Studio Arts Facilities
The Department of Studio Arts and Art History maintains dedicated studio spaces for
several art media including Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Drawing.
The 2,000-square-foot painting studio has almost 1,000 square feet of north light.
It is equipped with ventilation for acrylic and oil paint. There are overhead flood lights for
still lifes. The studio also has storage space and lockers for up to 16 students and is
equipped with professional easels and tables for each student. Students enrolled in
painting have access to the studio seven days a week.
The printmaking studio provides a creative environment for students to explore cross
disciplinary concepts with intaglio, relief and digital printmaking techniques. It has two
presses including a large format Takach press, with accompanying acid room, rosin box
and large work tables. Students enrolled in printmaking have access to the studio seven
days a week.
Next to the Painting Studio is a drawing studio with good natural light, high ceilings,
display walls for student drawing, easels and flat files. The space is used for figure
drawing and foundation drawing classes.
Housed in separate buildings are over 2000 square feet of large studio spaces to allow
students maximum flexibility and production of large scale work. The sculpture studios
house an active foundry for casting bronze and aluminum as well as a fully equipped
metal shop for steel fabrication. The metal shop has multiple MIG welders, torch cutting
rigs, drill press, plasma cutter, horizontal bandsaw, sand blaster, a plethora of hand
tools, and a bridge crane to move monumental scale work. The sculpture studio building
also houses a flexible working space for students to work on various projects in a
multitude of media. Students enrolled in sculpture have access to the studios seven
days a week.
The sculpture studios also house a separate fully outfitted wood shop with the safest
saw-stop table saw, band saw, compound miter saw, thickness planer, drill press, large
disk and belt sander, scroll saw, joiner, router table, and a plethora of hand tools for
shaping, carving, drilling, and sanding.
The Art Foundations building houses a flexible working space for students in foundations
as well as project space for students to use and a documentation booth for students to
build their portfolio and document their work with high quality studio lighting.