CMUBS - Beaver Island Watercolor Class 2007 - Gillingham Academic Center

Approaching the new building from
the road/parking lot.

Standing in the Academic Building
entrance facing the back of the dorm.

The entryway into the building

Turn right through the entry and you are in the new computer lab. Click for OLD computer lab.

These are the paintings that I
did last year of the OLD labs,
had framed and donated to
Dr. Gillingham for the new
building. They are hanging in
the computer lab entryway.
Soon they will have a nice
brass title plaque.

The lam beams were made here on the island. The building is totally "green" -
heated and cooled by geothermal heat pump from two 400' deep wells.

At the Academic Building from the beach side.
Click to see a before and after shot
from the same spot.

This is the new lecture hall - fully
loaded with technology, large and
comfortable. This is the location
of this year's end-of-the-season
Art Show. The high open ceilings
are tongue and groove knotty pine.

Rounding the corner from the back of the building, you see the lake out in front of you, and look
into the windows of the studios. Click for old views of same spot

And from inside the studio, the
windows look out at the lake and
the beach.

This is the NEW and VASTLY IMPROVED Studio One. It is 15 steps from the bathroom, adjoins the computer lab and is CLIMATE
CONTROLLED. There are no spiders, mice or (many) flies!!

Studio Two - this is where we have our
classes and critiques.

Studio Three - This is mainly a biology lab - no art classes here. It still has the
wonderful old attached greenhouse where the iguanas (used) to live, and the lizards,
frogs and plants still do.