Art Facilities
The spacious, light-filled Stevens Art Studios feature cathedral ceilings in all the studios, as well as huge expanses of glass, which provide natural light. The building includes fully-equipped ceramics and sculpture areas, with separate rooms for glazing, clay mixing, and woodworking. The ceramics area features capabilities for firing with electric, gas, salt-fired, and raku techniques. Traditional photography, and a printmaking studio with lithograph and intaglio presses, and papermaking. Students working in the drawing and painting studios benefit from the open space and natural light. There are also individual student workspaces available to upperclassmen.
The art department has 15 Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium laptops for use by art students. These machines run on a wireless network in the Stevens Art Studios and are equipped with the Adobe Creative Suite software package, which includes Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat. A black and white laser printer, a high-quality color printer, scanning stations with widescreen monitors, and five digital cameras—including a high-resolution digital SLR—are also available for art student use.