Facilities

1026 Fine Arts Center, across from the Bryan Gallery

The Media Center and Print Lab provides the BGSU School of Art community with audiovisual equipment and printing services to accommodate documentation, creation, instructional, and exhibition needs.

Hours:

• Monday & Wednesday: 10:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. 
• Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Hours will vary during Exam Week (posted on door or call for details)
Closed during all breaks
Contact: mcapbgsu@gmail.com or 419-372-1077

Equipment Loans

Current students, faculty and staff in the School of Art with a valid BG1 card may check out a variety of equipment that includes digital cameras, tripods, projectors, media players, monitors, video cameras, sound recording devices, assorted lighting kits, laptop computers, and other peripherals. We do not rent equipment to students, faculty or staff outside of the School of Art. 

If you are unsure of what you need, just ask! We will be happy to assist you. 

Reserve items in advance to ensure availability. Equipment can be checked out for up to 3 days and renewed for 1 additional day, if available. Reservation of equipment can be done in advance by using our Online Patron Portal.

Instructions for using the Patron Portal

Pick up and drop off equipment is only during open hours (see above).
If reserved equipment is not picked up within 30 minutes of the requested time, the reservation will be cancelled.

Please return equipment on time. LATE FEES begin to accrue if items are returned 30 minutes late or more, charging $5.00 per item per day. Fees MUST be paid using your BG1 Card before equipment can be checked out again.

Printing

Current students, faculty, and staff with a valid BG1 card may submit JPG, TIFF, or PDF files for archival-quality inkjet printing on a selection of papers. The cost for this service covers materials and labor only, which is roughly a third of the cost for similar quality from a commercial printer. Please read and follow these file naming requirements and printing guidelines.

Choose between three types of paper, printed at $6 per square foot:

• LPP - Luster photo, gloss finish. Best for photos, 3D model images. Not recommended for images larger than 20-inch dimension.
• HPR - Bright white photo rag, velvet matte texture. Great for photos or digital paintings.
• HGE - Warm white German Etching, slightly textured. Best for digital paintings.

Provide your own paper, and print for $5 per square foot. Talk with a Media Center technician prior to purchasing paper.

Image resolution of 300 ppi is recommended, however any files 150 ppi or higher will be accepted. Image quality is not guaranteed for 72 ppi images, or images that have been resized and resampled at a higher resolution than the original. Talk to your course instructor if you have questions about image resolution. File dimensions MUST match those specified in your file name. We will NOT resize images.

Add borders, and include borders in file dimensions.

Prints must be paid for UP FRONT using your BG1 Card. Your prints will be ready within 48 HOURS of drop-off (business days only). RUSH order is available, moving you to the front of the queue (behind other rush orders). RUSH fee is 50% of the total cost of the print. 

Instructors: Email mcapbgsu@gmail.com with due dates for class printing assignments AT LEAST TWO WEEKS in advance, so we can plan to accommodate the increased volume.

130 & 132 Fine Arts Center

As preservice teachers, Art Education students use classrooms equipped with large tables, sinks, a portable printing press, a portable slab roller, a picture book library, kiln, extruder, and access to other digital and analog resources designed for use in the field.

Fine Arts Center

The Ceramics Studio is fully-equipped with equipment for throwing and hand-building. The kiln yard includes soda, salt, and wood kilns constructed by students. The Glaze Lab is fully stocked with a complete inventory of raw materials.

Ceramics Studio

• 6 Soldner kick wheels
• 2 Lockerbie kick wheels
• 1 Klopfenstein treadle wheel
• 10 Brent electric wheels
• Bailey extruder
• Bailey electric slab roller
• Soldner clay mixer
• Fluke pyrometer
• Chain saws, angle grinders, stick welder, rolling carts, scales, drill, etc.

Kiln Yard

• 18-cubic-foot Bailey downdraft kiln
• 90-cubic-foot downdraft gas kiln
• 5 top-loading electric kilns
• 1 Fredrickson front-loading electric kiln
• 175-cubic-foot downdraft salt kiln
• 12-foot-long anagama-type wood kiln
• 85-cubic-foot crossdraft soda kiln
• 21-cubic-foot downdraft soda kiln
• The selection of atmospheric kilns (salt, soda, and anagama) affords students a special experience that can be found in very few Universities nationwide.

202, 244, 246 Wolfe Center for the Arts
Digital Arts studios in the Wolfe Center feature three 20-seat state-of-the-art computer labs designed to produce 3D animation, digital illustration, and video editing production. Our software includes the latest versions of Autodesk Maya, 3DS Max, Motion Builder, ZBrush, Mudbox, Adobe Creative Suite with Sapphire Plugins, Corel Painter, Unity 3D, Processing and Dragonframe stop motion software.

202 Wolfe Center

• Mac-based 12-core/32GB/AMD Duel AMD FirePro D700 video lab.

244 Wolfe Center

• PC-based 18-core/32GB/Nvidia Quatro k5000 imaging/illustration lab with 24" 4k Cintiq tablets at each seat

246 Wolfe Center

• PC-based 20-core/32GB/Nvidia Quatro p5000 3D animation lab
• Screen sharing hardware and projection from any station

The labs are available for students to use during scheduled times. Students may volunteer to serve as lab monitors, which gives them full access to the labs.

Stop-Motion Animation Studio

1104 Fine Arts Center
The Stop-Motion Animation Studio features 10 iMacs running DragonFrame. The lab is equipped to teach sand, paint on glass, puppet, cut paper, object, pixilation, rotoscoping, hand-drawn, clay and mixed media animation.

1206 Fine Arts Center
The glass studio contains equipment for working with hot glass, kiln formed glass, lost wax glass casting, cutting and polishing glass and flameworking. The hot glass area has three complete work stations for blowing glass. The glass studio shares an outdoor working court yard with sculpture and ceramics.

Glass Facility

• Hot Shop 1579 sq. ft.
• Cold Shop 781 sq. ft.
• Graduate Studio (2) 102 sq. ft.
• Graduate Studio 378 sq. ft.
• Storage 355 sq. ft.
• Faculty Office 324 sq. ft.
• 3D Lecture/Work Rm 560 sq. ft.

Hot Shop

• 2 Electric furnaces
• 3 Glory holes
• 3 large Annealing Kilns
• 2 large Kiln casting Kilns
• 1 Fusing Kiln
• 1 Color oven

Cold Shop

• Steinert (2) 36"dia., variable speed
• Felker cut-off saw (2) 41-A, 41-AR, 14"
• Covington slab saw (1) 24" dia. diamond, continuous
• Diamond band saw (2) GS-100, GS-70
• Cutting lathe (2) Merker, Denver, stone and diamond
• Belt sander Somaca; 106", roller platen
• Flexible shaft Dumore
• 3 Diamond router (6) Wizard
• Sandblast cabinet pressure pot, vacuum
• Exhaust hood (3) mold area, burn out

1030 Fine Arts Center
The main graphic design classroom, known as the CAVE (Center for Advanced Visualization and Education) Lab, includes 20 state-of-the-art Macintosh workstations outfitted with the Adobe Creative Cloud and the Adobe Typeface Library, which affords students access to over 2,300 of the strongest and most respected typefaces available. The space also contains color printers, bookbinding equipment, trimmers, button makers, a vinyl cutter, and a thirty seat lecture space

243 Wolfe Center
The second graphic design lab has another 20 state-of-the-art workstations, printer, texts and access door to the adjacent Digital Arts classroom.

1112 Fine Arts Center
The jewelry studio is equipped for working with a variety of metals including silver, brass, copper and gold. There is equipment for casting, enameling, forging, electroforming and more.

Jewelry Studio

• 400 square foot advanced studio area
• 1,000 square foot enameling area
• 1,100 square foot graduate metal studio

Metal Studio

• 3D printers for digitally modeled works
• Rapid prototyping
• The metal forming facilities including a large selection of hammers and stakes
• Hydraulic die forming equipment 
• Chasing and repoussé equipment 
• Vacuum and centrifugal casting equipment 
• Complete enameling facility equipped with 5 kilns
• Bonny Doon Volume and Form presses
• Metal lathe and mill with accessories for small scale work
  
• Copper electroforming: 100 gallon capacity tank
• Vinyl cutter

Other Equipment:

• Acetylene/air torches, oxygen/natural gas soldering torches 
• Large annealing torch
  
• Swiss torch with oxygen/propane
  
• Exhaust system
  
• Burn out and enameling areas 
• Etching units and fuming hoods for acid working and hazardous chemicals
  
• 48" metal shear 
• Rotary, magnetic, and vibratory tumblers 
• Assortment of drawplates and Calvalin draw bench
  
• Stone setting tools 
• 1" and 2" Belt sanders
• Large and small scale drill presses
• Flexible shafts
• Steam cleaner
• Utrasonic cleaner
• Powdercoating equipment

Second Floor, Fine Arts Center
The painting studio measures over 2,500 square feet and offers natural light, large easels, a stage for life painting, and a separate room for storage. The drawing studios contain benches, easels and pinup walls to critique artwork. All rooms boast north light and high ceilings and are furnished with the tools, materials and equipment necessary for a productive work environment. 

1215-1219 Fine Arts Center
The photography studio includes a spacious enlarging room supporting:

• 20 Dichroic enlargers for printing color and black-and-white 35mm, 120mm and 4x5 negatives
• A circular light safe door facilitates allows access between the dark room and photography studio without disrupting the film process 
• Enlarger with capacity for 18" x 24" silver halide printing

The photography studio also houses two darkrooms and a processing room for color and black and white photography, as well as a shooting studio with professional lighting.

Students have access to a 15-station computer lab designed to the specifications required of photography:

• Four film scanners, including a high resolution Hasselblod Flextight scanner 
• An Canon Prograf 4600 large format printer capable of printing 44" wide
• Four 17" wide printers 

1211-1213 Fine Arts Center
The printmaking studio contains facilities for intaglio, relief, lithography, and screenprint, as well as a darkroom for photomechanical work.

Intaglio/Relief Studio
The Intaglio/Relief studio is equipped for wood and linoleum block printing, intaglio work in copper, and monoprinting. 

• A Takach etching press, 33.5" x 60” bed
• A Charles Brand etching press, 36" x 60” bed
• A Potter Proof press, 12" x 18” bed
• 3 vertical acid baths for ferric chloride
• 2 hotplates
• Paper soaking trays
• A spray booth with airbrush station
• A wide array of brayers and rollers up to 25" x 11”
• Two drying racks
• Assorted tools for relief and intaglio work
• Inks and chemicals
• A solvent washout area
• Flat files for student use

Lithography/Screenprinting Studio

• A Takach litho press, 33" x 57” bed
• A Charles Brand litho press, 30" x 50” bed
• 25 stones of varying sizes and grades up to 20" X 28"
• 3 plate-backing slabs up to 33" X 51"
• 4 leather rollers
• A wide array of composition rollers up to 25" x 11”
• A graining sink
• A hydraulic lift
• Hinge boards for screenprinting
• 3 vacuum tables
• A drying rack
• A paper tear table
• A guillotine paper cutter
• Assorted squeegees up to 34”
• Inks and chemicals
• Flat files for student use

Printmaking Photo Darkroom

• 4 light exposure units
• 2 large sinks
• A pressure washer
• A mat cutter
• 2 paper cutters
• A shrink wrapper

Printmaking Storeroom

• Computer, scanner and laser printer
• A small library of books and journals
• Tools and paper available for purchase

1104 Fine Arts Center
The Production Studio is equipped with Pro level lighting (Flash Packs, LEDs, Soft Box Lighting and a small infinity wall). This is perfect for professional quality photo and video shoots, and artwork documentation.

Equipment

• Various backdrops
• Faux Gallery Wall
• LED Lighting Stands
• Fluorescent Lighting Stands
• Professional Grade Tripods
• Tethering Capabilities
• Various Light Diffusing Techniques

Cameras can be rented from the Media Center.

The Production Studio is only available to students currently enrolled in a class in the School of Art. Students will complete a contract and a training session with the photo technician prior to use, after that a student is free to make use of the studio at any time of day by means of reserving the room. 

To reserve time in the Production Studio, visit the Media Center. Select your 2-hour time slot for the space by writing your name and hours of use on the calendar located in the hallway beside the door of Room 1104. Make sure to checkout the key during open hours at the Media Center.

Our Sculpture and Integrated Studio features over 12,000 square feet of space divided into six different work areas. The area is equipped with more than 50 major pieces of powered equipment, a 5-ton bridge crane, and forklift for largescale material constructions.

All students are welcome to use the Integrated Studio but must receive training with the School of Art Technicians prior to their first use.

Hours: Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Woodshop

• Stop Saw Table Saw
• (3) Bandsaws
• Resaw Bandsaw
• (2) Scroll Saws
• (2) 12 inch Compound Miter Saws
• Panel Saw
• 8 inch Joiner
• 25 inch Planer
• Table Router
• Lathe
• Drill Press
• 20 inch Disc Sander
• Combination Belt and Disc Sander
• Spindle Sander
• 15 inch Drum Sander
• 25 inch Drum Sander

Rapid Prototyping Room

• Computer Work-Station
• 80 inch Screen Monitor
• (2) 28 Screen Monitors
• Cannon Large Format Printer
• Graphtech FCX 4000 Plotter/Cutter
• Cricut Machine
• Desktop Vacuform Machine
• Boss Laser Cutter
• Glowforge Laser Cutter
• (8) Creality Ender 3 Pro 3D Printers
• CR Ender 5 Plus 3D Printer
• CR 10 v2 3D Printer
• (2) Creality LD 006 Resin Printers
• (2) Creality UV Machines
• Juki Sewing Machine
• Singer Heavy Duty Sewing Machine
• Dress form

CNC Fabrication Area

• CNC Shopbot Router
• CNC Koike Pro Shop Plasma Cutter

Metal Fabrication

• 12 inch Precision Miter Saw
• Vertical Band Saw
• Hydraulic Horizontal Band Saw
• Powered Slip Roller
• Powered Tube Roller
• Drill Press and Milling Machine
• 20 inch Disc Sander
• Powered Grinding Wheels
• Oxyacetylene Tanks
• 211 Miller MIG Welder
• (2) 140 Miller MIG Welders
• 300 Continuous MIG Welder
• 250 Miller TIG Welder
• Hand-Held Plasma Cutter
• 5 ft Manual Shear
• 5 ft Manual Box Brake

Student Studio Loft (2nd floor)

• Dedicated studio space for advanced Studio Art majors
• Lecture space

Outdoor Patio

• Outdoor patio area available to assemble large art pieces