FACILITIES
The Department of Art and Art History houses eight (8) unique shops & labs designated to specific mediums. Each one is packed with technology and machinery and available to students every day that the university and dorms are open! Additionally, our department cage stores wide-ranging digital equipment that can be borrowed to help you create your artwork. The new “I.D.E.A. Lab” in Sharadin 103 hosts a wide range of maker's tools ranging from vintage letterpresses to 3-D scanners and printers! Open to all trained visual arts students.

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IDEA LAB
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
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SCULPTURE SHOP
Fully equipped woodworking area for both fine crafts and sculpture
Metalworking area
Forgery
Plaster casting and mold making facilities
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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