Art North houses the School of Art and Design at San Diego State University, located at 473 Avenue of the Arts on the SDSU campus in San Diego's College Area. The building contains studios for painting and printmaking, sculpture and ceramics, furniture design and woodworking, jewelry and metalwork, and graphic design — along with three computer labs, a fabrication lab, and darkrooms for analog photography processing. The School offers a Bachelor of Arts in Art with concentrations that include applied design, interior architecture, art history, and arts education, and an MFA program serves graduate candidates in studio disciplines. SDSU's status as the highest-traffic landmark in the area anchors the campus at the center of College Area's 92115 ZIP, and the School of Art and Design draws students from across San Diego County into the corridor. Golden State Ballet Academy in Allied Gardens serves the performing-arts side of the same regional talent pipeline, training dancers whose stage work sometimes intersects with SDSU's scenic-design and exhibition-production students. Four on-campus galleries — the University Art Gallery, the Richard Anthony Marks Gallery, the Everett Gee Jackson Gallery, and the Experimental Gallery — host exhibitions of nationally and internationally recognized contemporary artists alongside student and MFA candidate work. The Experimental Gallery occupies 355 square feet on Art North's fourth floor and programs experimental installations, while the University Art Gallery, opened in 1977, serves as the flagship exhibition space in the fourth-floor courtyard. The furniture-design emphasis teaches traditional woodworking alongside non-conventional material exploration in steel, glass, paper, and concrete, and cross-disciplinary studio work is built into the curriculum so a sculpture student can collaborate with photography or jewelry faculty. Guided By Imagination in College Area provides community-facing creative services that complement the School's public gallery programming. The School's Gallery Program is funded through SDSU's Instructionally Related Activities Fund, and visiting-artist lectures, the Amplify Lecture Series, and annual Open Studios events extend the program's reach beyond enrolled students into the broader College Area community.