Facilities

Our limited admission policy allows us to control the size of our graduate program and to insure that students have adequate access to our faculty and our on campus facilities. The department currently has two buildings devoted to these needs.

Graduate Studios The Art Annex is located on the southwest corner of the main campus. It is the graduate facility for our painters, printmakers and photographers. The Annex has 24 individual studio spaces, 11 darkrooms and our non-silver photo lab, as well as a copper etch lab for printmaking. Darkroom spaces are assigned to one or two students per darkroom. Upon entry into the graduate program, each graduate student receives a graduate studio. The Art Annex has a small centrally located exhibition/ critique space is on the first floor which is used for student and graduate reviews.
	Printing Facilities A graduate/undergraduate printmaking studio is located in the Art Building, which includes individual studios for lithography, intaglio, screenprinting, monoprinting, and relief printing. Additionally, we have recently added a copper etch lab in the Annex.
Mattox Sculpture Center The Mattox Building houses the Mattox Sculpture Center, with studio space for our 3-D students. The Mattox Building also houses additional studio space for printmakers, photographers and painters. There are 31 graduate studios in the Mattox. This 3-level, 29,000 square foot converted auto body shop has 2 bay doors on street level and drive-up ramps between floors. After completion of Graduate Shop Foundations, all MFA students enjoy 24-hour access to the ceramic facility, wood shop, metal fabrication facility, and three large areas devoted to assembly and installation. The metal fabrication lab is equipped with TIG, heli-arc and oxy-acetlyn welding, horizontal band saw, metal chop saw, bench grinders, a small-guage combination roller and brake, beam hoist, engine hoist, vise, anvil, trip hammer, forge, and state of the art ventilation system. MIG welding and plasma cutting facilities are also available in the Art Building. The wood shop has a table, panel, chop, radial arm, and band saws, lathe, thickness planer, joiner plainer, and combination sander.
		The ceramic facility includes a car kiln, large gas and electric kilns, slab rollers, spray booth, soldner clay mixers and easy access to two slip mixers, a soda kiln, experimental kiln, saggar, raku and pit firing area. Compressed air is available throughout the building for pneumatic tools and supplies a large spray room and sandblasting booth.
	Fine Arts Digital Lab The fine arts digital lab includes 12 Power Macintosh and 2 PC workstations with Zip drives, 3 Jazz drives, 6 flatbed scanners (one with transparency adapter), 1 35mm film scanner, 1 2x CD writer, decks for video input and output, and 1 Epson Stylus EX 11x17" inkjet printer. Available software includes Photoshop, Premier, Avid, Director, and PageMill.
In addition, there is a computer classroom on campus for use by fine art students with 25 Macintosh G3 workstations, Zip drives, and a small number of flatbed scanners.
Graduate Darkrooms These darkrooms are assigned on a basis of one to two students per room, and contain all equipment needed for basic black and white printing, including a 4x5 enlarger, timer, and safelight (note: students must supply their own chemicals). Individual daylight studios are also available to photo grads on a need basis. Other photo resources on campus include color darkrooms with a 20" RA-4 processor, a non-silver darkroom with two UV lightsources (up to 30x40") and a copy camera, and a mural printing room with a Durst 8x10 enlarger, as well as the digital lab.

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