introduction to Narrative Art Seminar
• ARST 173 - Introduction to Sequential Illustration: Serial Comic Strips
• ARST 210 - Intermediate Drawing
• ARST 211 - Intermediate Design
• ARST 212 - Intermediate Drawing in Space/Place
• ARST 213 - Intermediate Drawing Practice in/over Time
• ARST 220 - Intermediate: Embodied Content
• ARST 221 - Intermediate: Narrative and Contemporary Figure Painting
• ARST 222 - Intermediate: Drawing into Painting
• ARST 223 - Intermediate Painting: Image Appropriation
• ARST 230 - Intermediate Moldmaking and Casting
• ARST 231 - Intermediate: Site, Location, Place
• ARST 232 - Problems: Art as Social Practice
• ARST 233 - Intermediate Sculpture and Bodily Autonomy
• ARST 240 - Intermediate: The Negative, The Print
• ARST 241 - Intermediate Photo Project Seminar
• ARST 242 - Intermediate: Photo: Color
• ARST 243 - Intermediate: Photo: Mixed Media
• ARST 250 - Intermediate: Art as Research
• ARST 251 - Intermediate Media Installation
• ARST 260 - Intermediate Print Projects
• ARST 261 - Intermediate Reproducible Media: Print in the Expanded Field
• ARST 270 - Intermediate: Artists’ Books
• ARST 271 - Intermediate Sequential Illustration
• ARST 273 - Intermediate Trust the Process: The Art of the Study in Formal and Conceptual Design
• ARST 320 - Advanced 2D Projects
• ARST 334 - Advanced 3D/4D Projects
• ARST 400 - Capstone A: Senior Studio Practice
• ARST 410 - Capstone B: Professional Practice
• ARST 420 - Capstone C: Exhibition Practice
• ARST 598 - Studio Art Honors
• ARST 820 - Intermediate Painting: Art and the Environment
• ARST 995F - Private Reading - Full
• ARST 995H - Private Reading - Half