Studio art at Lawrence is a multiple-medium approach that encompasses ceramics, drawing, new media, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.

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

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 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 Studio Art

Introduction to Drawing
 
2D course
(e.g., painting, drawing, photography, new media)

3D course
(e.g., ceramics, printmaking, sculpture)
 Two Art history courses

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

Chair(s)
Rob Neilson (chair)
Elizabeth Carlson (chair term I)
  • Tony Gerald Conrad
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    Visiting Professor of Art
    Campus Phone: 920-832-7185
    Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, M.F.A.
    Campus Address: Wriston Art Center Room 214 Studio Art
    Website: https://www.tonyconradart.com
    Years at Lawrence: 2012-
  • Rob Neilson
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    Frederick R. Layton Professor of Studio Art and Professor of Art
    Campus Phone: 920-832-6643
    Education: College of Creative Studies, B.F.A.; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, M.F.A.
    Interests: sculpture, public art, drawing
    Campus Address: Wriston Art Center Room 130 Studio Art
    Website: http://www.robneilson.com/
    CV: http://www.robneilson.com/#!__cv
    Years at Lawrence: 2003-
  • Benjamin Rinehart
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    Professor of Art
    Campus Phone: 920-832-6645
    Education: Herron School of Art/Indiana University, B.F.A.; Louisiana State University, M.F.A.
    Interests: printmaking, book arts, paper making, drawing, painting, & graphic design
    Campus Address: Wriston Art Center Room 110 Studio Art
    Website: http://www.benrinehart.com/
    CV: http://www.benrinehart.com/#!cv-biography/c1a2m
    Years at Lawrence: 2006-
  • John A. Shimon
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    Associate Professor of Art
    Campus Phone: 920-832-6534
    Education: 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 Film
    Campus Address: Wriston Art Center Room 109 Studio Art
    Website: http://www.shimonlindemann.com
    CV: http://www.shimonlindemann.com/media/2013/01/JSJLCV2013.pdf
    Years at Lawrence: 2000-
  • Meghan C. Sullivan
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    Uihlein Fellow of Studio Art
    Campus Phone: 920-832-6821
    Education: University of Nebraska -Lincoln, MFA in Studio Arts, University of Florida - Gainesville, Post baccalaureate in Ceramics, Massachusetts College of Art, BFA in Ceramics
    Interests: Ceramics, Drawing, Figurative Sculpture
    Campus Address: Wriston Art Center Room 132 Studio Art
    Website: http://www.meghansullivanceramics.com
    Years at Lawrence: 2015-
  • Beth A. Zinsli
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    Assistant Professor of Art History, Curator of the Wriston Art Center Galleries and Museum Studies Interdisciplinary Area Program Director
    Campus Phone: 920-832-6942
    Education: PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014 MA: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007 BA: Lawrence University, 2002
    Interests: History and Theory of Photography, Visual Culture Studies, Contemporary Art History, Museum Studies
    Campus Address: Wriston Art Center Room 227 Art History
    Years at Lawrence: 2013-