Facilities

San Jose State offers a full feature hot shop with two benches, two clear glass tanks, two glory holes, and two large annealing ovens. The hot shop also has a pickup oven, hot glass garage, and pipe warmer. Both of the 200 pound furnaces were rebuilt over the summer of 2000.

Other features are a 21" x 42" fusing and slumping kiln, and a small casting kiln. There are also two testing kilns and a hot glass roller also available. There is a plater and casting area available for students interested in mold casting or slumping.

The cold working area included three steel grinding wheels, one stone wheel, a belt sander, polishing wheels. A glass lathe, a spherical miracle, and a bandsaw are available adjacent to the ceramics area. A vacuum and pressure pot sandblaster is available in another room.

San Jose State also provides a large clay area with large gas, raku, electric, and salt kilns and a fully-equipped foundry with space to work on large-scale pieces. Glass and clay graduate students have their own graduate studio area which provided 24-hour access to facilities.

One unique feature of San Jose State's art department is it's gallery system. The university has eight small galleries in the main building available to students. Gallery space is allotted in one-week time slots, and and art department graduate or undergraduate students can sign up for gallery space. The student who takes the gallery is responsible for set-up, invitations, and refreshments at the openings, which happen every Tuesday night. The Tuesday night openings are also a part of the social atmosphere in the art department.