Art Facilities
New facilities provide vastly expanded space and equipment for the arts.
Art History
* significant expansion of exhibition space gives students greater exposure to real-life gallery and museum work, including show installation and publicity.
* the main gallery, which hosts four major exhibits annually, benefited from extensive improvements, allowing for more sophisticated and varied installations.
* the permanent collection gallery offers students, faculty, and outside art professionals greater accessibility to the permanent collection, a valuable teaching tool. The space showcases a selection from 2,000 artworks, including the college's exceptional Etruscan collection.
* greatly enlarged permanent collection storage and study spaces, with light and climate control, provides students better access to the collection, as well as safeguards and allows for growth of the permanent collection.
* the slide library is the heart of the department; its holdings are used in many courses and has become more accessible with the expansion. The new space facilitates continued digitization of the slides to make them available via computers across campus.
Studio Arts
* computer graphic and graphic design studios feature state-of-the-art equipment to facilitate the mastery of a discipline that requires up-to-the- minute knowledge of publishing technology in traditional and new media.
* a larger printmaking studio, featuring an improved ventilation system, enables students to experiment with a wider range of printmaking processes, including photo etching and silk-screening.
* expanded painting and drawing studios captures natural light for atists as they develop their creativity and skill in carefully appointed work areas.
* the expanded photography studio has room for 15 students to work at individual stations, allowing class sessions to be devoted to mastering new developing techniques under the professor's guidance.
* the sculpture studio, with 14-foot ceilings and exceptional light, is larger and better equipped than its predecessor and allows students to use more media and techniques, including metal working and welding. The studio includes access to the outdoor sculpture workyard.
* a concourse and central art court connects student and faculty studios with a high traffic area to create exhibit space for exchanging ideas and critiquing works; the lightdrenched space also attracts campus community members interested in viewing the art.
* the new studio courses in filmmaking are supported by an edit suite
with 16mm film bench editing stations and new Final Cut DV editing
set-ups as well as a film classroom and screening room for demos and film and video viewing.