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