Studio Arts Building

Opened in 2008, the Studio Arts Building (SAB) houses faculty, graduate and undergraduate student studios in addition to instructional studios and shops for digital media, drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, and administrative offices. 

It is one of several facilities available to students studying in the Department of Art, along with the Fine Arts Center (FAC), and Clark Hall, where a number of graduate studios are located. The Department provides extensive facilities in Studio Arts: Foundations and Art Education classrooms, Mac and PC computer labs with large scanners, digital print center, studios in animation, analog and digital photography, printmaking, painting, drawing, wood, clay, metals and plaster, as well as a new CNC router and laser cutter. Shops and labs are maintained by highly trained technical staff.

Located in the basement of SAB, the equipment cage houses analog and digital cameras, tripods, audio equipment, etc., which students can borrow for a specified timeframe. The hours are posted on the door.

Graduate studios are located in the Studio Arts Building and Clark Hall. Studios are assigned to students based on material and space needs as well as seniority in the program.

Monona Rossol—noted chemist, artist, and industrial hygienist specializing in visual and performing arts hazards for more than thirty years—worked with Gund Partnership Architects in 2006 to help develop plans for the UMass Amherst Studio Arts Building. She was instrumental in creating a safe, hygienic, and well-equipped building for student and faculty artists, and went on to call the Studio Arts Building an embodiment of “how things should be done.”