Art Facilities
In 1999, the program opened new state-of-the-art studios, each designed for specific art practices and built to strict environmental standards.

Foundry
This is the last bronze casting foundry in the UC system. The foundry is capable of handling a variety of casting processes with up-to-date equipment and experienced technical support.

Wood Shop
This is a fully functioning wood shop containing band saws, table saws, and all woodworking tools necessary to support visual art programs. Students enrolled in art courses, with proper training, have access five days a week to this shop when a monitor is present.

Metal Shop
All tools and machinery necessary to work with a variety of metals, including welding, bending, and cutting. Students enrolled in art courses, with proper training, have access five days a week to this shop when a monitor is present.

Print Studio

An extensive print studio containing presses for lithography, etching, mono prints, wood block printing and digital printmaking. An adjacent archive room is used for preparing prints. Students enrolled in printmaking courses have access to this studio five days a week when a monitor is present.

Painting & Drawing Studio
Five spacious studios feature abundant natural and artificial light. They are used primarily for painting, drawing, 2D art practices, and mixed media. Students enrolled in courses using these spaces have 24 hour access to the studios, seven days a week.

The Cave
The Cave is a multi-purpose computer lab created by and for the Visual Art Department at UC Santa Cruz. This lab is used by a variety of students and is multi-disciplinary in nature, although the primary focus of the lab is digital imaging and digital printmaking. Users of The Cave have access to 8 Power Macintosh computers, a variety of wide-format inkjet printers, and several flatbed and film scanners. Find out more about facilities at The Cave please visit: http://art.ucsc.edu/cave/whatis.html