Art Facilities
Sculpture Shops
Comprising approximately 6,400 square feet of studio work area, the space includes separate and fully equipped wood and metal shops dedicated to the instruction and fabrication of sculpture and other three-dimensional works of art. The wood shop contains a full compliment of hand and power tools, as well as office spaces, and the metal shop is equipped with welding, cutting, and forges suitable for metalworking.
Ceramic Studio (Room 2339)
The ceramics studio has more than six thousand square feet of studio space, forty pottery wheels, five large electric kilns, two professional clay mixers, two pug mills, two hand extruders, a large Brent slab roller, and jigger-jolly equipment allow students to be well-equipped, and also enable advanced students to experience running a pottery studio in a production methods class. In addition to indoor kilns, an eighteen hundred-square-foot kiln area is equipped with reduction, wood, and salt/soda kilns that are designed and constructed as needed by faculty and staff, with student participation. This encourages and accommodates work in a wide range of firing temperatures and techniques.
Printmaking Room (Room 505A)
Utilizing two studios, these areas are fully equipped for relief, lithography, intaglio, and silkscreen printing. The intaglio shop is approximately 1,500 square feet with natural sky lighting and is equipped for color and back-and-white work on copper and zinc plates. Equipment and facilities include Brand, Meijer, Takach and Graphic Chemical presses and a fully ventilated acid and storage room. The 1,000 square-foot lithography studio is equipped with Brand presses, graining sinks and stone storage. The silkscreen area, also shared with visual foundations, includes various tabletop step-ups for printing and a specialized book-arts area housing lead type, board cutting and binding equipment.
Painting (Room 2505)
Three studios are housed in 2,700 square feet of space that is well lighted by both windows and skylights. These spaces are suitable for beginning and advanced painting as well as figure drawing classes. The painting studios contain partitions that can be positioned to create open teaching areas or semi-private painting studios.
Foundation Studio (Room 503A)
Two flexible, multi-purpose spaces (approximately 1,450 square feet each) are suitable for the teaching of visual foundations and drawing as well as book arts and other studio courses.
Gallery/Exhibition Space
The Paul Mesaros and Laura Mesaros Galleries are the showcase exhibition spaces for the College of Creative Arts. Approximately 2,400 square feet of secure space is available for the exhibition and presentation of GSA participants’ work as well as other exhibitions pertinent to the GSA experience. The Douglas O. Blaney Lobby (main lobby) of the Creative Arts Center may also be used as a temporary exhibition space.
Art Education Studio
The Division’s Art Education Studio is fully equipped with the tools, computers, equipment, and supplies necessary to train students in art education, mentoring, and teaching techniques. The studio, located in the Creative Arts Center, provides both classroom and lecture space as facilities for project demonstrations. It also serves as the center of the Community Arts program art outreach activities for children.
Graphics Lab
The Division of Art & Design has one dedicated graphic design lab. Each lab features Macintosh G5 computers. Graphic design software includes, Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, and Dreamweaver, Students also have access to digital camcorders, tripods, digital cameras and variety of printers.
Intermedia Lab
The Intemidia program’s lab features Macintosh G5 computers. Graphic design software includes Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver and a verity of animation and imaging packages for Intermedia. Students also have access to the Davison’s digital camcorders, tripods, digital cameras and variety of printers.
Photography Studio
The Division’s photography facility supports traditional silver and color-based processing as well as digital and electronic photography. A variety of equipment is maintained by the Division to support traditional and contemporary photographic techniques. Recognizing the changing industry of photography, in 2009, the Division will expand it’s facility to include greater resources for the creation, manipulation and support of digital imaging.