Equipped with audiovisual facilities and seminar space, studios are accessible 24 hours a day. Individual workspaces are assigned to senior and graduate students.
- three interconnected jewellery studios, with 37 large jewellery benches equipped with flexible shafts and torches. Adjacent design tables available for upper level students.
- adjacent casting area with large programmable burnout kiln, centrifugal and vacuum casting, vulcanizer, and wax injector.
- polishing area with two polishing machines, tumblers and steam cleaner.
- finishing equipment including sanders, bead blaster and sandblaster.
- computer design stations with solid modeling programs for design development.
- photo area specifically designed for jewellery photography.
- ventilated chemical booth for patination, etching and powder coat painting.
- Enamelling area with two kilns.
- small plating and electroforming area with titanium rectifier.
- lathe room with one large lathe, two small lathes and milling machine.
- silversmithing studio equipped with a variety of stakes and hammers, curve bench shears, English wheel, small slip rollers, and two hydraulic presses.
- Machine room with scroll saw, band saws, vertical and horizontal belt sanders, grinder and large drill press.
- seminar room for slide viewing and discussion
- a 12-module TC-1 Digital Jacquard loom with 2640 hooks, capable of weaving cloth 43" wide.
- JacqCAD Master and Proweave software.
- 4,8,12, and 16 harness floor looms of various widths, including one with an air dobby system.
- fully equipped dye studio.
- surface design studio with a variety of print tables, a darkroom, vacuum light tables, pressure washout, heat transfer machine, steamer, washer, dryer and commercial refrigerator.
- fashion studios with 10 large cutting tables, 14 industrial sewing machines, 3 sergers and industrial gravity free irons.
- knitting machines.
- student work display case
- seminar room for slide viewing and discussion
- 5 high efficiency custom Blaauw kilns that are fully computer automated with manual provisions.
- a vast selection of potters’ wheels, from various manufacturers
- ConeArt electric kilns with Bartlett computer controllers (10 cu. foot -5, oval – 1) Two are dedicated for cone 6, four kilns for earthenware temperatures.
- 3 test kilns
- grinding station
- 60 ton Ram press in a dedicated operating room with various steel die frames.
- Computer controlled blunger for casting slip and ram blunger.
- 2 plaster/clay drying booths.
- Vertical shaft pug mill and 2 Ball mills.
- 2 Soldner mixers, 2 Blue Bird mixers, horizontal shaft mixer and two casting slip mixers with on-board storage.
- Pneumatic extruder and manual extruders.
- slab rollers.
- Walk-in or ‘open room’ spray booth – glaze capture screen( 2m x 3m)
- Fully equipped glaze kitchen.
- Glaze lab with digital scales.
- Compressed air available throughout the department.