The Visual Resource Center (VRC), supported by the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, is open to all VAPA majors and minors, or any student actively enrolled in a history of visual art and culture, film studies, museum studies and gallery practice, music, theatre & dance or visual art course. 

The VRC coordinator assists students with: 

• printing on large and medium format Canon imagePROGRAF printers
• digitizing images on the Epson 10000XL professional graphic arts scanner
• using Adobe Creative Cloud for class projects
• preparing projects for critiques and exhibitions
• tech troubleshooting

The VRC also checks equipment out to students for use in specific classes. Please visit the VRC equipment rental page for a list of cameras, lighting and audio equipment, tablets, and accessories available for student checkout.

• M.A. in History, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, 2010
• B.A. in Film and Electronic Arts, California State University, Long Beach, 2005

View Michaela Steen's CV

Lower Division

• AH 1000 - Art Through the Ages, Part I
• AH 1500 - Art and Ideas: Michelangelo to Basquiat
• AH 2000 - Art of the Ancient Near East

Upper Division

• AH 3240 - The Art of Greece and Rome
• AH 3860 - Contemporary Art
• HUM 3990
  • Ancient Myth in Popular Culture: The Sci-Fi Film
  • Visions of Darkness: Apocalypse and Dystopia in Literature, Art and Film
  • Digital Humanity
  • The Transhuman Future
  • Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries in Art History and Archaeology
  • Elgin Marbles or Parthenon Sculptures: The Place of Historical Treasures and Questions of Cultural Ownership
  • The City and the Self: Past, Present, and Future
  • Walking as Knowing