Department Facilities

The Department of Art & Design occupies three buildings on campus, housing fully equipped facilities for all studio and non-studio areas. The majority of facilities and the department office are located in Calcia Hall; Graphic and Industrial Design programs occupy Finley Hall North; and the MFA program is in Finley Hall South. Students also have access to arts facilities outside the department including the DuMont Television Center and the university's George Segal Gallery.

 

Art Galleries on Campus

Studio Facilities

 

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George Segal Gallery

The beautiful George Segal Gallery is a wonderful addition to MSU's arts facilities and a resource for students in the Department of Art & Design. Architecturally, the Gallery is state of the art and conforms to museum-approved standards. It comprises 3,130 square feet of exhibition space that is climate controlled with lights and nuclear window shades that block natural light. The Gallery also includes a dry fire suppression system, wood floors, track lighting, movable transparent exhibition walls, seminar and art prep rooms and more. The gallery was born out of the generosity of the George and Helen Segal Foundation and Montclair State's commitment to the arts.

George Segal Gallery Webpage

George and Helen Segal Foundation

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MFA Gallery

The MFA Gallery is a venue dedicated to exhibiting works produced by students enrolled in the university's Master of Fine Arts degree program. The gallery provides MFA candidates a space to exhibit and photograph their work as well as a professional forum for critical discourse and feedback. Self-managed and curated, the gallery additionally offers MFA candidates frontline experience in exhibition installation and the opportunity to enhance their personal show resumes. The MFA Gallery is just one example of MSU's commitment to providing the best possible facilities for its growing arts programs.

MFA Gallery Webpage

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Gallery 3 1/2

Gallery 3-1/2 is a student-run gallery for the undergraduate program, located in Calcia Hall. Exhibitions of student works generally run for two weeks each during the fall and spring semesters. The gallery is closed during the summer. For information on current shows, call 973-655-7295.

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Animation Studio

The animation program provides a PC lab and a Mac lab, each equipped with 15 work stations and current animation software that is used in today's industry including Lightwave, Cinema 4D, Mirage and Maya.

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Betty Schlossman Image Library

The Betty Schlossman Image Library contains more than 125,000 slides, books and periodicals available for student research. The collection complements holdings in the university's Sprague Library on campus. The Image Library is overseen by a full-time image librarian.

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Calcia Auditorium

Calcia Auditorium is a 122-seat facility dedicated to projection programming and lectures, containing a professional sound-proof booth with editing, mixing and dubbing capabilities.

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Ceramics Studio

The Ceramics Studio contains three large Alpine kilns, several raku kilns, four large and three smaller electric kilns, eighteen pottery wheels, a clay mixer, slab rollers and an extruder. This equipment supports the exploration of sculptural and vessel forms in porcelain, stoneware, terra cotta, earthenware, raku and primitive firings.


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Drawing Studio


The Drawing Studio contains drawing stools, floor easels, tables and a model platform. The space is airy with natural light and includes personal storage for paintings and materials.


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Fashion Studies Studio

The Fashion Studies Laboratory includes facilities to accommodate students interested in Textiles, Historic Costume, Fashion Design, and Interior Design.  The university houses a library of fabric samples for use in textiles and design courses.  The Fashion Studies area also includes a 120-item historic costume collection and a 3000-slide historic costume library for instructional purposes.  Facilities include industrial and institutional sewing equipment, light boxes for design work and textile examination, and textile testing instruments.


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Filmmaking Studio

The Filmmaking Studio provides students liberal access to industry standard filmmaking equipment and software, including an editing table, silent and synch sound cameras, and an Oxberry animation stand, Arriflex Cameras, Panasonic 24P Cameras, 16mm & DVCAM, AVID, FINAL CUT HD. Students interested in video production have further access to the DuMont Television Center located on campus. 


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Graphic Design Studio

The Graphic Design Studio spaces are split between College Hall and Calcia Hall. The main Graphic Design Studio, with computer labs, critique spaces, printing facilities, and faculty offices, is in College Hall. Calcia Hall contains a general studio/classroom for beginning level courses and lectures.

The Graphic Design Studio is  equipped with 22 Macintosh G5 workstations with CD/DVD drives and 20-inch flat panel displays. The facility has two high-resolution scanners that can scan up to 11 x 17 inches. Color and B&W printing is available for students free of charge for class projects during classes and open lab time. The facility is open and overseen by student assistants for 40 hours per week outside of class time, including weekends.

There are additional computers connected to special equipment for video and sound recording, slide scanning, and multimedia. The area has a Color Output Center available during open lab hours. The Center  has a Canon Color Copier with Fiery RIP, a laminator, and several inkjet printers, the largest capable of printing up to 40 inches by 15 feet. Students are charged a nominal fee for materials to have prints made on these printers.
 
The Graphic Design area also has a small print shop with offset presses and a Heidelberg letterpress, together with binding facilities for short-run printing.


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Illustration Studio

The Illustration Studio is outfitted with spray booths, light tables, a mac driven Viewsonic large screen projector, art projector, VHS/DVD player and other equipment geared toward production of professional-quality comps. Classes are taught in 3 rooms one of which is the Calcia Teaching Lab located in room 230.

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Industrial Design Studio

The Industrial Design Studio occupies two spaces in Finley Hall and includes equipment and tools necessary for the production of inspired, functional and innovative work. The facility soon will expand to include new studio spaces, classrooms and computer labs to optimally support experimental research, student interaction and teamwork.


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MFA Facilities


The newly constructed MFA Program Facilities occupy Finley HallSouth and include 22 large private studios; a mediated seminar room; common lounge and work areas; and a student MFA Gallery. In addition, students have access to the facilities for the Department's twelve studio areas in Calcia and Finley Halls.


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Metal & Jewelry Studio

The Metalwork and Jewelry Studio is fully equipped with16 workstations for jewelry fabrication and casting. Available equipment includes polishing and grinding machines, five gas soldering areas, a belt sander, drill presses, sheet and wire rolling mills, a sand blaster, an assortment of stakes and hammers as well as complete casting capabilities including a centrifugal casting machine and burn-out kilns. The studio also has all typical major equipment including a lathe, hydraulic press, large smithing stakes, and a wide variety of sheet metal tools. Computer facilities for online work and image viewing are in the studio as well. Metalwork and Jewelry facilities are further complemented by the department's independent library of 125,000 slides, many of them craft related.

 

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Painting Studio

The Painting Studio includes a large and airy work area with expansive wall and window space, natural light and easels for up to 25 painters.  The room also includes a model stand and storage racks for both large and small paintings.



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Photography Studio

The Photography Studio includes the following workspaces and equipment:

  • Group darkroom (315 square feet) including ten workstations, all capable of handling negatives up to 4 x 5, and a large community sink can accommodate prints up to 20 x 24.
  • Separate color darkroom (150 square feet) including two 4 x 5 color enlargers and one 8 x 10 enlarger. This room is equipped with a sink measuring 4 x 6 feet and water temperature controls. Images can be projected on the walls for mural-size prints.
  • Eight individual darkrooms with different types of enlargers, all capable of handling medium and large formats.
  • Work space for film processing, drying, matting, storage etc. amounts to over 650 square feet.
  • Main classroom (730 square feet) has gallery lighting for group critiques and exhibitions.
  • Two-station digital lab (72 square feet) with scanners and printers supplements the main 15-station digital facilities, which also houses Epson 4000, 7800, and 9800 printers and current software and hardware.
  • Studio (420 square feet) with a range of lighting options offers a flexible space to work on commercial as well as personal projects. This studio also incorporates one of the largest panoramic camera obscura in the region.

Equipment available to students ranges from Nikon and Canon (digital and analog) 35 mm to Mamiya 6 x 7, 4 x 5, and 8 x 10 cameras, tripods, hot lights, portable professional flashes etc.

 
The photography studio is available to all undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in photography. MFA students in addition are given their own private studio/workspace.



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Printmaking Studio


The Printmaking Studio is equipped with a large format Takach Etching press, two medium Charles Brand etching presses and a Brand Lithography press. Also included are a number of litho stones and a hydraulic lift for transporting as well as a darkroom for all photo processes, an acid room for etching, and a small digital lab with a large format printer. The facility has silkscreen tables hinged for commercial aluminum screens, a spray booth for waterbase printing, power washer, and a large exposure unit for photo and digital exposures. General equipment includes a NuArc exposure unit for all photo litho and photo-polymer processes.


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Sculpture Studio

The 2,000 square-foot Sculpture Studio contains a large inventory of both portable and stationary power equipment to enable work in wood, metal, stone, and other materials. Occupying approximately 3,500 square feet, the area is comprised of an indoor studio and outdoor patio. A plaster room for mold making and casting is a component of the studio, as is a foundry for metal casting sited in the outdoor space. The sculpture area has an extensive array of stationary power equipment for woodworking and metal fabrication (both ferrous and non-ferrous), and a substantial inventory of portable hand tools. Ceramic sculpture is taught in the department's ceramics facility.

 
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