Instruction and Student Work
Workshops and Demos
Open Orientations
Each semester, transfer students and new faculty/ staff go through a two-hour Central Shop Orientation. Included is a safety overview and tour of the shop’s resources, followed by introductory demos over the table saws, miter saws, bandsaws, and drill presses.
Individual classes from the Sculpture, Painting, Photo/Film, Printmaking, Ceramics and Foundation Departments get annual workshops and demo’s. Other departments have occasional demo’s based on current curriculum. Below is a strainer and panel demo for Painting Sophomores.
Strainer Overview Specifications
Foundation Orientation
Each year over 200 students in 10 to 12 foundations classes come through Central Shop to have demo’s and do a two to three day project.
The current project builds off of a simple box made in the first day. Within the second day and in open time each class works from a prompt, whether it is surface design, an animated mouth, shadow box, formal woodworking or building 2-foot legs.
Individual Student Work
Central Shop
Elizabeth has contributed 6 years of staff instruction to the curriculum that runs through Central Shop.
In her time here she has taught more than 1,000 students how to use the table saw and alike. Run 37 Foundation Class Orientations in the last three years. Has had more than 20 student technicians. And currently manages over 3,000 visits to the shop yearly.
