Facilities

The Arts and Humanities facilities at Wayne State College provide support for 39 degree programs, and over 50 faculty and staff. A growing number of classrooms are equipped with computing capability, internet access, and presentation systems; in addition the School houses new discipline-specific computer laboratories for the campus newspaper, graphic arts, and music technology. School facilities also include the Nordstrand Art Gallery, the Lied Performing Arts Center, a black box theatre, and fcc-licensed radio and television stations.

Peterson Fine Arts Building
This facility houses the Nordstrand Art Gallery, music and art classrooms, a state-of-the-art music technology laboratory, music rehearsal rooms, music library spaces, practice rooms for student use, and offices for faculty and staff in the Department of Music and the Department of Art and Design. The Peterson Fine Arts Building also houses the main performance venue at Wayne State College, the Lied Performing Arts Center. This venue recently received an extensive $3M renovation and addition consisting of state-of-the art acoustic, lighting, and sound reinforcement technology; as well as new seating for patrons, a new scene shop, green room, design studio, black box theater, and costume shop.

Humanities Building
The Department of Communication Arts (Journalism, Mass Communication, Speech Communication, Theatre) and the Department of Language and Literature (English literature and writing; philosophy; and French, German, and Spanish) are housed in the Humanities Building. Program support facilities in the Humanities Building include the Wayne Stater newspaper’s computer laboratory, an accessible computer kiosk for student use, and recently-renovated Broadcasting spaces (including a state of the art editing suite, production rooms with digital audio workstations, non-linear editing systems, an integrated wireless newsroom system for teleprompting and closed captioning, and offices for faculty and staff). A number of classrooms are fully equipped with video, audio, and computing capabilities.

Studio Arts Building
The recently-renovated Studio Arts Building has been in full operation since the fall of 2000. The facility houses studio and office space in art education, metals, ceramics, design, drawing, graphic design, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and watercolor. In addition, the Studio Arts building houses a state-of-the-art and dedicated computer lab in support of graphic design course work.