The Crafts Center contains the Jewelry and Ceramics Studios. The clay studio is fully equipped for handbuilding as well as throwing on the wheel. There are gas and electric kilns as well as a large outdoor facility for primitive firings. The Fine Art Studio facilities feature numerous drawing and painting studios including our newly completed graduate painting studios.

The Sculpture Building, which houses the Art Office as well as our sculpture studio (undergraduate and graduate), has a fully-equipped welding shop, woodshop, machine shop and foundation studio.

The Printmaking Workshop and Paper Mill, a 3500 sq. ft. space on two levels, has areas for intaglio, monotype, screen printing, lithography and papermaking. The workshop includes darkroom, vacuum exposing room, acid room, screen washout area and graduate assistant printmaking studio. Ventilation was updated in 1996.

The Photography Studios and darkrooms afford both undergraduate and graduate students an exciting atmosphere in which to create master prints and professional imagery. There are two black and white darkrooms and a color darkroom with a Colenta processor handling prints up to 20" x 24". In addition there are two shooting studios fully equipped with strobes, soft boxes and other lighting equipment (both 4" x 5" & 8" x 10" cameras;) available from the department for student use.

The School of Visual and Performing Arts Labs, located in the Humanities Building, provides the Long Island University/C.W. Post Community, with a powerful Digital Arts and Design facility. The Complex provides undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to create professional level computer-generated art. Our facility features networked Macintosh computers, including new Power Macintosh workstations, which have the capability of creating animation and video production. In our Mac labs, students explore and develop their own creative concepts and styles using the latest versions of Adobe Illustrator, Premiere, Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Strata Studio Pro and Macromedia Director programs. With the addition of new Power PC computer workstations, students are now able to transmit data files, send and receive e-mail, as well as "surf the global Internet."