Creative Spaces Built for Possibility
Each specialized studio in the Dicke Art Building is outfitted with furnishings and equipment that meet professional‑grade standards. Just as the curriculum encourages interdisciplinary approaches to making art, our facilities are designed to encourage collaborative, cross-disciplinary practices.
Drawing Studio
The Drawing Studio is a flexible, light-filled space with tables, easels, and drawing mules. Adjustable lighting supports presentations and figure drawing, while walls display student work and critiques.
Painting Studio
The Painting Studio is a bright, open space with easels, work tables, and downtown views. Adjustable lighting, built-in ventilation, drying racks, and wash sinks support every stage of studio work.
Digital Studio
The Digital Studio is fully equipped to provide an iMac desktop computer station for each enrolled student. Photo and large format printers offer students the opportunity to calibrate their prints to professional standards. Various scanners and camera equipment are readily available to support operations for capturing images. The studio is also equipped with a Risograph printer for experimentation with digital projects exploring multiple editions. In addition to various film and flatbed scanners, an assortment of digital camera and lighting equipment is stocked to support image capture applications. Adjacent workspaces for lighting and film processing support controlled, studio photography shoots and intermedia experimentation. A flexible critique space enables dialogue and presentation preparation.
Photography Studio
The Photography Studio includes facilities and resources for both analog and digital photographic processes. The darkroom contains well-maintained enlargers ranging from 35mm to 8x10 inch format and a downdraft ventilated sink. The darkroom is supplemented by an ample film developing area, light tables, UV exposure units for alternative processes, and a separate darkroom outfitted for large format film development. With immediate access to the digital lab, the print finishing area, and the critique classroom, Photography courses are designed to explore the overlap between digital and analog photographic processes. A wide range of photographic equipment is available for student use.
Printmaking Studio
The 2,500-square-foot Printmaking Studio is designed to accommodate students working with intaglio, lithographic, screen printing, and relief (including Japanese-style woodblock techniques) printing processes. The studio is also equipped to support Western and Asian style papermaking as well as bookbinding applications.
Sculpture Studio
The sculpture area incorporates three generously equipped studios: Clay, Plaster, and Wood. Each studio is designed to suit the specific range of applications of the discipline. The sculpture studios have ready access to a large courtyard which includes an enclosed kiln area as well as open and covered work areas.
Clay Studio
The Clay Studio enables the production of clay sculpture from hand building and cast formed processes. The clay studio also features tall ceilings and eastern-facing glass windows. An exterior Kiln Bay houses a variety of electric kilns to serve the bisque and glaze firing needs of the courses.
Plaster Studio
The Plaster Studio is an environmentally controlled space furnishing plaster mold making processes. Molds produced in this area are used in porcelain casting applications as well as for drape and slump molds for clay.
Wood Studio
The Wood Studio is equipped with equipment to facilitate the various applications relating to sizing, shaping, assembling, and finishing wood materials. The tooling options allow students to explore a range of additive and subtractive sculpture processes.
Professional woodworking benches provide optimum workspace. The studio features tall ceilings and eastern-facing glass windows. Students have adequate locker space to store their materials and works-in-process. Finished projects are often displayed in the common spaces of the building.