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UToledo - Center for the Visual Arts (CVA)
620 Art Museum Dr.
Toledo OH 43620
419.530.8300 
419.530.8349 - Fax

Center for Visual Arts and Spaces

Contact Us

UToledo - Center for the Visual Arts (CVA)
620 Art Museum Dr.
Toledo OH 43620
419.530.8300 
419.530.8349 - Fax
sculpture students working in classroom

Sculptural Studies

Designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, the University of Toledo Center for Sculptural Studies is a stand-alone facility serving all of the department’s 3D classes and areas of study, while also supporting parts of the 2D curriculum. Located at 535 Oakwood Avenue, Toledo, OH, the 7000-square-foot interior houses four main studio classrooms – Ceramics, Woodshop, Sculpture, and Foundry – all of which look out onto a lightly wooded green space and outdoor sculpture garden.

Our goal is to foster creative growth, built upon technical proficiency and tempered by the guidance of area experts and the constructive criticism of peers. Our multi-process approach to instruction engenders a collaborative, communal environment that both inspires the freedom of experimental research and the rigor of professional practice.

Facilities

Our students learn the craft of 3D art-making through first-hand experience with a wide array of technical equipment. In all cases, our highest priority is the safety of our students; we therefore hold our students and ourselves to the highest standards of best practices and provide a complete range of personal safety equipment.

class using woodshop

Woodshop

  • CNC Router
  • Band-, Scroll, Panel, and Compound Sliding Miter Saws
  • Disc and Belt Sanders
  • Trim and Cable Routers
  • Drill Press
  • Wood Lathes

foundry, forging and fabrication room

Foundry/Forging/Fabrication

  • Floor Drill Press and Post Vise
  • Horizontal/ Bandsaw (metal)
  • 14” Cable Abrasive cut off saw
  • Wire Welders (MIG)
  • AC/BC TIG Welder
  • 8” Bench Grinder
  • Oxy/Acetylene Cutting Welding Rigs
  • 115V Wire Welder (Flux core)
  • 27ft3 Burnout Kiln
  • 175s. Anvil
  • 69 Kilo Anvil
  • Self-Contained Pneumatic Power Hammer

sculpture molding making

Sculpture/Mold Making

  • Kiln for Small Metal Casting
  • Centrifugal Casting
  • 24”x36” Vacuum Former
  • Rotating Steel Sculpting Stands
  • Bench Drill Press

tool room for power hand tools

Power Hand Tools

  • Portable Bandsaw
  • 7 ¼” Circular Saw
  • 16 and 18 ga Brad Nailers (porter cable/air)
  • 18 ga Staple/Nailer (porter cable/air)
  • Electric Stapler
  • Air DIC Grinders (straight and right angle)
  • Palm and Belt Sanders
  • D.A. Sander (air)
  • Air Hammer
  • Dremmel Tools

Working in the ceramics studio

Ceramics

  • Ceramic Shell Room (with local exhaust)
  • Glaze/Clay Mixing Room (with local exhaust hoods)
  • Glaze Spray Booth
  • Gas, Raku, Electric, and Electric Bisque Kilns
  • Kick and Electric Wheels
  • Clay Mixers
  • Clay Paste Printer
Dean's Office
University Hall
Third Floor, Room 3160
Mail Stop 906
419.530.2164
Undergraduate Admission
enroll@utoledo.edu
419.530.8888 (call)
419.329.4567 (text)
2801 W. Bancroft Street
Toledo, OH 43606
Graduate Admission
graduateonlineapplication@utoledo.edu
419.530.GRAD (4723), Option 1
Stranahan Hall, Room 1048
2801 W. Bancroft, MS 933
Toledo, OH 43606
Last Updated: 6/30/25