Midwestern State University is strongly committed to providing state-of-the-art, attractive, serviceable Fine Arts facilities. The theatre wing of the Arts Center includes the 475-seat Fain Fine Arts Center Theatre and the flexibly-designed Bea Wood Studio Theatre. The art wing features spacious, meticulously maintained studios that ensure working environments conducive to creativity and achievement. The center also houses the continually active Juanita Harvey Art Gallery which hosts student, local, regional, state and international art exhibits. In addition to exhibits by students and faculty, the gallery annually hosts professional artists from across the nation through the O'Donnell Visiting Artist Program.
The Mass Communication wing features a full television studio with multiple sets (used to produce television programs airing on Time Warner Cable), a Mac lab for journalism/digital media, a broadcasting lab, a newsroom, a work-café, $1.4 million in new equipment, six edit bays, an audio booth, faculty offices and collaboration spaces. There are also instructional spaces for art and music programs.
Throughout the Fain College of Fine Arts, equipment is continually added, replaced, or upgraded. New equipment is regularly purchased for all of the art studios supporting ceramics, graphic design, metalsmithing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Maroon N' Gold Media utilizes a digitized production system, and The Wichitan, MSU's weekly newspaper, is equipped for full-color desktop publishing. Two mass communication computer labs afford applications for broadcast, digital media, and journalism.
The Music Hall, located next to the Fain Fine Arts Center, contains a wonderful rehearsal space for students and performers. Music and theatre students and faculty also utilize the 422-seat Akin Auditorium for rehearsals and performances. Theatrical equipment includes a laboratory for computer-assisted design of sound, lighting, costumes, and scenery.
