A&D STUDIOS

The ceramics studio includes hand-building space, a throwing area with 15 electric wheels, glaze area, kiln room, and clay mixing and storage room. Our kiln room houses a total of 10 kilns - 6 electric kilns and 4 natural gas kilns of various sizes.

Snapshots From the Studio: Eryn Campbell

Senior Eryn Campbell used the ceramics studio to create her final Integrative Project.

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Location & Contact Info

Room 1269, Art & Architecture Building
Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday – Friday
After hour access via card reader.

John Leyland, Ceramics Studio Coordinator
Office: 1269 AA
Phone: (734) 763-4199

The Fibers Studios consists of three separate spaces: The sewing studio with 20 Pfaff sewing machines; the weaving studio with 22 floor looms; and the print studio for designing projects, fabric and paper printing, batik, and many other fiber techniques.

Location & Contact Info

Fiber Room 1068, Art & Architecture Building
Sewing Room 1075B, Art & Architecture Building
Looms Room 1076, Art & Architecture Building
Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday – Friday
After hour access via card reader.

Nancy Thorson, Fibers Studio Coordinator
Office: 1075C AA
Phone: (734) 763-3536

The Metals Studios include three rooms: the Hot Room contains all of the Welding, Soldering, and Forging equipment; the Cold Room houses equipment for Milling, smithing, cutting, drilling, sanding, lathing, and other metal processes; and the Fine Metals classroom includes spaces for other various processes for Non-Ferrous and Jewelry Design metals techniques.

Snapshots from the Studio: Using Motors

This episode of Snapshots from the Studio features work created in the metals studios as part of Dan Price’s “Making It Move” class.

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Location & Contact Info

Fine Metals: Room 1069, Art & Architecture Building
Hot Metals: Room 1071, Art & Architecture Building
Cold Metals: Room 1074, Art & Architecture Building
Hours: Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday – Friday
After hour access via card reader.

Mike Vitale, Materials Fabrication Studio Coordinator
Office: 1075 AA
Phone: (734) 764-4577

The metal studios are made possible through the generous support of alumnus Dick and his wife Odette Maskell.

The New Media, Electro-Mechanical, and Digital Fabrication studios provide facilities for cutting-edge media applications.  Available resources include: CNC milling, custom circuit board cutting, electronic component/electrical soldering with access to 3D printing, large-format CNC routing, laser cutting and vacu-forming. Classes in these studios employ accessible, programmable electronics and open-source software including Arduino, and Processing.

Location & Contact Info

New Media / Digital Fabrication: Room 1108, Art & Architecture Building
Rapid Prototyping: Room 1219, Art & Architecture Building
Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday – Friday
After hour access via card reader.

Mike Vitale, Materials Fabrication Studio Coordinator
Office: 1075 AA
Phone: (734) 764-4577

Matthew Bierl, Materials Fabrication Studio Coordinator
Office: 1261 AA
Phone: (734) 764-6807

There are four drawing studios and two painting studios, all located on the second floor of the Art & Architecture building. Large windows facing north allow abundant natural daylight to enter all studios. The painting studios are equipped with racks (for the storage of canvases), easels, rolling carts, sinks and containers for the disposal of solvents. The drawing studios are equipped with drawing tables, stools, and sinks for cleanup.

Snapshots From the Studio: The Collage Painting

Jim Cogswell’s class, “Organizing Visual Space: An Introduction to Oil Painting,” takes place in the painting studios.

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Location & Contact Info

Rooms 2023 - 2094, Art & Architecture Building

Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday – Friday.
After hour access available.

Joe St. George, Photography/Painting/Drawing Studio Coordinator
Office: 2145 AA
Phone: (734) 763-3527

The photography studio features skylights with controllable shades; retractable seamless back drops in a range of colors; professional lighting equipment, including soft boxes, and both strobe and incandescent light boxes; and a copy stand for photographing flat work.

Snapshots from the Studio: Making Zoetropes

A glimpse into Rebekah Modrak’s class, “Photography and Animation.”  The course focuses on animating images through optical toys and other amusements.

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Location & Contact Info

Room 2006, Art & Architecture Building
Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday – Friday
After hour access available.

Joe St. George, Photography/Painting/Drawing Studio Coordinator
Office: 2145 AA
Phone: (734) 763-3527

The Print media studio includes two distinct areas, one for hand printing and one for digital printing. 

The Hand Printing Area includes an etching pressroom with 3 etching presses and a proofing press. The studio also has a litho pressroom featuring 3 litho presses and a large selection of litho stones. There is equipment for ferric-chloride etching, and a 32”x40” exposure unit for photo-sensitive litho and intaglio plates.

The Digital Printing Area includes a computer-lab with 10 Mac stations and 10 Epson inkjet printers, along with two flatbed scanners and a film scanner. The printers are able to print up to 17” wide and are equipped with Ultrachrome K3 archival inks.

Snapshots From the Studio: the Letterpress

Undergraduate Ben English used the print studios to make posters for an upcoming exhibition. After the prints were dry, Ben created type for the posters using a letterpress.

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Location & Contact Info

Hand Printing: Room 2143, Art & Architecture Building
Digital Printing: Room 2125, Art & Architecture Building
Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday – Friday
After hour access via card reader.

Ana Fernandez, Print Media Studio Coordinator
Office: 2138 AA
Phone: (734) 763-3475

The sculpture studio is a fully equipped multimedia fabrication studio.  Materials typically used include wood, metal, plastics, composites, clay, plaster/cement, and polyurethane or silicone rubber.

Specialized equipment includes a full foundry for bronze and aluminum casting, a burn-out kiln, ceramic slurry molding, gas, MIG, and TIG welding, walk-in spray booth for large objects, two 2-ton cranes for hoisting large work, full wax facilities, and myriad hand and power tools.

How to Make a Bronze Sculpture

Zack Jacobson-Weaver takes you step by step through the process of making a bronze sculpture, from mold-making to the pour.

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Location & Contact Info

Room 1258, Art & Architecture Building

Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday – Friday
After hour access via card reader.

Matthew Bierl, Materials Fabrication Studio Coordinator
Office: 1261 AA
Phone: (734) 764-6807

All A&D seniors are awarded individual, dedicated studios in the A&A building to use while working on their capstone Integrative Projects.  The studios give seniors a space to manage their own creative process and working schedules and to plan, conceptualize, re-conceptualize, build and re-build these projects with the help and guidance of peers and faculty advisors.

Occupying the most prominent space in the building, the Integrative Project studios are funded through the generosity of donors Penny (BSDES 1966) and Roe Stamps.

Snapshots from the Studio: Matt Sanger in IP

Starting with a flythrough of the I.P. studios, this video shows Matt Sanger’s Integrative Project: using bicycle brake cables, skate board wheels and thermal paper, he’s building several machines that will write the words “I think I can.”

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Location & Contact Info

Rooms 1041 - 1062, Art & Architecture Building
Hours: 24-hour access via card reader.

The Video Studio provides all the equipment necessary for digital video editing, DVD authoring (iDVD, DVD Studio Pro), and projection from miniDV, S-VHS, VHS and DVD.

Stephanie Frankiewicz: My Reel

Samples of animation work created in the video studios. Work by Stephanie Frankiewicz.

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Location & Contact Info

Room 2114, Art & Architecture Building
Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday – Friday
Card access 24/7

Joe St. George, Photography/Painting/Drawing Studio Coordinator
Office: 2145 AA
Phone: (734) 763-3527

The A&A Shop is a fully equipped facility including wood working machines and machines for cutting light sheet metal, machining metal, plastic fabricating,  vacuforming, and laser cutting. The Woodshop is available to students for curricular work in both the School of Art & Design and the Taubman College of Architecture after completing an orientation and the School of Art & Design’s TMP Construction course.

Location & Contact Info

Room 1251, Art & Architecture Building
Hours: Monday-Thursday: 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM, 6:30 AM -10:00 PM
Friday: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Saturday: 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Mark Krecic, Woodshop Studio Coordinator
Office: 1251 AA
Phone: (734) 763-5236