Facilities

Classrooms

Along with it's other classrooms, the Department of Art & Design's Paul E. Barr Memorial Lecture Room plays host to seminars on art history and theory; as well as presentations by visiting artists and scholars.

Labs & Studios

Labs and studio spaces throughout the Department facilitate creative research and provide the space for exhibition, discussion, and critique.

While large indoor and outdoor spaces enable students to experiment with a range of material approaches; computer, printing, and digital fabrication labs allow students to explore the potentials of digital media.

The complete Adobe Creative Suite as well as other imaging and design software are available through the Department.

MFA Studios

While undergraduate students work in shared settings, students in the Department's MFA in Visual Arts program are provided individual studio spaces for their creative research.

While the tool room offers a large selection of both hand and power tools; the wood shop has a variety of stationary equipment that includes a table saw, miter saw, lathe, and drill press. The shop is also outfitted with a compressed air system.

Letterpress Workshop

The BFA in Graphic Design program at UND is unique in that it acquaints students with the rich history of typography through it's Letterpress Workshop.

The workshop, created by Professor Emiretus Lucy Ganje, offers an encyclopedic collection of metal and wood type that exposes students to the relevance of printing techniques going back to the 15th century.

Printmaking Workshop

The Department's Printmaking workshop offers extensive space and equipment for the practice of traditional printmaking techniques.

The workshop facilitates learning in lithography and etching, as well as in relief and screenprinting.

The Colonel Eugene E. Myers Art Gallery, named after UND benefactor and alumnus Eugene Myers, serves as the Department of Art & Design's art gallery. 

The curated, juried, and student exhibitions showcased in the Gallery are punctuated by exhibitions of professional artists. 

UND's historic Ceramics program, established by Margret Kelly Cable in 1910, provides facilities for the creative production of ceramics.

Studios & Glaze Area

Along with slab rollers, wedging tables, and numerous wheels for handbuilding and throwing;  the Ceramics studios are equipped with a large spray booth, a fine crusher, and a Bluebird mixer. The studios also provide a bench grinder for clay making as well as the production and application of glazes.

Kiln Area & Kiln Yard

While the kiln area houses electric and Raku kilns, a Fiber Bailey Downdraft kiln, and Alpine Updraft kiln; the kiln yard is home to soda, salt, and wood kilns; as well as an outdoor Raku kiln and pit fire area.

For more information regarding the Ceramics emphasis and its facilities contact Professor Wesley Smith (wesley.smith@UND.edu)

In addition to individual work stations, the Jewelry & Metalsmithing studio offers students a space equipped with guillotine shears, a drill press, a manual rolling mill, and a hydraulic die forming press.

The studio is also outfitted with soldering and flex shaft stations; as well as non-cyanide plating, electro-forming, and acid etching stations.

Hammer & Casting Space

This space provides a variety of forming and casting equipment including hand tools and pitch pots for various forming and construction processes.

It is also equipped with a buffing cabinet for polishing, as well as equipment necessary for the lost wax casting process.

For more information regarding the Jewelry & Metalsmithing emphasis and its facilities contact Associate Professor Donovan Widmer (donovan.widmer@UND.edu)

The Painting & Drawing studios accommodate students working in a variety of media.

The studios offer a large, multi-use space where classes engage with traditional and experimental approaches to painting and drawing.

For more information regarding the Painting or Drawing emphases and its facilities contact Associate Professor Todd Hebert (todd.hebert@UND.edu)

The Department of Art & Design's Photography emphasis encourages students to experiment with the processes that have defined the medium from it's invention to the present day.

Students studying photography are exposed to digital photography and printing; black and white film photography; as well as historical photographic development processes such as cyanotype and collodion wet plate printing.

Darkroom & Labs

The Photography facilities consist of a lab for 19th century alternative photography processes; a traditional darkroom for black and white photography; and a digital photography lab that includes software, computers, scanners, and printers for an array of specialized imaging and printing techniques.

Labs are also equipped with film and digital cameras, as well as lighting equipment that includes boxes and strobes.

For more information regarding the Photography emphasis and its facilities contact Professor Suzanne Gonsalez-Smith (suzanne.gonsalez@UND.edu)

Along with being home to the tool room and woodshop, the Sculpture studio offers access to an outdoor workspace equipped with a track system for moving large and heavy works. 

Casting Spaces, Foundry & Metal Shop

The casting spaces provide students with melting pots and a hydraulic press for use in wax and plaster casting.

In addition to a mixer, sand blaster, and furnace; the foundry is home to a large burn out kiln and portable foundry. 

The metal shop offers welding stations as well as a variety of stationary equipment for the production of metal sculpture including a band saw, machinist lathe, and plasma cutter.

For more information regarding the Sculpture emphasis and its facilities contact Michael Conlan (michael.conlan@UND.edu)