School of Art & Art History (Art and Exhibition Hall 4th & 5th Floors)

Studio Arts Lab

The Studios Art Department, located on the 4th floor of the Art and Exhibition Hall, features a variety of spaces, equipment, labs, and tools. Training is required at various levels to obtain access to these spaces and equipment, with access limited to when spaces are open.  However, much like our other areas, the Sculpture Studio/Classroom, Painting Studio/Classroom, and Drawing Studio/Classroom offer 24/7 access for students to continue.

Equipment/Labs

Kiln Master Operating Manual (PDF, 2.3 MB)
Studio Arts Ceramic Kiln Use Policy (PDF, 63 KB)
Studio Arts Metal Shop Policy (PDF, 56 KB)
Studio Arts Sculpture Area Rules (PDF, 43 KB)
Studio Arts New Media CNC Use & Policy (PDF, 37KB)
Studio Arts Woodshop Policy (PDF, 71 KB)
Lab Equipment Policy from Faculty Handbook (PDF, 44 KB)
Service Bureau Equipment SAAH FacultyHandbook_2024-2025 (PDF, 31KB)

Lab Specialist: Matt Mancini
Studio Arts
mmancini@uic.edu
312-413-0027

Matt Mancini (b. 1987) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator born in Philadelphia, PA. He recently completed his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and holds a BFA from Rutgers University. He has recently shown at Peana Projects in Mexico, Little Berlin in Philadelphia, Casa Blanca in Puerto Rico, and Julius Caesar, Fernway, LVL3, Baby Blue Gallery, Ballroom Projects, Chicago Artist Coalition, Heaven Gallery, and Roots and Culture in Chicago.

MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014
BFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, 2010

New Media Lab

New Media Arts at UIC, located on the 5th floor of the Art and Exhibition Hall, offers students a unique, interdisciplinary curriculum in which leading practitioners come together to work with students as they develop aesthetic and critical perspectives in emergent technologies. The New Media Art Lab features a variety of equipment such as a Laser cutter, various 3D printers, and a Dedicated Render Farm. Training is a requirement for some equipment for access, while other pieces of equipment are service bureau only due to the nature of the work.

Equipment/Labs:

New Media Equipment Overview & Access (PDF,  55 KB)
Studio Arts New Media CNC Use & Policy (PDF, 37KB)
Lab Equipment Policy from Faculty Handbook (PDF, 44 KB)
Service Bureau Equipment SAAH FacultyHandbook_2024-2025 (PDF, 31KB)

Lab Specialist: Shane Hope
New Media and Art Education
shope@uic.edu
312-413-8318

Shane Hope scribbles on scriptable-scalable species-tool-beings and quacker-casts computronium-clouds of kilo-IQ’d collablobject-oriented co-op-corporeal commons-clusters and playbors with post-scarcity prescient-peek-a-boo public-panopticon-powdered plunderware-portraiture of percept-pus and plans for playborground ball pits of pure operationality all about atomic admin access-privs picturesque grey-gooplexus-thunkuppetrees and qubit-built-quilts algorithmicracked-out junk-DNAnarch-keys to un-nanoblockonomic-lock nano-nonobjective-ontographic fine-joules-bots that gots-lots-o-watts.

PhD, Cronomordant Extratemporal Studies, Thought Barrier Overclocking Thinking Recycling Think Tank 2.0, Wheneverland and Ever Aftermath
MFA, Junk DNA Sculptural Ontogenesis, Accelerationistas School of Noocytes vs. Computronium, 2041 and 2.22... zeptoseconds
BFA, Geekonomic Scillustration, Yöü-Ünix Klüster Koördinator U., 202_? &/or 2034-ish

Photography Lab

Photography, located on the 4th floor of the Art and Exhibition Hall, is a medium for documentation, communication, and personal expression. Students in the Photography concentration develop skills in each of these areas that allow them to go on to careers as artists, documentarians, and educators. The various photography labs will allow students to use a Black and White Darkroom, top-of-the-line Photography Printers, and Film Scanning. Photographic Lighting Studio and various digital and analog cameras, and other equipment. All areas require training, with many of these labs being accessible 24/7 to students.

Lighting Equipment Safety Guidelines (PDF, 44 KB)
Photography Darkroom Safety Procedures (PDF, 56 KB)
Moving Image Darkroom Safety Procedures (DOC, 15 KB)
Lab Equipment Policy from Faculty Handbook (PDF, 44 KB)

Digital Print/Scanning Labs
Equipment Check out

Lab Specialist: Eileen Mueller
Photography
emuell21@uic.edu 
Tel.

Eileen Mueller (b. 1985, Milwaukee, WI) studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and later received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been a resident of the Wassaic Project and ACRE and is the recipient of the Fred Endsley Memorial Fellowship. Eileen has shown at IM ERSTEN in Vienna, Austria; Higher Pictures and the Jungle Lounge in New York, NY; The Pitch Project in Milwaukee, WI; OSU Urban Arts Space in Columbus, OH; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Elmhurst Art Museum, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Iceberg Projects, Roots and Culture Community Arts Center, and Johalla Projects in Chicago, IL. Her work is published in Phantoms In the Dirt, The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics, and MAKE #16 “Archive.” Eileen is one half of GURL DON’T BE DUMB which has curated shows and performances across the country, produced collaborative work, and published the show catalogue WEIRD DUDE ENERGY. A co-founder and former Associate Director of LATITUDE, Eileen has worked to activate Chicago’s artist community through organizing workshops, lectures, and panel discussions within a publicly accessible studio space. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with the Early College Program, Marwen, and has spent several summers assistant teaching at the Ox-Bow School of Art. After teaching in the Visual Arts department at the Chicago High School for the Arts for six years, she received her Masters in Fine Arts degree from the University of Illinois Chicago.

Moving Image Lab

Photography, located on the 4th floor of the Art and Exhibition Hall, is a medium for documentation, communication, and personal expression. Students in the Photography concentration develop skills in each of these areas that allow them to go on to careers as artists, documentarians, and educators. The various photography labs will allow students to use a Black and White Darkroom, top-of-the-line Photography Printers, and Film Scanning. Photographic Lighting Studio and various digital and analog cameras, and other equipment. All areas require training, with many of these labs being accessible 24/7 to students.

Equipment/Labs:

Lighting Equipment Safety Guidelines (PDF, 44 KB)
Photography Darkroom Safety Procedures (PDF, 56 KB)
Moving Image Darkroom Safety Procedures (DOC, 15 KB)
Lab Equipment Policy from Faculty Handbook (PDF, 44 KB)
Service Bureau Equipment SAAH FacultyHandbook_2024-2025 (PDF, 31KB)

Digital Print/Scanning Labs
Equipment Check out
Sounds Studio
Equipment Check out

Lab Specialist: Paul Dickinson
Moving Image
pdickins@uic.edu
312-996-0767

Paul Dickinson is the Senior Instructional Lab Specialist for Moving Image. He manages the Moving Image computer labs and editing facilities, and oversees the Moving Image Equipment Room. Paul came to UIC after working for several years as a production sound mixer and sound designer for commercial, industrial and independent feature film production, and providing technical support for live performances. He received his MFA in Studio Arts from UIC in 1999. His sound and performance-oriented work has been presented at various venues nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Konstakuten (Stockholm), Kunsthalle 8 (Vienna), Hallwalls (Buffalo), and Artists' Space (NYC). Paul's discography includes "Sleep Talk Recordings, Vol. 1: 1986-2000" (2002), and "Music for Worms and Compost" (2007). His recent work centers around acoustic ecology, biophony, and healing. 

BFA-Filmmaking, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Fine Arts, 1985
MFA-Studio Arts, University of Illinois-Chicago, 1999

Art and Exhibition Hall (AEH)
4th & 5th Floors
400 South Peoria Street
Chicago, Illinois 60607