The Department of Creative Studies houses programs in Creative Writing and Visual Arts with additional specialized courses in Devised Theatre and Digital Media as well as Art History and Visual Culture. Our programs are designed to offer unique and individualized opportunities for students to develop skills in a variety of media and genre while they engage in cutting edge creative arts research.
The Department of Creative Studies houses five programs: Creative Writing, Visual Arts, Media Studies, Performance, and Art History and Visual Culture. Creative Studies is a research and teaching powerhouse, engaging local, national, and international communities in an intimate, interdisciplinary setting to explore emerging technologies alongside embodied and traditional practices. We are committed to innovative pedagogy, community and indigenous engagement, intercultural and interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding, and ecological sustainability. Similar to the world-renowned Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Creative Studies, located in the beautiful Syilx traditional and unceded territory of the Okanagan Valley, offers leading edge and immersive programming in a retreat-like destination for researchers, artists and creative and critical minds from around the world.
Digital media, computational arts and emerging technologies are currently Creative Studies’ most under- resourced teaching area. The recent relaunch of the Bachelor of Media Studies, the burgeoning Digital Arts and Humanities graduate theme, increase in interest in digital media across all Creative Studies programs and the forthcoming Masters in Design, Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (MDes) exacerbate this weakness. We must hire into this area.
In recent years we have noticed student interest return to older tactile practices of filmmaking, photography, sculpture, printmaking, painting and the like, while at the same time demanding new creative technologies and virtual realities. Both are important. New creative technologies can’t replace embodied traditional practices. This would be a mistake in terms of student health and wellbeing as well as contemporary art trends. When digital photography became popular, many educational institutions dismantled their photo darkrooms, only to find themselves a few years later unable to support students’ burgeoning interests in DIY and retro- technologies and aesthetics. We didn’t make that mistake, nor do we intend to change our commitment to remaining one of the few academic departments dedicated to exploring innovative practice-based, embodied and sensorial ways of learning and understanding. This requires continued infrastructure support. Hiring Education Leadership faculty along with our Professoriate Stream hires reinforces this commitment.
Students’ interests are interdisciplinary; the siloed disciplinary boundaries that may have existed in the past are cracking. Creative Studies embraces this trend. It is our strength, our opportunity for growth and our leading edge. Resource and facility planning and hires in both Professoriate Stream and Educational Leadership Stream will take into consideration this focus on interdisciplinarity.
The new MFA studios at Innovation Precinct 1 have improved our facilities substantially, but not increased capacity. Recent and pending facility upgrades in the CCS building and the forthcoming CFI-supported research facilities at Innovation Precinct and the Indigenous Research/Creation studio will offer more research and graduate studies opportunity as will the facilities being designed for the downtown building. Despite all these exciting developments, we currently have more impressive graduate student applicants than our faculty supervisory capacity can accommodate and staff resources haven’t changed since 2005. Strategic hires in the Professoriate Stream will help to extend this capacity as well as the promotion (and backfill) of existing technicians. With these additions, we hope to launch low residency graduate degree options, including Creative Writing and Visual Arts MFA’s, an unprecedented Indigenous Arts MFA (in association with the Indigenous Arts Intensive) and a Performance and Pedagogy MA for teachers.
In accordance with UBC’s equity plan, and pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights Code, the department is highly interested in equity-deserving candidates who will bring to their research and teaching the perspective that comes from the experiences of those underrepresented in higher education, particularly Indigenous, Black and racialized communities. Creative Studies’ Summer Indigenous Arts Intensive leads the way with regard to Indigenous engagement in Creative Studies, but we need to hire Indigenous faculty and underrepresented faculty to contribute in a more integrated way across all our programs.
We want to bolster research and teaching in Sustainability in response to growing interest/necessity as is evidenced by the forthcoming BA in Sustainability. This aligns with many Creative Studies faculty research interests/successes. Future hires will take this into consideration.
Larger institutions may have more robust infrastructures, but Creative Studies’ strength is its relationship to the community. The community itself and events and organizations already in existence within that community (regionally, nationally, and internationally) provide the infrastructure for the work. The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies is a cultural engine and hub for UBCO and for the community and region. We host poetry slams, readings, discussion groups, performances and performance art happenings, resident artists and guest speakers, film and multi media events, art installations and art exhibitions. We recently hired a .7 Lecturer whose service expectations are to oversee and expand community engagement activities. In addition to this, the current Performance Lecturer has extensive expertise in this area and should be deployed more into community engagement.
Our faculty research successes, level of student/community engagement and burgeoning programs continue to be under-supported in terms of UBCO funded teaching infrastructure. Including, as mentioned above, the lack of a bespoke—or even minimally acceptable—live multi-use performance and exhibition venue on campus. In the past five years we have “improvised” to accommodate the new Bachelor of Media Studies program and maintain Visual, Digital and Performance Arts by:
New MFA studio facilities were created in Innovation Precinct 1, which have improved our graduate student studios substantially, but not increased capacity.
Many of our facilities have been made possible through CFI grants. However, it is important to note that these centres can’t be used for teaching.
Research/Creation Studio Indigenous Contemporary Art as Resurgent Cultural Practice. Willard, 2022. A Site/ation studio that locates Indigenous specific models of contemporary art that question the dominance of Western aesthetics in Canadian contemporary art through a focus on land-based art practice.
Sonic Production Intelligence Research and Applications Lab (SPIRAL). Thorogood, 2022. A lab that develops basic and applied Creative AI research for advancing the field of sound design in the entertainment and cultural sectors for contributing innovative solutions to Canada’s New Digital Economy.
The Critical Future Studio/Lab. Smith, 2022. A bespoke creative studio at the University of British Columbia that produces innovative and original environmental experiences applied within digitally augmented spaces.
Centre for Culture and Technology. Dulic, 2011. An interdisciplinary institute that engages multiple forms of art, media and information technologies as vehicles for the exploration and expression of community, culture, and identity. http://cct.ok.ubc.ca
The Research Studio for Spaces and Things (RSST). Roy-Bois. 2014. A transdisciplinary environment dedicated to the production and the presentation in 2D arts (drawing, painting, photography), 3D arts (installation, sculpture, design, architecture) and timebase practices (audio, video, performance).
Over the last five years, work has been done to improve our degrees, programs and course offering.
The revised Bachelor of Media Studies degree is designed for students who want to go into creative and cultural industries; and or who hope to continue their educations in design, art, and academics as postgraduates; and who want sufficient flexibility within the degree to curate what they study in relation to their intellectual and creative passions. The new degree eliminates COSC course requirements. It also locates the core of the new degree within the MDST course code. MDST designates courses in creative computing, human-computer interface design, visualization, sonification, and built-and-immersive environments and is not limited to a more formal or traditional computer science approach.
A Curation Option was added to the current M.F.A. Specialization in Interdisciplinary Studies as well as introducing graduate and undergraduate curation courses. This initiative included a SSHRC grant for Inclusive Curation for Public Art Galleries in Small Cities.
As a university gallery, managed and located within the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, the UBC Okanagan Art Gallery is committed to a research mandate realized through: research-creation, exhibitions, performance, publications, permanent collection and acquisitions, curatorial studies and community-engaged programs, in the field of creative and critical studies. While this is a faculty-wide initiative, it involves predominantly Creative Studies staff and faculty.
The FINA Gallery, in the foyer of the Creative and Critical Studies Building, hosts exhibitions throughout the year—some by visiting arts, some by faculty members, and many by BFA and MFA students. Explore works and creations within the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies’ virtual gallery.
The Theatre Minor is designed to complement other programs with a creative, practice-based, collaborative and cross-cultural education. Students are given the opportunity to combine their academic studies with creative and practice-based contemporary performance theory and practice. Small studio classes provide an intimate, collaborative and transformative learning environment through experiential, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural curriculum.
This month-long Indigenous Art Intensive gathers students, artists, curators, writers and scholars to engage in contemporary ideas and discourse rooted in Indigenous art-making. It offers an educational series of courses, lectures, art shows, and opportunities to create art and features a series of world-renowned speakers, a variety of related undergraduate and graduate credit courses, and a group of resident artists who work to create a new body of work.
Digital Media Flexible Learning Modules. Video tutorials that address novice and intermediate competency levels using state of the art practices in coding, animation, sound art. A survey revealed that such videos are not available elsewhere.
Active Computational Media composition Toolkit: Supporting Learners and Instructors in Media Art, performance, and Creative Studies.
A $1,650,000 grant shared with Engineering, Computer Science, FCCs and Nursing to train graduate students in Immersive technologies.
Leveraging the currently offered “post-experience” Master of Management (MM) program, we created an option whereby any student entering a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program could earn their BFA and an MM degree in an accelerated time frame.
While this “design thinking and user-centered design degree bridges the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies and the School of Engineering, it primarily leverages Creative Studies resources.
Dr. Hussein Keshani recipient of funding through the Anti- Racism Initiatives Fund. While this project engages the local and broader community in a conversation about Islamophobia (using nuanced, accessible and sophisticated engagements), it also exemplifies how undergraduate and graduate emerging artists can leverage their resources to “enter the fray” in a meaningful way. From a pedagogical perspective, this project is both timely and vital.
Kevin Chong recipient of funding through the Anti- Racism Initiatives Fund. Racism and cultural gatekeeping are at the forefront of discussions of updating the pedagogy of creative writing, and the writers that Kevin Chong hopes to bring in have been instrumental in calling attention to inequity within the academy and publishing. Kevin’s online series draws in a wide collection of readers and writers, on both campuses, and dovetails nicely with UBC’s strategic goals of building community and offering transformative learning experiences.
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Below are selected examples of events and the work we do in our programs related the community.
SPRING! offers the UBCO campus and the larger community two months of artistic adventures by students, faculty and guest artists, including performances, art exhibitions, spoken word, guest lectures, film screenings and workshops.
These evets are funded by TD.
The FCCS Woodhaven Artist in Residence Program provides a paid residency opportunity for a diverse variety of visiting artists including writers, visual artists, digital media artists and performance artists.
Funded by the Moss Rock Park Foundation.
Creative Studies is developing a community-engaged public art program starting with a summer mural painting course. Students combine practical painting techniques with learning about strategic planning, budgeting, and design. This exposes students to some of the realities of a working artist hired to create and partner with other organizations and encourages understanding of the relationship between their art and their community.
The first two years of this course were funded by CTQ Consultants.
This month-long Indigenous Art Intensive gathers students, artists, curators, writers and scholars to engage in contemporary ideas and discourse rooted in Indigenous art-making.
A Lecturer has been hired with the mandate to develop community engagement opportunities in existing Visual Arts courses and create new curriculum.
The Kelowna Public Art Gallery collaborates with Creative Studies to bring guest artists, curators and scholars to the Kelowna and UBCO community.
The 2021/22 program is in development.
Founded in 2017 by Neil Cadger, Living Things is a carefully curated international arts festival that brings celebrated contemporary performances and workshops to Kelowna.
Draw By Night is an ongoing bi-monthly “public drawing party” that promotes creativity, imagination and collaboration through the process of drawing.
Participants draw under one theme, often related to the current exhibition, in an informal setting that promotes networking and inspiration. The aim is to engage creative people from various disciplines throughout the community including students, industry professionals, visual artists, hobbyists and the general public and get them all drawing!
The annual Student Okanagan Film Festival continues a tradition of celebrating emerging student filmmakers of the Okanagan Valley. The festival showcases short films from a wide range of genres including mini-documentary, experimental, music videos, animation, short narrative.
SSHRC Partnership Engagement Grant with Inspired Word Café. Matt Rader and Denise Kenney. Negotiating competing and often incongruent forms of access within Inspired Word Cafe community.
This annual event brings together the local arts community to celebrate the work of our students, faculty, alumni, as well as artists practicing in the community in the spirit of raising funds. Over 100 works of art are collected from local artists, faculty, and students. One ticket admits two people to the event, and guarantees winning one work of art from the collection.
The Okanagan Short Story Contest awards the best new short stories by writers in the Southern Interior of British Columbia: east of Hope, west of the Alberta border, north of the US border and south of Williams Lake. Past winners have gone on to publish with Penguin Random House, Arsenal Pulp Press, and NeWest Press, as well as numerous magazines and journals nationally and internationally. Cash prizes are awarded to the top three stories and a one-week retreat at The Woodhaven Eco Culture Centre in Kelowna.
Light up Kelowna is an annual event of digital installations that are projected onto the outside of the Rotary Centre for the Arts that showcase images and sounds crated by FCCS faculty and students. This community project is a partnership with the Rotary Centre for the Arts and the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan.
A list of research and publication successes within the department would be too long for this document. They are, however, substantial. Details can be found in members’ Curricula Vitae.
Below is a rough estimate grants received by Creative Studies faculty based on information readily available at the time of this report. It is not an exhaustive list nor is the information about the work resulting from these grants listed here. Internal grants are not listed unless they are more substantial, nor have I listed very large shared grants for which Creative Studies faculty were Co-Investigators (Example: NSERC CREATE in Immersive Technologies $1,650,000 for which Dr Dulic was one of ten). Creative Studies researchers receive substantial funding from Arts Councils whose jury processes are extremely rigorous and who are at the vanguard of creative practice/research in Canada. All faculty and all disciplines share in this success- not just a few “rock stars.” While the focus is grants received since 2016, larger grants received prior to 2016 are listed if they continue to influence research and teaching. All grants help to support undergraduate and graduate student learning and research, improve research and teaching facilities and provide opportunity for travel, residencies, collaborations and dissemination of research.
These grants alone (not taking into consideration unavailable data, internal smaller grants and larger shared grants) add up to:
$4,499,575
| UBCO Excellence Fund | UBCO Gallery | 330,000 | Keshani/Koosel | 2022 |
| Canada Council | Living Things | 23,000 | Cadger | 2022 |
| Heritage Canada | Living Things | 12,000 | Cadger | 2022 |
| SSHRC Partnership Engage | Syilx Siwlkw (water) Story: Rail | 25,000 | Dulic | 2021 |
| CFI | Spiral Infrastructure | 265,555 | Thorogood | 2021 |
| CFI | Critical Future Studio/Lab | 245,500 | Smith | 2021 |
| CFI | Indigenous Art/Culture Studio | 125,000 | Willard | 2021 |
| NSERC | Echo: High level audio features | 132,500 | Thorogood | 2021 |
| Excellence Fund | Indigenous Art Intensive | 80,000 | Willard | 2021 |
| Canada Council | Feature Film: The Silver Peanut | 60,000 | Smith | 2021 |
| Anti Racism Initiatives | Racitalized Writer | 10,000 | Chong | 2021 |
| Access Copyright: | Marion Hebb Can Lit Diversity | 10,000 | Chong | 2021 |
| SSHRC | A Sound Design Vocabulary | 2, 500 | Thorogood | 2021 |
| Conseil des Arts du Quebec | Photography | 20,000 | Rutkauskas | 2021 |
| SSHRC | Waterways Museum Exhibit | 50,000 | Dulic | 2021 |
| UBC Medical Program | Flex Project | 5,000 | Craig | 2021 |
| Vancouver Foundation | The Collective Body | 1500 | Cadger | 2021 |
| City of Kelowna | Inner Fish Performance Co | 7,500 | Cadger | 2021 |
| Okanagan Basin Water Board | Okanagan Water Ways Exhibit | 25,000 | Dulic | 2020 |
| SSHRC Insight | Kelownafornia Cultures of Nature | 276,000 | Dulic | 2020 |
| Central Okanagan Foundation | Metamorphosis | 7,000 | Rader | 2020 |
| Canada Council Create | Book/Climate Crisis | 20,000 | Rader | 2020/21 |
| Heritage Canada | Living Things | 14,000 | Cadger | 2020 |
| Canada Council | Living Things | 2,800 | Cadger | 2020 |
| City of Kelowna | Inner Fish Performance Co | 3,600 | Cadger | 2020 |
| Alt Fund | Computational Media Toolkit | 25,000 | Dulic/Thorogood | 2020 |
| SSHRC Insight | 25,000 | Willard/Multiple | 2020 | |
| SSHRC Partnership | 25,000 | Willard/Multiple | 2020 | |
| Eminence Fund | Art and Health | 5,000 | Willard/Multiple | 2020 |
| BC Arts Council | Professonal Writers-Fiction | 15,000 | Chong | 2020 |
| SSHRC | Disrupt/ability | 204,304 | Smith | 2020 |
| Exeter | Collaboration Fellowship | 4704,71 | Kenney | 2020 |
| SSHRC Partner Engage | Inclusive Curation Galleries | 25,000 | Keshani/Willard | 2019 |
| National Gallery of Canada Fellow | Photography | 8,000 | Rutkauskas | 2019 |
| Canada Council | Professional Writers-Fiction | 25,000 | Chong | 2019 |
| Heritage Canada | Living Things | 12,000 | Cadger | 2019 |
| Canada Council | Back to Bite You | 13,500 | Cadger | 2019 |
| City of Kelowna | Living Things | 5,000 | Cadger | 2019 |
| Canada Council | First Peoples Land based comm art | 20,000 | Willard | 2018 |
| BC Arts Council | Short Fiction | 6,000 | Smith | 2018 |
| SSHRC Connections | Border Free Bees Symposium | 25,000 | Holmes | 2018 |
| World Wildlife Federation | Kelowna Bee Ambassador Project | 6,900 | Holmes | 2018 |
| Alberta Found for the Arts | Photography | 15,000 | Rutkauskas | 2018 |
| SSHRC | Decolonizing the night sky | 44, 920 | Dulic/Thorogood | 2018 |
| UBC | Locative Media | 12,500 | Thorogood | 2018 |
| BC Arts Council | Professional Writers-Fiction | 12,000 | Chong | 2018 |
| SSHRC Partnership Engage | Open Access Inspired Word Café | 25,000 | Rader/Kenney | 2018 |
| Equity Enhancement Fund | Queer Culture Creation | 6,000 | Smith/Kenney | 2018 |
| City of Kelowna | Living Things | 7,000 | Cadger | 2018 |
| SSRHC Connections | Interactive Art, Science, Tech | 44,920 | Dulic | 2018 |
| Canada Council | Indigenous Intensive | 300,000 | Foster | 2017 |
| OCCP | Commission Kokanee Ways | 7,000 | Dulic | 2017 |
| SSHRC Insight | Water Ways, Past, Present &Future | 297,000 | Dulic | 2017 |
| City of Kelowna | Living Things | 8,000 | Cadger | 2017 |
| Canada Council | Artist Project | 20,000 | Willard | 2017 |
| Canada Council | Short Fiction | 24,000 | Smith | 2017 |
| World Wildlife Foundation | Kelowna Nectar Trail | 6,900 | Holmes | 2017 |
| UBC Aspire | Digital Media Flexible Learn Mod | 50,000 | Campbell/Thorogood | 2017 |
| Canada Council | This Kind of Wilderness | 20,000 | Serfas | 2017 |
| Canada Council | Professional Writers-Fiction | 24,000 | Chong | 2017 |
| BC Arts Council | Scholarship Award | 6,000 | Willard | 2017 |
| SSHRC Partnership | Botanical Garden: Digital Interp | 76,295 | Keshani/Muliple | 2016 |
| SSHRC Insight | Botanic Gardens Poitics | 203,417 | Multiple | 16/21 |
| Okanagan Foundation | Music of Heaven | 12,000 | Dulic | 16/17 |
| Telus | Right of Way- Wildlife Corridors | 18,000 | Dulic | 2016 |
| Mitacs | Social Life of Water | 15,000 | Dulic | 2016 |
| OBWB | Social Life of Water | 13,300 | Dulic | 2016 |
| SSHRC Connection | Social Life of Water | 33,040 | Wagner/Dulic | 2016 |
| BC Arts Council | Professional Wrtiers-Fiction | 12,000 | Chong | 2016 |
| Canada Council | Photography | 13,800 | Rutkauskas | 2016 |
| SSRHC | Durational Perf Google Streetview | 42,944 | Smith | 2016 |
| SSHRC | Public Art Pollinator Project | 197,000 | Holmes/Cameraon | 15-17 |
| Hampton | Visual Inspection | 9,000 | Rader/Multiple | 15-17 |
| Canada Council | Institutional Grant | 3,800 | Roy-Bois | 2016 |
| SSHRC | Connections Culture Mapping | 26,000 | Rader | 2016 |
| BC Arts Council | Wolves (book of poems) | 6,000 | Rader | 2015 |
| CFI | Studio for Spaces and Things | 28,000 | Roy-Bois | 2015 |
| CFI | Studio for Spaces and Things | 95,000 | Roy-Bois | 2015 |
| BC Knowledge Development Fund | Studio for Spaces and Things | 95,000 | Roy-Bois | 2015 |
| SSHRC | Eco Art Incubator | 198,000 | Holmes/Kenney | 2011 |
| CFI | Centre for culture and Technology | 320,000 | Dulic | 2011 |
| 4,499,575 |
The following hiring and investment strategies are in service of the above-mentioned priorities for our future growth.
Institute a 2 & 2 workload
For Creative Studies for all continuing faculty in the Professoriate stream and continue a 3 & 2 workload for all continuing faculty in the Educational Leadership stream so that Creative Studies’ teaching load aligns with other departments in FCCS. 15 professoriate stream faculty in CS currently teach a 2 & 3 workload. A change to a 2 & 2 workload would add 15 courses to the Lecturer/Sessional pool. The 2022 lectureship hiring decisions (below) are designed to immediately shore up undergraduate and graduate teaching in 3 of the programs most impacted by this change.
Replacement hire for Stephen Foster: indigenous video/digital media artist
Stephen’s replacement process should privilege (or seek out) indigenous applicants at any rank. Stephen formally retired (to OCAD) in 2021.
Promote technicians to managerial positions in preparation for additional hires in 2023
Two of our technicians currently work well beyond their job descriptions, overseeing research, events and exhibition activity within FCCS and across multiple Okanagan campus locations and programs; consulting on research projects; and managing CCS building and FINA gallery, Innovation Precinct 1, Innovation Annex and Woodhaven Eco Culture Centre. Programs related to these positions include: MFA, IGS DAHU, MDes, BFA, BMS, and Indigenous Intensive. Investing in support in this area will benefit undergraduate, graduate and faculty research and learning in all areas.
Eliminate two Lectureships (Drawing/Painting and Photography) and hire two Education Leadership Stream faculty
The transition to a 2 & 2 workload for all Professoriate Stream faculty necessitates a shoring up of undergraduate teaching across all programs in the department. Currently we have only one Education Leadership stream faculty member in Creative Studies. In tandem with our commitment to leading edge researchers, we also need to strengthen the “base of our pyramid” by focusing on the quality and continuity of the work being done in our studios and classes. We need Educational Leadership Stream faculty to lead discussions regarding curriculum development, interdisciplinary collaborations, integration of indigenous pedagogies, studio learning in the 21st Century, recruitment, and remote and hybrid learning for studio classes (including the role of low residency MFA studies).
Augment the current .7 Lectureship in 2D, 3D and community engagement to a full-time position
Two technician hires
To date we have been hiring GAA’s, UAA’s and Workstudy students to help manage the operations of our facilities and student training. While we hope to continue this practice, these strategic hires will afford the technicians more time to supervise these students and the metalwork studio, woodshop, SPARK lab, darkroom, greenroom and the new Media Makerspace so that we aren’t struggling to provide reasonable access for students and maintain training and continuity from one year to the next.
IBPOC Interdisciplinary Artist Professor (any rank) targeted hire: curation, visual arts, community engagement, sustainability. In addition to the Stephen Foster retirement replacement (2022), another targeted indigenous hire would help to support the Summer Indigenous Intensive, the new BA Sustainability, the new Curation stream in AHVC and MFA, and Interdisciplinary initiatives within the Department.
Printmaker Professor (Assistant): Interdisciplinary practice focus. IBPOC emphasis.
Similar to the dismantling of photographic darkrooms, print studios have also become scarce and well-equipped printmaking facilities are somewhat of a novelty in post-secondary institutions. This is good for us. While we have some faculty who sometimes work with printmaking, Briar Craig is the only Professor/artist within Creative Studies who substantially researches and teaches in this area (see Appendix Faculty Capacity document). It is currently difficult to deploy faculty to support this discipline (they are needed elsewhere).
Art History & Visual Culture Education Leadership hire. Retirements in ARTH haven’t been fully replaced due to long-term medical leaves. This position would include maintaining foundational courses that serve the BFA and BMS programs and program Coordination.
While not solely under our purview, Creative Studies will do everything they can to further the goal for a bespoke live multi-use performance venue on campus.
Upgrades to the CCS building are underway and the proposed building addition would further our strategic goals substantially.
| Air media box for CCS 122 | $1,000 |
| Ipads or Wacom tablets | $20,000 |
| Sound system | $9,000 |
| CNC Router | $30,000 |
| CNC Plasma Cutter or Water Jet Cutter | $30,000 |
| CNC Embroidery machine | $2,500 |
| FINA Gallery upgrades | $20,000 |
| 3D printing upgrades | $30,000 |
| 5K projector | $20,000 |
| Motion Capture | $15,000 |
| Electronic packages (physical computing) | $1,500 |
| Arduino kits | $2,500 |
| 30 computers for Media Makerspace | $60,000 |
| Painting Studio facility upgrades (new hire requests) | $30,000 |
| Photographic upgrades/equipment | $30,000 |