Studios

Elgin Street
Opened Summer 2020, Elgin Street Studios is the new home for our MFA and Sculpture Programs. Located on the northeast corner of the Arts District, students work in spacious, light-filled, private and communal studios. Students have access to fully equipped wood and metal shops, covered outdoor work space, a spray booth, digital lab, dedicated graduate exhibition spaces, and common indoor and outdoor gathering spaces.
Ceramics
The Ceramics Studio is a communal space structured to be accessible to and inclusive of many different kinds of students. Mastery and athleticism is not prioritized over other skills and interests. Equipped for all standard ceramics processes, our studio supports technique and concept. Whether hand-building, wheel throwing, or delving into experimental surface techniques, we emphasize criticality and pleasure in making.
Graphic Design
Graphic Design Graduate students work in the stellar, open-plan studio space in Elgin Street Studios. Undergraduates work in communal spaces in the Fine Arts Building. Additional facilities in the Fine Arts Building include a letterpress workshop and the Arts and Technology Center where students access a range of input and output devices including scanners, large format printers and plotters, a vinyl cutter, a Risograph printer, laser printers, 3D Printers and a laser cutter among other digital production machines.

Interdisciplinary Practice & Emerging Forms
IPEF Graduate students work in the stellar studios housed in Elgin Street Studios. Additionally, IPEF students access the Sound Studio and research “hive” in the Fine Arts Building. These two spaces serve as research and production sites for live performance, sound works, experimental writing, 3D design, site-practice, robots and sensors, interactive agents, networks, geolocative media, animation and gaming.
Photography/Digital Media
PDM Graduate students work in the stellar studios housed in Elgin Street Studios. Undergraduates work in communal spaces in the Fine Arts Building. Both buildings are accessible 24/7 for graduates and Block (BFA) Students. In addition, students have broad access to DSLRs, SLRs, medium and large format cameras, HD and 4K video equipment, well-equipped wet labs and lighting studio facilities. Graduate students are eligible to have individual black and white enlarger suites of their own.
Painting
Painting Graduate students work in Elgin Street’s stellar private studios that are equipped with fume evacuation vents for solvent-based work. Undergraduates work in communal spaces in the Fine Arts Building, also equipped with fume evacuation. Both buildings are accessible 24/7 for graduates and Block (BFA) Students. Students also have access to a 550 sq. ft. stretcher-building shop for construction of painting supports. Equipment includes a wall mounted chop saw and all necessary hand tools.

Sculpture
Sculpture Graduate and Undergraduate students work in Elgin Street’s stellar private studios. Also in Elgin Street are the Sculpture shops which boast a fully-equipped, commercial grade woodshop; a fully-equipped metal shop with an adjacent 2,000 sq. ft. covered outdoor workspace, two large critique rooms and access to access to video and projection equipment.
Printmaking
Located on two floors of the Fine Arts Building, Printmaking offers discrete areas to create: one designated for silkscreen, the other for relief, intaglio, etching and experimental techniques. Both of these well-maintained facilities have ample workspace for graduate and undergraduate students and feature a Takach Lithography Press (39” x 72”), two Conrad Etching Presses (30” x 60” and 18” x 36”), a compression exposure unit for screen printing (25” x 35”) and a Nu Arc Mercury Exposure Unit.
Arts & Technology Center
Located on the third floor of the Fine Arts Building, the ATC offers a computer lab equipped with the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite and other professional-grade software, large-format printers, 3D printers, laser and vinyl cutters, binding materials and more. Monitors are available to provide hands-on support and guidance with all resources in the lab.