Facilities

With facilities for working with wood, metal, neon, video, electronics and plastics, virtually anything can be made in the sculpture studios of the ASU Herberger Institute School of Art. The sculpture program has one of the best-equipped metal fabrication facilities in the Southwest, including an extensive inventory of tools and equipment with space for large-scale sculpture production. An outstanding woodshop includes a variety of stationary saws, planers and sanders. Specialized equipment for vacu-forming plastic, bending and filling neon and the machining of metal plastic and wood is also available. Facilities for video production, and electronic arts, insure that every student’s vision can be realized.

Experimental Systems/New Systems

• Access to complete Mac lab with G5 towers loaded with software including Adobe Suite, Final Cut Studio, After Effects and Maya
• Access to video camcorders, tripods and lighting kits
• Projectors for installations
• Greenscreen studio
• Oscilloscope
• Variable voltage supply
• Milling machine
• Lathe

Foundry

• #40 Melt Furnace
• #70 Melt Furnace
• Two burnout kilns
• 12" Cupola with iron casting capacity
• State-of-the-art ceramic shell facility with primary and secondary fluidized beds and slurry tanks
• Green sand, Petrobond, sodium silicate and linocure sand systems
• Investment casting capability
• Two sand mullers
• Banding machine
• Complete pneumatic metal chasing equipment icluding die grinders, turbo grinders, angle grinders, needle scalers, engravers, cut-off tools, hand tools

Graduate Studio

• Cold saw
• Table saw
• Chop saws
• Band saws
• High capacity MIG TIG welders
• Oxyacetylene welders
• Hydraulic sheet metal shear (6' capacity)
• Hydraulic work table

Metal Shop

• Beverly Shear
• Grizzly horizontal band saw
• A-frame crane
• Gantry crane
• Do-All 36" throat band saw
• Scotchman hydraulic punch/bender
• Six-foot sheet metal break
• Pneumatic power shear
• Rollin metal band saw
• Manual punch
• Forge dies
• Two Lincoln MIG welders
• Three oxyacetaline kits
• Hypertherm plasma cutter
• Miller dialarc arc welder
• Cobramatic MIG 260
• Lincoln square wave TIG welder
• Dayton spot welder
• Rockwell vertical band saw
• MSC 3 Axis milling machine
• Logan metal lathe
• Miscellaneous bench grinders and drill presses
• Large and small sheet/rod rollers
• Extensive hand power tools such as right angle grinders, die grinders, nibbler, saber saw and sawzall

Neon Shop

• Multiple ribbon burners
• Cross fires
• Hand torches
• AV traditional bombarding station & manifold
• Thermal bombarder manifold
• Computer controlled glass kiln
• Capability for high voltage high frequency plasma discharge vessels

Patination

• Cobra-MIG and TIG non-ferrous welding facility

Woodshop

• Rockwell 24" throat band saw
• Grizzly spindle sander
• Rockwell drill press
• Delta 12" disc/bench grinder
• Saw stop 12" table saw
• Dewalt Miter saw
• 18" radial arm saw
• Two jig saws
• Electrostatic flocker
• High frequency probe
• Extensive hand power tools including routers, saber saws, pneumatic nail guns and screw guns