Facilities

The ceramics department is housed in the Krieble Ceramics Center. Electric wheels, slab roller, clay extruder, clay and glaze laboratories, semiprivate space for senior students, and 15 kilns (wood, raku, soda, salt, electric, and gas) may be found in these facilities. The Sculpture Fabrication Workshop, situated between the ceramics and sculpture studios, enables ceramics students to access sculpture tools and woodworking equipment.

Freshman courses are housed throughout the full range of the Art School spaces, from drawing studios, computer labs, sculpture studios to lecture halls.

The Illustration department is housed in the East Wing of the Harry Jack Gray Center. It consists of three large drawing studios, a small computer lab, and a senior studio space. Illustration also shares a large 25 workstation computer lab located in the Renée Samuels Center.

Media Arts facilities are located in the Renée Samuels Center and include a full video production studio, video and audio computer editing lab, and a project presentation space, the MEDIABOX. A Media Library, containing more than 200 works by independent, experimental producers of video, film and new media art, is housed within the department, providing a plentiful resource for students and faculty of the School.

The Painting and Drawing Department, on the second floor of Taub Hall, includes several large painting and drawing studios. The department offers advanced students semiprivate studios located in Taub Hall and the Art School Garret.

The Photography Department, housed in Taub Hall and the Renée Samuels Center, supports two multiple-station, black-and-white darkrooms equipped with Beseler 23CII and 45m enlargers, a color lab that includes a Colenta color print processor and Beseler and Durst 4x5 enlargers, film loading and processing rooms, and a finishing area for mounting, matting, and storage.

The Printmaking Department is housed in Taub Hall and offers spacious, well-lit studios with full facilities for the production of lithographs, etchings, all modes of relief printing, book arts, monotype, and photo-process printing. The area is fully ventilated and includes the following presses: three etching, three lithography, four Vandercook proof presses for letterpress, and two flatbed offset presses.

The Sculpture department is housed in three adjoining buildings totaling 8600 square feet. It is very well equipped and contains semi-private studios for undergraduates majoring in sculpture, as well as two galleries that exhibit work on a rotating basis throughout the academic year.

A large studio space used for general sculpture fabrication houses extensive metal working equipment, such as welding stations, iron forging equipment and other ...

The Visual Communication Design Department is housed in the Harry Jack Gray Center and comprises two teaching classrooms, a conference room/presentation space, two departmental computer labs and a designated senior studio space. The lab is equipped with Apple Mac Pro computers, large-format color inkjet and black-and-white laser printers, including a 44" HP DesignJet Z3100 color ink-jet printer, slide and flat-bed scanners, and a lending library of high-end ...

The Joseloff Gallery was built in the late-1980s as a part of the new Harry Jack Gray Center as a regional showcase for contemporary art. Designed to be flooded with filtered light through offset skylights, and to have no right angles, the wide-open 3,500 square foot exhibition space was a modern jewel on campus. A grand, blank canvas on which to mount ambitious, innovative, and thought-provoking exhibitions of contemporary art.

The recently renovated Donald & Linda Silpe Gallery is located in Taub Hall, the main facility of the Hartford Art School. The primary mission of the Silpe Gallery is to provide a showcase for student work and provide students with the experience of preparing and installing an exhibition. Student exhibitions are scheduled throughout the academic year and include MFA thesis, BFA, departmental, and individual as well as group shows sponsored by the Hartford ...