The College of Fine Arts offers expansive facilities for faculty and students, including computer facilities, workshops, performance spaces, and galleries.


The Purnell Center for the Arts

Carnegie Mellon has initiated $300 million worth of university building projects over the past 15 years to help shape the campus.The gleaming Purnell Center for the Arts, called "the jewel of Carnegie Mellon's new campus plan," houses Carnegie Mellon's School of Drama.

The $36.2 million complex boasts the Philip Chosky Theatre, the mainstage facility with a proscenium stage and a 450-seat house. The Broadway-style theater is equipped with a motorized orchestra pit, an electronic winch system, computerized rigging for scenery and a rear projection bay. Also making the Philip Chosky Theatre a model of modern theater design are lower audience seating on modular platforms and sub-floor troughs that permit the transport of equipment under a flexible stage that can be reconfigured for each individual production. The School of Drama facilities includes the 130-seat Helen Wayne Rauh Studio Theatre, three design studios, a state-of-the-art video studio with a three-camera sound stage and post-production facilities, a world-renowned lighting lab, costume shop, scene shop, and faculty offices.


Regina Miller Gallery

The center also houses the Regina Miller Gouger Gallery; a three-floor, 6000-square-foot exhibition space introducing internationally significant contemporary artists to the public year-round. The gallery is complemented with technology for displaying the latest in electronic media and installations.

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Zebra Lounge

The Zebra Lounge is the College of Fine Arts location for rest, relaxation and rejuvenation. The lounge has a coffee bar, food and snacks aimed to fill busy faculty, staff and students on the run. Fittingly, the Zebra Lounge host table and chairs built by the Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Martin Prekop. The "zebra" print furniture was created in Dean Prekop's signature style. The Zebra Lounge is located on the main floor of the College of Fine Arts on the Carnegie Mellon campus. The lounge will host various exhibits throughout the year.


Future Tenant

Future Tenant is a project of Carnegie Mellon University and The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, located in the heart of the Cultural District. This art space, which features alternative exhibitions and performances by emerging artists from the Carnegie Mellon community and beyond. The space is managed by a team of students from the Master of Arts Management program, a joint program of Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School of Public Policy and Management and the College of Fine Arts.