Skip to main content

Facilities

CVPA building - UMass Dartmouth Main Campus

Main Campus

Noted architect Paul Rudolph created a dramatic design for UMass Dartmouth's 710 acre main campus. Many of our studios, classrooms, and administrative offices are located at the CVPA main campus building—with an emphasis on studios, media labs, and performance space for music students. The campus is just minutes from the Atlantic Ocean, about 30 minutes from Cape Cod or Providence, Rhode Island, and 60 minutes from Boston.

Directions

CVPA Galleries

Galleries

CVPA features impressive exhibition spaces that advance the education of our students and celebrate the importance of art in the community and feature exhibitions of local, national, and international renown. At the CVPA Campus Gallery, the emphasis is on works celebrating the creativity of members of the CVPA community.

CVPA Galleries

student talking to professor in media lab

Computer Labs

The College of Visual & Performing Arts has six computer labs for CVPA students featuring software for 2D imaging, 3D modeling, graphic design, web design, and 2D and 3D animation.

Learn more about the Computer Labs

 Allison Cywin assisting a student in the Visual Resource Center

Media Center

The Media Center houses color printing and equipment lending services for CVPA students and faculty.

Learn more about the Media Center

3D Printing

Fab Lab

The Fab Lab offers access to 3D printers, MakerBots, laser engravers, a CNC router for digital fabrication, and is supported by a fully equipped wood shop. The facility is open to all current CVPA students.

Learn more about the Fab Lab

student working in ceramics kiln room

Ceramics

The ceramic studio facilities occupy 7,000 sq. ft. of studio space at the new ADS in North Dartmouth. The well-ventilated facility includes undergraduate classroom space, roomy 200 sq. ft. individual graduate studios, slab rollers, extruders, ball mill, Peter Pugger clay facilities and room for plaster and casting processes.

Learn more about our Ceramics studios

Drawing facilities

Drawing & Painting

On the main campus, our Painting/2D Media Lab occupies one enormous studio. All types of media are taught and encouraged. In addition, there are 3 spacious studio classrooms dedicated to drawing.

students working in classroom

Graphic Design & Illustration

Facilities include labs equipped with up-to-date workstations, scanners, printers, and software for 3D modeling, animation, web design, image processing, typography—as well as facilities for photo processing and letterpress. Graduate students are also assigned individual workspaces.

Learn more about the Graphic Design labs

Jewelry/Metals facilities

Jewelry/Metals

Students in the Jewelry/Metals program are provided with individual tool kits, benches, and storage. The main work room is stocked with bandsaws, milling machines, and other equipment. The program also provides a casting room, grinding room, annealing room, welding room, acid room, finishing room, lapidary room, ample studio space, and more.

Learn more about the Jewelry/Metals facilities

Students performing on stage

Music

Performance spaces for music students include our 800-seat auditorium and 200-seat recital hall. Facilities include computer-aided workstations, electronic composition studios, recording and sound production technology, electronic clavinova and concert grand (Steinway, Boston) pianos, traditional and non-western percussion instruments, individual practice rooms.

Learn more about our Music spaces

student standing by wall of photographs

Photography

Facilities include enlarger stations, film loading stations, 4x5 cameras for the studio photography, darkroom, lighting studio, and special processes room.

Learn more the Photography rooms

CVPA students pouring molds.

Sculpture

The Sculpture program provides comprehensive studios for fabrication and art-making in nearly any material and process. Spaces are flexible, to accommodate student interests and aspirations for their sculpture. Primary work spaces include the wood shop, metal fabrication studio, mold making and wet work studios, and a lost wax casting foundry.

Learn more about our Sculpture facilities

Textiles facilities

Textiles & Fiber Arts

Facilities for textiles and fiber arts include surface design print room, dye lab with mixing station and drying room, dark room, spray room, batik room, papermaking studio, weaving studio, and textile media lab. Graduate students have their own studios and installation spaces. 

Learn more about our Textiles & Fiber Arts stations

Back to top of screen