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Labs, Shops, and Studios

No matter your focus, we have the spaces and tools to help you create.

Everything You Need To Create

PNCA's Labs, Shops, and Studios provide everything needed to produce nearly any work. From an expansive Print Studio to the Creative Technology Lab's array of high-tech tools, we've got you covered.

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A person adjusts a blue figurine on a green backdrop while another looks at a computer screen.
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  • Six Wacom Cintiq Workstations

  • Four 2D Animation Workstations

  • Stop Motion/3D Animation Suite (With Three Stations Loaded With The Industry Standard Dragonframe Software And 3 Canon 50Ds)

  • ultiplane Animation Suite

  • Direct Animation Workstation

  • Four Light Tables

  • Various High-Lumen Projectors

  • 4K Cameras

  • Steady Cams

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Person using virtual reality headset with controllers, standing near a computer screen.
Person retrieving 3D printed objects from a Bambu 1 printer in a workshop.
Creative Technology Lab offers our students, undergraduate and graduate, as well as Portland's creative and tech communities, opportunities to learn about and explore emerging technologies, augmented and virtual reality, (digital) fabrication and prototyping, creative coding, and more.
  • Trotec Speedy 300 Laser Cutter
  • TAZ 3D Printer, Replicator Mini 3D Printer, and Replicator 2X 3D Printer
  • CNC Router
  • Large Format Printer
  • Roland GX-24 Vinyl Cutter
  • XY Plotter and Eggbot Plotter
  • HTC Vives
  • Oculus Rift And Touch Controllers
  • Cintiq Drawing Tablets
  • Structure Sensor 3D Scanner
  • Soldering Stations
  • Kinect V1 and Kinect V2
  • Lender Laptops
  • Midi Keyboards
  • Vive Trackers
  • Projector
  • Perception Neuron Motion Capture Kit
  • Zed Depth Sensing Camera
  • Samsung Odyssey Titan
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A photographer in a studio setup with lighting and equipment, preparing for a shoot.

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.

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  • 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

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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.

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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.

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A photographer capturing a Halloween-themed setup with decorations and lighting.

  • 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

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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.

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  • 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

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

Recording studio with soundproof walls, microphone, monitor, chair, and lamp.
Music studio setup with monitors, keyboard, and acoustic panels.
A music practice room with drums, guitars, and wall art

  • 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

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PNCA’s home for equipment and resources for the production, exhibition, and experimentation of media-based artwork. Much of our equipment can all be checked out free of charge and there are a wide range of lenses, lights, tripods, and cameras for checkout by students for use on and off campus.
  • 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
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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)

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