Our Spaces
Snyder Hall
Writing Center Satellite & Writing Center
The Writing Center at MSU provides one-on-one and group writing consultations, in-person and online consultations, various writing-specific workshops, and writing groups. The Writing Center has locations across MSU’s campus serving the needs of all students and campus communities.
At our newest satellite location in the Language and Media Center (LMC) in Snyder Hall is a perfect space for developing and polishing your writing, collaborating with other writers, and receiving feedback on your work. Writing Center consultants can help you on a range of assignments such as research papers, analytical essays, comedy routines, songs, poetry, multimedia projects, scholarship applications, resumes, cover letters, and much more. Also, in these hour-long or 30-minute consultations, you can work with a consultant to brainstorm, draft, edit, or format your work.
LMC – Language and Media Center
Located on the terrace level of Snyder Hall, the Language and Media Center (LMC) supports media production and world-language proficiency in the college through an array of resources and services. It is designed to provide a technology-rich space for creating, learning, and collaborating. In the LMC, you can plug your guitar into a computer and record a song; watch a foreign language film; learn to make and publish your own website for free; print out large banners and posters; and so much more. However, you don’t need an excuse to hang out in the LMC. Come down, do homework, play a board game, or have coffee and talk with friends. Students can also work as LMC consultants, who help teach their peers how to use media production applications like Photoshop and Final Cut Pro as well as give feedback on creative projects.
RCAH LookOut Gallery
The RCAH LookOut Gallery, located on the second floor of Snyder-Philips Hall, showcases compelling arrays of exhibits and programs by visiting local artists, students, and community groups often curated by faculty and students. The gallery is always free, and all are welcome.
RCAH Theater
The busy Theater hosts RCAH’s regular Wednesday Night Live events, and student groups like the RCAHppella Singers and the Roial Players regularly perform here throughout the year. The RCAH Theater also features a wide array of film, performing, and educational arts events produced by groups across campus and from the Lansing area.
This 132-seat space is perfect for film screenings, guest speakers or panel discussions, live music performances, theater, and dance. It is equipped with two projectors, theater-quality surround sound, theatrical lighting instruments, and much more.
Center for Poetry
Featured among the ALLC are rich and diverse creative opportunities in the Center for Poetry, which has been creating an awareness of the place and power of poetry in our everyday lives for more than a decade. Poet laureates and illustrious storytellers routinely visit with ALLC students as part of Center for Poetry events, which include readings, slams, workshops, book sales, and poetry contests. The Center also provides internship opportunities for ALLC students, and its Wheelbarrow Books imprint publishes two major collections by established and emerging poets each year.
Art Studio
Located on the terrace level of Snyder Hall, the Art Studio is a creative space where students can work on a wide range of art projects, including drawing, painting, sewing, as well as screen printing, letterpress printing, and linocut printing. Students are invited to drop in during open hours to work on creative projects of their own choosing—or just to hang out. Peer consultants (students with an interest in art) are on hand to help!
Please come down during open hours to hang out with creative students, have a cup of coffee, and make something! We often have visiting artists, special workshops, and fun events—so follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay connected.
Art Supplies
The Art Studio provides students with a wide range of free supplies: markers, crayons, colored pencils, pastels, watercolor paints, acrylic paints, paper, cardstock, scissors, glue, foam, and more for students to experiment with.
Letterpress
The ALLC is fortunate to have several letterpress printers. Drop in on Thursday evenings to work with our master printer, Arie Koelewyn. Arie can teach you to print the way Guttenberg did!
Kresge Art Center
Kresge Art Center Galleries 101 & 114
The Kresge Art Center Gallery 101 & Galleries 114 are located on the first floor of the Kresge Art Center just inside the main entrance of the building off of Auditorium Road. Rotating exhibitions feature the artwork of students in all disciplines across all levels of the Department of Art, Art History, and Design program in solo and group exhibitions.
Visual Resources and Print Lab
The Visual Resources and Print Lab (VRPL) provides a variety of technology services, facilities, and equipment in support of teaching, learning, and research. This is the place to go for printing, borrowing audiovisual equipment, technical support for classroom computers, and general help with art and design technology. The lab includes several workstations with the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, scanners (reflective and transparency), printers, paper cutters, and working space for matting/mounting/trimming.
Form From Thought Lab
The Form From Thought Laboratory (FFT Lab) is an extension of the emerging area of Electronic Art and Intermedia in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design. The FFT Lab is dedicated to providing tools and resources to help bridge the disciplines in a collaborative research and studio environment. It is a brand new, state-of-the-art electronic fabrication, prototyping, and sculpture facility designed for research and fostering interdisciplinarity.
The physical lab space includes an Epilog Laser cutter, 3D laser scanner, a 48″x96” 3-axis Alpha Shopbot router and an Electronics Lab as well as a gathering space for faculty and students
Printmaking
Printmaking has two large studios on the second floor of the Kresge Art Center dedicated to a diverse range of techniques surrounding the traditional and contemporary techniques used in the study of printmaking. Students have access to two etching presses and four lithography presses. The etching presses also accommodate relief and collograph printing.
Film Lab and Screening Room
The College of Arts & Letters’ Film Production Lab features 6 iMac workstations running Adobe Premiere CS6, and Final Cut Pro X, giving students the opportunity to work on the editing platform of their choice. The computers are equipped with Audio-Technica headphones and 8 TB external Thunderbolt hard drives for storage.
Students are able to check out a variety of cameras with interchangeable lenses and heavy-duty tripods for support, as well as Tascam portable audio recorders with Rode NTG-2 shotgun microphones, boom poles and windscreens.
Photography and Lighting Studio
The photography area works across three different facilities in Kresge Art Center: a traditional darkroom with print finishing/critique area, a digital photo lab, and a professionally equipped lighting studio. Advanced digital cameras and lenses are available for check-out from the Visual Resource Library for students currently enrolled in AAHD courses.
Ceramics
The AAHD Ceramic Studio is located inside the Kresge Art Center. During the academic year all students enrolled in ceramics courses have 24 hour access to the space. The studio supports ample space for hand building, wheel throwing, and slip-casting. Inside the studio you will find 17 kilns: 4 indoor gas kilns including 1 soda kiln, 11 electric kilns, a wood kiln just outside the building, and a place for raku firing. The space is also home to a large glaze lab with a spray booth, and a clay mixing room. The graduate studios are adjacent to the main ceramics studios and have private access. All studios have network connections with wifi.
Woodshop
The Department of Art, Art History, and Design houses a fully-equipped woodshop on the ground floor of the Kresge Art Center. Students currently enrolled in AAHD classes, as well as AAHD Faculty, Graduate Students, and Staff can access the woodshop.
Venues
Wharton Center for Performing Arts
The Wharton Center is dedicated to furthering the reach, power and inspiration of the performing arts. The facility is used for teaching purposes with MSU students and younger students from the surrounding community. Students from a variety of majors are encouraged to get involved at the Wharton Center, through employment, acting, directing or stage work.
Fairchild Theatre and Concert Auditorium
The Fairchild Theatre hosts rehearsals, lectures, master classes, and performances, including the Joanne and Bill Church West Circle Series, Musique 21, choral and jazz concerts, and MSU Opera Theatre productions.
Studio 60 Theatre, Acting Studio – Room 12, Arena Theatre
These intimate spaces enhance the immersive nature of theatrical experiences. ALLC students frequently use these spaces to develop their expressive powers and bring stories to life.
RCAH Auditorium
This 132-seat space is perfect for film screenings, guest speakers or panel discussions, live music performances, theater, and dance. It is equipped with two projectors, theater-quality surround sound, theatrical lighting instruments, and much more.
Summer Circle Theatre
Presenting a blend of old favorites, musicals, and provocative new plays, Summer Circle Theatre (SCT) provides a professional venue for MSU students that offers free theatre to Mid-Michigan audiences. SCT presents shows of varying styles using the talents of community members and professional artists.
MSU Union Art Gallery
The MSU Union Art Gallery opened during the fall of 2016 on the second floor of the MSU Union. It is programmed and operated by the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University and hosts 6 to 8-week exhibitions featuring work by alumni, contemporary artists, and special curated exhibitions from collaborators on campus.
(SCENE) Metrospace
(SCENE) Metrospace, founded by the City of East Lansing in 2004 as a response to the “Cool Cities” initiative, is now operated by the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University. It provides an alternative storefront-style venue for a wide variety of arts-related events, from poetry readings to art exhibits and musical performances.
Michigan Traditional Arts Program
The Michigan Traditional Arts Program is a statewide program that works to advance cross-cultural understanding and equity in a diverse society through the documentation, preservation, and presentation of traditional arts, folklife, and everyday culture in Michigan.
