Facilities

Facilities

Students, faculty members, and the greater Santa Fe community benefit from our variety of state-of-the-art facilities designed for learning, performing, recreation, entertainment, and much more.

Benildus Hall

Benildus is the hub of the Creative Writing and Literature and Contemporary Music departments, as well as the university's professional and continuing studies.

• Computer lab
• Contemporary Music Studios
• O'Shaughnessy Performance Space ("The Garage")
• Classrooms and practice rooms
• Faculty offices                                                                                                                                                                                            

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

O'Shaughnessy Performance Space

This performance venue in Benildus Hall, which hosts concerts and readings, is nicknamed "The Garage" for its wall that slides up like a garage door, doubling the size. Features include:

• 85-seat performance space
• Indoor or outdoor seating and performances

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 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week, via a secure card-key system.

Recording Arts Studio

• Digital multitrack recording with Pro Tools and Logic Studio
• 24 tracks of analog recording on a vintage Sony APR-24 with Dolby SR
• Custom Elite II analog mixing console
• Wide assortment of professional microphones
• Main control room linked to two tracking rooms, four smaller control ods/isolation booths, and equipment room

Composition Studio

• Analog and digital mixers, processors, and recorders
• Doepfer voltage-controlled analog modular synthesizer
• Software synthesis and composing environments including Max/MSP and Kyma
• MIDI synthesizer modules and controllers
• Yamaha MIDI acoustic upright piano 5.1 surround-sound monitor system

Computer Music Lab

• Macintosh workstations
• Software packages and hardware for digital audio production, CD-RW
• Recording, computer music composition, sound file processing, synthesis, sampling, scoring, and MIDI sequencing
• Multiple 12-channel mixing consoles
• CD mastering and production

World Music Studio

• 150-year-old set of bronze gamelan instruments from the Cirebon region of West Java, Indonesia
• Studio and rehearsal space for world music and small ensembles

Class Piano Lab

• 12 stations
• Networked Yamaha electronic piano teaching system

Atrium Gallery

• Multi-channel audio system for presentation of sound-art installations
• Located in the lobby of Benildus Hall

Classrooms

• Internet access
• High-quality audio and projector systems

Practice rooms

• Upright pianos
• Acoustic or electronic drum kits

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
• Classrooms
• Practice rooms with pianos
• Well-equipped scenery and costume shops
• Theatre box office
• Gallery exhibition space on two floors in the lobby

Fogelson Library Center

Completed in 1970, the center is named for Col. E.E. "Buddy" Fogelson—oilman, rancher, and husband of Greer Garson, Hollywood legend, and friend and patron of the school. Highlights include:

• The Forum lecture hall, seating 200
• The Southwest Annex, housing the Fine Arts Gallery
• Fogelson Library

Fogelson Library

Our main academic library offers access to knowledge in many formats, including books, journal articles, electronic media, and instruction on how to locate, evaluate, and analyze information. All of our collection supports curricula and stimulates critical and creative thinking. To use or explore library resources visit http://library.santafeuniversity.edu/index.html. Highlights include:

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

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 of Art and Design juried student exhibition awards.

The Forum

The Forum is located in the Fogelson Library complex.

• Seats 200
• Audiovisual equipment for multimedia presentations

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.

The Screen

At this popular destination in the Garson Communications Center, some of the greatest works of world cinema are screened daily for students and the public. Highlights include:

• 170-seat cinematheque
• High Definition curved screen
• Stadium seating
• Dolby surround sound system

To find out more about how to book screenings at this facility, please contact Peter Grendle at 505-473-6494.

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MOV-iN Gallery

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

• An exhibition space featuring prominent regional, national and international figures, students, faculty, and alumni
• A venue for animation, Web art, video art, sound art, robotic sculpture, and installation
• A venue for works directed by Moving Image Arts faculty members in collaboration with student preparators, technicians, and curators
• An integral component of the Moving Image Arts program in Immersive Interactive Media

Garson Studios

Students from the Moving Image Arts Department have the unique opportunity to intern on professional film productions at Garson Studios. Greer Garson, Oscar-winning actress and friend and patron of the university, conceived Garson Studios in 1989 to fill the growing demand for leading-edge soundstages in New Mexico. The studios include:

• Two state-of-the-art motion picture soundstages (14,000 square feet and 7,500 square feet)
• Back lot space
• Wardrobe and dressing rooms
• Production offices

Feature films that have recently used Garson Studios include:

• The Coen Brothers' True Grit (Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Josh Brolin)
• Academy Award-winning No Country for Old Men (Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, and Tommy Lee Jones)
• Greg Mottola's Paul (Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Seth Rogen)
• Scott Stewart's Legion (Dennis Quaid and Paul Bettany)
• Jon Favreau's Cowboys and Aliens (Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, and Harrison Ford)
• Steven Soderbergh's Knockout (Gina Carano, Michael Douglas, and Antonio Banderas)
• Jim Sheridan's Brothers (Natalie Portman, Toby Maguire, and Jake Gyllenhaal)

For more information on the use of Garson Studios, please contact Paula Amanda at 505-231-9411.

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

• 90-seat lecture facility

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

Driscoll Fitness Center

Students, faculty, and staff can choose from a wide selection of academic and personal fitness classes, all free. Active intramural and outdoor recreation programs are also available. The center is named for Rudy Driscoll, who served on the university's Board of Trustees and whose generosity helped build the facility. Features include:

• Gym and locker rooms
• Weight room
• Multi-purpose room
• Indoor track
• "The Rock" climbing wall
• Squash/racquetball courts
• Locker rooms
• Outdoor recreational and athletic equipment rentals

Campus View Café

Students and faculty meet over meals at the university's primary dining facility. A locally owned catering company serves flavorful meals seven days a week. Menus reflect international, continental, and Southwest cuisine, and include tasty vegetarian and vegan dishes.