Facilities Tour

College of Music and Fine Arts Facilities

The 115,000-square-foot, four-story Communications/Music Complex provides state-of-the-art facilities for music and communications including the 600-seat Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall. Other College of Music performance halls include the Nunemaker Auditorium, the Holy Name of Jesus Church, and Satchmo's, which plays host to Loyola's Jazz Underground series.

Studios and Labs include:

• Acoustically-treated faculty studios and individual practice rooms.
• Two computer-assisted piano laboratories designed to allow class instruction on individual electronic piano keyboards.
• A computer music studio with the latest in electronic instruments, computers, and synthesizers.
• Two recording studios featuring Digidesign Protools, Apple Logic Pro, and recording consoles by Solid State Logic and Digidesign. The studios have isolation rooms and a wide selection of microphones and outboard equipment.
• A computerized music theory laboratory with workstations designed to give students access to the latest composition and music theory software.
• A multi-media training center with 31 multi-media stations, each consisting of an Apple computer, MIDI keyboard, and professional creativity software like Adobe Creative Suite, Apple Final Cut studio, Finale, and other top programs. The training center also features dual projection systems and a dedicated server linked via high speed Gigabit Ethernet network to each workstation. Surround sound in 5.1 format is also available. 

Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall
The Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall is located on the second floor of the Communications/Music complex located on the corner of St. Charles and Calhoun Streets. The 600-seat hall can handle a full spectrum of performances from the solo recitals to the full symphony orchestra concerts.

Louis J. Roussel Auditorium seating chart.

Nunemaker Auditorium
Nunemaker Auditorium is located on the third floor of the the Monroe Science Complex. (located directly behind the Communications/Music Complex) The auditorium is 400-seat lecture/concert hall, which is used for the weekly recital hour, as well as solo and small ensemble performances.

Nunemaker Auditorium seating chart.

Holy Name of Jesus Church
The Holy Name of Jesus Church is located on the west in of Loyola's campus at 6367 St. Charles Ave. The church is an 800-seat cathedral style church, which boasts wonderful acoustics perfectly suited for choral and organ performances. Holy Name of Jesus Church is the location for the annual Christmas at Loyola music event.

Satchmo's
Satchmo’s, home of the Montage Jazz Underground Series, is in the basement of the Danna Student Center located in the center of the university's main campus. On select Thursday evenings, Satchmo’s becomes an intimate jazz club, featuring performances by local professional, faculty, and student musicians.

Theatre Arts Facilities

The department has two theaters with recently upgraded lighting and audio: the 150-seat Marquette Theater, notable for its proscenium arch, and The Lower Depths, an experimental theater seating 70-85, adaptable to a variety of dramatic forms. The theatres are supported by a costume shop and scenic shop. Specialized classrooms include acting and design studios.

Marquette Theater
Marquette Theater can be found on the second floor of Marquette Hall located off St. Charles Ave. The 150-seat intimate theater, notable for its proscenium arch, plays home to several theatrical productions each year.

The Lower Depths Theater
The Lower Depths Theater is an experimental black-box theater seating approximately 70-85 individuals. This particular theater is adaptable to a variety of dramatic forms due to its size and versatility.

Visual and Graphic Arts Facilities

The visual arts’ building (St. Mary’s Hall) is located on the Broadway campus. The art facility includes painting and drawing studios; a fully equipped wood and metal shop for sculpture, including foundry; a ceramics area which includes electric, gas-fired, and raku kilns, for hand-building and wheel-thrown ceramics; and a printmaking studio capable of producing intaglio, stone and plate lithography, serigraphy, relief and letter press (foundry type and photopolymer plates), all capable of using photomechanical processes. The department also has a fully equipped darkroom and a state-of-the-art computer imaging lab with Silicon Graphics and multi-media capabilities

Danna Center Art Gallery (under renovations)
The Danna Center Art Gallery is located in the Danna Center on Loyola’s main campus. The Art Gallery is a run by the visual arts student organization.

Student exhibitions make up the majority of the calendar, including both visual arts and graphic design. Faculty, individual artist, and group shows make up the remainder of the schedule.

Exhibitions are switched monthly during the Fall and Spring semesters. For more information contact the Visual Arts Department at 861-5456.

Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery
The Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery and Visual Arts Center is located on the 4th floor of the J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library. The Art Gallery occupies the entire upper floor of the library, one fourth of which is dedicated the permanent Cornet collection.

The mission of the Diboll Art Gallery is to be an educational space for the community. Exhibitions include local, national, international, and student shows. Exhibitions are held both monthly and bi-monthly depending upon the particular show. As often as possible, individual artists give lectures and gallery talks about their work.

The Art Gallery is free from admission and open Monday- Saturday 10AM-4PM.

For information on upcoming exhibitions and gallery hours please contact Gallery Director Karoline Schleh at gallery@loyno.edu or 861-5456.

Individual Program Facilities

Digital Imaging

 

 

Ceramics
The Ceramics area includes: a large community studio, glaze room, clay mixing room, electric kiln room and outdoor gas kiln area. Seniors have a semi-private studio work area. Equipment includes: 4 electric pottery wheels, 2 kick wheels, 1 hand extruder, 1 Soldner clay mixer, 3 electric kilns, 1 raku kiln and one high fire gas kiln.

Painting
The Department of Visual Arts offers two sections of Painting I, which are taught in a rather large room that accommodates classes of up to twelve students. Storage is provided for paintings and supplies. Painting II and III are taught simultaneously in a less capacious classroom, as upper division classes tend to be smaller. Advanced students each have their own work area throughout the semester. Solvents and other basic supplies such as gesso and staple guns are provided by the department through lab fees.

Photography
The Photography Lab in the Visual Arts Department at Loyola University consists of 14 workstations with new enlargers and easels as well as 3 advanced enlarging stations to handle film formats up to 4x5. The room is spacious and professionally ventilated and has all the equipment necessary to produce archival fiber based black and white photographs in the fine art and documentary tradition. A classroom and a small lighting studio round out the modest but highly functional work areas for aspiring photography students.

Printmaking
The Department of Visual Arts offers a fully equipped printmaking studio with one large American French Tool etching press, one small Sturgess etching press, one large format Charles Brand lithography press, a Challenger letterpress proof press and a Vandercook model T-4 letterpress. Traditional etching, relief, and stone lithography is offered with an assortment of hand set type and thirty-four lithographic stones ranging in sizes from 8 x 10 inches to 24 x 36 inches. The shop also houses a fully equipped bindery with one large standing press, a large format board shear, and various nipping and finishing presses. In addition to the traditional printmaking media, a digital printmaking area is supported by five Macintosh G4 computers, a Xante' Filmaker/Filmstar photo transparency system and a 9 x 12 inch Jet photopolymer platemaker for photo-relief and letterpress work.

Sculpture
The sculpture program has two studios. One for woodworking or mixed media and one for metal and welding. Students also use spaces throughout the art building for illustrating their ideas. The wood shop is equipped with a table saw, drill press, band saw, radial saw, planer, drum, belt and disk sanders, plus all of the hand tools necessary to realize an idea. The metal shop is equipped with welding tanks, arc welders, plasma cutter, sand blaster, drill presses, sheet metal sheer, sheet metal roller, and a large metal band saw. Students will receive instruction and safety precautions on all of the machines during the course of the semester.
 

 

The Computer-Based Imaging Lab is one of the first and most powerful digital instructional facilities in the region. Established in 1992, the facility boasts over twenty workstations. The workstations are all G4 and G5 Macintosh machines dedicated to digitizing, video, sound, and specialty applications in photo and printmaking.

Peripheral equipment includes flatbed, slide, and roll feed scanners up to 36", color printers up to 44" roll feed archival systems; video output via DVD; audio and midi input and output; data/video projectors; DV still and video cameras; and other immersive delivery media. Motion media software includes Final Cut Pro, AfterEffects, DVD Studio Pro, and Cinema 4D. Other software includes the full Adobe Suites and several specialty applications. Access for enrolled students is 24/7.