Facilities

Breidenstine Hall

Art History

The slide library contains approximatley 75,000 slides dealing with most areas of art history pertianing to the Western and Near Eastern World. The collection is particularly strong in the following areas: Medieval manuscript illumination, Italian Renaissance painting, 17th Century Dutch painting, 15th Century Flemish painting.

Ceramics

The ceramics studio includes: 20 potters wheels, 1 slab roller, 1 extruder, 1 hydraulic extruder, 2 clay mixers, 4 electric kilns (3.3 cu. ft., 7 cu.ft., 10 cu.ft. and 16.5 cu. ft.), 2 gas kilns (car kiln 55 cu.ft. soda kiln 35 cu.ft.), separate clay mixing and glazing room, separate glaze mixing room, separate kiln room, separate damp room, small plaster working area/advanced studio.

Drawing

The drawing studio has skylights with northern light exposure. Along with two modeling stands the room is equipped with 28 drawing benches. The storage cabinets and closet house a range of still life material, individual mirrors (for in class self portraiture), and an anatomy skeleton.

Fine Arts Metals

The studio facilities are equipped for fabricating, raising, enameling, casting, electroforming, spray-etching, electroforming, and aluminum anodizing. Additional equipment includes three centrifugal casting machines, a 30-ton hydraulic press, three rolling machines, large and small drill presses, a vacuum casting and investing machine, a gas kiln, and a finishing area.

There are 20 individual jewelers’ benches (each fully equipped with hand tools and a flexible shaft machine with accessories), polishing machines, metal spinning lathe, metal-forming stakes and hammers, combination lapidary machines, 18-inch slab saw, belt sander, power drills, vibrating tumblers, flat-lat vibrator, faceting machine, burn-out kilns, annealing kiln, electric-heat centrifugal casting machine, torch-heated centrifugal casting machines, vacuum investing-casting machine, acetylene soldering and melting equipment, steam cleaner, hydrosonic cleaner, and various auxiliary items. Provided materials include, but are not limited to: jewelers’ saw blades, solder, flux, brushes, investment, polishing and grinding wheels and cones, carving wax, wax wire, and polishing compounds.

Graphic/Interactive Design Studio and Computer Lab

Over 24 Apple computers with the latest operating system
Updated Adobe Suite software that includes Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign and Aftereffects
Other programs such as Sound Studio, iLife Suite, Painter and More
5 Personal scanners and 1 large format scanner
3 Large format color printers
2 Black and White Laser Jet printers
24 Wacom tablets.
Projection and sound system
Large cutting boards and Light tables

Painting

The 1700 square foot painting studio is equipped with 30 sturdy metal easels, 6 wooden easels, and 26 taborets that are move to accommodate the changing needs of class projects. The room has skylights with northern light exposure, 6 light stands with reflectors, and 2 clip light reflectors. An adjacent room offers storage for painting and related supplies, and also has working stations for preparation of art material, matting, framing, 2 Logan mat cutters, and a small spray booth. There is a metal storage cabinet for solvents, and a 55 gallon drum with fire safety lid for used rag storage. Included in the studio are: various props for still life, 4.5’ x 8’ model stand, vertical and horizontal storage racks.

Photography

The photography facility houses both color and black and white production equipment and serves approximately 150 students each year. The darkroom is equipped with 11 enlargers that print from 35mm through 4 x 5” negatives. Color prints are processed in a 20-inch Kreonite color print processor. The photography facility houses a small darkroom for non-silver and other alternative processes. Other equipment includes large format cameras, film dryers, archival film & print washers, light tables, dry-mounting equipment, a mat cutter, a copy stand, and a slide duplicator. The photography studio has a separate classroom for lectures, slide viewing and critiques. This large classroom doubles as a studio space, and is equipped with studio lighting and professional backdrops.

Printmaking

The printmaking studio is outfitted to instruct the four major fine art printmaking processes of relief, intaglio, lithography and silkscreen. The facility has six presses two lithography presses including a Takach (bed size 40”x 72”) and a Griffin (bed size 32”x 88”), two etching presses both Brands (bed sizes 30”x 50” and 20”x 40”), a silkscreen press (bed size 44’x 64”), and a Vandercook proofing press. In the darkroom there is a self-contained screen print exposure unit. There is a separate room for etching with includes a plumbed eye station, shower and ventilation. A separate spray-out room equipped with a power washer is used for screenprinting. The facility also has a large library of lithographic limestones ranging in size the largest of which is 30”x 40”.

Sculpture

The sculpture studio encompass a complete bronze-casting foundry capable of pouring in excess of 300 lbs. of molten metal. The foundry area has an overhead hoist and is set up to utilize ceramic shell casting. The facility is equipped with a burnout kiln, a shell room, a blast cabinet, pneumatic grinders & finishers, and a floor mounted polisher. The welding equipment includes: gas welders, TIG and MIG welders. Outside of the studio is an iron forge. For cold forming of metal there is a box and pan break, 4’ shear, 4’ power slip roll, and a small 30” slip roll. We have the usual complement of wood working power tools: table and band saws, drill press, floor disc sander, wood turning lathe.

Three Dimensional Design

The three dimensional design studio has a drill press, band saw, and a variety of hand tools. Three large tables are set up to accommodate the twenty students enrolled in each class.