Teaching Facilities
No matter your interest, we have the spaces, software, and tools needed to help you succeed.
Northwestern has the facilities for you to explore a broad range of creative media. Whether your passion is audio, drawing, cinematography, painting, graphic design, sculpting , or writing, we’ve got you covered. Check out the links below to take a virtual tour of our art and design classrooms.
Totino Fine Arts Center
Adobe Creative Suite, Industry design software, film and print scanner, tabloid laser printer.
Oil and water based equipped, easels, natural light, sinks, canvas stretching.
Illustration & Animation
Maya, Unreal Game Engine, Scoptrist, Pixar Rende Man, Down Shooting Camera, Adobe Creative Suite, Quadra K 4000 Towers, Cintiq Tablets, Google Cloud Rendering Farm, Over 200 Animation and Movie Titles.
Negative Space
Clean room, critique room, vinyl cutter, sewing machine, paint spray booth, photo mount vacuum table.
Photography
Film development darkroom, digital lab, photo studio, strobes and seamless, film scanner.
Nazareth Hall
Two electric kilns, microwave kiln, glazing spray booth, glaze area, plaster room, mold making, electric wheels, slab roller, pug mill.
Drawing easels, drawing horses, critique walls.
Screen printing presses, exposure unit, two etching presses, drying racks, paper tearing table, large sinks, spray out booth, ferric chloride etching tanks.
Full wood shop, digital router, plaster room, communal work space, 3D printers.
Student driven exhibitions.
Mel Johnson Media Center
Home of TheMEL.fm, winner of the 2025 CMB University Station of the Year, our radio studios offer state of the art digital audio production spaces.
The TV Studio Sound Stage provides a large creative production space for students to explore film and music production.
Video Editing Suites
Six editing suites equipped with industry editing software such as Adobe Creative Suite and DaVinci Resolve.
