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buildings & hours
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CAMPUS BUILDINGS
2008 SUMMER BUILDING HOURS
2008 - 2009 BUILDING HOURS
Located in Saint Paul's historic Cathedral and Summit Hill neighborhoods, the CVA campus comprises five buildings, and offers students
access to an architecturally inspiring and efficient learning environment.
The Summit Building, at 344 Summit Avenue, houses administrative and faculty offices, communication design, illustration, sculpture and printmaking
studios, computer labs and liberal arts classrooms.
Mailing address: 344 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55102
Main: 651.224.3416 or 800.224.1536
Fax: Fax 651.224.8854
The Western Building, at 173 Western Avenue, maintains drawing, painting, photography and foundation studios, the gallery and student lounge.
Main: 651.298.9305
Faculty: 651.290.9381
Gallery: 651.290.9379
The Marquette Building, at 377 Dayton Avenue, is the location of the color and black and white photography labs.
651.310.9554
The Dayton Building, at 394 Dayton Avenue, has the library, a small computer lab, and additional faculty and administrative offices.
Mailing address: 394 Dayton Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55102
Main: 651.310.0575
Fax: 651.310.0590
The Grotto Building, at 760 Selby Avenue, has additional drawing, painting and 3D studios.
Faculty: 651.224.3823
Student: 651.224.3798
COMPUTER LABS
CVA GALLERY
PHOTOGRAPHY LABS
PRINTMAKING STUDIOS
SCULPTURE STUDIO
COMPUTER LABS
The computer labs play an important role in the college’s effort to educate students to be visually, verbally and technologically accomplished. CVA’s curriculum strives to establish a balance between teaching students the technical skills needed to generate complex visual work, while enabling them to envision the creative possibilities of the computer as an artistic medium.
Students at CVA have access to three networked Macintosh computer labs with file servers, color scanners and high quality black and white laser printers. The computer labs are open extended hours for student use for class assignments.
CVA provides a unique environment to explore, research, create and learn. The college’s high-speed Internet link allows students in the computer labs to draw upon the extensive information resources the Internet makes available. Students have access to creative elements such as images, sounds and text, as well as, photo and film archives and electronic art galleries at web sites throughout the world. In addition, Internet-based research tools and library databases assist with research for scholarly papers.
CVA GALLERY
The CVA Main Gallery, located on the corner of Selby and Western Avenues, is an exhibition space dedicated to presenting works by regional, national, and international artists. In conjunction with its exhibitions, the gallery often sponsors talks by featured artists, visiting scholars, CVA alumni and faculty. These forums provide members of the college community and the public an opportunity to meet artists and learn more about their influences and work processes. In addition to the college's gallery, hundreds of square feet of halls and walls in campus buildings enable students to display their work throughout the year.
PHOTOGRAPHY LABS
The college's photography facilities allow both beginning and advanced students to work in a well-equipped environment that fosters
the exploration of individual photographic vision. These facilities can be used for traditional black and white, color, digital, and
alternative photographic methods.
CVA's Western Avenue Photo Studio houses a large shooting studio, lighting equipment, seamless backdrops, reflectors, tripods,
and other gear necessary for studio work. It functions as the Photo Classroom as well. Also located in the Western building are
the Dry Mounting, Matte Cutting, Copy Camera rooms, and the Photo Faculty Office. Adjacent to the Photo Studio
is the new Digital Darkroom, housing computers, scanners and our state of the art Epson Inkjet Photo Printers, allowing printing
with pigmented archival inks on elegant 100% rag papers.
Close by in the Marquette Building are the college's black and white and color darkrooms, film processing area, photo student lounge,
and equipment check out counter. Here, small, medium, and large format cameras, video cameras, tripods, darkroom kits, and
other equipment can be accessed. Our newest facility is an Alternative Process Darkroom located adjacent to the Film Processing area in the Marquette
Labs. Here students can explore the fascinating world of such historical processes as cyanotype, Van Dyke, gum bichromate, platinum and palladium,
and hand-applied liquid emulsions on alternative surfaces.
PRINTMAKING STUDIOS
CVA’s printmaking studios include a main printshop equipped with a plate lithography press and three intaglio presses suitable for intaglio, monotype, collage, transfer and embossing techniques. Adjacent is a ventilated acid/solvent room equipped with an acid sink, vertical etching tank and solvent washer. A classroom for water-based screen-printing is outfitted with large work tables for clean tasks and a sink wash-out area. A relief studio houses a Vandercook letterpress and book press, and a separate composing room for type. The dark room has sinks and several exposing units for photo screens, intaglio photo plates, photo-litho plates, photopolymer relief, and letterpress. The college provides students with the basic materials of inks and solvents.
SCULPTURE STUDIO
The college's sculpture facility is furnished with a full metal shop equipped for cutting, drilling and welding all types of metal. The sculpture studio houses a complete line of woodworking equipment and tools, as well as equipment for mold making and casting in plaster and concrete. Students make use of the outdoor grounds for installation work.
2008 SUMMER BUILDING HOURS*
Summer Building Hours in effect from Saturday, May 9 - Sunday, August 16
*Subject to change.
Summit Building - 344 Summit Avenue – 651.224.3416
Printmaking studio, computer labs, sculpture studio
| 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Monday through Thursday |
| 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. | Friday |
| CLOSED | Saturday & Sunday |
CVA Library/Dayton Building - 394 Dayton Avenue – 651.310.0575
| 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Monday through Thursday |
| 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. | Friday |
| CLOSED | Saturday & Sunday |
Grotto Building - 760 Selby Avenue – 651.224.3823
| 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Monday through Thursday |
| 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. | Friday |
| CLOSED | Saturday & Sunday |
Western Building - 173 Western Avenue – 651.290.9379
| 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Monday and Wednesday |
| 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. | Thursday |
| CLOSED | Saturday & Sunday |
CVA Gallery - 173 Western Avenue – 651.290.9379
Open during scheduled exhibitions. See Gallery Calendar.
| 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. | Wednesday and Friday |
| 12:00 to 8:00 p.m. | Thursday |
| 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. | Saturday |
Photo Lab/Marquette Building - 377 Dayton Avenue – 651.310.9554
CLOSED for the Summer
Darkroom hours will resume in late August.
2008 - 2009 FALL AND SPRING BUILDING HOURS*
Summer Building Hours in effect from Saturday, May 9 - Sunday, August 16
*Subject to change.
Summit Building - 344 Summit Avenue – 651.224.3416
Printmaking studio, computer labs, sculpture studio
| 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. | Monday through Thursday |
| 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Friday |
| 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. | Saturday |
| 12:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. | Sunday |
CVA Library/Dayton Building - 394 Dayton Avenue – 651.310.0575
| 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. | Monday through Thursday |
| 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Friday |
| 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Saturday |
| 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. | Sunday |
Grotto Building - 760 Selby Avenue – 651.224.3823
| 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. | Monday through Thursday |
| 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Friday |
| 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. | Saturday |
| 12:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. | Sunday |
Western Building - 173 Western Avenue – 651.290.9379
| 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. | Monday through Thursday |
| 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Friday |
| 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. | Saturday |
| 12:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. | Sunday |
CVA Gallery - 173 Western Avenue – 651.290.9379
Open during scheduled exhibitions. See Gallery Calendar.
| 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. | Wednesday and Friday |
| 12:00 to 8:00 p.m. | Thursday |
| 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. | Saturday |
Photo Lab/Marquette Building - 377 Dayton Avenue – 651.310.9554
| 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. | Monday through Thursday |
| 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Friday |
| 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Saturday |
| 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. | Sunday |
Campus Security 612.839.3505
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