Resource Guide
Oberlin has many spaces available to help you create! The following is our attempt to summarize them.
Table Of Contents
Student-Run clubs and spaces
Accessible to all students
OC3D
Oberlin's student-led maker co-op. Located in Wilder 329, OC3D's lab serves as a catch-all makerspace for members of the Oberlin community.
Tools: Electronics, Arduinos, 3D printers, handheld tools, xacto blades, button maker, bits + bolts
Contact:
Located: Wilder 329
Craft Room
Wilder's Mysterious craft room. Located on the third floor of Wilder.
Tools: Sewing Machines, Looms, various spare fabrics and craft supplies
Contact:
? It's a mystery, but it's open whenever wilder is open
Located: Wilder 3rd floor
Pottery Co-op
Oberlin's community-run pottery space! 30 dollar membership fee per semester. They hold consistent office hours too ~
Tools: Pottery wheels, clay tools, clay, kilns (gas and electric), slab roller, glazes
Contact:
Located: Parking lot behind the facilities building (behind Mudd)
Film Co-op
The Oberlin Film Co-op is a student run organization dedicated to promoting filmmaking on the Oberlin campus. They can train students to set up for, shoot, and edit film.
Tools: Film equipment, editing supplies, subsidized film + film processing
Located: Wilder Room 326
Exhibition Initiative
Exhibition initiative (ExI) is a student arts organization that works to organize and curate student exhibitions and projects, bring artists and art-related speakers to campus, and to be a resource for learning about student art events on campus and in the community.
Tools: Space and Resources
Located: ?
Comix Collective
Make some comics, become a better comic writer, + print your zines (also applies to writers and illustrators)
Tools: Risograph printer, sticker making equipment, zine making, pin + patch making (?)
Located: Noah Basement (comix dungeon)
Yeo press
The Mission of Yeo Press is to strengthen and broaden Oberlin College and community's interest in printmedia. Requires you to have taken a printmaking class with Kristina Paabus.
Tools: Access to the print lab + means to sell your prints
Figure drawing club
Figure drawing club with live model, no enrollment in an arts course necessary
Tools: Live model, byo paper + drawing materials
Contact:
- Whoever is teaching the introductory art class
Located: Art domes
College-run Spaces
Accessible to students within major/ with appropriate training
OCMC (Oberlin College Media Center)
Open to all. A program within Oberlin Center for Technologically Enhanced Teaching (OCTET), which connects technically trained students with courses, faculty, staff, and other students to increase creative media literacy, exploration, and innovation.
Tools: 3D printing, Large format printing, Adobe software, Final cut pro, Printers
Contact:
Located: Mudd Library 113 (and nearby)
Art Media Lab
Must be enrolled in a Studio Art or Cinema course. Another media lab designed with art students in mind.
Tools: Adobe, quality color printer, Apeture, Max, Garageband, Audio editing rooms
Contact:
?
Located: Venturi Art Building 163-164
CILC (Cooper International Learning Center)
Open to all. While designed to enable language learning, the CILC offers many technologies and is very welcoming to all kinds of makers! (plus it has some great plants)
Tools: Podcast recording studio, greenscreen, 3D printers
Contact:
Located: 331 Peters Hall
A/V Department
Access for academic use only (no personal projects). Oberlin's Audio/ Visual department
Tools: Audio Recorders, Cameras, Camcorders, Projectors, Microphones, Screens, for full list go here
Contact:
Located: 4th Floor of Mudd
TIMARA Studios
Open Lab for all. Recording space for trained students only. TIMARA (technology in music and related arts) majors' resources. They have a lot of stuff here, mostly focused on electronic music production.
Tools: Recording studio, synths, digital audio workstations (DAWs), electronics + tinkering tools,
Contact:
Located: The Con basement
Letterpress Studio
Access by class/ for trained students only. The Letterpress Studio provides opportunities to learn to compose text by hand using cold type, and to operate both cylinder and iron platen presses.
Tools: Letterpresses (?) sorry don't know the specifics
Contact:
Located: Mudd Learning Center, Room 212
Greater OHIO community-run spaces
Accessible to students with means of transport (and often fees)
LCCC Fab Lab
A Fab Lab is a collection of commercially available machines that can be used to "make just about anything with features bigger than those of a computer chip." Realistically, it offers the tools needed to "conceptualize, design, develop, fabricate and test” a wide variety of things.
Tools: Laser cutter, vinyl cutter, CNC (precision, large, vertical), 3D printers, 3D scanners, waterjet cutter, electronics. Click here for a full list
Contact:
Located: 1005 N Abbe RdElyria, OH 44035
Firelands Arts Association (FAVA)
Founded in 1979, The Firelands Association for the Visual Arts is an independent, non-profit art organization in Oberlin, Ohio dedicated to enhancing public appreciation of and participation in the visual arts through exhibitions and related educational and community activities.
Tools: Art supplies and art classes for cost
Contact:
Located: 39 South Main Street