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Painting Studio
Painting studio

Rehearsal Hall
Band rehearsal

Opened in 1991, the Fine Arts Center houses the departments of music and art.

The lower level of the Fine Arts Center includes a music therapy laboratory with observation center, electronic music laboratory, numerous practice rooms, individual art studios, faculty offices/studios, and an instrument repair room.

The Waldemar A. Schmidt Art Gallery, located on the first floor of the facility, offers a monthly series of student and professional exhibits. Rehearsal/recital halls for band, choir, and orchestra, practice rooms, a music library, art department classrooms, and faculty offices are also located on this floor.

The Presser Music Technology Classroom, located on the second floor, contains 21 Macintosh workstations that are connected to the Internet. Each workstation is equipped with a Yamaha PSR-220 MIDI keyboard. Each computer contains Finale, Master Tracks Pro, Music Ace, MusicTime, Practica Musica, Pyware 3D, and Microsoft Office. The second floor also houses faculty offices/studios, classrooms and a recording studio above the Orchestra Hall.

Thirty practice rooms are located throughout the Fine Arts Center, each with a piano. Two locker rooms are available for student equipment storage. Approximately 150 lockers of various sizes are also open to students.

Flexible art studio classroom spaces adapt to the courses offered each term.The studios house equipment for painting, drawing, sculpture, and jewelry, as well as ceramic kilns, potters wheels, printmaking equipment, and jewelry-making tools.


Computer Work Stations
State-of-the-art computer work stations shared with the adjacent communication arts department include such peripherals as film and flatbed scanners, color and black-and-white printers, graphics tablets, digital, still, and video cameras, and various types of media readers/writers. Students learn computer software used by graphic artists in painting, photography, multimedia, typography, layout, and illustration. Applications include recent versions of Photoshop, Freehand, InDesign, Painter, Flash, and Director.

 

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