Sullivant Hall, a three-story Neoclassical Revival building that dates back to 1912, was completely reconstructed and refigured in a two-year project that included major core and shell infrastructure improvements, creating more visibility and better spaces for students. Today, Sullivant Hall brings together multiple arts units on campus, opening up new creative opportunities for students to work together in the visual and performing arts.

Sullivant Hall is home to:

• Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD)
• Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise
• Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy
• Department of Dance
• Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

In the Theatre, Film and Media Arts Building, faculty, staff and students — previously located a 20-minute walk away at the Drake Performance and Event Center —  join the Arts District in the heart of campus.

• Five-floor building, with classroom, performance, studio and office space on four floors, a top-floor mechanical room and a lower level for mechanical and back-of-house operations
• New, state-of-the-art performance spaces, including a 450-seat proscenium theatre and a hybrid thrust/black box theatre
• Spaces for students to create, including a New Works Lab for new and experimental productions, a lighting lab, a design studio, and a costume shop
• Spaces for students studying film, moving image production and media arts, including two sound stages, editing suites, a sound lab and a screening room

The Timashev Family Music Building opened to students, faculty and the public in Autumn 2022. This state-of-the-art facility houses the entire Ohio State School of Music. This new building is located in front of the original Weigel Hall which remains part of the building, to the east side of the Timashev, though its exterior is no longer visible from College Road.

• Five-floor building, with classroom, performance, studio and office space on all levels, and a lower level for mechanical and back-of-house operations
• Expansive lobby that connects the new Timashev Family Music Building to a renovated Weigel Hall
• A new 195-seat recital hall offers a new performance space, joining the existing 720-seat Weigel Auditorium
• Improved acoustics throughout the facility
• New large ensemble rehearsal space
• Studios for jazz and percussion
• New practice rooms for students

Hopkins Hall recently underwent a complete two-year, two-phase renovation. On the outside, the dated brick exterior of the circa-1959 building was replaced with gleaming walls of glass. Inside, the entire structure was reconfigured to create more effective use of space for artists to work together, all with a nod to sustainability and energy efficiency. 

Hopkins Hall houses the university’s Department of Art and nearly all of its program areas, including ceramics, art and technology, photography, drawing and painting and printmaking.

Hopkins Hall is home to:

• Department of Art
• Hopkins Hall Gallery

Hayes Hall was built in 1893 and is the oldest existing building on campus. Named for Rutherford B Hayes, U.S. president and three-time governor of Ohio, it was constructed in the Romanesque style of architecture and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Hayes Hall was completely renovated in 2010 as part of the comprehensive plan to make significant improvements to the university’s arts facilities. Today, the revitalized facility houses all three Department of Design programs together in one building. These programs – interior design, industrial design, and visual communication design – are housed on the first and second floors, with new spaces on the second floor that were reconfigured to create open studios for student work.

Hayes Hall is home to:

• Department of Design

Located in the revived Mirror Lake District, Pomerene Hall has long been an emblem of campus. Its recent $60 million renovation — most of which was funded by the state of Ohio — is the building’s first major update in nearly a century.

Built in 1922, the hall originally served as a women’s student union, complete with a gymnasium and a swimming pool. In recent years the iconic building saw little use for its size.

The history of art main office, seminar spaces and graduate student reading room have largely been kept intact, and an updated faculty suite and new undergraduate study room will breathe new life into the department. For the undergraduate data analytics major, the renovation provides the program’s first dedicated physical space on campus.

Pomerene Hall is home to

• Department of History of Art
• Data analytics major
• Translational Data Analytics Institute

The Sherman Studio Art Center, situated on Ohio State’s West Campus, is home to the Department of Art’s glass and sculpture areas. Artist and alumnus Roy Lichtenstein endowed the center in honor of former Ohio State Art Professor Hoyt L. Sherman.

The glass program occupies 11 rooms of the center, which is equipped for "hot" glass forming including glassblowing and glass casting; "warm" processes including glass fusing, slumping, casting, enameling and decorative surface work; and "cold working" glass such as grinding, cutting, drilling, sandblasting and construction of stained glass and fabricated sculpture.

The sculpture area houses a foundry, full metal fabrication shop, full wood shop and plenty of fabrication space.

Sculpture and glass students share a gallery, The Clean Space, a 35-by-24 foot space used for class critiques, student exhibitions, artwork experimentation and documentation.