The Department of Art boasts excellent facilities throughout campus. We have recently renovated Lord Hall and built new facilities – the Wyeth Family Studio Art Center, the Goos Family Studio for ceramics, and the new Sculpture Studio opening in Fall 2024. Our facilities and equipment allow us to offer superb instruction in Art Education, Art History, and Studio Art in safe and comfortable classrooms, workshop spaces, and studio environments.
Lord Hall
In the fall of 2006, the department moved into a completely renovated Lord Hall, located on the mall. This 1904 brick building is the home for Art Education, Art History, and the gallery. Lord Hall also houses the department’s administrative offices and some of the instructional studios for digital art and 2-D design.
Lord Hall Gallery
Digital Art
Students studying graphic design, digital art, and animation work in Mac Labs that feature the latest Mac hardware, drawing tablets, and relevant software. Our Mac Labs feature ergonomic workstations and chairs.
Wyeth Family Studio Art Center
Opened for the fall 2013 semester, the Wyeth Family Studio Art Center is a state-of-the-art visual arts complex featuring light, open, airy, purpose-built studios for Painting, Drawing, 3-D Design, Photography, and Printmaking.
Printmaking
The department’s renowned printmaking studio is located in the Wyeth Center. It is a state-of-the-art non-toxic, green facility that supports academic courses, technical print research, and professional Open Access and Print Residency programs.
For more about the printmaking studio facilities, see here.
Photography
The Wyeth Center houses the department’s darkroom, which has sixteen enlargers and ample room for safe experimentation. The photography study and critique room are adjacent to the darkroom. For a virtual of the darkroom, see here.
Painting
The spacious painting studio is located in the Wyeth Center. Featuring large windows with adjustable shades and an open floorplan, the studio offers a modern and comfortable space for students to work with acrylic paint, water-soluble oil paint, and other water-based media.
Drawing
In the drawing studio, adjacent to the painting studio in Wyeth, students work with graphite, charcoal, Conté crayon, and ink.
Sculpture
The new Sculpture Studio opens in Fall 2024. The open studio features glassmaking, woodworking, and metalworking tools and equipment. Students investigate the creative and communicative possibilities of plaster sculpture, mold-making, stone carving, clay studies, basic wood joinery, glassmaking, welding, forging, and aluminum and bronze casting.
Ceramics
In fall 2021 the department’s ceramics facility moved from the Old Fire Station to the newly-renovated Goos Family Studio in York Village. This immersive studio offers introductory hand-building courses that focus on functional and sculptural work as well as surface decoration and form. It utilizes low temperature (1764-1915 degrees F) ceramic materials.
