A studio art degree at Lawrence brings you a rare best of several worlds.

As an art major, you'll hone your creative identity through hands-on technical instruction and articulate artistic concepts, gaining critical perspectives of a liberal arts education within a supportive community. Your experience pursuing an art degree will immerse you in various media from ancient bookmaking, using Lawrence’s extensive wooden type collection, to cutting-edge animation and digital visual art in new media.

Marifé Entenza-Sierra, a studio art major, paints with acrylic paints. Students pursing an art degree are challenged to explore everything from water color to 3D digital animation.

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

Academics

Makerspace | This is Lawrence

The Makerspace provides a collaborative environment where the entire Lawrence community comes together to create something entirely new.

As a studio art major, you'll enjoy courses covering a vibrant range of visual art disciplines, from photomotion to graphic novels.

Explore requirements for your major or minor in studio art, and learn about double majors and certifications.

Learn more about the creative backgrounds of the studio art faculty.

See what Art program members are up to by exploring and following our social channels.

Student painting in Wriston

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.

Letterpress and typesetting tools

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)

View a collection of Senior Experience projects.

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Messy painting supplies

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.

Can you picture yourself at Lawrence? Apply for admission.

The best way to find out if Lawrence is the university for you is by visiting.

Your virtual tour starts at the Arch but be sure to check out Wriston, where Art classes are housed.

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