Facility Updates

Artistic creativity, technology, globalization, and invention are rapidly and radically changing social access to and participation in culture and the arts, as well as the ways artists and other “creatives” make a living. A public university arts college must adapt to these changes as rapidly and as boldly as our students’ futures require. The facilities of the Butler School of Music, which were last designed some 40 to 60 years ago, must be rethought and redesigned to satisfy this new reality in our cultural and educational practices. To that end, the Butler School must update and modernize its aging facilities to frame the work of our faculty staff, and students in a physical setting worthy of their abilities and potential.

Upgrading and expanding the School’s aging performance, rehearsal, and teaching facilities will allow us to integrate new technologies, such as designing and incorporating projected and holographic scenery into plays and operas. Better acoustics, sound design, and lighting for our concert halls will help students polish their performance techniques to the highest standards while giving audiences an improved experience.