Facilities

The UNO Fine Arts building has some of the best visual-arts facilities in the South. Fully-equipped studios enable students to learn techniques and methods such as metal-casting, welding, computer graphics, etching, film processing, and painting. An extensive library and slide collection is used for the study of art history and criticism.
Our Visiting Artist Program invites nationally recognized artists for a public lecture and studio critiques. Past Visiting Artists have been:

Gregory Amenoff Dore Ashton Roddy Buchanan Dan Cameron Cynthia Carlson Ted Castle William Christianberry Ronnie Cohen Robert Cumming Peter Dean Lucky De Bellevue Michael Duncan Bill Eggleston Peter Frank Tom Friedman Sam Gilliam Grace Glueck Wayne Gonzales John Goode Mathias Goeritz Emmitt Gowin Nancy Graves Peter Halley Dana Hoey Budd Hopkins Deborah Kass Donald Kuspit

Sylvia Lark Jay Milder Aribert Munzer Carl Palazzolo Gary Panter David Parrish Robert Pincus-Witten Lucio Pozzi Archie Rand Carter Ratcliff Jason Rhoades Dario Robleto Dan Rizzie Robert Rosenblum Martha Rosler Randal Schmidt Sabdy Skoglund Roy Slade Al Souza Robert Stefanotti Gary Stephan John Szarkowski Ann Tabachnik Douglas Vogel Thornton Willis John Zinsser

EiLAB

The Electronic Imaging Laboratory (EiLAB) houses twenty Power Macintosh G4 Dual 1.25G processor workstations with CD/DVD burners, and 4 Macintosh G4's, all running industry-standard design and hypermedia software, such as Quark XPress, Adobe Premier, Director, Flash, Adobe Photoshop. Student also have access to a varity of digital camera and camcorders including a Canon GL2. Large photo-quality color digital prints can be made on the wide-format inkjet printer.The EiLAB is connected to the University LAN, providing fast and immediate access to the Internet. Please visit eilab.fa.uno.edu to view student sites.

Painting & Drawing

The painting facilities include two large painting studios with wood-working facilities for constructing stretchers, frames, or special projects; and a proliferation of painting in the professional New Orleans art scene that provides a wealth of resources and influences. There are also two Drawing studios, also used for Foundation courses.

Printmaking

The approximately 1000 sq.ft. Graphics facility is equipped with manual and motorized presses for relief and intaglio processes, and a litho press. There are a variety of litho stone sizes available. Additionally, all inks, aluminium ball grain plates, and bi-metal plates are supplied by the department.

Photography

The photgraphy facilities incorporate a film developing room, darkroom, print finishing area, and large classroom for meetings, critiques, and lectures. In addition, students in photography can take advantage of the EiLAB facility, a multi-workstation, Macintosh-based computer graphics and electronic imaging lab.

Slide Library

The Department of Fine Arts slide collection currently contains approximately 85,000 slides comprised of painting, sculpture, drawings, architecture, graphics, decorative arts, photography, and maps. The collection covers Western art and architecture from prehistoric to contemporary times as well as Non-Western cultures of Africa and Oceania. New slides are produced in-house and also purchased through commercial sources. The slide library also contains reference material, current periodicals and journals, and a rapidly growing video library. The main purpose of the collection is to supply art history slides for classes taught by three full-time art historians and two part-time art appreciation instructors. Occasional users consist of eight studio faculty, graduate teaching assistants, and students (preapproved by a faculty member). The slide library is housed in the Fine Arts Building and is staffed by one full-time curator and assisted by one half of a graduate assistantship, and two student workers. The slide collection is organized by a combination of plain language classification and letter/number filing code.

Sculpture

The sculpture facility at the University of New Orleans offers the undergraduate and graduate student access to an enormous range of activities. The 6600 square foot sculpture atelier houses a modern foundry for lost wax and complex sand casting efforts, a complete cabinet makers shop for both intricate and enormous wood fabrication, a full sheet metal shop with a 45 ton hydraulic metal worker, as well as a full range of welders and plasma cutting equipment. A ventilated plaster and clay mixing out-building, with a modeling room for the more observation bound traditions are also a part of the facility. An installation space, for the less object oriented disciplines of installation and performance, is also part of the program. All methods of art making are encouraged and supported.