Welcome to the Studio!
We provide the tools to explore your creativity and/or make a living as an artist. A nearly 4,000 square foot, full-service art studio is located at GateWay Community College – Washington Campus in Phoenix. It is an open studio space that is available to students for everything from ceramics, welding, painting and drawing, with electric and pneumatic power hand tools for your use.
Students can also gain access to the Phoenix Forge makerspace, located in downtown Phoenix. Learn and create across 6 different work areas, including wood working, jewelry, textiles, 3D printing, and more.
Services
Ceramics
Students have access to two electric kilns for firing ceramics, as well as a large programmable low fire gas kiln with a 6’x6’x6’ interior space. A pugmill for grinding and compressing clay for reuse, saving you clay and reducing waste, is available.
Artists also may use the entire studio for throwing, hand building, drying, glazing, and firing vessels and ceramic sculptures.
Casting and Metal Working
The outdoor studio is secure with access via a large gate and consists of two cranes with 5,000 pound capacity, speedy melt furnace, foundry set up with pouring pit, and large gas fired burnout kiln, gas fired forge, big blue 50 trip hammer, several anvils, vices, a large sand muller, electric pugmill, electric and pneumatic power hand tools, MIG, TIG, Oxy Acetylene welders, plasma cutter, and two large professional welding tables.
Painting and Drawing
The indoor space is equipped with up lighting, down lighting and spot lighting. Large adjustable easels, a band saw, a drill press, and two roll up garage doors with access to natural light. We also have window covers for life drawing. The art studio is well ventilated, has four large sinks and plenty of storage space available.