Kiehle Visual Arts Center

Art

KVAC

Kiehle Visual Arts Center (KVAC)

Exterior entrance of Kiehle Visual Arts Center

The Kiehle Visual Arts Center (KVAC) overlooks the Mississippi River on the eastern edge of campus. The three-story building houses a comprehensive range of spaces and tools for the making and studying of art.

Advanced student studios
Art Galleries
Auditorium
Classrooms
Faculty Offices
Four Computer Labs
Lighting Studio
MakerSpace Lab
Outdoor deck overlooking the Mississippi
Painting and Drawing studios
Photography Facilities and Inkjet Printers
Printmaking studio
Sculpture and Ceramics studios
Woodshop

KVAC: Floor-by-Floor

Lower Level

Student making bowl on pottery wheel

The lower level houses critique spaces, an auditorium, G10 Student Gallery wired for time-based work, a lighting studio, sculpture classroom, a woodshop with hundreds of tools, a metal shop and foundry, a ceramics area with 20 throwing wheels, glaze room and eight kilns.

Main Level

Student talking to fellow student about graphic design project on computer screen

The main level is home to the main office, a professional gallery with new exhibitions curated every semester, art education classroom and lab, graphic design classroom and critique spaces, a student lounge, equipment checkout including DSLR cameras, Wacom tablets, lighting and audio/video equipment, a MakerSpace with trained student workers operating 3D printers, cnc machines, laser cutters, sewing machines and Risograph printer, a digital lab complex with 50 Apple work stations including four Epson inkjet printers and video editing stations, a print trimming area, critique spaces within two classrooms, and a comfortable co-working space with bean bag chairs, tables and chairs and Apple work stations.

Upper Level

Instructor helping student set up print screen

The top floor houses the printmaking studio which includes seven presses, silk screening, a darkroom, common work areas and a critique space, painting and drawing studios and classrooms, a traditional photography darkroom with film developing area and common work area and an experimental gallery space for student projects.

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KVAC on the Campus Map