Hartford Art School is comprised of several buildings, all of which house several department facilities. Courses are held throughout our full range of spaces, which include drawing studios, computer labs, sculpture studios, and lecture halls.
Take a virtual look at our HAS facilities.
The Department of Painting and Drawing, on the second floor of Taub Hall, includes several large painting and drawing studios. The department offers advanced students semi-private studios located in Taub Hall.
The Department of Photography, housed in Taub Hall and the Renée Samuels Center, supports two multiple-station, black-and-white darkrooms equipped with Beseler 23CII and 45m enlargers, a color lab that includes a Colenta color print processor and Beseler and Durst 4 x 5 enlargers, film loading and processing rooms, and a finishing area for mounting, matting, and storage.
Facilities in the Renée Samuels Center also include a full 4K two-camera video production studio, video and audio computer editing lab, animation lab, and a project presentation space, the MEDIABOX. A media library, containing more than 200 works by independent, experimental producers of video, film, and new media art, provides a plentiful resource for students and faculty of the school.
The Department of Printmaking is housed in Taub Hall and offers spacious, well-lit studios with full facilities for the production of lithographs, etchings, all modes of relief printing, book arts, monotype, and photo-process printing. The area is fully ventilated and includes the following presses: three etching, three lithography, four Vandercook proof presses for letterpress, and two flatbed offset presses. The facilities also include a photo-process darkroom containing a photo-plate exposure unit, and a digital process lab with Apple computers, large-format scanner, and an EPSON Pro 7600 printer capable of printing up to 24 inches wide.
The Department of Illustration and the Department of Visual Communication Design are housed in the east wing of the Harry Jack Gray Center. This facility consists of three large drawing studios, a computer lab, and a senior studio space. Illustration also shares a large 25-workstation computer lab located in the Renée Samuels Center.
The Department of Sculpture is housed in three adjoining buildings totaling 8,600 square feet. It contains semi-private studios for undergraduates majoring in sculpture, as well as two galleries that exhibit work on a rotating basis throughout the academic year.
A large studio space used for general sculpture fabrication houses extensive metalworking equipment, such as welding stations, iron forging equipment, and other metal-shaping machines. There is also a large studio devoted to figure modeling as well as various forms of mold-making and cold-glass fabrication.
Connected to the main Stanley Sculpture Studio is a building that houses our foundry for bronze and aluminum casting, as well as facilities for hot-glass sculpture production. Also adjacent to our main studio is the sculpture fabrication workshop, where an extensive array of power equipment and hand tools is provided for the fabrication of sculpture, primarily in wood and plastics.
The Department of Ceramics is housed in the Krieble Ceramics Center. Electric wheels, slab roller, clay extruder, clay and glaze laboratories, semi-private space for senior students, and 15 kilns (wood, raku, soda, salt, electric, and gas) may be found in these facilities. The Sculpture Fabrication Workshop, situated between the ceramics and sculpture studios, enables ceramics students to access sculpture tools and woodworking equipment.