Tool Loans
Tool Loans is a great resource for students looking to do some extra work on their own time. In addition to standard power and hand tools like cordless drills, hammers, pliers, and wrenches, etc.
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OCAD University offers a variety of unique shops and studios for students enrolled in studio classes to explore their art and design practices.
The shops and studios offer access to students who have been properly trained and demonstrate competence, technical skill and an understanding of relevant health and safety issues.
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Studio Resources
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Studios
Mouldmaking Studio
Our shop has all the materials and equipment you need to make 3D objects like piece moulds, flexible rubber moulds, lifecasting, armature building and direct modelling:
- marble bench tops, clay slab rollers, vacuum pumps, balance and electronic scales
- hand tools like chisels, scrapers and modelling tools;
- and you can buy materials like plasters, gypsums and cement in studio
- silicones, alginates, latex and rubber mouldmaking materials are also available.
Material Art and Design - Ceramics
Our ceramics studio has all the materials and equipment you need for mould and model making, slip casting, hand-building, throwing on the potter’s wheel and glazing, including:
- clay and casting slip, plaster, glaze, underglaze, resist emulsion.
- plaster lathe, band saw, cottles and clamps for mould making.
- working tables, Shimpo wheels, Brent wheels, large Bailey slab roller, plaster wedging tables, slip casting table for throwing, hand-building and slip casting.
- gas and electric kilns.
- spray booth, grinding wheel, glazing stations, pneumatic extruders and plaster reclaim tables.