Labs and Facilities

With industry-standard equipment, the Documentation Studio is available to students of all experience levels to document 2D and 3D work with the assistance of a professional photographer.

• Letterpress & book arts lab with wood type, metal type, and polymer plate options

• Lithography stone & plate

• Exposure room & darkroom lab for multiple print processes

• Intaglio/relief presses with traditional aquatint box & ferric acid for copper plate etching

• Publication studio w/ multiple risograph machines

• Digital print studio w/ large format inkjet printers

• 3D printers

• Laser cutter

• Vinyl cutter

• Print archive

• Screenprinting stations with both traditional and vacuum tables

• Exposure unit

• Yardage/fabric printing table

• Paper making room

• Print publishing space

• 5x10 ft relief press

Housed in a former glass fabrication warehouse, our 3D workshops in the Glass Building include a woodshop, metals shop, soft sculpture studio, sewing room, and ceramics studio with a glaze room and mold-making room.

The Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio is a light-filled, open network of community learning and exploration spaces. The “Lemelson” hosts artist talks and lectures, classroom conversations and student hearth spaces all to provoke and activate discussions about design, community, entrepreneurship and innovation. Public programs, open lectures and exhibitions are regularly presented in the space.

• Two large white cyc walls

• 9’ and 12’ seamless racks

• Cameras set up for tethered shooting

• Profoto strobe kits

• Nanlite LED continuous lights and a wide range of modifiers and grip equipment including soft boxes, umbrellas, beauty dishes, barn doors, snoots, boom stands, and studio stands

Multiple painting studios are available throughout the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design, most of which feature northern light, all of which feature high ceilings and panoramic views.

• Traditional black and white darkroom with 12 individual enlarger stations with large format capacity

• Film development area

• Wide selection of chemistry for the production of alternative process images

• Post-production area with print storage

State-of-the-art printers and scanners are all calibrated to industry standards and support large format professional printing.

• Vocal/Isolation Audio Recording Booth

• Logic X Production/Mixing Station

• Dj Station With Serato Scratch

• Oculus Rift Development Kit

• 4K Video Camera

• Steadicam

• Legacy Media Transfer Station

• Specialized Projectors For Installation Pieces

• Mac Pro With Specialized Video And Sound Editing/Manipulation Software Such As Isadora

• 8mm Projectors

• 16mm Projectors

• Mixers

• Microphones

• Amplifiers

• Monitors

• Vintage Film Reels

• Lighting and camera gear includes
• Profoto strobe kits
• Nanlite LED continuous lights
• Small off-camera flash kits
• Sony and Canon mirrorless and digital SLR cameras
• Mamiya and Hasselblad medium format film cameras
• Toyo large format field cameras
• A wide range of grip equipment and accessories

The Wacom Lab is full of Wacom’s newest generation creative tools that allow you to draw directly onto the screen of the computer with a stylus or even your fingers.

• 13” to 27” Wacom tablets

• Two Wacom Mobile Studios (Stand-Alone Computers And Screens In One)