Southern Illinois University - Carbondale (School of Art and Design (SoAD))

The School offers programs leading to BA, BFA, and MFA degrees in a variety of areas, including Art Education, Art History, Ceramics, Communication Design, Drawing, Glass, Industrial Design, Metalsmithing, Painting, Printmaking, and Sculpture. Our 450 undergraduate majors combine intensive study in their areas of professional specialization with rigorous liberal arts coursework offered by the University Core Curriculum. The Graduate Program, attracting students from both the US and abroad, has been nationally recognized by US News and World Report as a premier institution for graduate education in art.


Facilities

Instructional Space


Allyn
The Allyn Building, opened in 1908 and located in the historic central quadrangle of the SIUC campus, houses the central administrative and advisement offices of the School as well as the Art Education and Art History programs, the Slide Library, and instructional space for Drawing, Painting and Printmaking. Faculty in Art History and Graduate Assistants for AD 101 (Introduction to Visual Culture) and AD 207 (Introduction to Art History) hold their classes in rooms equipped with slide projectors and video monitors.

Glove Factory, Studio Arts Facility
Formerly the home of the Good Luck Glove Company, the Glove Factory is now a renovated facility containing premium studio, instructional, and exhibition space. The Sculpture facilities include a large open area for undergraduate instruction, in addition to a well-equipped woodworking shop, a welding area, and a large adjoining fabrication space. The following machines are available for student use: an industrial-size planer, a radial arm and cut-off saws, table saws, drill presses, lathes, pedestal sanders and grinders, a jointer, three band saws, a horizontal band saw for metal, a Hasenfeld bender, an oxy-acetylene rig, and a MIG welder. Classroom space for Painting and Foundations can also be found in the Glove Factory.

Quigley
The Quigley Building houses the School of Art and Design's main computer lab which serves as well as all art majors and Communication Design students. Over 30 Macintosh workstations are available to undergraduate and graduate students. Professional authoring software, black and white and color laser, as well as large format color inkjet printers are available. Various multimedia input and output devices, such as scanners and CD burners are also part of the lab facilities.

Design Barracks
The Design Barracks provides the central location for coursework and classroom space for Communication Design and Industrial Design courses. A secondary computer lab houses 15 PC workstations with professional 3D modeling software, as well as various input and output devices. The Industrial Design workshop and studio are also available for design, modeling and fabrication of student projects. Design and foundation faculty offices are also housed in the Design Barracks.

Pulliam Hall
Built in 1954, Pulliam Hall is a modern masonry and glass building located near the center of campus. The Industrial Wing of Pulliam Hall houses well-equipped studios for the Ceramics, Glass, and Metalsmithing/Blacksmithing programs, as well as private studios for graduate ceramics, glass and blacksmithing students.

Foundry
The Foundry complex consists of two large metal buildings and is located approximately 3 miles from campus. It houses facilities for all ferrous and nonferrous metal-casting techniques, graduate student studios and undergraduate programming in Sculpture. Surrounding the Foundry are concrete pads and an adjacent grass and wooded area, which provide ample space for outside work and the display of large sculptures.

Studio Space
The Metals House, 805 South Oakland Street, located near the Glass House, contains several individual studio spaces for graduate students in Metalsmithing as well as some shared studio space for undergraduates and a resource library with books and A-V materials.

The Glass House, located near the Metals House, functions as the cold shop for the glass department. It contains several individual studio spaces for graduate students in Glass, shared studio space for undergraduates, and a classroom. This is also the venue for the Glass Program’s annual Christmas Sale.

Formerly the home of the Good Luck Glove Company, the Glove Factory is now a renovated facility containing premium studio, instructional, and exhibition space. The studios for Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking graduate students are unrivaled in their spaciousness and light. There are also seven studio spaces for graduate students and undergraduates in Sculpture (majors carrying 6 credits in Sculpture are given studio space).

Exhibition Space
Located in the Allyn Building, the Vergette Gallery is a naturally lit space of over 400 square feet available to students at the School of Art and Design.

Located in the Glove Factory, the Surplus Gallery is an area of roughly 6,000 square feet. It is a raw space where experimentation is encouraged and where Art and Design students (as well as some Cinema and Photography students) frequently exhibit their work.

The Southern Illinois University Museum at Carbondale has been serving the campus, the community, and region since 1874. The Museum provides exhibitions in the arts, humanities and the sciences, as well as functioning as a regional archive for the preservation of our past and present for future generations. The Museum Galleries are located on the first floor of Faner Hall North. The Museum Offices are located at 2469 Faner Hall on the Southern Illinois University Carbondale campus. The Museum is in the North end of Faner Hall, in the heart of campus; a short walk south from the clock tower on top of Pulliam Hall, or north of the two-story parking structure next to the Student Center.

In 1869, the charge to begin assembling a museum collection for SIU was given to Dr. Cyrus Thomas, a nationally known entomologist, an attorney in Murphysboro, brother-in-law to General John A. Logan, principal for the school at DeSoto, and a minister in the Lutheran Church in 1869. In 1874, the University Museum was opened in the first Old Main Building. Since then, the University Museum has been relocated numerous times: to the second Old Main, to Altgeld, to Parkinson, and, currently, to Faner. By 2000, the University Museum’s collection had grown to more than 53,500 objects. The three major areas of collecting include: more than 4,500 objects in fine and decorative arts; more than 23,000 artifacts reflecting archaeology, history and world cultures, and over 26,000 geological specimens.

The Museum’s fine arts collection has an emphasis on 20th Century works and a collection of works created by artists employed by the federal government during the Great Depression. The Museum’s humanities collection is noteworthy for its world-renowned Melanesian artifacts. The Museum’s science collection includes the George Fraunfelter geology collection, museum quality specimens of paleobotany, paleontology, and geology.

The University Museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums.


Programs

Undergraduate
School of Art and Design offers two undergraduate degrees, the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and the Bachelor of Arts (BA). The BFA, a professional degree, includes eleven specializations: art education, ceramics, communication design, drawing, glass, industrial design, metalsmithing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Under the BA degree there are two majors: art and design. The BA degree in art includes three specializations: art education, art history and general studio; and the BA in design includes three programs: general design, industrial design and communication design.

Graduate
In coordination with SIUC's Graduate School, the School of Art & Design offers a graduate degree, the Master of Fine Arts and a graduate Certificate in Art History. It also offers coursework in support of a teaching specialty in art for the Master of Science in Education degree. The MFA program at SIUC is one of the leading graduate programs in the country, as recognized by US News & World Report's ranking of graduate programs. For the MFA degree, students may specialize in the following areas: drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture/foundry, ceramics/glass, and metalsmithing/blacksmithing.

SIUC's School of Art and Design is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). SIUC as a whole is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

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