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College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Performing and Visual Arts

    • Building 30 Music Hall:  Performance, Practice, and Recording Spaces

      The building, which served as a chapel for Fort Ord, features a large recital hall with fixed and movable seats and a Steinway D concert grand piano.  The Steinway D is one of three Steinways and four Boston pianos in the department. In addition, there are electronic pianos and synthesizers for student use.

      The building is equipped with two state-of-the-art recording studios and two MIDI labs with a total of twelve workstations. Small classrooms also serve as practice facilities for students, when available.

      The Music instrumental inventory includes a variety of string and wind instruments, a collection of guitars, a modern piano lab, and an impressive array of percussion instruments. In addition, we also have a rare and unique collection of jazz ensemble arrangements received through collaborations with the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Library.

    • Building 48 Grove Hall: Classrooms & Faculty Spaces

      This building features two dedicated classrooms, one traditional classroom with upright piano, and the second is a 32-seat Mac lab with specialized Music load sets.  All Music faculty have their offices in Grove Hall



    • Known on campus as the "VPA Complex," Buildings 70, 71, 72, and 73 are home to Visual and Public Art classrooms, gallery spaces, display spaces, workshops, computer labs, and more.  
    • Building 70 highlights include 2 fully-accessible darkrooms, a film processing area, digital lab, the Fabrika silkscreen printing lab, and gallery exhibition space in addition to classroom space.
    • Buildings 71 and 72 serve as hands-on classroom spaces for mural and painting, mixed media, drawing, and color theory.
    • Building 73 is instructional and studio to welding, woodworking, ceramics, fabrication and more.