The Fine Art Studio (also known simply as the “Art Studio” building) was located at the corner of University Avenue and Sixteenth Street. Originally a brick boarding house built at the turn of the century, it was gutted by fire and remodeled for use by the Art Department in 1962. “Classroom” space for drawing and printing was located within the premises and the enclosed front porch housed a gallery.
A small frame building was erected in the rear of the structure for sculpture and ceramics (shown on 1980s maps as “Art Lab”). Also in use during the late 1960s was the Fine Art Lab, or Studio II.
It was still in use around 1988 for printmaking, ceramics, and jewelry classes.
Art classes, long known for residing in temporary buildings, currently reside in the six-building Art Complex on the extreme southern edge of campus.
The lot has now been cleared and is home to a parking lot; in 2006, campus maps suddenly named the area Anisman Park with little fanfare or onsite signage.
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| One of the seemingly insignificant buildings on campus, the Fine Arts Studio was shown on campus maps through from the 1960s to 1980s. |
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| The corner in question and Anisman Park(ing Lot). |
