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The Ceramics Lab
The Ceramics Lab is perfect for hands-on learning providing everything needed to bring
your clay creations to life. The lab features handbuilding areas, 16 potter’s wheels,
a glaze room and kiln yard with 8 gas fired kilns and one electric kiln. High fire,
low fire, soda, and raku finishing methods are explored. The Ceramics area is buzzing
with possibility, featuring kilns that accommodate large and small scale works—perfect
for pushing your clay creations to new heights, literally! Made possible by a gift from the Flour Foundation.
The Ceramics Lab
The Ceramics Lab is perfect for hands-on learning providing everything needed to bring
your clay creations to life. The lab features handbuilding areas, 16 potter’s wheels,
a glaze room and kiln yard with 8 gas fired kilns and one electric kiln. High fire,
low fire, soda, and raku finishing methods are explored. The Ceramics area is buzzing
with possibility, featuring kilns that accommodate large and small scale works—perfect
for pushing your clay creations to new heights, literally! Made possible by a gift from the Flour Foundation.
The Ceramics Lab
The Ceramics Lab is perfect for hands-on learning providing everything needed to bring
your clay creations to life. The lab features handbuilding areas, 16 potter’s wheels,
a glaze room and kiln yard with 8 gas fired kilns and one electric kiln. High fire,
low fire, soda, and raku finishing methods are explored. The Ceramics area is buzzing
with possibility, featuring kilns that accommodate large and small scale works—perfect
for pushing your clay creations to new heights, literally! Made possible by a gift from the Flour Foundation.
The Ceramics Lab
The Ceramics Lab is perfect for hands-on learning providing everything needed to bring
your clay creations to life. The lab features handbuilding areas, 16 potter’s wheels,
a glaze room and kiln yard with 8 gas fired kilns and one electric kiln. High fire,
low fire, soda, and raku finishing methods are explored. The Ceramics area is buzzing
with possibility, featuring kilns that accommodate large and small scale works—perfect
for pushing your clay creations to new heights, literally! Made possible by a gift from the Flour Foundation.
The Darkroom
The Darkroom
The Drawing Lab
The Drawing Lab
The Drawing Lab encourages exploration of methods and mark-making. Our space features a 2-drum risograph with a variety of colors, teaching students this exciting process that's gaining popularity!
The Drawing Lab
The Drawing Lab encourages exploration of methods and mark-making. Our space features a 2-drum risograph with a variety of colors, teaching students this exciting process that's gaining popularity!
The Fabrication Lab
The Fabrication Lab
Lecture Rooms
Lecture Rooms
We provide standard classrooms and a seminar room for smaller class meetings or to be used extra workspace. The lecture rooms are outfitted with comfortable furniture, lounge areas, projectors, white boards and screens and push pin walls for critiques.
Lecture Rooms
We provide standard classrooms and a seminar room for smaller class meetings or to be used extra workspace. The lecture rooms are outfitted with comfortable furniture, lounge areas, projectors, white boards and screens and push pin walls for critiques.
Lecture Rooms
We provide standard classrooms and a seminar room for smaller class meetings or to be used extra workspace. The lecture rooms are outfitted with comfortable furniture, lounge areas, projectors, white boards and screens and push pin walls for critiques.
The Painting Lab
The Painting Lab
The Painting Lab inspires creativity and experimentation, encouraging students to explore both traditional techniques and alternative practices. It’s the perfect space to push artistic boundaries!
The Painting Lab
The Painting Lab inspires creativity and experimentation, encouraging students to explore both traditional techniques and alternative practices. It’s the perfect space to push artistic boundaries!
The Painting Lab
The Painting Lab inspires creativity and experimentation, encouraging students to explore both traditional techniques and alternative practices. It’s the perfect space to push artistic boundaries!
The Painting Lab
The Painting Lab inspires creativity and experimentation, encouraging students to explore both traditional techniques and alternative practices. It’s the perfect space to push artistic boundaries!
The Sculpture Lab
The Sculpture Lab
The Sculpture Lab may be small, but it’s MIGHTY—offering advanced techniques in woodworking,
mold-making, and alternative practices for those ready to push creative boundaries. This studio was made possible by a gift from Donald K. Washburn.
Shared Spaces
- The Sculpture and Ceramics Patio: The Sculpture Patio offers open space for large-scale work, experimentation, and a free supply-sharing area for students to utilize. Opposite the Ceramics Patio is buzzing with possibility, featuring numerous kilns both small and large scale for high fire, low fire, and raku firings—perfect for pushing your clay creations to new heights, literally!
- The Drawing and Painting Patio: The Drawing and Painting Lab share an outdoor patio, fostering community between students and providing a flexible space for large projects, collaboration, and innovative practices.
- The Cube: This student-created, intimate gallery—is an empowering space that students can reserve for ambitious projects and installations.
- Lockers: 24-hour lockers are available upon request, offering a secure space to store materials and support spontaneous making at any hour.
Showcasing Student Work
- We love celebrating our students in many ways! One exciting way is through these bulletin boards that feature a rotating selection of student work from our photography, transdisciplinary, drawing and painting classes!
- The Art History Corridor showcases a student-curated exhibition, giving students real-world
curatorial experience. Students select works from the Escalette Collection, and oversee
the process from concept to completion.
- The third-floor hallway of Beckman Hall is home to a new permanent exhibition featuring paintings, prints, collages, and embroidery by Steve Roden. This exhibition was curated and designed by Nicole Nguyen (Graphic Design '27) and Rylie Shimabukuro (Art History '26) during their Summer 2025 Internship with the Escalette Collection. As part of this project, they also created an activity booklet designed to help visitors engage with this exciting work.

I chose Chapman's Graphic Design Program for two reasons: its up-to-date curriculum and the small class sizes. My courses reflect current industry standards, and I feel reassured knowing that my professors are up to date with the ever-changing state of the field. I appreciate how much one-on-one time I get with professors in and outside of class. They have come to know more than just my name—they know my work, my goals, my background, and my personality. I really enjoy how hands-on this major is. Each of my design classes has multiple projects where I get to apply the skills I’ve learned, both from the class and from other courses in the program.



















