Studio, workshop and technical resources

Both the drawing and painting facilities include studios with storage areas, a still life room and a collection of art prints and an anatomical plastic human skeleton.

The sculpture facilities include bronze and metal casting equipment, welding and metal forming shop, studios for plaster, wood, clay and stone (also see Digital media below).

There are separate studios for intaglio/relief, lithography, screenprint, and darkroom processes. Equipment includes vacuum screenprint tables, exposure units, spray booths, a 17” Epson printer for photo positives, multiple standard etching presses, an automatic etching press, lithography presses and various lithographic stones.

The photography facilities offer standard black & white and colour equipment, means for transparency masking colour separation, inter-negatives, dye transfer printing and gum printing.  There is a separate graduate darkroom with a colour and a black and white enlarger, print finishing/matting area and an artificial light studio, with both continuous and electronic flash lighting. Digital facilities are provided primarily through the Integrated Arts Media Labs (see Digital media below).

The Integrated Arts Media Labs (IAML) are dedicated digital arts education and production environments located in the Art Building (AB), created specifically for students in Art, Dance, Drama, and Music. Each Lab station has a modern Mac computer, MIDI keyboard, and a colour-calibrated display(s). It offers a wide range of creative software, including video editing, 2D graphics (e.g., Photoshop), 3D modelling, CAD, music/audio sequencing, music notation, and interaction design and authoring. Photographic-quality printing services and short-term equipment loans are also available. For more information, visit the IAML web site  See the Lab web site for more information.

Additional digital-related services, including a CNC Router and FDM 3D printers, are sourced through the Wood and Metal workshops (see below).

The Workshops are maker spaces where the Department of Art and Art History’s students and personnel can go for technical consultations, training and practice. The services are centred on a fully-equipped woodshop and tool-room, a metal shop with resources for a broad range of metal-working processes, and a foundry set up for investment and sand casting of bronze and aluminum. The facilities also include a CNC router for wood and plastics, FDM 3D printers, a CO2 laser engraver, a spray room and spaces for ceramics, wax, plaster and cement work.

Please review the documents provided below to ensure your safety and the safety others while using the Department of Art and Art History working spaces.