Faculty Profile
Todd Arsenault
Professor of Art (2007)
Contact Information
Weiss Center for the Arts Room 203
717-254-8414
http://www.toddarsenault.com
Bio
Professor Arsenault works with and teaches in the areas of painting, drawing, printmaking, and digital media. He has an interest in the conversation between analog and digital processes and how the consumption of images through various media work to shape knowledge. His work has been shown throughout the U.S and internationally. He has had solo exhibitions at Massimo Audiello Gallery in New York City, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, and Galería Fúcares in Madrid and has been included in exhibitions at The Painting Center in New York City, The Indianapolis Art Center, and the New Britian Museum of Art in Connecticut. He has also been involved in a decade long painting collaboration with Philadelphia-based artist Kristopher Benedict. Those works have been exhibited at the David Richard Gallery in New York City and Nina Johnson Gallery in Miami.
Education
- B.A., Dickinson College, 1999
- M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, 2003
2025-2026 Academic Year
Fall 2025
ARTH 227 Fundamentals of Painting
A basic studio course exploring the techniques, practices and history of painting and theories of color. Working from observation, subject matter will range from still-life and landscape to architecture and the figure.
Prerequisite: 122 or permission of the instructor.
ARTH 410 Senior Studio Seminar, Part 1
The first in a two-course sequence required for senior studio art majors. Critiques of students' work will include examination of timely topics in the visual arts and the relationship of the artist to society. Critiques, selected critical readings, museum visits and visiting artists will provide the basis for discussion.
Prerequisite: Majors only or permission of instructor. Co-requisite: One studio course.
ARTH 500 Independent Study
Spring 2026
ARTH 122 Fund of Composition & Drawing
Working from observation and using a variety of media, this basic studio drawing course will explore issues common to both representational and non-representational art. This course serves as the foundation to upper-level two-dimensional offerings.
ARTH 228 Printmaking Survey
A studio course in which students will gain a working knowledge in each of the three major areas of printmaking: intaglio, lithography, and relief-printing.
Prerequisite: 122 or permission of the instructor.
ARTH 411 Senior Studio, Part 2
Second half of the required, yearlong capstone for senior studio art majors. This course will continue with the critique-based model of independent studio practice as established in the first semester. The main focus of this course will be completing a fully developed body of thesis work for exhibition in the Trout Gallery, and the production of a supporting catalog. Prerequisite: 410