The Ceramics studios are well equipped and professional. The department has gas kilns and electric kilns of various sizes, from test kiln to large-scale, and offers instruction in their use. All Ceramics majors have scheduled access to these kilns for their work. The department has a large and completely stocked raw materials room with a glaze spray booth and a room dedicated to the use of plaster for molds, as well as a jigger wheel, ram press, pug mill, clay mixers and a blunger for slip. Also, there is a large slab roller, an extruder and a specialized wet sander/grinder.

Computers are used extensively. Photoshop and Illustrator are available for image making while other software is devoted to glaze calculation and kiln calibration. Decals are printed on a laser printer. A full-time technician is on hand to keep all of this in excellent running order and available to our students. Undergraduate and graduate studios emphasize private home spaces and communal work areas with ample storage racks and worktables.

Kiln Room
two programmable automatic firing gas car kilns, remote computer monitoring; 57 and 88 cu ft
downdraft gas brick kiln with natural draft burners, 20 cu ft
downdraft gas brick kiln with forced air burners, 50 cu ft
front-loading programmable automatic firing electric kiln, remote computer monitoring, 24 cu ft
portable gas kiln for Raku firing
four electric test kilns

Raw Materials Lab
two-station spray booth
30-gallon pneumatic blunger
ball mill
air filtration system
double-station sink
raw materials storage
database computer station with printer
glaze calculation program (Hyperglaze)

Clay Mixing + Grinding Room
three large-capacity drum mixers
muller grinding mixer
pug mill/mixer with vacuum de-airing chamber
25-gallon electric slipmixer
30-ton high-speed pneumatic/hydraulic (RAM method) mold/die press
air filtration safety system

Plaster Work Room
stainless-surfaced work tables
heated forced-air drying cabinet for plaster molds
large-capacity pound scales
jiggering wheel
extruder system
double-station sinks
air filtration safety system

Classroom + Studio Facilities
two multi-purpose studios for handbuilding and wheel techniques 
30 electric wheels
home studio space for juniors, seniors and graduate students
36" slab roller
double-station sinks

Computer Resources
networked computer workstations, Macintosh
dedicated PC to monitor firing programs in kiln room
flatbed scanner
slide scanner
Firewire CDR
laser printer

Additional Facilities
digital camera
light table for slide viewing
product photography studio
photo strobe system for 3-D portfolio photography