Facilities at the Wilson Art Center

Discover [your] True North at Ohio Northern. The department of art & design is housed in the Wilson Art Center for the Visual Arts, providing students with updated equipment and a stimulating environment in which to work.

Our facilities include a graphic design computer lab that contains Macintosh computers, scanners, color and black and white laser printers, digital cameras and updated software.

The multimedia design and photography studios are housed in the technology studies department.

The art education studio is well equipped with drafting tables and group work stations/tables.

The printmaking studio has printing presses for lithography, intaglio, etching, relief and silkscreen processes. A darkroom for photographic techniques also is housed in the printmaking studio.

The drawing and painting studios are well-equipped with drawing tables, easels and storage space to meet the individual needs of students.

The ceramic studio has a large hand building area as well as several potters wheels. Clay making and glaze mixing are available to students interested exploring materials. The kiln room has two electric kilns capable of cone 10 glaze firing, an updraft gas kiln and a downdraft car kiln. Located outside are salt/soda and sagger kilns for specific firing effects.

The sculpture studio has areas for working with plaster, wax, carving and modeling. Welding stations and a woodshop complete the studio. Outside there is a burnout kiln and furnace for bronze casting. Work with precious and semiprecious metals is handled in the small metals studio.

Our own visual resource library contains thousands of slides to numerous videotapes and books for instruction. All students have email access and entry to the major collections located in the Heterick Memorial Library.

The Elzay Gallery of Art is connected to the Wilson Art Center by a loggia. The gallery displays work of artists of invited exhibitions throughout the year.

The Stambaugh Studio Theatre Gallery is located in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts. This gallery exhibits experimental and regionally prominent artists’ work.

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True North Lives: Student Testimony
Lauren Bailey
Sophomore, Advertising Design Major
High School: Whetstone High School (Columbus, OH)
Hometown: Galena, OH
I’ve always had a passion for art/design, computers, and marketing, so when I found out that Northern was launching an advertising design program, I knew it would be the perfect program for me. I love that I am able to incorporate everything that I enjoy and will be able to do so for my entire career. I’m excited to be the one who will design the packaging for the new box of cereal, the one who creates a new promotional campaign for a department store, or the one who designs a billboard for the upcoming box office hit. I love that there is a program available that allows me to have so many options!

Why ONU? When I first visited ONU, I fell in love with the campus: The people, the programs, the location, everything. I felt like it was where I was supposed to be. I visited several other campuses around Ohio and none of them seemed to measure up to my experience at Northern.

I love that my instructors know me personally and are able to help whenever I may need them. I love the small town atmosphere where I feel safe. I love that I am able to study something that I’m passionate about… it’s as if I had a program designed just for me.