Drawing

Drawing facilities are located on the second floor of the Art Building and include open access to two large drawing rooms with cubbies for storing work.

Painting

Painting facilities are located on the third floor of the Art Building and include open access to two large painting rooms. Each room is equipped with easels and cubbies for storing work.

Printmaking

Printmaking facilities are located on the third floor of the Art Building and include open access to two large printmaking labs. Our labs are equipped to allow beginning students to explore and produce work using a variety of printmaking techniques such as monography, relief, and intaglio. Intermediate and advanced classes include … lithography, serigraphy

Photography / Digital Lab

The Photography Lab is located in room 51 of the basement floor of the Art Building.

The photo lab allows both undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to develop photographic technique, form, and theory. The facility includes a lecture room, a chemistry processing room, five individual enlarger rooms, and mounting/finishing rooms. The photo lab is also equipped with color photo enlargers used for both black/white and color printing, and a 56 Colex color processor for large format printing.

Students are encouraged to purchase their own equipment; however, if they are unable to do so, we offer equipment such as studio/portable strobe/hot light kits, Digital SLR cameras, medium and large format cameras, heat presses, and mat board cutters for student use.

Digital Media/Video lab

The Digital Lab is located in room 55 of the basement floor of the Art Building. The digital facility offers students interested in digital media industry-standard equipment, including:

• 20 iMac computers with Intel Core 2 Duo Processors
• 2 Epson Stylus Pro 9600 (40″) Color Printers
• 3 Epson Perfection 2200 (13″) Scanners
• 1 Hassleblad Drum Large Format Scanner
• 2 Nikon Super Cool Scan 5000 35mm Film Scanners
• 2 Epson Stylus Perfection 2450 Photo Flat Bed Scanner Wiacom Tablets

The Digital Lab is also equipped with wireless internet access.

For more information on the Photography or Digital Labs, please contact the lab technician, Jesse Vasquez.

Sculpture

The Sculpture Lab is located in Room 112 on the first floor of the Art Building.

The Sculpture Lab offers over 8600 square feet of combined indoor/outdoor work space for undergraduate and graduate student use. Included as part of the facility is an industrial woodshop with band saw, table saw, panel saw, compound miter saw, radial arm saw, horizontal belt sander, disk sander, and drill press. There is a metal shop primarily designed for light- to medium-duty steel work including MIG, ARC and gas welding with a metal band saw, pedestal grinder, belt sander, drill press and arbor press. We also have a tool check-out room featuring an extensive inventory of conventional and powered hand tools, clamps and hardware for manipulating a wide variety of materials.

Students have open access to two large open-use sculpture studios and the outdoor sculpture courtyard. The woodshop, metal shop and tool check-out room are accessible daily during regularly scheduled hours supervised by professional technicians and a staff of qualified, well-trained graduate students and volunteers.

For more information on the sculpture facility, please contact the lab technician, Omar Arason.

Ceramics

The Ceramics Facility is located in TB9. The 7200-sq. ft. building houses the Ceramic Professor’s studio, three graduate studios, a tech office and tool room, two large undergraduate work spaces, a kiln room, a glaze room, and a library.

The kiln room has seven electric kilns in varying sizes; all have computerized controls except for the two test kilns. There are also three downdraft natural gas-fueled kilns. One is 16 cubic ft., one is 54 cubic ft., and the largest is 120 cubic ft. with two trackless kiln beds. The two largest natural gas kilns have computerized controls for extended firings.

Other important equipment includes a 200-lb. capacity hydraulic extruder, a small wall-mounted, hand-pressed Bailey extruder, and a Bailey slab roller. There are six Lockerbee kick wheels and eight electric Brent wheels. There is a 4000-lb. palette jack, a 600-lb. high/low for kiln loading, and a forklift. There is also a 4000-lb. capacity hydraulic sculpture stand.

Clay is mixed in large batches weekly by students. There are two large-capacity clay mixers, one of which mixes 500 lbs. of dry mix; the other mixes 800 lbs. of dry mix. There is a small Bluebird that mixes 100 lbs. of dry mix, for test batches . We also have a 300-lb. casting slip blunger.

The glaze room is fully equipped with glaze-making materials and includes a spray booth. In the library there is a computer, printer, slides, and many art books. We also have a RISO machine for making silk screens for printing on clay.

The ceramic studio is set up for large-scale work when necessary, with most of the studio furniture, sculpture stands, and tables fixed on wheels for easy moving. Ladders and hand tools are also available for use.

Students are strongly encouraged to become well versed in the safe use of all equipment, and become independent studio artists. To reach the ceramic studio, please call (530) 752-0241 or contact the lab technician, Brian Perkins.