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, Fashion Industry & 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, Design, 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. 

Also includes a new Dolby Atmos/Immersive Audio Mixing Studio for immersive, multichannel audio music mixes.

The Academic Building is home to our 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, 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.

The Content Creation Center is a state-of-the-art, flexible studio space that supports a wide range of media production - from podcasting (with or without video) to single- or multi-camera video shoots, course video recordings, research conversations, and collaborative multimedia projects.

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.