Facilities & Equipment

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.

Photography

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.

For more information on the photo facility, please feel free to contact the lab technician:

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 feel free to contact the lab technician.

Ceramics

The Ceramics Facility is located in TB9. The 7200 sq ft building houses the Ceramic Professor's studio, 3 graduate studios, a tech office, 2 large undergraduate work spaces, a kiln room, a glaze room, and a library.

The kiln room has 7 electric kilns in varying. All have computerized controls except for the 2 smallest ones. There are also 3 down draft, natural gas kilns. One is 16 cubic ft, one is 54 cubic ft, and the largest is 120 cubic ft with 2 trackless kiln beds. The two largest natural gas kilns also have computerized controls for extended firings.

Other important equipment include a 200 hundred lb. capacity hydraulic extruder, a small wall mounted hand-pressed Bailey extruder, and a Bailey slab roller. There are 6 Lockerbee kick wheels and 8 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 2 large capacity clay mixers, one of which mixes 500 lbs of dry mix and the other which mixes 800 lbs of dry mix. There is a small Bluebird for test batches that mixes 100 lbs of dry mix. We also have a 300 lb casting slip blundger.

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. For more information on the ceramic studio, please call: (530) 752-0241.

Media/Video

The Digital Lab is located in room 55 of the basement floor of the Art Building.

The newly renovated digital facility offers students interested in digital medias industry standard equipment, including:

The Digital Lab is also equipped with wireless internet access.

For more information on the Digital Lab, please contact the lab technician: