Foundry gallery Student gallery

Sculpture Intermedia Facilities The Sculpture Intermedia facilities have well-equipped communal studios that support a wide range of studio processes. Traditional sculpture techniques, new technology processes, and intermedia approaches toward art making are all possible venues for our students. Sculpture Intermedia is located in the Sculpture Building on the ground floor surrounded by five concrete pads for working outdoors. Indoor facilities include over 5300 square feet of communal shops/work space and graduate students are provided with studios. Facilities include a complete and professionally equipped woodworking shop for both traditional and non-traditional approaches to wood. A modern welding facility with torches, plasma cutter, MIG, TIG, and stick welders help you realize large-scale metal fabrication projects. Diverse metal-working approaches are supported through mill, lathe, and breaks, along with a large foundry including two furnaces, an overhead electric hoist system, and a walk-in car kiln. Also located in the foundry area is a gas-forge, large anvils and support equipment for forging. Adjacent to the foundry is a small-metals shop where you can work on projects that include metal forming, repousse, centrifugal casting and enamelling. In support of these shop areas we have a well-equipped tool room with easy access to tool check-out. The tool room contains both manual and power tools for all the shop areas. The range of equipment is extensive, from the traditional--draw knives, planes, and chisels-- to modern electric and pneumatic equipment, such as grinders, routers, hammer-drills, and air chisels. Along with our well-equipped shops, we have facilities that support alternative processes. Sculpture Intermedia has a strong commitment to non-traditional and new technology approaches in 3D art. Our program provides facilities for students to work in a wide range of mediums and formats including image transfer techniques, digital video production and projection, robotics and kinetics, thermal vaccum forming, three-dimensional paper making and forming, and industrial sewing processes. Students that have an eclectic approach to art making move easily from sculpture shops, to the printmaking studios, to the photography lab, and to the digital facilities, involving themselves with all that is available throughout the department.