Studio art at Lawrence is a multiple-medium approach that encompasses ceramics, drawing, new media, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.
Studio Art
Life After Lawrence
Lawrentians can enjoy careers in...
Graphic design, marketing, gallery and museum administration, conservation, painting, sculpting, photography, art therapy, education, design, digital media, TV production
Recent employers include...
AccuWeather, Walker Art Center, Trout Museum of Art, PS1 (Queens), Lynda.com, Museum of Modern Art, PBS, Rashaad Newsome Studio… as well as their own studios
Lawrentians can earn advanced degrees in...
M.F.A programs, architecture, art history, arts
Recent schools include...
DePaul University, Indiana University, Northwestern University, University of Wisconsin, Williams College

Create in a beautiful space
Create in a beautiful space
The 24/7 Wriston Art Center contains naturally lit studios for painting, drawing, and printmaking, as well as facilities for ceramics (large gas, two electric, two test kilns; raku kiln, slab roller, throwing wheels), photography (digital and film), and sculpture (tools for wood, metal, mixed media fabrication, mold making). You can display your work in galleries all over campus.

Run the Rabbit Gallery
Run the Rabbit Gallery
Run by Lawrentians—where students and local artists display and sell their work in pop-up locations throughout Appleton, a city with a large artists’ community, and a huge public art scene.
Components of the Major
Introduction to Drawing
(e.g., painting, drawing, photography, new media)
3D course
(e.g., ceramics, printmaking, sculpture)
Four upper-division art courses
Studio Art Senior Seminar
Course descriptions and more courses
The Chandler Senior Experience
Studio Art seniors participate in the Senior Exhibition (a graduation requirement), and produce a digital portfolio of their work.
Recent Senior Experiences include:
Dorito Skin (interdisciplinary using new media, performance, installation and sculpture to examine music videos and other cultural constructs)
A Psychoanalysis (critique of contemporary human condition using installation with printmaking and book arts)
For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People: The National Parks as America’s Best Sources of Nutrition (photo, video, and objects portraying landscape through junk food)
Faculty
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Tony Gerald ConradVisiting Professor of ArtCampus Phone: 920-832-7185Email: tony.g.conrad@lawrence.eduEducation: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, M.F.A.Campus Address: Wriston Art Center Room 214 Art and Art HistoryWebsite: https://www.tonyconradart.comYears at Lawrence: 2012-
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Rob NeilsonFrederick R. Layton Professor of Studio Art and Professor of ArtCampus Phone: 920-832-6643Email: rob.neilson@lawrence.eduEducation: College of Creative Studies, B.F.A.; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, M.F.A.Interests: sculpture, public art, drawingCampus Address: Wriston Art Center Room 130 Art and Art HistoryWebsite: http://www.robneilson.com/Years at Lawrence: 2003-
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Benjamin RinehartAssociate Professor of ArtCampus Phone: 920-832-6645Education: Herron School of Art/Indiana University, B.F.A.; Louisiana State University, M.F.A.Interests: printmaking, book arts, paper making, drawing, painting, & graphic designCampus Address: Wriston Art Center Room 110 Art and Art HistoryWebsite: http://www.benrinehart.com/Years at Lawrence: 2006-
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John A. ShimonAssociate Professor of ArtCampus Phone: 920-832-6534Email: john.a.shimon@lawrence.eduEducation: University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.S.; Illinois State University, M.S.Interests: Photography, New Media, Visual Culture, Antiquarian Photographic Processes, Documentary Photography and Film, Experimental FilmCampus Address: Wriston Art Center Room 109 Art and Art HistoryWebsite: http://www.shimonlindemann.comYears at Lawrence: 2000-
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Meghan C. SullivanUihlein Fellow of Studio ArtCampus Phone: 920-832-6821Education: University of Nebraska -Lincoln, MFA in Studio Arts, University of Florida - Gainesville, Post baccalaureate in Ceramics, Massachusetts College of Art, BFA in CeramicsInterests: Ceramics, Drawing, Figurative SculptureCampus Address: Wriston Art Center Room 132 Art and Art HistoryYears at Lawrence: 2015-