Our students enjoy access to 120,000+ square feet of space in a visual arts complex that includes McKnight Art Center and Henrion Hall. ADCI studio art majors benefit from access to studio space, multiple exhibition venues, and new technology. Graduate students work in semi-private studios for the duration of their time in our program and have access to a dedicated graduate critique space.
Equipped for Success
Learn more about the tools and equipment available to students at ADCI.
- Well-stocked clay inventory and comprehensive glaze research lab
- Separate plaster facility
- 3' x 6' Brent slab roller
- Soldner clay mixer (250-lb capacity)
- Two clay extruders: one manual Bailey and one pneumatic AMACO
- Bluebird dough mixer (150-pound capacity)
- Spray booth
- Three de-airing pug mills (for porcelain, stoneware and earthenware)
- Two ball mills
- More than 25 potter's wheels
- Norton Clipper brick saw
- Slip casting table with 30-gallon reservoir
- Makerbot Replicator 2 3-D printer and Makerbot 3-D desktop scanner
Indoor natural gas:
- 35 cubic ft. Blaauw kiln
- 16 cubic ft. Blaauw kiln
- 12 cubic ft. Blaauw
Indoor electric:
- Three Skutt kilns
- Blaauw gradient test kiln with a firing gradient of approx. D10-D010
Outdoor:
- 90 cubic ft. anagama-style wood kiln
- 54 cubic ft. train-style wood kiln
- 35 cubic ft. catenary arch wood/salt kiln
- 40 cubic ft. crossdraft soda kiln
- 23 cubic ft. downdraft gas kiln
- 6 cubic ft. propane raku kiln
- Takach lithography press (press bed 34" x 60")
- Takach lithography press (press bed 30" x 48")
- Graphic lithography press (press bed 60" x 36")
- Charles Brand etching press (press bed 30" x 52")
- Chalres Brand Etching Press (press bed 26" x 48")
- Takach etching press (press bed 30" x 48")
- American French Tool press (press bed 44" x 70")
- Burgess Industries plate maker exposure unit
- Amergraph screen exposure unit
- Fluorescent light exposure unit
ADCI provides high-end computers for post-production work and printers—including a large format printer—that produce museum-quality photographs. Our photo media facilities also include traditional darkrooms. Students are encouraged to experiment, challenge themselves and develop their individual voices by exploring the medium from traditional techniques such as tintype and cyanotypes to contemporary digital methods.
- Woodshop
- CNC Plasma cutting machine
- Welding equipment
- Wax sculpting
- Mold-making
- Metal pouring in aluminum, bronze, yellow brass or iron
