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    Beals Studios & Central Shop

    We have the facilities to make. Beals Studios is a fabrication laboratory where students have access to cutting-edge technologies, as well as staff to instruct and mentor them on their capabilities and operation. It houses 3D printers that can print a range of plastics and rubbers – two laser systems, two CNC mills, one vacuum former, one desktop water jet cutter, and one digital loom that assists in weaving complex weave structures and images. 

    The Central Shop is a 3,000 square foot fully equipped auxiliary woodworking studio. Experienced shop technicians are on duty to maintain safety and to assist shop users with their individual projects. 

    Beal Studios is a lab for emerging technologies that help you create whatever you can imagine. So we have eight different 3D printers. We have two laser systems that can both cut and engrave a variety of material. We have two CNC Mills that can create dimensional objects reductively. We also have a tonry TC 2 digital loom that is used to create weavings. We have the equipment, but just as importantly, we have the software, computer stations. Most importantly, the expertise. We have a real focus on education there. You don't come in and order a part and we make it for you. We help you learn how to make it yourself how to incorporate these technologies into your traditional practices to really enable the students to create whatever they can imagine. The central shop is primarily shopped for wood, it's kind of a mirror to Beal Studios, and that has a lot of the same goals of helping students create whatever they can imagine. There's a number of opportunities in the professional world that are arising because of the growth of emerging technologies. And the more unique and robust your skill set is the more hire-able oh boy you'll be. The more tools that you'll have under your belt to create what you want to create.

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