The Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design

Facilities

All majors in the college integrate use of discipline-specific and general use software in CoMAD’s sixteen computer labs. College lab equipment includes scanners, printers, plotters, computer/video projection systems and other peripheral devices as appropriate to each major. In addition, students have access to general use computer labs in the University’s Korman center.

Design studios in Nesbitt Hall are used by fashion design, interior design, graphic design, and design & merchandising majors. Nesbitt Hall also houses our donor-supported Urban Outfitters Design & Merchandising Center. Additional studio space in the Design Annex accommodates product design, painting, sculpture and a large woodworking shop with industrial-quality equipment. This is available for use by students for three-dimensional coursework or individual projects.

The Department of Architecture's offices and 2 + 4 Option studios are located on the first floor of 3201 Arch Street—a Drexel loft building of strong architectural character. This facility also contains supporting seminar and computer rooms. Teaching facilities for evening program architectural instruction are located in a loft space on the fourth floor of the Main Building.

The fourth floor of the Academic Building is occupied by a 10,000- square-foot photography lab, lighting studios, and two digital imaging labs. It offers professional-quality equipment in a comfortable working environment.

Film and video facilities include two fully equipped television studios; digital editing facilities; video-editing suites; film editors; and specially outfitted multimedia rooms for all courses. Loan equipment available to students includes digital video cameras; Bolex, Gizmo and Arriflex film cameras; and field lighting and audio equipment. Additionally, the college operates a cable television station reaching over 400,000 households.

The music industry major’s digital audio labs and recording studios in MacAlister Hall and University Crossings offer opportunities for the creation, modification, analysis, and recording of sound and music using analog and digital media.

The Mandell Theater provides a 420-seat proscenium theater with scene shop, dressing rooms, and costume shop. Costume is taught with primary source material from Drexel’s 7,000- piece Historic Costume Collection.

The Ellen Forman Memorial Dance Studio, adjacent to the Mandell Theater is the primary studio for the Dance major.

In University Crossings, a 25,000 square foot space houses offices for film, video, screenwriting, and playwriting faculty as well as two state-of-the-art digital editing facilities, a shooting and motion capture studio with special effects capability, two screening rooms, several multi-media classrooms, a laboratory for game development and research, laboratories for other digital media purposes and for music industry, and a well-stocked equipment room.