Benildus is the hub of the Creative Writing and Literature and Contemporary Music departments, and it also houses the Professional and Continuing Studies program. It includes:

• Graphic design digital lab
• O’Shaughnessy Performance Space (“The Garage”)
• Contemporary music studios, classrooms, and practice rooms
• Faculty member offices

Located in Benildus Hall, this is the main lab for the Graphic Design Department. It is available 7 days per week to graphic design students.

The design lab features:

• 16 workstations, each equipped with an 8-core Mac Pro computer, a 24” LED monitor, a Wacom tablet, and a scanner
• Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, and Flash)
• Adobe After Effects
• Final Cut Pro
• Cinema 4D
• Fontlab Studio
• Microsoft Office
• High-speed color laser printer
• Large-format 24” inkjet poster printer

The performance venue in Benildus Hall, which hosts concerts and readings is nicknamed “The Garage” for its wall that slides up like a garage door, doubling the size of the space.

Features include:

• 85-seat performance space
• Indoor and outdoor seating and performances

Benildus Hall houses the teaching studios, practice rooms, and rehearsal halls for the Contemporary Music program. Student access to most practice, studio, and rehearsal spaces is available 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., 7 days a week, via a secure card-key system.

Recording Arts Studio

Composition Studio

Computer Music Lab

World Music Studio

Class Piano Lab

Atrium Gallery

Classrooms

Practice Rooms

Performing arts students spend much of their time in this magnificent venue, name for Greer Garson, Academy Award-winning actress and close friend of the school. The center offers complete facilities for the performing arts programs and professional theatrical productions.

• Main Theatre
  • Seats 514
  • Proscenium-style stage
  • Fly system and orchestra pit
• Weckesser Studio Theatre
  • Seats 90
  • Multi-purpose black box performance space
• Dance studio
• Claire Stewart Williamson Acting Lab
• Practice rooms with pianos
• Well-equipped scenery and costume shops
• Theatre box office
• Gallery exhibition space on two floors in the lobby

Completed in 1970, the center is named for Col. E.E. “Buddy” Fogelson—oilman, rancher, and husband of Greer Garson (Hollywood legend and friend and patron of the school).

Highlights include:

• The Forum lecture hall, seating 200
• The Southwest Annex, housing the Fine Arts Gallery
• Fogelson Library

Our main academic library offers access to knowledge in many formats, including books, journal articles, and electronic media, and it provides instruction on how to locate, evaluate, and analyze information. Our entire collection supports curricula and stimulates critical and creative thinking.

Highlights include:

• 170,000 titles in the print collection
• Electronic resources
• Musical scores, DVDs, and recordings
• Interlibrary loans
• Southwest materials collection
• Santa Fe University of Art and Design archives

Located in Fogelson, this interdisciplinary resource supports the multiple instructional needs of faculty and students, with technical resources needed for instruction, collaborative projects, high-end coursework, research, communication, and creativity.

Features include:

• The latest computers, scanners, and printers
• Digital inputs and outputs
• Digital tablets and output drives
• Musical keyboards and SMART Board interactive whiteboards
• FireWire connectivity and wireless and network access
• Software for database management, GIS, and programming
• 3D Studio MAX animation
• Photoshop and Final Cut video editing
• Finale for scoring music arrangements
• Dreamweaver and Flash website creation software

Located next to the Fogelson Library in the Southwest Annex, the Fine Arts Gallery presents major exhibitions and provides facilities for lectures, meetings, and social gatherings, including the annual Santa Fe University of Art and Design juried student exhibition awards.

The 200-seat forum, located in the Fogelson Library complex, features audiovisual equipment for multimedia presentations.

The Moving Image Arts Department is known as one of the finest undergraduate production and postproduction facilities in the country.

The technical office is stocked with a full complement of equipment for student use, including:

• Arriflex, Aaton Minima, and Bolex 16mm cameras
• Panasonic and other professional Digital Cinema Cameras
• Mole Richardson Lighting equipment and packages
• Industry standard grip and electrical equipment
• Fisher camera dollies

The center also boasts a 2,200-square-foot teaching stage with multichannel lighting control board and lighting grid. In addition, students have access to the Moving Image Arts Archive, which houses several thousand BlueRay and standard DVDs, videotapes, screenplays, and CDs that are available for check-out.

Postproduction facilities include:

• Multiple individual state-of-the-art editing suites for picture cutting and sound mixing
• A 16-seat state-of-the-art digital computer lab with the latest industry standard software including: Avid Media Composer, Pro Tools, Final Cut Pro Studio, After Effects, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver
• A 44-seat, multipurpose large-screen HD and 16mm screening room
• A multiformat dubbing room suite for tape-to-tape and digital transfers

At this popular destination in the Garson Communications Center, some of the greatest works of world cinema are screened daily for students and the public.

• 170-seat cinematheque
• High-definition curved screen
• Stadium seating
• Dolby surround sound system

An intimate exhibition space devoted to new media and time-based artworks, the MOV-iN Gallery serves as a focal point and learning center for curators, gallery owners, and collectors engaged with the complexities of the exhibition of and commerce in new media forms.

The gallery serves as:

• An exhibition space featuring prominent regional, national, and international figures, as well as students, faculty members, and alumni.
• A venue for animation, Web art, video art, sound art, robotic sculpture, and installation.
• A venue for works directed by Moving Image Arts faculty members in collaboration with student preparators, technicians, and curators.
• An integral component of the Moving Image Arts program in Immersive Interactive Media.

Students from the Moving Image Arts Department have the unique opportunity to intern on professional film productions at Garson Studios. Greer Garson, Oscar-winning actress and friend and patron of the university, conceived Garson Studios in 1989 to fill the growing demand for leading-edge soundstages in New Mexico.

• Two state-of-the-art motion picture soundstages (14,000 square feet and 7,500 square feet)
• Back lot space
• Wardrobe and dressing rooms
• Production offices

Feature films that have recently used Garson Studios include:

• The Coen Brothers’ True Grit (Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Josh Brolin)
• The Coen Brothers’ Academy Award-winning No Country for Old Men (Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, and Tommy Lee Jones)
• Greg Mottola’s Paul (Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Seth Rogen)
• Scott Stewart’s Legion (Dennis Quaid and Paul Bettany)
• Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens (Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, and Harrison Ford)
• Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire (Gina Carano, Michael Douglas, and Antonio Banderas)
• Jim Sheridan’s Brothers (Natalie Portman, Toby Maguire, and Jake Gyllenhaal)

Housing the Art and Photography departments, this series of interconnected buildings was designed by award-winning architect Ricardo Legorreta.

The Anne and John Marion Center for Photographic Arts

Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Library

Thaw Art History Center

Visual Resources Center

Chase Art History Library

Tishman Hall

Tipton Hall

Council 241 Student Gallery

Located directly behind the Marion Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute (www.sfai.org) offers:

• Residencies for emerging and mid-career artists and writers (national and international)
• Bi-monthly open studios
• Master workshops and lectures
• Internship and volunteer opportunites for students