The Arts

Students in the Arts at Antioch are makers! From foundations to senior projects, they are engaged in creating works in media (documentary and animation), visual arts (2D and 3D) and performance (experimental theatre and performance art), which are provocative, relevant, beautiful, and innovative. Students also actively engage in making change. They see the potential for art as an important social practice that moves the audience to think differently, feel with others, and find new ways of living.

Faculty members in the Arts Division are practitioner/scholars, active in their fields. They recognize the complex ways that artistic mediums and discourses converge, complement and resonate with each other in communities of artistic practice and social activism. The lines between disciplines blur as students create installations that incorporate performance, animations made from drawings, sculptures that are performed, and media that is whimsical as well as real world.

In addition to studios and classrooms, the Arts Division takes full advantage of the curricular resources available on campus and off, including prestigious arts co-op opportunities at Creative Time, The Kitchen in NYC, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, Ken Burns’s documentary studio, Chicago Public Radio, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Denver Open Media, Children After School Arts Program, and Mujeres des Artes Tomar in Buenos Aires. On the Antioch campus, students are fortunate to have access to Antioch’s own WYSO—an NPR affiliated radio station renowned for excellent journalism, original programming and community engagement—giving students myriad opportunities for practical professional experience through the Miller Fellowship program, the Community Voices courses and beyond. Additionally, students interact with regional and national artists within the beautiful Herndon Gallery and the Foundry Theater main stage and experimental theater spaces. Curriculum lives within these spaces where students are encouraged to put their theoretical investigations and personal practice to work.

At the end of four years, students design and create a personal culmination of their work here at Antioch; a senior project. These projects are shared with the public and are always interesting and often amazing!