Ruffin Hall is home to the Studio Art program of the McIntire Department of Art. Studio spaces were created to provide for painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, paper making, digital art and photography. A gallery, faculty offices and seminar rooms are housed in the building.

Ruffin Hall is a three story, 42,000 gsf building, with grade level entrances to each floor due to the steep slope on which it will be constructed. There is a major entrance to the top floor from Bayly Road on the east, a second floor linkage with Campbell Hall on the west, and a primary entrance to the lower floor from Culbreth Lane on the north side.