Student Perspective
“We have this stereotype of the broke, starving artist, but actually seeing and meeting people who do art on the daily and are making a decent living really shifted my perspective.”
Marifé Entenza-Sierra ’23
Studio Art, Global Studies
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Makerspace | This is Lawrence
The Makerspace provides a collaborative environment where the entire Lawrence community comes together to create something entirely new.
Studio Art Facilities
Wherever your path leads, you’re sure to have all the tools you need to channel your creativity. Utilize a fully-equipped ceramics facility, photographic darkroom and much more.
Create 24/7 in the Wriston Art Center
The Wriston Art Center features naturally lit studios with kilns and throwing wheels for ceramicists, a photographic darkroom, plus tools for fabricating mixed-media sculptures.
Paper Fox Printmaking Workshop
Learn the crafts of printmaking, letterpress, silkscreen, papermaking, and book making from start to finish on professional print shop equipment in this collaborative and entrepreneurial workshop.
The Chandler Senior Experience
As a studio art seniors, you'll participate in the Senior Exhibition (a graduation requirement), and produce a digital portfolio of your work.
Recent Senior Experience projects 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)
Art Outcomes
Let your creativity shine beyond the studio as your artistic talents take you to advanced studies and a variety of promising career paths.