The Dow Center FlexLab, KCAD’s state-of-the-art digital fabrication facility, spans two floors and puts a wealth of innovative technoloigy at your fingertips, including 3D printers and scanners, laser and vinyl-cutting machines, wide-format printers, and more.
LOCATED IN:
17 Fountain St. NW building - Lower Level, Room 002
17 Fountain St. NW building - 1st Floor, Room 105
The Bake Furniture Collection provides hands-on access to 1,500 square feet of period furniture and decorative arts from around the world–ancient, modern, and everything in between.
LOCATED IN:
17 Fountain St. NW building - 5th Floor, Room 506
Our expansive metals and jewelry studios feature wax injectors, vacuum and induction casting systems, torches and flexshafts, a complete enameling setup, pneumatic assisted engraving toolsets, a collection of silversmithing stakes and hammers, a rolling mill, shears, a brake, a drawbench, a fume hood, equipment for electroforming and acid etching, as well as laser welders and a vast collection of small, specialized tools.
LOCATED IN:
17 Fountain St. NW building - 2nd Floor, Room 202
An academic library uniquely focused on serving asrtists and designers, the KCAD Library provides access to millions of books through the MeLCat shared library catalog as well as access to specialized research databases and subscriptions to scholarly journals.
LOCATED IN:
17 Fountain St. NW building - 2nd Floor, Room 202
KCAD offers students access to two seperate fully equipped darkrooms—one for processing black and white film/prints and another for processing color film/prints.
LOCATED IN:
17 Fountain St. NW building - 3rd Floor, Room 306
Our expansive lighting studio features large backdrops, an infinity shooting table, lens kits, lens filters, light-control grids and snoots, light meters, softboxes, tripods, stands, and much more.
LOCATED IN:
17 Fountain St. NW building - 3rd Floor, Room 305
Our well-appointed communal Printmaking Lab supports a comprehensive approach to art making. You’ll be able to use tools include etching presses, lithography presses, screenprinting presses and equipment, papermaking equipment, and more.
LOCATED IN:
17 Fountain St. NW building - 3rd Floor, Room 302
In this room, you can peruse more than 1,500 reference catalogues, manufacturer’s catalogues, and decorative hardware catalogues/samples.
LOCATED IN:
17 Fountain St. NW building - 5th Floor, Room 529