Why Wooster?

› Small studio classes — seldom more than 20 students — enable instructors to give personal attention to each individual and carefully critique his or her work.

› Ebert Art Center has dedicated studios for painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics and drawing, lecture and seminar rooms, as well as an a slide collection of more than 100,000 slides and digital images.

› In their senior year, studio art majors are assigned individual studios where they create the works are exhibited in one-person shows their senior year.

› Students from any major, including studio and art history, may elect an architecture emphasis to prepare for graduate professional training, or transfer to the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis after their junior year, a cooperative program leading to a master’s degree in architecture.

› Art majors intending to teach art in elementary or secondary schools may obtain state certification through the College’s education department.

› Wooster participates in the GLCA Fine Arts Program in New York City, offering semester-long internships for studio and art history majors.

› The College of Wooster Art Museum houses a permanent collection of more than 7,000 objects. Each year the museum presents exhibitions from its collections, as well as bringing in art from around the country. Some of the nationally and internationally recognized artists that have exhibited at Wooster include Miriam Schapiro, Hung Liu, Ken Aptekar, Ann Hamilton,William Kentridge, Lorna Simpson, Jim Campbell, and Hiraki Sawa.

Life After Wooster

An architectural historian for the National Park Service, an assistant curator of Chinese art at the MFA in Boston, the owner of a ceramics studio in Maine, the director of the Phillips Collection of Art in Washington, D.C., and an assistant curator at Colonial Williamsburg all got their starts with an art degree from The College of Wooster. Other possible careers include architecture, graphic design, industrial design, illustration, exhibition preparator, teaching, and art therapy.