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Facilities

On the main campus, we have a fully equipped wood shop; metal shop; printmaking, jewelry, and ceramics studios; and a digital output lab with high-resolution scanners and printers (shared with MFA Photography). We also have dedicated campus galleries which are utilized in the spring semester for second-year students to mount individual thesis exhibitions. There are many opportunities to show work in a variety of traditional and non-traditional spaces both on campus, and students are encouraged to organize, curate, and participate in a wide range of exhibitions.

Graduate Fine Arts facilities are outstanding. Students have individual studios located at Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. We have a wood shop, metal shop, plaster-mold making shop, and a light studio for documenting artwork, as well as installation and exhibition spaces. We also have a large communal critique space with computers, a printer, and a lounge with a kitchen.  

Main Campus Fine Arts Shops

Ceramics Studios

The Ceramics Studios cover 8,000 square feet and is equipped with facilities that specialize in clay and glaze mixing, hand-building, slipcasting, wheel throwing, cone 6 glaze firing, and 3D printing studios.

A photo of Fine Arts ceramic shops, featuring a shelf of varying slips, a trash bin, stools, tables, storage for different clays, and vent hoods, among other things.
A student working on a tall coil-build vessel on a table in the Fine Arts ceramics shop
A photo of wall shelves in Fine Arts ceramics shops displaying objects with different glazes labelled
A student working on clay work at a table in the Fine Arts ceramic shop. Behind them are tall shelves with ceramic works covered in plastic, drying in preparation to be fired.
A row of throwing wheels with stools on top in the Fine Arts ceramics shop. In the background are shelves with ceramics pieces covered in plastic, drying in preparation to be fired.
Kilns in the Fine Arts ceramics shops
Photo from Fine Arts ceramics shop featuring large wood storage cabinets and a kiln
A complete, 3D-printed ceramic piece next to a 3D printer on a table in the Fine Arts ceramics shop

Equipment includes:

  • 3D Potter and Vorm Vry ceramic 3D printing machines 
  • Donaldson Torit dust collectors 
  • Downdraft tables 
  • Fredrickson cone 6 kilns 
  • Lehman slip casting machine
  • North Star slab roller 
  • Peter Pugger pugmills 
  • Shimpo wheels
  • Slip mixers
  • Soldner and lightning clay mixers
  • Spray booth

Jewelry Studios

Our Jewelry Studios are 3,200 square feet located on the second floor of the Chemistry building. The studios offer equipment and facilities that specialize in stone setting, lost-wax investment casting, enameling, laser welding, lapidary, forging, electroforming, and machining.

Entryway to Fine Arts Jewelry Studios. One door is shut, with postings on it for safety and policies. The other door is open, showing the inside of the Jewelry shop and a student at work.
Fine Arts Jewelry shop showing tables, furnaces, and vent hoods
A student holds a jewelry piece in progress, covered in bubbles
Fine Arts jewelry shop with various tables and draws, materials, and equipment
A student's hands hammering a piece of metal at their bench
Fine Arts jewelry shop with various equipment and furniture.

Equipment includes:

  • Arbe centrifugal caster 
  • Anvils and mandrills 
  • Baldor sander delta grinder 
  • Best Built ultrasonic cleaner 
  • Beverly shear
  • Bonny Doon hydraulic press
  • Delta and Dumore drill presses 
  • Delta sanders 
  • Di-Acro 24” shear and 16 gauge brake
  • Digital video workstation 
  • Dura-Bull vulcanizer and wax injector
  • Durston rolling mill 
  • Durston drawbench table top 
  • Electroforming unit 
  • Jet bandsaw
  • Lampert arc welder 
  • Neutec Laser Tig welder
  • Paragon burnout kiln
  • Pickle pots (acid workstation)
  • Powder coating unit and toaster oven for powder coating
  • Red Wing and Best Built polishers 
  • Ring stretcher 
  • Skat Blast sandblaster 
  • Tumbler
  • Vcella enameling kilns

Metal Shop

The Metal Shop is a 5,500-square-foot facility with equipment that specialize in rolling, bending, welding, forging, lost-wax bronze casting, and high-precision machining.

Fine Arts metal shop: an open, large room with equipment throughout
Fine Arts metal shop: an open, large room with equipment throughout
Fine Arts metal shop: an open, large room with equipment throughout
Fine Arts metal shop: an open, large room with equipment throughout
Fine Arts metal shop tools
Equipment in the Fine Arts metal shop
Fine Arts metal shop: an open, large room with equipment throughout
Fine Arts metal shop equipment and vent hood

Equipment includes:

  • Arc, mig, and tig welders
  • Belt and disc sanders
  • Bridgeport mills
  • Cement mixer 
  • Ceramic shell facility 
  • Cold saw 
  • Drill press
  • English wheel
  • Finger break 
  • Forge
  • Hossfeld bender
  • Natural gas bunsen burners 
  • Oxygen and acetylene rigs
  • Pedestal grinder
  • Plasma cutter
  • Press brake
  • Sandblaster
  • Shear
  • Slip roller
  • Southbend lathes
  • Vertical and horizontal bandsaws
  • Wax melting pots

Printmaking Studios

The Printmaking Studios cover 10,000 square feet and include facilities that specialize in intaglio, lithography, silkscreen, letterpress, and relief printing.

Fine Arts letterpress studio
Fine Arts letterpress type blocks
Fine Arts screenprinting shop, with a rack of dozens of screens against the left wall.
A student rolls out mixed colored inks with a brayer on glass.
A student scrubbing a plate in the Fine Arts intaglio studio
Fine Arts lithography shops, with cubbies for students' stones on the left wall and a row of presses to the right of the room, adjacent to windows.
Fine Arts printmaking drying racks with prints drying
An undergraduate Printmaking major's studio

Equipment includes:

  • 16 gauge 24” shear
  • Acid room and sink
  • Challenge Machinery 26.5” Guillotine 
  • Chandler and Price 205A
  • Charles Brand presses 
  • Darkroom with emulsion coating station, large-format exposure unit, and washout booth
  • Dry mounting laminating press 
  • Fabric printing station 
  • Ferric chloride etching capacities
  • Full service wood and lead type blocks
  • Full set of lithography rollers 
  • Glass table tops 
  • Hot plates
  • Hydraulic stone lift and accompanying storage racks 
  • Ideal 1080 paper cutter 
  • Ideal PP-1004 machine 
  • John Jacques 20” paper box machine
  • Light tables
  • Lockable storage screen racks 
  • Rosin Aquatint boc
  • Porta Trace lightbox 
  • Silkscreen exposure unit
  • Stone polishing sink
  • Vacuum tables 
  • Vandercook No. 1 proving press 
  • Vandercook No. 4 proving machine 
  • Vandercook Universal 3 press

Wood Shop

The Wood Shop is a 6,000-square-foot facility furnished with equipment that specializes in woodworking, cutting, joining, planing, turning, sanding, drilling, mold making, plastics, and resin work. This shop is also home to our large scale spray booth.

Fine Arts woodshop
Upper level view of the Fine Arts woodshop
Tables in Fine Arts woodshop
Upper level view of students working in the Fine Arts woodshop
Wood panels and materials in Fine Arts woodshop
Equipment in the Fine Arts woodshop. Clamps and safety equipment hand on the walls.
Equipment in Fine Arts woodshop
Plaster area in the Fine Arts woodshop.

Equipment includes:

  • Bandsaws
  • Binks pressure pot 
  • Bosch and Makita miter saws 
  • Donaldson Torit dust collectors 
  • Formech Vacuum former 
  • Jet and Delta drill presses
  • Global Finishing spray booth 
  • One-way lathe
  • Plastics bender 
  • Powermatic and Jet sanders
  • Powermatic jointer 
  • Powermatic planer
  • Router table
  • Sawstop table saw
  • Stone mold making surfaces 
  • Universal Systems laser cutter 

Fine Arts Galleries

Steuben and Dekalb Galleries host Fine Arts Thesis exhibitions and special projects while providing curatorial opportunities to students, faculty, and alumni.

A brightly lit gallery featuring on the left wall: drawings unframed installed on the wall, alternating with pedestals atop which are miniature sculptures. On the corner is installed a black and grey drawing on the wall. The back wall hangs a blue and white drawing. In the center of the room is a folding chair and metal cabinet, which has a desktop computer on it.
BFA Drawing Thesis Show Week 3, April 7-11, 2025. Photo: Cary Whittier
A gallery interior showcasing various sculptures and wall-mounted artwork, with natural materials such as branches and vines incorporated into the pieces. Pedestals and frames display intricate details within a clean, white-walled environment.
An exhibition hall featuring vibrant paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media works. The space includes couches, bright yellow caution tape, and a playful yet urban aesthetic with murals on the walls.
A brightly lit gallery featuring movable, color-blocked, modular sculptures on wheels. One dark blue features a door on the front and is connected with a lighter blue sculpture by a rod, from which clothes on hangers hang. The side of the lighter blue sculpture is reflective. There are plants resting atop these sculptures and elsewhere in the room.
Installation view of Collective Mobilities, February 3-March 9, 2025. Organized by Alex Strada, Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow 2024-26.
The exterior of the Fine Arts: Dekalb Gallery, featuring large glass windows showcasing the interior installations. Visible through the glass are sculptures and wall-mounted works, with natural textures and earthy tones dominating the scene.
A gallery space showing wall-mounted mixed-media artworks, featuring surreal and nature-inspired themes. Yellow tape markings on the concrete floor contrast with the industrial overhead piping.
An open gallery space with a variety of photos, sketches, and mixed media artworks displayed on walls and columns. The room has a casual, exploratory atmosphere with natural light coming through large windows.
The gallery entrance view through large glass windows, showcasing a mix of sculptural and wall-mounted art pieces inside. A vine-like wreath is visible on the exterior wall to the right of the entrance.
A gallery space with white walls and a polished wooden floor showcasing various small paintings in a linear arrangement on one wall and a larger colorful painting in the background.
A brightly lit gallery with a row of small paintings across the back wall. Other small paintings hand on the end walls to either side. In the middle of the room toward the foreground of the photo is a sculptural installation featuring miniatures
BFA Painting Thesis Show Week 1, March 31-April 4, 2025. Photo: Cary Whittier
A gallery space with white walls and a polished wooden floor, featuring a mix of abstract and representational paintings displayed in a row.
A gallery room with wooden flooring and white walls, displaying a variety of paintings, including a vibrant abstract piece on the left and several smaller works along the right.
A brightly lit gallery with light hardwood floors. On the left wall is a small row of paintings, toward the end of the wall there is a pair stacked and a group of four in a cluster. On the wall across from a corridor, another pair of paintings are installed stacked, and a group of 15 small works are arranged in a group that is three columns, five rows.
BFA Painting Thesis Week 4, April 21-25, 2025. Photo: Cary Whittier
A dimly lit gallery with objects and paintings installed on either end wall. In the center wall is a projection that reads
BFA Painting Thesis Show Week 2, April 7-11, 2025. Photo: Cary Whittier
A brightly lit gallery with grey floors and white walls. On the walls hang blue and white paintings: two single paintings, one rectangular and the other amorphous; two small paintings in the corner; and a row of vertical hanging scrolls. Another painting rests face-up on a pedestal.
BFA Painting Thesis Show Week 7, May 12-16, 2025. Photo: Cary Whittier
A brightly lit gallery with white walls and grey floors. On the left wall hangs a single-column stack of three small works; farther on this wall is a row of five horizontal paintings. On the adjacent wall is three vertical panels, next to a pedestal with artist information. At the center of the room, flat on the ground, is a piece that is white and black markings on a red background
BFA Painting Thesis Show Week 3, April 14-18, 2025. Photo: Cary Whittier

Dock 72 Galleries

Gallery spaces at Dock 72. In the foreground is a sculptural installation of unevenly stacked chairs. On the right wall across are abstract paintings in muted blues, reds, and orange.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Part 1: Access Denied. March 31-April 11, 2025. Curated by Dejá Belardo. Photo: Mark Gens
A dimly lit room with a warm yellow light spotlighting on the back wall. To the left of the room is a net with leaves hanging from the ceiling and piling on the floor. In the corner, a series of ropes hang connected to bricks on the floor. A panel also hangs from the ceiling. To the left is a large installation featuring false turf, tulip forms, and rippled silver.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Part 1: Access Denied. March 31-April 11, 2025. Curated by Dejá Belardo. Photo: Mark Gens
A view of gallery bays at Dock 72. The right walls of each bay are partially visible, with works installed on the walls. On the long, right wall of this corridor hangs an even grid of small, cube-shaped paintings.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Part 1: Access Denied. March 31-April 11, 2025. Curated by Dejá Belardo. Photo: Mark Gens
A gallery space with a large, ceiling-hung installation in the middle of the bay. It is various shades of pinks, reds, and oranges. At the top, it appears as a net and strands then reach to the floor. In the rest of the bay, to the right of the installation in this photo, are paintings installed on the wall.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Part 2: Inside/Out. April 28-May 9, 2025. Curated by Dejá Belardo. Photo: Mark Gens
Fine Arts gallery space, with installations and artworks in gallery room
Fine Arts gallery space, with installations and artworks in gallery room
Fine Arts gallery space, with installations and artworks in gallery room
A spacious gallery with a modern aesthetic, showcasing large-scale abstract and representational paintings on white walls under a grid of fluorescent lighting.