DAAP - School of Art

This exhibition highlights a selection of standout works from three Foundations courses: Body and Representation, Surface as Object, and The Thing. Students explore themes across 2D, 3D, and media to develop strong conceptual ideas and personal direction. Featuring works by 16 emerging artists across our Foundations program. Stop by the 4th floor display case (Aronoff wing) and see them in person before August 15th!

Stop by the DAAP Library Front Desk display case, before July 24, to see a selection of student paintings by first-year 2D and introductory painting students in Associate Professor Emil Robinson. These works began as photography-based paintings created on hand-built wooden panels using acrylic and oil paint. Students explored atmosphere, subtle color, light, and visual ambiguity while thinking beyond simply copying a photograph. The result is a group of paintings that reward looking at them closely and invite interpretations. Featuring work by: Kai Cavins, Mia Getter, Ashlyn McIntyre, Maysun Ring, Sarah Boellner, and Jacob Eichenlaub.

Students from adjunct instructor Amanda Berg’s class, Collection Management: Registration and Conservation, are exhibiting their Practical Project Assignments in the College of DAAP, Wolfson 6th floor display case. In the spirit of conservation and repairing, the class was tasked with researching, cleaning, and repairing damaged personal item. From antique violin cases to a modern comb, these students repaired their pieces like pros. The exhibit is up through the summer.

Stop by the Tabula Rasa Gallery before May 23 to experience Time Means Nothing To A Stone, a solo exhibition by Bachelor of Fine Arts student Shawn Sweeney. The exhibit honors the memory of Shawn’s father. In his artist statement he writes:

This work is made at a pace that resists urgency, spectacle, and demand.

It moves slowly, accumulating pressure rather than seeking visibility.

Like stone, it carries memory without narration and weight without explanation.

I have stripped away voices that do not honor my tempo, my labor, or my psyche.

What remains is held by those who held me — the few, the constant, the unseen.

This work is made for them and in their honor.

It does not ask to be understood immediately or even fully.

It asks only to be encountered.

Time, here, is not a measure of progress or delay.

It is an element the work passes through without submission.

Change occurs through endurance.

Meaning gathers through staying.


Join Shawn for an artist reception May 14, 6-9pm Wolfson 5th floor, College of DAAP.

Students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Games and Animation program gathered at the Spring Semester UC Game Lab Open House, featuring games from over half-a-dozen classes across College of Arts & Sciences and Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. Students shared their board games and videos with their cohort and faculty.

Congratulations to the Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts in Art History, and Master of Fine Arts students graduating this weekend. We are so proud of you and your accomplishments this year. Please keep in touch and much success to you!

Dr. Theresa Leininger-Miller has curated an exhibition in the Rosenthal Shelterhouse Theatre lobby at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, in conjunction with Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical (March 11–May 17, 2026). The installation features 15 original pieces of sheet music (1947–1956) performed by Rosemary Clooney, drawn from her personal collection, along with Clooney’s first autobiography and interpretive labels grounded in key scholarship on the artist.

Located on the second-floor lobby, the exhibition extends Leininger-Miller’s ongoing research on illustrated sheet music, following her recent co-edited publication, Illustrated Sheet Music in the U.S., 1830–1930 (Bloomsbury, 2025, with Kenneth Hartvigsen).