PERC Grant Awarded

We’re thrilled to announce that ARTSLab will be the home for a new large format printer
July 31, 2022

The Big Rep ONE was acquired through a collaborative PERC Grant through Biology, Landscape Architecture, Art, and ARTSLab.

he team consists of Catherine Page Harris (Associate Professor, Department of Art, Art & Ecology , and Department of Architecture, Landscape Architecture), Llewelynn Fletcher (co-PI, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Sculpture), Hannah Marx (Assistant Professor, Biology and Herbarium Curator, Museum of Southwestern Biology), Stewart Copeland (Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Experimental Art and Technology).

This semester Catherine Harris will be using the large volume 3D printer in tandem with the LEO 3D Scanner, with help from graduate project assistant Jessica Metz (MFA, Department of Art, Art & Ecology), to print 3D scanned creosote shrubs and grasses to study of the morphological interactions of plants with their microbial environment.

CITH Workshop: Moon in My Room

Students will learn how to work with PBR materials in Blender and then how to export a 3D asset from Blender for use in Unity. Using this asset, they will then create a small AR application for Android in Unity 6 that will allow them to place the moon in their...