Facilities
Graphic Design Digital Lab
Located in Benildus Hall, this is the main lab for the Graphic Design Department. It is available seven days per week to graphic design students. The design lab features:
- 16 workstations, each equipped with an 8-core Mac Pro computer, a 24" LED monitor, a Wacom Tablet, and a scanner
- Adobe Creative Suites (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, and Flash)
- Adobe After Effects
- Final Cut Pro
- Font Studio Pro
- Microsoft Office
- High-speed color laser printer
- Large format 24" inkjet poster printer
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
- Specialized darkrooms
- Alternative process studio
- Digital studio
- Preservation studio
- Framing and finishing studio
- Classrooms and conference rooms
Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Library
Located in the Marion Center, this non-circulating special collections library is one of the top informational resources in the United States on the history, aesthetics, and technology of photography. Highlights include:
- Private libraries of Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, James Enyeart and Roxanne Malone
- Smaller collections from notable publishers, photographers, scholars, and collectors
- International research, manuscript, and correspondence files
- First-edition landmark publications
- Limited, signed, and inscribed editions
Thaw Art History Center
- Faculty offices, classrooms, conference rooms
- Visual Resources Center
- Chase Art History Library
Visual Resources Center
- Approximately 40,000 art and architecture slides
- Digitization process ongoing
Chase Art History Library
Resources available include: rare books and unique items for research on the history of the arts, archaeology, anthropology and history of the Americas. The collection focuses on:
- Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican and South American art
- Andean art
- Native American art
- Spanish Colonial art and architecture
- Modern Latin American art
Tishman Hall
- Painting and drawing studios
Tipton Hall
Council 241 Student Gallery
- Student-initiated and student-run exhibition space
- Student work showcase
Santa Fe Art Institute
Located directly behind the Marion Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute (www.sfai.org) offers:
- Residencies for emerging and mid-career artists and writers (national and international)
- Bi-monthly open studios
- Master workshops and lectures
- Internship and volunteer opportunities for students
Other Facilities
Meeting areas and halls used by the university, alumni, and the community:
- Administration Building
- Oñate Hall
- Alumni Hall
Garson Communications Center
The Moving Image Arts Department is housed in this 65,000-square-foot production and postproduction center, known as one of the finest undergraduate facilities in the country.
The technical office is stocked with a full complement of equipment, including:
- Arriflex, Aaton Minima, and Bolex 16-mm cameras
- JVC and Panasonic high-definition cameras
- Mole Richardson lights
- A variety of other grip and electrical equipment
The center also boasts a 2,200-square-foot studio with multichannel lighting control board and lighting grid.
Postproduction facilities include:
- Avid MC 9000
- Final Cut Pro
- Pro-Tools-based audio postproduction editing systems
- A 15-seat state-of-the-art Apple Macintosh computer lab with the latest multimedia software
- A 40-seat, multipurpose large-screen HD video and 16mm screening room
- A multiformat dubbing room for tape-to-tape transfer
- The Moving Image Arts Archive, which houses several thousand videotapes, screenplays, CDs, and DVD movies available for check-out by students.
