School of Art

School of Art facilities

The School of Art offers wide-ranging facilities to support students’ creative output, many of which are accessible 24/7.

An external view of the main entrance to the ArtLab building.

School of Art facilities

Our facilities include:

  • Large-format digital print shop
  • Large new darkroom and wet lab spaces
  • Extensive sculpture fabrication facilities
  • Comprehensive ceramics area with newly built wood-fired kiln
  • MACLab and private editing suites
  • Sound stage
  • Print media studio equipped for a broad range of print and papermaking processes

Find facilities relevant to your medium

ARTlab

This award winning building offers creative spaces of the highest caliber. Students from all areas of the School of Art have access to tool and equipment cribs, a wood shop, and professional quality digital printing facilities. A large, smart lecture theatre seats 147 people and is suitable for performances or projection programming.

ARTlab includes:

  • School of Art Gallery
  • drawing, painting, and first-year studios
  • lighting studio
  • MAClab
  • Print Media studio
  • Sound Stage

Building resources

ARTlab
180 Dafoe Road W
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2

Mail room: 204-474-6551
Print media: 204-474-8988
Digital production: 204-474-8992

Fax: 204-474-7605

Hours: Monday to Thursday: 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m

After hours, weekends, and holidays are accessible by card swipe only.

Drawing, painting and first year studios

  • Large studios with wall to wall 20 ft windows
  • Gallery-like studio spaces equipped with all the essential tools
  • Extensive spaces to showcase and document student work 

 

Lighting studio

  • Bookable space with natural light and black out curtains
  • Top quality equipment includes: strobes, hot lights, backdrops, scrims, soft boxes, boom lighting rig, seamless 3D lighting table, and 3D Cocoon

Print media

  • Equipped for a range of mediums: intaglio, lithography, relief, silkscreen, papermaking
  • Dedicated workstation for digital “plates” or negatives
  • Introduction of safer materials and practices working towards non-toxic environment
  • Large archival collection of prints produced by former students since the 1950s

School of Art Gallery

The School of Art Gallery (formerly Gallery One One One) and its collections occupy a new, expanded space on the main level.

A student looks at another's work inside one of the spacious drawing studios.
The lighting studio with a large window, blackout curtains, black walls and various pieces of photography equipment.
The print media room with several pieces of equipment for varying types of printing.
A black and white digital print of a spider web hands on a white wall, a blurred figure walks in front.

MACLab digital production

MAClab 330

The MACLab is designed for creating digital works in photography, graphic design, web design, animation, and video.

Facilities include:

  • classroom and student lab with over 40 Mac workstations equipped with industry-standard creative software, including Creative Cloud
  • student media lounge accessible to students at all times 
  • digital print room with 64” wide archival quality printers 
  • large format Epson scanners
  • finishing room outfitted with perfect binder, saddle stitch, hot press, and matte cutter

Find rates and tutorials for MAClab services

Art Barn

The Art Barn is a two-story renovated dairy barn providing well-ventilated loft studios for painting. Facilities include:

  • Custom-made adjustable wood or stacking metal easels for small to very large painting surfaces

  • Access to fully equipped wood shop for stretchers and installation work

  • Studio spaces for graduate and fourth year honours students

The exterior of the Art Barn building.
The spacious painting space inside the Art Barn with large easels placed around the room.
A studio space within the Art Barn painted completely white.

Art Barn
21 Service Street 3S
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2

Main floor: 204-474-8848
Second floor: 204-474-6607

After hours, weekends, and holidays are accessible by card swipe only.

Building resources

Taché Hall

The L.L. Fitzgerald Wing of Taché Hall (adjacent to and connected to ARTlab via two skywalks) houses student galleries, new wet photography labs and darkrooms, vacuum former, media crib, graduate and fourth year honours studios and faculty offices.

Media Crib

The Media Crib is located in Room 147 Taché Hall.
Hours of operation: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

School of Art Students with a valid Media Crib membership may borrow DSLR and analogue cameras, video cameras, audio recording gear, lighting kits, tripods, projectors, monitors, and other equipment for their projects.

Yearly memberships are available for purchase through the Media Crib, and are priced as follows:

  • BFA Student, September 1–April 30: $67.00
  • MFA Student, September 1–August 31: $100.00
  • BFA Student, May 1–August 31: $33.00

After you have paid for your membership and signed an Equipment Loan Agreement (PDF), you will receive a coloured sticker to place on your UM ID card

For more information, please contact:

Email: soamcrib@umanitoba.ca

Ashkan Nejadebrahimi, Video Technician
ashkan.nejadebrahimi@umanitoba.ca

Kristiane Church, Photo Technician

Taché Hall
150 Dafoe Road
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2

Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

After hours, weekends, and holidays are accessible by card swipe only.

Building resources

Creators and scholars in visual art, music and theatre share space in this dynamic building. 

Darkroom Facilities 

  • Brand-new colour and black & white darkrooms
  • Individual colour enlarging rooms and 24” Kreonite
  • Alternative processing room for large format, cyanotype, and van dyke printing
  • State-of-the-art hardware, ventilation and safety lights
  • Film loading room
  • Naturally-lit film developing room

 

Media Crib

  • Equipment loans include film and digital cameras, lighting kits, tripods, and video cameras
The main front entrance of the Tache Hall building.
The dark room facilities with various work stations.
Cameras available for rent in the Taché Hall Media Crib.

Ceramics and sculpture building

This large single-story building was specifically designed and constructed for three-dimensional media, ceramics, and sculpture.

Ceramics facilities include a full spectrum of contemporary and functional ceramics practices:

  • clay and slip-making equipment
  • fully stocked glaze lab and plaster room
  • electric and kick wheels as well as slab roller
  • firing capacities include electric, experimental, and a recently constructed wood-fired “Train” kiln

Sculpture facilities include:

  • large facility with high ceilings and wide doorways accommodate works of considerable scale
  • metalworking including MIG and TIG welders, plasma cutter, slip roller, blast cabinet, and small foundry
  • fully equipped carpentry shop
  • large selection of hand and power tools
  • fume room

 

Ceramics and sculpture building
47 Service Road 1S
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2

Hall phone: 204-474-8993
Room 100: 204-474-8846

Hours: 
Mondays and Thursdays: 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Tuesdays and Fridays: 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesdays: 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

After hours, weekends, and holidays are accessible by card swipe only.

Building resources

This purpose-built facility houses three-dimensional media, ceramics and sculpture courses.

Ceramics facilities

The fully equipped Ceramic facility explores traditional and new techniques using specialized tools and equipment, including, glaze formulation and remote kiln firing; To compliment the hand making areas, the studio is supported by a mold making, and plaster casting studio (Art Barn).

Sculpture facilities

The Sculpture facility fosters a diverse range of conceptual and technical approaches to the creation of three-dimensional art. The large studio houses a wide range of specialized tools and equipment for metal work, woodworking and carving and other large works.

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Wood kiln, Ceramics Department, SOA
Interior view of the sculpture building with various pieces of equipment placed around the room.

Card swipe building access

Card swipe building access is available for all registered School of Art students from Monday to Sunday, 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.

  • Access expires the Tuesday after the weekend of the last day of classes (excluding MFA students).
  • Card swipe access is available on statutory holidays. However, there is no card swipe access during the December shut down.

Working alone

If you plan to work or study late at night or on the weekend in a School of Art studio:

  • Study with a partner or friend.
  • Leave your phone number with someone at home so they can contact you, if necessary.
  • Make sure you know where the nearest telephone is located.
  • Avoid isolated areas.
  • Call UM Security Services (UMSS) for a Safewalk anytime of the day or night to escort you from one location to another on campus.
  • Work with a partner or friend if you are using dangerous equipment or materials.
  • Locate the nearest emergency phones, first aid kit, eye wash stations, and other safety equipment so you know where to go in case of an emergency.

Need emergency support?

Call campus security at 204-474-9341 or use one of these links.

Emergency numbers and resources

Sexual violence help and info

Room Bookings, Space Requests and Install Procedures

The School of Art offers a variety of spaces for your next critique, exhibition, and event.

Room Bookings, Space Requests and Install Procedures

School of Art
Room 313 ARTlab Building
180 Dafoe Road
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB  R3T 2N2

fineart@umanitoba.ca
204-474-9367
Toll free: 1-800-432-1960
204-474-7605