Visual Arts

Denison’s Visual Arts program emphasizes art making as a means to thinking from multiple perspectives. Rooted in creative and critical thinking, we equip students to consider their relationship with the world of images and ideas and challenge them to make work that responds and establishes their art-making voice.

Pending approval by the Higher Learning Commission

Keith Allyn Spencer , Associate Professor, Chair of Visual Arts

Highlights

Visual Arts Alumni Updates

Discover all the arts at Denison

Reflect on the world with curiosity and a critical eye.

400 The approximate number of students, from all areas of the college, who take Visual Arts classes every year.

Our graduates are high achievers.

Vail Visiting Artists

Bringing a diversity of artists, methods, backgrounds

Denison Studio Art Vail Visiting Artist series is an endowed fund that allows for inviting working artists at all stages in their careers to come and speak to Denison students.

Photo: Artist Karen Tam

Spotlights

An art student finds her footing in 981 square feet

A mural — and the Denison Summer Scholar painting it — spring to life in a Newark community-service project.

Christian Faur displays a photo-realistic portrait of American mathematician Julia Robinson that is made from crayons

Crayon artist, tech wizard, Renaissance man

From humble beginnings, Christian Faur has become an acclaimed artist who’s found a home at Denison by carving his own niche.

Members of the Denison community borrowed nearly 100 student works of art for the semester during the first-ever Studio Art Lending Library in the Bryant Arts Center, held on Jan. 27, 2023.

At the Studio Art Lending Library, ‘you choose what speaks to you’

Inaugural program brings student works out of Bryant Arts Center and into buildings across campus

Students learning from a professional photographer

Picture-perfect paid internships

Denison’s Career Center funds internships that add valuable experiences to an arts education.

Tejido de Voces rehearsal (photo by Ron Abram)

Building Bridges: Ron Abram, Collaboration and Tejido de Voces

The importance of art - especially in a world divided by COVID, politics, and distance - is a tangible thing.

Columbus Creative in Residence

Denison’s Studio Art department introduces Columbus Creative in Residence program.

An art installation by Micaela Vivero, artist and professor

A Fragile Balance

Artist and professor Micaela Vivero explores space and balance in a recent exhibition in Rota, Spain.

“Hold Hold Spill”

Artist and professor Sheilah ReStack describes her work as something recognizable, but changed.

Daniel Roumain playing in concert with Titus Kaphar's A Disturbing Silence

Black Art 2020: Active interaction with Art

Two art exhibitions that focused on Black artists and their work became a springboard for learning in Prof. JSTN CLMN’s Black Art 2020 class.

The camera’s eye: On teaching photography

Professor Sheilah ReStack writes on what it means to provide a context for photography when teaching students.

Students interacting with the About Ourselves/Inside Ourselves exhibit

How We Learn

A Look Inside Ourselves

A Denison Museum art exhibit titled About Ourselves/Inside Ourselves explores queer history and identity.

Where We Go

Painting Virtual Reality

Studio Art alum Al DiLorenzo ‘19 learned virtual reality & painting skills - now they combine them for a career in the arts.

How We Learn

Art and Space Connect and Encourage Empathy

Resident artists Christian and Anne Manns pay tribute to local history through exhibition “Monumental!”

How We Learn

Soaking up art in New York City

Each year, studio art seniors travel to New York City to experience art in person, meet artists and take a pulse of the art world.

How We Learn

The Billboard Project hits the Streets

Denison Studio Art professor, Sheilah Wilson, works to place contemporary art on billboards in Newark, Ohio.

What's Happening

Students, Newsletters

A President’s Medal, a mad dash in heels, and Friday night lights

Live blog: Senior Send-Off 2025!

Denison fencers earn sumptuous athletic (and culinary) rewards

Visual Arts

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Bringing a diversity of artists, methods, backgrounds

Spotlights

An art student finds her footing in 981 square feet

Crayon artist, tech wizard, Renaissance man

At the Studio Art Lending Library, ‘you choose what speaks to you’

Picture-perfect paid internships

Building Bridges: Ron Abram, Collaboration and Tejido de Voces

Columbus Creative in Residence

A Fragile Balance

“Hold Hold Spill”

Black Art 2020: Active interaction with Art

The camera’s eye: On teaching photography

A Look Inside Ourselves

Painting Virtual Reality

Art and Space Connect and Encourage Empathy

Soaking up art in New York City

The Billboard Project hits the Streets

What's Happening

Mason Allen ’25 finds humor in the humble

Jen Passaniti ’06 leads production at Highdive ad agency

Student works shining across campus