Technology & Facilities
- Ceramics
- Drawing and Painting
- Experimental and Media Arts
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
Ceramics
The ceramic area occupies approximately 9,000 square feet in the Regis Center for Art, including 200-250 square feet for each graduate student.
The ceramic area includes:
- Hand building Studio
- Throwing Studio
- Undergraduate Major Studio
- Ceramics TA Office
- Ceramics critique room
- Graduate kiln and glaze room
- Indoor main kiln room
- Outdoor kiln area
- Glaze room
- Plaster room
- Clay mixing room
- Computer lab
Equipment
- 4 - 30 cu. ft. downdraft gas kilns
- 2 - 30 cu. ft. updraft gas kilns
- 1 - 45 cu. ft. downdraft gas kiln
- 1 - 80 cu. ft. cart downdraft gas kiln
- 1 - 130 cu. ft. card downdraft gas kiln
- 4 atmosphere kilns (soda, wood)
- 12 electric kilns
- 2 glaze spray booths
- 2 slab rollers
- 2 extruders
- Electric wheels
Drawing and Painting
The undergraduate area has well ventilated drawing and painting studios, a critique room, a seminar room, and two spray booths. The undergraduate program also has an electronic art classroom.
The major studio is available to seniors in their final semester working on their BFA or senior projects.
Square footage: Undergraduate footage 7,863
Equipment: The drawing and painting studios are equipped with easels, taborets, environmentally friendly brush cleaners, good ventilation, and storage for painting and drawing.
The drawing and painting area has a digital drawing classroom which is equipped with the following:- 18 IMac G5s
- 1 Epson 4000 printer
- 2 Canon 9950 scanners
- 18 Wacom tablets
The digitizing library is equipped with the following:
- 1 G5 with a digital dv deck for video editing
- 1 G4 with an Epson 4000 pro printer
- 1 G4 with a Panasonic film recorder
- 1 G4 with a Canon 9950 scanner
The studio space available for graduate painters is as follows:
- E232 is 551 sq ft with 2 painters
- E232 is 1,096 sq ft with 4 painters
- E236 is 539 sq ft with 2 painters
- E238 is 533 sq ft with 2 painters
Experimental and Media Arts
The state of the art Electronic Facilities include:
- Digital video production
- Two Macintosh computer labs
- Media 100 editing suite
- Pro Tools station
- Max/MSP workstations
- Equipment for experimental and in-the-field productions
Photography
Undergraduate Technology and Facilities
Our facilities include six individual darkrooms, a large group darkroom, a mounting and finishing area, a computer lab, a camera copy room, a checkout room, and a photography studio.
Graduate Technology and Facilities
Three photography studios house two students each and are equipped with a Mac G5 computer. Graduate photo-area students have exclusive access to a large graduate darkroom, and a graduate high-resolution scanning lab.
Digital Service Bureau
In Fall 2008, the Photography Area converted its separate undergraduate and graduate digital printing labs into a single, larger Digital Service Bureau (DSB) that now functions for the entire Department of Art. The DSB has large- and medium-format Epson 9800 and 4800 inkjet printers, an Epson V700 Perfection flatbed scanner, and two Nikon 9000 film scanners (which can scan 35mm and medium-format film). The DSB has regular monitored lab hours each semester, with DSB supervisors on hand to assist use of the equipment.
DSB Access Policy and FAQ
DSB Directions Fall 2009
DSB Checkout Fall 2009
Printmaking
The Malcolm Myers Printmaking Studio is housed in the Regis Center for Art, which opened in 2003. The 7,580 sq. ft., state-of–the-art printmaking facility provides a safe work environment (excellent ventilation and lighting) and a communal atmosphere.
The Printmaking Area Includes:
- Graduate Suite
- Self-sufficient facilities and adjoining private research studios
- 40” x 70” Takach lithography press
- 40” x 70” American French Tool Etching Press
- 48” x 72” Cincinnati one-arm Screen press
- Eight large diameter rollers, 60 duo meters through 20
- Intaglio Studio
- 48” x 109” Takach Etching press
- Etching presses (five)
- Acid/solvent resistant Chemstone surfaces
- Stainless soaking trays with plexi drain boards
- Parts washer
- Drying Racks
- Down draft workstation
- Polymetal aquatint box
- Spray booth
- Four hot plates
- Plate shear
- Maple and stainless worktables
- Lithography Studio
- Four large lithography presses (Brand and Takach)
- Float glass slabs
- Slat hood ventilation with stainless processing station for metal plates
- Acid resistant Chemstone procession area for stones
- Lithography stones
- Maple and stainless work areas
- Float glass slabs
- Hydraulic lift
- Screen Studio
- Six Cincinnati presses (36”x48”, 44”x60”, 48”x72”)
- Metal frame screens
- Horizontal screen racks
- Hydraulic screen stretcher
- Ink mixing station
- Vertical light inspection station
- Two light tables
- Drying racks
- Room for screen reclamation and washout booths
- Digital Lab
- Epson 9500 Inkjet printer
- 18” Inkjet printer
- Scanner
- Three computer stations
- Papermaking Facility
- Hollander Beaters (two)
- Large capacity Hydropulper
- Pulp sprayer
- Vacuum table
- Hydraulic lift
- Support Facilities
- Acid room
- Photomechanical lab
- Digital lab
- Stone graining room/storage
- Critique/preparatory room
- Solvent storage room
- Expendable storage room
Sculpture
The sculpture program at the University of Minnesota is housed within the finest facility of its kind in the country. The sculpture program occupies 15,000 sq. feet of workspace in the Department’s new facility, the Regis Center for Art. The Department of Art has fully equipped digital imaging studios as well as technologically current metal and wood fabrication shops and foundry.
Graduate Facilities
Graduate students in sculpture are provided with personal studio space on the second floor in the East Building of the new Regis Center for Art; all studios are accessible by freight elevator. The sculpture studio facilities and shops [first floor of the East Building] are open to graduate students 24 hours a day.
The Sculpture Area Includes:
- Fully equipped woodshop
- 2 table saws
- Panel saw
- 2 sanders
- 2 band saws
- 2 drill presses
- Chop saw
- Mortising machine
- Sawmill
- Wood assembly shop with walk in spray booth
- Modeling and mold making studio
- Welding and metal-forming shop with brazing and oxy-acetylene stations, MIG and TIG welders, horizontal and vertical band saws, bench grinders, Beverly shears, Hausfeld Bender, hydraulic foot squaring shears, brakes, 2 metal chop saws, metal roller, gas forge, coal forge, and anvils
- Sandblasting booth
- Hand tool checkout room
- Enclosed sound-proof grinding room with air stations for hand tools
- Foundry equipped with an Inductotherm liftswing induction furnace [150# capacity for bronze] and a 100# tilt induction for iron, 2 cupolettes [400# and 100# capacity], #40, and #200 gas-fired crucible furnaces, a 270-cubic-foot burn-out/melt-out kiln, a 3-ton bridge crane, a separate shell room for ceramic shell molding, and facilities to make standard investment, chemically bonded sand, green sand, and centrifugally cast molds.
- New seminar rooms and critique rooms along with a large outdoor courtyard complete the sculpture facilities. Complete facilities for performance and electronic media are available in the West Building across the street [also accessible by skyway].
- CNC Router
