Facilities

The Department of Art provides students a variety of studio and computer lab environments to develop their creative work.

The Brown House

In the 1930s, the Brown House was an elegant country-style building used by students for afternoon tea. Twenty years later, the college newspaper, “The Habit,” requested that students contribute suggestions for names for the teahouse. Despite numerous attempts to designate the perfect name, in the end the buildings nickname won out:  “the Brown House”. The former Student Union and headquarters for the Associated Students of Dominican University (ASDU), The Brown House now houses the Art Department faculty and classes.

San Marco

This building, originally a Quonset hut purchased from the military after World War  II, contains four art studios for art classes. The building is named after the Convent of San Marco in Florence, Italy, where the Dominican Fra Angelico painted his famous frescoes in the 15th century.

As the building is named after an artistic location, it is fitting that beautiful works of art are routinely created here. San Macro is heavily used for ceramics, watercolor, painting, and sculpting classes. Much of the art done by Dominican students is created and completed in San Marco and later put on display in the San Macro Gallery located in Archbishop Alemany Library.

Mac Lab

Hardware

• 23 G5 Macs
• Dual CPU 2.0 GHZ 
• 1 Gb RAM 
• 160 GB Hard Drive 
• Superdrive DVD-RW/CD-RW 
• 17" Flat Panel Monitor 
• WACOM Graphics Tablets 
• Epson 9800 printer

Software

• OS 10.4.9 

• Adobe CS3 

• ilife 2005 

• Quark Xpress 6.0 

• Final Cut Pro 5.0

CLC Lab

 Hardware

• 23 PCs 
• 2.3 GHz Core 2 Duo Processors 
• 2 GB RAM 
• 240 GB hard Drives 
• 17” Flat Panel Monitors 
• CD burning capable 
• 256 MB Nvidia Graphics cards

Software

• MAYA Unlimited with Combustion and Cleaner 
• Z-Brush 
• Adobe CS2