Student Facilities - Purchase College, SUNY School of Art Design

Design
Our facilities are home to a complete spectrum of technologies – from traditional cutting and pasting to Apple, MacIntosh, and Epson large-format printers. You can explore centuries’ worth of historic typeface (including the Pforzheimer collection from the New York Public Library) in our extraordinary Center for Editions, where, together with the Printmaking Board of Study, we offer courses in book arts and experimental publishing.

For more information on the Design Board of Study go to:
http://www.purchase.edu/Departments/AcademicPrograms/Arts/ArtDesign/Design.aspx

Painting
Students who reach Advanced Painting work in semi-private north-facing studios with excellent natural lighting, presenting their work for weekly critiques. These upper-level courses demand increasing commitment and, in turn, afford complete freedom of style. By such an exchange we hope to equip you with the power to see and transform not only your subject matter but yourself.

For more information on the Painting Board of Study go to:
http://www.purchase.edu/Departments/AcademicPrograms/Arts/ArtDesign/Painting.asp

Photography
Photography at Purchase is taught in a fine arts context in which you will learn how to use the equipment, to control the processes, to experiment with materials, to find historical context, and how to explore your own sensibilities. The darkrooms offer more than 50 4x5 enlargers, an 8x10 enlarger, a non-silver room, and digital studios.
The curriculum covers film and digital formats from 35 mm to 8x10 and includes work with black and white, color, and alternative materials. In addition to courses in studio, view camera, collotype techniques, and digital imaging, students profit from thematic offerings like Urban Landscape, Narrative, Gender, and Photographic Intervention.

For more information on the Photography Board of Study:
http://www.purchase.edu/Departments/AcademicPrograms/Arts/ArtDesign/Photography.


Printmaking
We allow you to steep yourself in the expressive means of traditional lithography, silkscreen, intaglio, woodcut, papermaking, fiber casting – while you find powerful possibilities for electronic printmaking in extensively equipped computer labs with large-format printers. The rigorous interaction of ideas and tools will spark your invention as you experiment alongside your colleagues, handling each printmaking medium at levels of increasing complexity and refinement until, ideally, the technique becomes ancillary to your artistic statement.

This Board of Study sees that drawing and technical skills, theory and practice, are evenly intertwined, with equal weight given to each major printmaking medium in the overall program. The Center for Editions is a bookmaker’s paradise. Students enjoy a magnificent range of technologies for fine art book publishing: traditional hand tools, letterpress, offset lithography, bookbinding, and state-of-the-art digital layout and production.

For more information on the Printmaking Board of Study:
http://www.purchase.edu/Departments/AcademicPrograms/Arts/ArtDesign/Printmaking.

Sculpture/3D Media
Inside the Visual Arts building is a industrial setting: 25,000 square feet of machines, containers, tools, and substances. Outside it are five hundred inviting acres of pastoral landscape. From the minute you step onto the campus you can begin to envision your own three-dimensional works against any “backdrop” you choose.

Sculpture/3-D Media offers comprehensive training in the techniques, tools, and theories of traditional object-making, installation, interactive media and time-based arts. Metal, wood, plastic, glass, wax, clay, leather: any material can be used to create static or kinetic objects and contribute to installation and performance. You will examine carefully the context of an art object or gesture, the essential aspects of making sculpture are outlined, such as personal expression, appropriateness of media, and development of technical craft.

Our studios include, apart from general instructional space, major facilities for work in wood, direct metal welding and construction, bronze casting, and large-scale fabrication. There are ceramic kilns, potter's wheels, paint spray booths, multimedia computers, and audiovisual equipment.

For more information about the Sculpture Board of Study go to:
http://www.purchase.edu/Departments/AcademicPrograms/Arts/ArtDesign/Sculpture.as

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