Facilities
Fine Arts courses take place in 5 buildings on the CCAD campus. Battelle Hall is devoted entirely to Sculpture and Jewelry. Kinney Hall houses Ceramics and Printmaking and the Glass lab. The B&E building is devoted entirely to drawing and painting. Design Hall and Grant Lab are used for some additional drawing classes and watercolor. There are 3 galleries used exclusively for student exhibitions. Semi-private studios are available to advanced students and are adjacent to the sculpture, ceramics and the drawing and painting classrooms. Digital equipment is available to all faculty in all facilities. A well equipt slide shooting/digital documentation studio is available to students and faculty.
CERAMICS
Common use equipment include
two pug mills (one de-airing),
two /bluebird mixers, extruders, slip tank, three ton Ram press, and a slab roller.
Kilns include
5- one cu. ft. electric test kilns, 10-full-size electric kilns,
gas test kiln, cantenary arch kiln,
Bailey shuttle kiln,
gas downdraft kiln, 2 raku kilns, a salt kiln, and a wood kiln.
DRAWING & PAINTING
Drawing and Painting studios are located in the B&E Fine Arts Building, a renovated 4-story industrial building designated for the Division of Fine Arts. The building contains 5 Painting studios of about 1,800 square feet each (40 x 45) with 11 ceiling and 5 Drawing studios of about 1,800 square feet each (40 x 45) with 11 ceiling. Most studios have large windows facing north for best natural lighting. Two or more rolls of overhead track lights with bounced and defused lighting optimize painting conditions.
29 Individual Studios of about 120 square feet each (10 x 12 x 11celing) are located on the ground floor for fine arts seniors who are taking senior thesis classes and choose to work on campus.
GLASSBLOWING
The Hot Glass facility is adjacent to the Ceramic studios in Kinney Hall and includes the following: 450lb clear tank; 100lb color tank; 2- 18"h x 36"w x 24"d front loading annealers; 1 -20"h x 36"w x 24"d top loading annealer; 2- 17"w x32"d self lighting glory holes with ribbon burners; pipe warmer garage combo; color annealer; and Jim Moore tools and Steinart pipes & punties
The Cold Shop includes
2 diamond laps; 2 wet belts; diamond punty grinder; diamond bandsaw; 24" felt wheel polisher; air drive dremels; and a wet table.
The kiln casting
includes 2 -12"h x 36"w 24"d front loading fusing and slumping annealers and 3 - 24"h x 36"w x 24"d top loading casting annealers.
There is a separate facility for glass cutting, mold prep and assembly. We supply bullseye compatible for the casting class.
JEWELRY
The jewelry studio consists of 20 individual benches with each student using his/her own set of hand tools. The studio is in the sculpture building, and has access to those tools (shears, breaks, drill presses, wet sanders, saws, etc.). In addition, the studio houses its own tools which consist of forming/raising equipment, a hydraulic press, rolling mill, casting equipment (for both centrifuge and vacuum casting), mold making equipment and wax injector, polishing and sandblasting machines, and shared common hand tools (stone setting equipment, shears, etc.).
Advanced students have the option of an individual studio space within the sculpture department.
All areas with Dimensional Studies share a fully equipped photos studio for photographing artwork and creating image based presentations.
PRINTMAKING
The Lithography Lab includes 3 Charles Brand presses measuring 24x40, 30x50, and 36x52 and 120 stones in various sizes from 7 x10 to 25 ½ x 37.
The Intaglio Lab includes
2 presses measuring 36x 60 and 47 x 96 and a paper soaking sink measuring 26x6.
The Serigraphy (Silkscreen) Lab includes
8 tables measuring 3x4
table for large prints measuring 4x8; a spray booth measuring 6x5 with power a washer;
and class screens-frame size measuring 27x39.
The Relief Lab includes
3 presses each measuring 30x50; Photo-mechanics; NuArc Mercury 40-1K light exposure unit, 42x32; 42 wide large format printer and transparency film;
and a computer with digital scanner.
The Papermaking Lab includes
5 water vats; 3 drying cabinets; a 21x20 beater room;
a Hollander beater for western style papermaking;
a Twin Rocker Hydraulic press measuring 24x33 (largest paper mould 24x31); and a Santa Anna electric paper dryer measuring 36x38.
SCULPTURE
The Sculpture lab is exceptionally well equipped and features a fully equipped woodshop, bronze foundry, plaster mold lab, stone grinding room, plastics room, large burn out kiln, stone polishing table and a complete metal working lab that features all standard metal fabrication and welding equipment.
All advance students are offered individual studio space.
WATERCOLOR
A new watercolor workshop is being developed because of the generous support of an individual donor.
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