Equipment
Ceramics
Resources
- Individual graduate studios and 24-hour access to facilities
- Access to a fully equipped woodshop
Equipment
- Kiln yard with 9 updraft gas kilns, 3 soda/salt kilns, wood kiln, and raku kiln
- 6 computer-controlled electric kilns and 3 test kilns (1 computer controlled)
- Full-spectrum decal printer
- Clay mixing lab with three Soldner clay mixers and 3 pug mills
- Plaster lab with plaster lathe and mold making equipment
- Slip Casting lab with casting tables and 2 Slip-o-Matic mixers
- Glaze mixing lab with metal chemical bins, ball mill, digital scales, and glaze spray booth
- State-of-the-art digital fabrication equipment, including 3-axis and 5-axis CNC routers, CNC plasma cutters, laser cutters, and resin printers
Drawing and Painting
Resources
- Digital Fabrication Laboratory with multiple resin printers, laser cutters, CNC routers, CNC plasma cutter, and vinyl cutter
- Textile Fabrication Lab
Equipment
- Two open-space classrooms with natural lighting
- Multiple Exhibition Spaces available for student exhibitions
New Media
Resources
- Classroom with 20 State of the Art iMac Computers
- CAVE multipurpose space equipped with 8 high definition video projectors and 4 channel audio system and theatrical style lighting grid
- ALCOVE project space for small-scale and short-term student exhibitions
- Shared access to professional lighting studio with green screen
- Shared access to an audio recording booth
Equipment
- 16mm film production equipment
- High definition video cameras
- DSLR cameras
- Digital still cameras
- Tripods
- Digital audio production tools, including field recorders and microphones
- Headphones
- Arduino kits
- Raspberry Pi kits
- Soldering irons and circuit building supplies
- Leap Motion sensors
- Emotiv brainwave interfaces
- Midi controllers
- Semi-modular audio synthesizers
- Lighting kits
- Video projectors
- Virtual reality computers with HTC Vive headsets and controllers
Photography
Resources
- Digital fabrication lab with resin printers, laser cutters, and CNC routers as well as a vinyl cutter and CNC plasma cutter
- Access to a fully equipped woodshop
- Textile fabrication Lab with large format fabric printer
Equipment
- Individual graduate studios
- Dedicate grad-only digital lab/facility
- Epson printers with 44-inch wide capabilities
- Professional Imacon and Epson film and flatbed scanners
- Large format analog and digital cameras
- High-end continuous LED, strobe, and speed lighting kits
- Dedicated cyclorama lighting and chroma-key studio with Capture One tethering
- Individual ADA accessible darkroom
- Traditional wet and alternative processes darkrooms
- Wacom desktop and Cintiq tablets
Sculpture
Resources
- Individual Studio spaces and 24-hour access to facilities
- A Textile Fabrication Lab equipped with a large-format fabric printer and long-arm quilting machine
Equipment
- Fully equipped wood and metal fabrication facilities with MIG, TIG, stick and oxy-acetylene welders, and a natural gas forge
- State-of-the-art digital fabrication equipment, including 3-axis and 5-axis CNC routers, CNC plasma cutters, laser cutters, and resin printers
- Plaster and paper-making facilities with vibration casting table, Hollander paper beater, and hydraulic paper press
- A Sculpture Project Space equipped with a 1200lb capacity theater truss grid
- A draft wall walk-in spray booth
- The best Studio Technician west of the Mississippi
Printmaking
Other Equipment
- 38” x 72” Takach etching press
- 18" x 36" Takach etching press
- 36" x 60" Charles Brand etching press
- 30" x 50" Charles Brand etching press
- 26" x 50" Charles Brand etching press
- 16" x 30" Charles Brand etching press
- Whelan P100 XPress Pro etching press
- Gordon letterpress
- SP-15 Vandercook letterpress
- 30" x 50" Charles Brand lithography press
- 32" x 56" Takach lithography press
- 30" x 44" Graphic lithography press
- SG-4464M Seri-glide screen printing press
- WSL A2 photopolymer platemaker
- NuArc Tri-Light 42x60 exposure unit
- NuArc MSP 3140 exposure unit
- NuArc 40-1KS exposure unit
- A large selection of lithography stones (up to 30" x 24" in size)
- Hydraulic lift (rated 1000kg)
- 36" Pexto plate shear
- 22" x 32" hotplate
Metals
Resources
- Pulse arc micro-welder
- Multiple, large enameling kilns
- Powder coating facilities
- Blacksmithing forge
- Vicmarc lathe for metal spinning
- Digital Fabrication Laboratory with multiple resin printers, laser cutters, and CNC routers as well as a vinyl cutter and CNC plasma cutter
- Woodshop
- Textile Fabrication Lab
- Metals and Jewelry Student Organization
Equipment
- Electroforming, TIG welder, etching, a full-compliment of hammers, stakes and chasing/repoussé
- Tools, full size, and mini oxyacetylene torches, centrifugal and vacuum casting