Facilities
Facilities
The Interdisciplinary Arts Department is currently housed in three separate spaces at Columbia College. The departmental offices are located on the 11th floor of 624 S. Michigan Ave.
MA Facilities
MFA Book & Paper Facilities
The Center for Book and Paper Arts occupies the entire second floor of the Luddington building, 1104 South Wabash and provides facilities and studios for the MFA in Book & Paper students. It consists of a papermaking studio, a letterpress facility, a bookbindery, a gallery, a multi-purpose classroom, which is suitable for performance and lectures, a critique room, studio space for artists, a resource room, and offices for the staff.
MFA MEDIA Facilities
We Have Acquired a new building which will house the MFA Media and MA Programs.
DEPARTMENTAL CONTACT INFORMATION
Department Chair: Michelle Citron
Graduate Contact: Kris Johnson
Office Information: 624 S. Michigan, Room 1100
Phone: 312-369-7669
Email: kjohnson@colum.edu
MA Facilities
MA classroom spaces are in the 624 S Wabash building. Classrooms include a seminar room, a general classroom which
also functions as a performance space, and a dance rehearsal room
which are shared with the Dance Movement Therapy program.
MFA Book & Paper Facilities
The Center for Book and Paper Arts occupies the entire second floor of the Luddington building, 1104 South Wabash and provides facilities and studios for the MFA in Book & Paper students. It consists of a papermaking studio, a letterpress facility, a bookbindery, a gallery, a multi-purpose classroom, which is suitable for performance and lectures, a critique room, studio space for artists, a resource room, and offices for the staff.
MFA MEDIA Facilities
The MFA in Arts and Media is housed in space donated by the Television
Department at 600 S. Michigan Ave., which includes: smart classrooms
and a 15 seat computer teaching suite; the use of three rooms for
student studio space and for the courses Sculptural Media Images,
Performance Media Images, and Thesis Practicum; a student office on the
7th floor of the Television Department with two computer systems. The
Equipment Center is located within the Television Department. MFA in
Arts and Media students have access to video camcorders, digital still
cameras, iSight web cameras, projectors, tripods, and microphones,
Apple PowerBooks, MacMini, Wacom tablets, Electronic Toolkits and
sensors, monitors, DVD players, and accessories. Three
state-of-the-art television studios are used for shooting Performance
Media Images in the spring semester and can be reserved for shooting
student projects and thesis projects.
Student work is exhibited over a number of Columbia College's screening and display facilities: the Harrison Flatscreen Project at 600 S. Michigan Ave. located inside Museum of Contemporary Photography; 33 Congress Flatscreen Project located inside the C33 Gallery space at 33 Congress Ave., which allows for multi-channel programming with five plasma monitors; a display window on Wabash Ave. in the 33 E. Congress Building,
In spring, 2007 live web-cam, internet, and interactivity capabilities will be added to the 33 Congress Flatscreen Project.
Student work is exhibited over a number of Columbia College's screening and display facilities: the Harrison Flatscreen Project at 600 S. Michigan Ave. located inside Museum of Contemporary Photography; 33 Congress Flatscreen Project located inside the C33 Gallery space at 33 Congress Ave., which allows for multi-channel programming with five plasma monitors; a display window on Wabash Ave. in the 33 E. Congress Building,
In spring, 2007 live web-cam, internet, and interactivity capabilities will be added to the 33 Congress Flatscreen Project.
We Have Acquired a new building which will house the MFA Media and MA Programs.
We will be moving into the new building January 2009. Along with classrooms, we will be adding computer labs, a new equipment cage, and more. MFA Media students will also gain shared studios in the 1104 S. Wabash building basement.
DEPARTMENTAL CONTACT INFORMATION
Department Chair: Michelle Citron
Graduate Contact: Kris Johnson
Office Information: 624 S. Michigan, Room 1100
Phone: 312-369-7669
Email: kjohnson@colum.edu