Facilities

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Facilities

Fogelson Library
Our main academic library offers access to knowledge in many formats, including books, journal articles, and electronic media, and it offers instruction on how to locate, evaluate, and analyze information. To explore our library resources, visit http://library.santafeuniversity.edu/index.html. Highlights include:

  • 170,000 titles in the print collection
  • Electronic resources
  • Musical scores, DVDs, and recordings
  • Interlibrary loans
  • Southwest materials collection
  • Santa Fe University of Art and Design archives

Greer Garson Theatre Center
Performing arts students spend much of their time in this magnificent venue, named for Greer Garson, Academy Award–winning actress and close friend of the school. The Greer Garson Theatre Center offers complete facilities for the performing arts programs and professional theatrical productions:

  • Main theatre (seats 514)
  • Proscenium-style stage
  • Fly system and orchestra pit
  • Weckesser Studio Theatre (seats 90)
  • Multi-purpose black box performance space
  • Dance studio
  • Claire Stewart Williamson Acting Lab
  • Practice rooms with pianos
  • Well-equipped scenery and costume shops

Fine Arts Gallery
Located next to the Fogelson Library in the Southwest Annex, the gallery presents major exhibitions and provides facilities for lectures, meetings, and social gatherings, including the annual Santa Fe University juried student exhibition awards.

Visual Arts Center
Housing the Art and Photography departments, this series of interconnected buildings was designed by award-winning architect Ricardo Legorreta. The Anne and John Marion Center for Photographic Arts boasts state-of-the-art photography resources, such as specialized darkrooms, an alternative process studio, a digital studio, a preservation studio, and a framing and finishing studio. You can learn more about Art and Photography Department resources on our Campus Facilities page.

Benildus Hall
Benildus is the hub of the Creative Writing and Literature, Contemporary Music, and Graphic Design departments. It features:

  • The Graphic Design Digital Lab
  • Contemporary Music studios
  • The O’Shaughnessy Performance Space ("The Garage")
  • Classrooms and practice rooms

Contemporary Music Studios
Benildus Hall houses the teaching studios, practice rooms, and rehearsal halls for the Contemporary Music program. Student access to most practice, studio, and rehearsal spaces is available seven days a week via a secure card-key system. You can learn more about the individual studios on our Campus Facilities page.

MOV-iN Gallery
An intimate exhibition space devoted to new media and time-based artworks, the MOV-iN gallery serves as a focal point and learning center for curators, gallery owners, and collectors engaged with the exhibition of and commerce in new media art forms. The gallery serves as an exhibition space for:

  • The work of prominent regional, national, and international artists
  • The work of students, faculty, and alumni
  • Animation, Web art, video art, sound art, robotic sculpture, and installation
  • Films and videos directed by Moving Image Arts faculty members in collaboration with student technicians and curators