FACILITIES

The Department of Art and Design houses seven shops & labs designated to specific mediums. Each one is packed with technology and machinery and available for visual art students to use! Additionally, the department cage stores wide-ranging digital equipment that can be borrowed to help you create your artwork. The IDEA Studio in Sharadin hosts a wide range of maker's tools ranging from vintage letterpresses to 3-D scanners and printers! It is open to all trained visual art students.

A professor and a student pull a large etching print off of a copper plate to reveal a black and white etching
  • IDEA STUDIO

    3D Printers (Ultimaker 2+ and Ultimaker 3)

    Laser Cutter/Engraver VLS4.6 60Watts

    UV Vacuum Exposure unit 34" x 48" X-Vactor

    Letterpress Landis Press

    Screenprinting 4-arm Press

  • SCULPTURE SHOP

    Fully equipped woodworking area for both fine crafts and sculpture

    Metalworking area

    Forgery

    Plaster casting and mold making facilities

  • PRINTMAKING SHOP

    36” x 60” American French Tool etching press

    Three (3) 26” x 48” Charles Brand etching presses

    24” x 40” lithographic presses

    30” x 50" lithographic presses

    Work Stations

    Heated metal plate prep station

    Separate acid etching room

  • DARKROOM PHOTO LAB

    (20x) Beseler enlargers stations for 35mm/medium/ 4" x 5” film printing

    RA-4 Chromogenic color processor 32” wide roll

    (7x) Dichroic enlargers stations

    Film Processing & Alternative Processes room

    Metal & plastic film processing tanks for all formats

    Oversized B+W mural printing

    Historical silver-based processes

    Toning, transfers, and hand-applied emulsions

  • DIGITAL PHOTO LAB

    27-inch monitor iMac stations

    Epson 9880 44” W Printer

    Epson 9900 44” W Printer

    Epson 3880 18” W Printers

    Epson P800 18” W Printers

    Epson V700 larger format & negative scanner

    Epson V700 Wet Scan Station Epson V700

    Epson V500 flatbed Scanners

    Adobe Creative Cloud Suite

    Neutral Light Color Correction stations

    Copy-Stand

    Dry mount press

    45" Mat cutting station

    Photo Lighting Studio

  • EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA LAB

    Mac Pros with 27-inch monitors

    27-inch monitor iMac stations

    Adobe Creative Cloud Suite

    Max7 (max/msp/jitter)

    Epson 9880 48” wide Large Format Inkjet Digital Printer

    Scanners

  • ANIMATION AND RENDERING LAB

    Lenovo P520c with an NVIDIA Quadro P5000

    Cloud-based Render Farm

    Software: Adobe Creative Suite, Audacity, Maya, Mudbox, ZBrush, Blender, Rhinoceros 5, ToonBoom, Unity, Cinema 4D, Reaper

    Wacom Intuos Tablets