2D Labs
Painting & Drawing,
Printmaking
Painting & Drawing Labs
All 2D courses are offered in well-ventilated classroom and lab facilities where personal and environmental safety is emphasized. Non-toxic and less hazardous substitutions for traditional toxic solvents, pigments and grounds are used wherever possible.
Painting courses are primarily held in one of two large painting labs with tall clerestory windows providing abundant north light. A small room used for critiques and projections connects both rooms. Additional well-equipped classrooms support courses in drawing, combined media and watercolor.
All painting and drawing studios are wireless and have access to digital/slide projectors.
Printmaking Lab
The spacious printmaking facilities support work in Intaglio, Lithography, Relief, Screen Print, and a variety of alternative processes including photographic and digital processes, bookmaking, solar plates, polyester plates, polymer plates and monoprinting.
Printmakers use completely hazard-free cleaning methods, and less hazardous processing methods wherever possible.
Lithography
- Takach Litho press, bed size 5′ x 2.5′
- Takach Litho press, bed size 5′ x 2.75′
- Litho press, bed size 3′ x 2′
- Large Ltitho Graining sink
- Numerous stones
Intaglio / Relief
- 2 Etching Presses
- Takach etching press, bed size 6′ x 3.25′ (intaglio and relief)
- Branch etching Press, bed size 4′ x 2.25′ (intaglio only)
- Zinc only Acid Bath 32″ x 27″
- Large spray aquatint booth as well as traditional rosin box
- Plate cutter 3′ blade
Screen Printing
General Equipment
- Nuarc Flip Top Plate Maker, exposureglass 3.75′ x 3′
- Polymer Platemaker: Orbital X plate processor for water-wash plates up to 12″x 18″
Graduate Print Lab
In addition, a 1000 square foot space equipped with a large Takach litho press and Large Takach floor press is reserved exclusively for printmaking graduate student use.
Visit the 2D Studies Academic Programs page for course information.
Academic Program Info
