Programs
Undergraduate
Degree Type: B.S.Ed.
Educating an Artistic Youth
Do you have a passion for art and a desire to educate and inspire children? Consider Ashland University College of Arts and Sciences’ Art Education program. It’s one of Ohio’s leading teacher preparation programs, preparing you to be a well-rounded practicing artist with excellent teaching skills.
Undergraduate
Degree Type: BA, BFA
Fine-tuning Your Artistic Capabilities
Experience art on a whole new level in Ashland University’s Fine Art program.
The Fine Art program at the College of Arts and Sciences is a diverse program devoted to providing you with a fundamental core of art knowledge and strong technical skills. Choose from...
Undergraduate
Degree Type: BA, BA
Fostering a Visual Business World
Are you looking for a creative career developing visual solutions for clients? Look no further than Ashland University’s Graphic Design Program.
Curriculum
Faculty
Michael Bird
Professional Instructor of Digital Art and Graphic Design
236, Center for the Arts
419.289.5153 / mbird2@ashland.edu
Department of Art + Design
236, Center for the Arts
419.289.5153 / mbird2@ashland.edu
Department of Art + Design
Keith Dull
Professor of Art
343A, Center for the Arts
419.289.5981 / kdull@ashland.edu
Department of Art + Design
343A, Center for the Arts
419.289.5981 / kdull@ashland.edu
Department of Art + Design
Daniel McDonald
Chair of the Department of Art, Associate Professor of Art
227, Center for the Arts
419.289.5130 / dmcdona1@ashland.edu
Department of Art + Design
227, Center for the Arts
419.289.5130 / dmcdona1@ashland.edu
Department of Art + Design
Cynthia Petry
Director, Coburn Art Gallery , Professional Instructor
Gallery, Center for the Arts
419.289.5652 / cpetry@ashland.edu
Department of Art + Design
Gallery, Center for the Arts
419.289.5652 / cpetry@ashland.edu
Department of Art + Design
Priscilla Roggenkamp
Associate Professor of Art
346A , Center for the Arts
419.289.5194 / proggenk@ashland.edu
Department of Art + Design
346A , Center for the Arts
419.289.5194 / proggenk@ashland.edu
Department of Art + Design
Dr. Wendy Schaller
Associate Professor of Art
233 , Center for the Arts
419.289.5955 / wschalle@ashland.edu
Department of Art + Design
233 , Center for the Arts
419.289.5955 / wschalle@ashland.edu
Department of Art + Design
Department News
Sustainability and Textiles-presented by Art + Design faculty -Priscilla Roggenkamp
Priscilla Roggenkamp's topic, Sustainability and Textiles, was a segment of the Ashland University Honors 390 class.
Exploring the topic, we took a personal clothing inventory, studied how various textile fibers are created and looked into the human and environmental impact of fast fashion. We researched clothing companies with sustainable practices and discussed ways to be more conscientious consumers. Lastly, we tried our hands at some repairing practices and even did a bit of weaving.
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Honors Capstone Defense for Kiana Ziegler
Honors Capstone Defense for Kiana Ziegler
Honors Program senior student Kiana Ziegler will present her Honors Capstone, Meditation of the
Flesh - Self-Therapy for Chronic Illness on December 3rd, at 5:00PM in the Coburn Art Gallery.
Kiana's abstract reads, I havebeen diagnosed with chronic health conditions that impact my
everyday life. In order to help deal with my thoughts and emotions relating to these chronic
health conditions, I paint. My work is a cathartic self-therapy and a meditation on the flesh.
Through it, I express the fear and anxiety I experience in relation to my own body and health.
My path into this topic started with my fear of not wanting or being physically able to bear my
own children, an important part of the future I’ve imagined for myself. In my first three paintings,
I grieve for this lost future and come to an acceptance of what may lie ahead in the
yonic (“yoni” being Sanskrit for the vulva and the female equivalent to “phallus”) flower forms
on the canvas. As I continue along with the series, I begin to mourn the loss of other aspects
of a normal life through related flower forms. The complex forms and textures invite the viewer
to look closely at the paintings, encouraging them to move along the curves and bumps of the
works, contemplating the wonders and horrors that exist within the body. By completing this work,
I gained a better understanding of my process and how I want to communicate while also
helping myself and others who have been through similar experience via catharsis (a release of
repressed emotions).
Kiana Ziegler, from Ashland, OH, will graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Art, with a
painting concentration, and a Bachelor of Art in Commercial Art, with a graphic design
concentration. Ziegler...Read more
Honors Program senior student Kiana Ziegler will present her Honors Capstone, Meditation of the
Flesh - Self-Therapy for Chronic Illness on December 3rd, at 5:00PM in the Coburn Art Gallery.
Kiana's abstract reads, I havebeen diagnosed with chronic health conditions that impact my
everyday life. In order to help deal with my thoughts and emotions relating to these chronic
health conditions, I paint. My work is a cathartic self-therapy and a meditation on the flesh.
Through it, I express the fear and anxiety I experience in relation to my own body and health.
My path into this topic started with my fear of not wanting or being physically able to bear my
own children, an important part of the future I’ve imagined for myself. In my first three paintings,
I grieve for this lost future and come to an acceptance of what may lie ahead in the
yonic (“yoni” being Sanskrit for the vulva and the female equivalent to “phallus”) flower forms
on the canvas. As I continue along with the series, I begin to mourn the loss of other aspects
of a normal life through related flower forms. The complex forms and textures invite the viewer
to look closely at the paintings, encouraging them to move along the curves and bumps of the
works, contemplating the wonders and horrors that exist within the body. By completing this work,
I gained a better understanding of my process and how I want to communicate while also
helping myself and others who have been through similar experience via catharsis (a release of
repressed emotions).
Kiana Ziegler, from Ashland, OH, will graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Art, with a
painting concentration, and a Bachelor of Art in Commercial Art, with a graphic design
concentration. Ziegler...Read more
Kiana Ziegler's-BFA Exhibition Inspiration Featured
Somewhere inside Kiana Ziegler’s childhood home in Ashland, there is an envelope full of her earliest artwork.Her mom kept a lot of what she did then, Ziegler said, including “a SpongeBob that I did with Crayola markers when I was like 5 or 6.”She’s been through a lot since those days, in terms of both life and art.Ziegler, who will graduate from Ashland University in December, will have her work featured in the AU 2019 Senior Art + Design Exhibition, which opens Thursday, Nov. 21, with a reception from 4:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. at the Coburn Art Gallery in the AU Center for the Arts. The exhibition, which runs through Dec. 14, will include painting, printmaking, photography and digital art.While Ziegler had opportunities to create art while still a student at Ashland High School, she often was ill, culminating with a thyroid cancer diagnosis when she was just 16. Her thyroid and some surrounding lymph nodes were removed. Radiation followed.And while a second-year student at AU, Ziegler was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia. Because the diagnosis came early, she required no surgery or chemotherapy, but is on targeted treatment medication and immunotherapy drugs, which she admits make her feel like she has food poisoning.There are other chronic illnesses as well. “Basically,” Ziegler said, “all the health problems in my family have accumulated in me.”She turned to her art for both therapeutic and creative reasons. “I think it’s kind of a drive to not let (the illness) completely take over my life,” said Ziegler. At first, the art was representative of her actual health struggles, canvases of a young woman in a hospital bed, consoled by her boyfriend; other pictures centered in a hospital setting.“It was,” Ziegler said, “like looking into someone’s life as if through...Read more
Dr Wendy Schaller Presents to AU Honors Program
Dr. Wendy Schaller shared her story of how learning about Italian artist, Bernini, in her core art history course in undergrad changed her career trajectory from medical doctor to an art historian. She will delve into both Bernini’s work and her story as a way to share and give advice to students.
This is the first professor event of the AU Honors Program Academic Lecture Series. ...Read more
This is the first professor event of the AU Honors Program Academic Lecture Series. ...Read more
Facilities
- The Coburn Gallery provides ample exhibition space for nationally-known artists as well as the outstanding work of students and faculty.
- Our studio facilities are well equipped and well lit so you can do your very best work
- The ceramic studio includes 16 wheels and two gas-fired kilns.
- The sculpture studio houses equipment for metal fabrication including MIG welders, oxy-acetylene torches, a plasma cutter and ring rollers. The studio also features a foundry equipped for bronze and aluminum casting and includes a well-equipped wood shop.
- The painting studio is well lit and well ventilated and equipped with easels and workspace for projects in various sizes.
- The computer lab includes 15 PC stations, 15 flat-bed scanners, a 42” large format printer with archival ink and an 8’ x 10’ projection system
