Resources

Shelves full of wood and stone tiles, paint jars, and acrylic sheets in a rainbow of colors Materials Library The Fisher Fine Arts Materials Library hosts thousands of samples ranging from traditional construction materials to emergent and novel samples such as Vanta Black, electronic paint, and seaweed insulation. The aim of the collection is to bring together innovation and creativity in order to advance conceptualization through tactile exploration, and draws from disciplines across campus.
Two students working together on a wooden frame a studio Fabrication Lab The Fabrication Lab serves as a practical laboratory extension of classroom theory. The Lab is equipped for all phases of woodworking, metalworking, and machining, as well as digital fabrication with CNC routing, laser cutting, and 3D printing. The lab is available to all University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design students and to all students enrolled in ancillary Weitzman courses.
Studio with various kinds of printing presses Common Press, The The Common Press is the letterpress and book arts studio at the University of Pennsylvania.
View of the help desk Photography & Video Equipment Room The Photography & Video Equipment Room in the Department of Fine Arts provides access to multimedia equipment, studios and technical support in order to enhance the department’s curriculum and foster an environment of experimentation in the areas of photography, video, animation, and design. The Photography & Video Equipment Room maintains a state-of-the-art facility that is safe, efficient, and clean for over eight hundred students from across the university each academic year. 
Front of the Institute of contemporary art during the evening with students gathered around. Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Nationally and for our graduate fine arts community, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) provides an essential forum for the presentation and documentation of recent developments in the visual arts. Artists who present innovative work at ICA often give lectures and critiques of student work. ICA also hosts a number of public lectures each year by visiting artists participating in the MFA program.
Foreground: sculpture with bicycle wheel suspended between two chairs. Background, performers dancing Institutional Collaborators The Fine Arts Department collaborates in public programming and collaborative projects with many of the art institutions in the city of Philadelphia.
Huge library space with stone arched architecture and several students working at large wooden tables Fisher Fine Arts Library The services and collections of the Fisher Fine Arts Library facilitate work in architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, historic preservation, history of art, and fine arts. 
Brightly lit unoccupied computer lab with screen and projector Video / Film Resources The video labs are equiped with professional broadcast monitors, Premiere, Avid, the Adobe Creative Suite, Protools, Logic Pro and additional plug-ins and tools for post-production.
Student looking a at comic and turning it into a storyboard for an animation. Animation Resources Animation resources include computer labs with Wacom tablets, 2D and 3D animation and compositing applications such as Mudbox, Maya, Matchmover, 3ds Max, Premiere, Aftereffects, TV Paint, Flash, and others. DSLR cameras, lighting and grip equipment, sound recording and editing equipment are used wth Dragonframe software for stop-motion animation.
Unoccupied office/studio space with several computers and a work table in the center. Undergraduate Fine Arts Major Senior Studios Fine Art Majors are assigned shared studio spaces the summer prior to their senior year. The studio spaces accommodate students working in animation, design, ceramics, painting, photography, sculpture and video.
Close up of student working with clay using a press mold. Ceramics The ceramics facilities are equipped for wheel throwing, hand building, mold making and casting, and for work ranging from functional ware to sculptural and architectural projects.
Gallery display of photographs. Most notable pieces are large portraits of a woman and a man. Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery The Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery hosts a variety programs each year including student exhibitions, film series’, collaborative events with outside institutions and special exhibitions featuring visiting artists.
Unoccupied studio space with table in center and supplies and smaller work tables on the sides. Sculpture Resources The sculpture facilities provide dynamic workspaces for students working in three-dimension design, fabrication and related media.
Student prepares to trim a large photograph in a softly lit studio. Large prints of photographs hang on the wall in the back Photography The photography resources include conventional wet labs, high-level digital photography studios, large-format archival inkjet printers, Hasselblad Flextight film scanners, and private studios.