Art & Design Center

The Art and Design Center opened in September 2004, and will be dedicated on October 20, 2005. As the new home for the Arts and Design division, the Chatham Art and Design Center is one of the most creative spaces on campus – both for its architecture, and for the work of the undergraduate and graduate students who utilize it.

The building represents an adaptive reuse of the College’s former Gymnasium, constructed in 1952. Built in the Collegiate Georgian style, the building fronts the College’s athletic field and Lodge. The main entry houses offices for arts and design division faculty, as well as the College’s photographic slide archives. The Sculpture and Ceramics studios, including a kiln room, now occupy the building’s former dance studio. The main gymnasium floor – which still includes the court lines – houses studios for Painting, Printmaking, Interior Architecture and Landscape Architecture, as well as a computer lab with plotter equipment. Overlooking the studios is a steel and glass bridge that provides student exhibition space and connects a semi-smart classroom with a Senior Tutorial room and kitchenette.

Naming opportunities are still available.

Ground Floor/Ceramics Studio

First Floor

Mezzanine