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At more than 25,000 square feet, 91精品 offers one of the most expansive maker facilities in the nation. This creative hive will offer you limitless opportunities to bring your ideas to life. Here, you檒l find space and resources to define your creative path.

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In 91精品檚 labs, you will have access to cutting-edge technology, equipment and machinery. Expert lab technicians are available to help you use all equipment.

Check out 91精品檚 3D & Sculpture Lab, Lubar Emerging Technology Center, Lubar Innovation Center, Printmaking Lab and Textiles Lab.

3D & Sculpture Lab
Lubar Emerging Technology Center
Lubar Innovation Center
Printmaking Lab
Textiles Lab

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3D & Sculpture Lab

91精品’s 3-D and Sculpture lab space boasts approximately 20,000 square feet of workable space for students in all disciplines to work and create. Accommodating needs for students of varying backgrounds, the lab supplies the needed machinery and technology for working in wood, metal, plastics, vacuum forming, model building, bronze casting, ceramics, clay and much more. Found among the open, general space are separate rooms allowing for individual spray booths, tool rooms of shared usage, classroom space, in addition to many individual workstations for needed projects and ideas. True to the nature of the rest of 91精品’s Jane Pettit Bradley building, a wall of windows spans the length of the lab, allowing natural light to flood the facilities opening up the expansive facility even more.

Lubar Emerging Technology Center

The Lubar Emerging Technology Center (ETC) is a place where 91精品 students, staff and faculty engage with technologies as they develop. The purpose of the Lubar ETC is to help students learn how to learn to use technology to support their creative practice. All students have full access to the center, regardless of course of study or discipline.

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Lubar Innovation Center

The 91精品 Lubar Innovation Center connects real-world clients with our best and brightest students.

Through our creative development program, we foster innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to challenge our students individual interests, support academic programming and collaborate with corporate and nonprofit partners.

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Printmaking Lab

91精品’s Printmaking Lab is a unique space on the third floor overlooking the Milwaukee River. It includes a full letterpress shop, intaglio relief printing shop, photo darkroom, lithography shop, screen printing and paper making capabilities and a risograph printer.

A student uses a letterpress printer to make a blue artwork.

Textiles Lab

91精品檚 Textiles Lab is an open workspace available to students in all disciplines. Located on the sunlit second floor the lab houses home to industry-grade equipment, many handwork processes and an ever changing array of donated materials. The lab is monitored and maintained by the Textiles Lab Technician and knowledgeable student workers. Curriculum based projects, such as Product Design’s Everyday Carry project, Visual Language’s embroidery project and the majority of Fashion and Apparel Design projects are accomplished in the Textiles Lab alongside individual projects and explorations. This lab is designed for technical skill building, conceptual advancement and exploratory research.

A student creates a pattern for a garment in the textiles lab.

News

MAKE! Participants Reflect on Creativity, Community and Growth

Alicia Zapata, a second-year MAKE! participant from Chicago and a K-8 art teacher at Waters Elementary School in Chicago, IL, Kelly Wendel, an eighth-year participant and art teacher at Nicolet High School in Glendale, WI and Gail Kowsky, a second-year participant and sixth- and seventh-grade art teacher in New Brighton, Minnesota, reflected on what they gained from this year檚 program.