School of Art + Design: Evolutionary process through fearless exploration
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As a Studio Art major, you’ll gain a variety of skills and techniques that will enable you to work successfully in fields related to art or to pursue graduate study. This program provides easy access to elective courses, freedom to double major, and opportunities to study off- campus.
Explore the B.A. in Studio Art“In this piece, I’m attempting to embrace dark skin and all the notions surrounding it. My work is evolving from a micro expression, a scientific interest of skin cells and melanin to a more macro look at how I view beauty and femininity. Through this process I have come to love my skin more. Expressing my feelings and being vulnerable was not easy, but my professors really pushed it out of me and made it OK. That’s what being an artist is about.“
"When starting a new project, I just go for it. Most people start with research and sketches but for me it’s about getting started. In our program you are encouraged to develop your own process. I believe that unless you’re given complete artistic freedom you won’t be doing what you love."
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View All Art & Design NewsExperiencing Performance: As Far As My Fingertips Take Me—Tania El Khoury
February 21, 2019College art ambassador Courtney Archibald is a first year studio art major, and writes about her experience participating in a performance exhibition by Tanya el Khoury in November of 2018.
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View All Art & Design NewsFIRST OF ALL, the 2019 First-Year Studio Art M.F.A. Exhibition
February 13, 2019The School of Art + Design presents an exhibition curated by our first-year M.F.A. candidates in ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, painting, photography and graphic design. The show will be on view February 12–March 9, 2019, with a reception on Thursday, February 14 from 6-8 p.m.
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View All Art & Design NewsNOIX 2019: Speakers, artists, writers respond to forgotten personal photographs
February 6, 2019The School of Art + Design at Ohio University presented the New Old Image eXchange [NOIX], a day of presentations and discussion about personal photographs with visiting speakers, faculty and students culminating in a keynote lecture by emerging artist and writer, Carmen Winant, 7 p.m., on Tuesda
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View All Art & Design NewsIn The News: Ohio Valley Center for Collaborative Arts
January 31, 2019The Ohio Valley Center for Collaborative Arts [CoArts], devoted to community development through arts engagement and collaboration, was recently featured in the Daily Sentinel (Pomeroy, OH)
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