Performing and Visual Arts
- Building 30 Music Hall: Performance, Practice, and Recording Spaces
The building, which served as a chapel for Fort Ord, features a large recital hall with fixed and movable seats and a Steinway D concert grand piano. The Steinway D is one of three Steinways and four Boston pianos in the department. In addition, there are electronic pianos and synthesizers for student use.
The building is equipped with two state-of-the-art recording studios and two MIDI labs with a total of twelve workstations. Small classrooms also serve as practice facilities for students, when available.
The Music instrumental inventory includes a variety of string and wind instruments, a collection of guitars, a modern piano lab, and an impressive array of percussion instruments. In addition, we also have a rare and unique collection of jazz ensemble arrangements received through collaborations with the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Library.
- Building 48 Grove Hall: Classrooms & Faculty Spaces
This building features two dedicated classrooms, one traditional classroom with upright piano, and the second is a 32-seat Mac lab with specialized Music load sets. All Music faculty have their offices in Grove Hall
- Building 30 Music Hall: Performance, Practice, and Recording Spaces
- Known on campus as the "VPA Complex," Buildings 70, 71, 72, and 73 are home to Visual and Public Art classrooms, gallery spaces, display spaces, workshops, computer labs, and more.
- Building 70 highlights include 2 fully-accessible darkrooms, a film processing area, digital lab, the Fabrika silkscreen printing lab, and gallery exhibition space in addition to classroom space.
- Buildings 71 and 72 serve as hands-on classroom spaces for mural and painting, mixed media, drawing, and color theory.
- Building 73 is instructional and studio to welding, woodworking, ceramics, fabrication and more.