The Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design spans across 9 city blocks in 11 buildings with more than 250,000 sq ft of space!

Designed to be an incubator for tomorrow’s creative leaders, The URBN Center is the award-winning home for many of the programs in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, providing students with rigorous, studio intensive instruction with the latest technological resources. Undergraduate majors that share this space include Animation & Visual Effects, Architecture, Digital Media & Virtual Production, Design & Merchandising, Entertainment & Arts Management, Fashion Design, Game Design & Production, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Product Design, and User Experience & Interaction Design. Graduate programs that share this space include Arts Administration & Museum Leadership, Design Research, Digital Media, Fashion Design, Interior Architecture, and Urban Strategy.

The URBN Center also provides a black box theater for our performing arts, a 3,500 square foot Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, a Motion Capture studio, a Hybrid Making Lab featuring laser cutters, and 3-D printing and prototyping capabilities, the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection, the Charles Evans Fashion Design Library, a multi-use screening and lecture room, Shima Seki high-tech knitting machines, a print center, and offices for the College’s administrative functions.

In One Drexel Plaza, Studio One, designed by the renowned architectural and acoustic firm Walters-Storyk Design Group, serves as the Music Industry program’s premiere studio and classroom. Centered around a Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console and equipped with soffit mounted monitors by ATC, the 1300 sq. foot studio features outboard gear by Universal Audio, Tube-tech, Retro Instruments, API, GML, Empirical Labs and AMS Neve. Software options include the latest offerings by Ableton Live, Pro Tools, and Logic Audio, as well as plug-ins by Waves, McDSP, Sonnox, Sound Toys, iZotope, and Universal Audio.

The Academic Building is home to our Photography major and department of Art & Art History. Within this facility, the Westphal College occupies a 10,000-square-foot photography lab, lighting studios, and digital imaging labs, as well as six lecture/ laboratory spaces for our Visual Studies courses.

University Crossings boasts a 25,000-square-foot space for Film & Television, Screenwriting & Playwriting, and Television & Media Management faculty. Also in this building are two state-of-the-art digital editing facilities, a shooting studio with special effects capability, two screening rooms, a digital audio postproduction studio, several multimedia classrooms, and a well-stocked equipment room featuring state of the art cameras including Arri Alexas and Arri Amiras, amongst others.

MacAlister Hall serves students in the Westphal College with recording studios for Music Industry; The Mandell Theater, a 420-seat proscenium theater with scene shop and dressing rooms; the Ellen Forman Memorial Dance Studio; and a high-definition television studio.