Facilities & Equipment
Windgate Visual Arts West & East
The Visual Arts Department has awesome facilities: two large buildings in the center of campus with over 36,000 sq. ft and every resource an art student needs. Students have 24-hour access to both buildings. Our newest building is a 10,000 sq. ft. “art barn” on the north side of campus with additional space for photography studios, drawing and painting, ceramics, a wood shop and individual artist stations.
Art Facilities & Equipment
Art West features an art gallery, eight faculty offices, two design classrooms, a theater classroom, two Mac labs, two product photography studios, two traditional and digital darkrooms, and a large check-out room for photography and cinema gear.
Art East features a printmaking/screen printing studio, a conference room, student workrooms, a large multipurpose classroom, an illustration classroom, cinema editing and audio recording suites, and a student gallery.
The Visual Arts Digital Cinema facilities include two private editing suites and a 5.1 surround sound mixing studio and recording booth in Art East. Digital Cinema students learn about film and video editing using non-linear digital editing tools.
The digital cinema program has a full selection of the equipment used by professional filmmakers including: BlackMagic Design 4.6K URSAMiniPro as well as Canon C300 and C100 MKII cameras, XEEN and Rokinon Prime Lenses, RedRockMicro Matte Boxes and Wireless Follow-Focus, SteadiCam Scout, DJI Ronin, EZ Jib, Dolly and Track, ARRI Tungsten, KinoFlo Fluorescent, Litepanel Astra LED lighting instruments, SoundDevices Mixers, Sennheiser Booms Mics and Wireless Lavs, and grip carts complete with stands, flags and rigging equipment.
JBU’s Visual Arts Department has a variety of photographic equipment available for student use. This includes all manner of Canon cameras including the 1Dx MkII., all manner of Nikon cameras including the D5 professional series. Our studios include flagship camera models like the Pentax 645Z and Hasselblad X1D. We also have a full complement of lenses for all camera models. Our studios are professionally equipped with Elinchrom, ProPhoto and Broncolor instruments.
We have two similarly configured classrooms for Graphic Design in Art West, as well as a multipurpose classroom in Art East. We use these rooms for design work, lecture/discussion and critique of student work. In some classes the student work is printed, matted and hung on the cork-board wall for critique. In other classes the work is saved as electronic files on the school network, and critiqued through the use of the large screen television or projector.
The third floor of the Windgate Visual Arts West building features two MAC labs with the latest equipment and they are available to students 24/7. The Mac labs are equipped with a wide range of the latest software. This is includes the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, Apple’s Final Cut Studio, Avid Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve, ZBrush, Blender, and Microsoft Office.
The new Art Barn features two large studios that accommodate our drawing and painting classes. There is lots of natural light and many different configurations of spotlights. Art East also has a large classroom that is often used for studio classes.
The "Print Hive" is a very large and fully equipped screenprinting and printmaking studio in Art East. Using completely non-toxic methods and materials, it contains a 30"x60" Whelan etching press, numerous screens and vacuum tables for screen printing and two light exposure units for working with photo-printmaking processes. This space and equipment allows students to learn and experiment by combining traditional printmaking techniques with cutting edge technology and image-making.
