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ADMINISTRATION & STAFF

The College of Arts & Media

OFFICE OF THE DEAN

ADMINISTRATION

Karen Ludington

Assistant Dean of Business & Operations

Mark Rabideau

Associate Dean for Faculty and Student Affairs Associate Professor

Sara Walpole

Executive Assistant to the Dean

David Walter

Assistant Dean for Enrollment Management & Student Success

ADVISING & STUDENT SERVICES

Amanda Barrell

Senior Coordinator, Academic & Faculty Affairs

Karin Hunter-Byrd

Senior Advisor, FiTV Lecturer

ENROLLMENT & LYNX CAMP

Laura Harvey

Student Success Program Manager

GALLERIES

Jeff Lambson

Director of Emmanuel Art Gallery and Next Stage Gallery Lecturer

HUMAN RESOURCES, FINANCE & OPERATIONS

Hayley Black

Student Advising & Operations Coordinator

Janet Huynh

HR Operations Coordinator

Anthony Wilson

Assistant Director of Finance & Operations

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Alice Crogan

Director of Marketing & Communications

Megan Briggs

Senior Marketing & Content Coordinator

Academic Departments

FILM & TELEVISION

Tory Fink

Tory Fink

Production Design Coordinator/Lead

Email Address:tory.fink@ucdenver.edu

Tory Fink is an Educator, Art Director and Fabricator for museums, theater, television and film. He started his professional art career as Studio Manager, Welding Instructor and ultimately Department Head at The Crucible, a premiere Fine and Industrial Art Center in Oakland, California. He was Lead Builder on “The Raygun Gothic Rocketship,” a 40-foot-tall and 13,000-pound retro-futurist art sculpture, which is now permanently installed in front of Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver. He was Lead Artist for work commissioned by California Academy of Sciences and was part of an art collective featured at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 

 

In 2010 Tory was hired and ultimately promoted to Lead Builder and Art Director for Discovery channel’s “MythBusters” spanning seasons 10 through 19.  He is mentioned in Adam Savage’s book, “Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It.” Tory continued with the “MythBusters” franchise as Art Director, Builder and Build Manager for “The White Rabbit Project,” “MythBusters: The Search” and “Mythbusters Jr.” His television set construction work was also featured on Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why.”

 

Tory was highlighted in Cinefex magazine’s 40th anniversary issue for his work on “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” as part of the special effects team. He also worked in the Art Department for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “The Matrix Resurrections.”

 

In 2021 Tory worked at Denver Center for the Performing Arts in the Props Department as Properties Artisan for a season, working on “The Other Josh Cohen,” “A Christmas Carol,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf,” “In the Upper Room,” “Rattlesnake Kate,” “Choir Boy,” “Quixote Nuevo” and David Byrne’s “Theater of the Mind,” before becoming FiTV’s Production Design Lead at CU Denver.

Areas of Expertise

Metal Art
Fine Arts
Art Direction
Production Design
Prop Fabrication
Set Design & Fabrication
Practical Effects

Education, Licensure & Certifications

San Francisco State University
BA; Criminal Justice

EMT-B License
Completed 2004, Renewed 2006

Welding Certification, GMAW 3G AWS D1.1
Completed 2007

Forklift / Grade-All / Scissor-Lift Operation Certification
Completed 2007

Awards

2010 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2011 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2012 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2013 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2014 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Structured Reality Program” for MythBusters

2015 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Structured Reality Program” for MythBusters

2016 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Structured Reality Program” for MythBusters

2017 Academy Award nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2017 BAFTA nomination “Best Special Visual Effects” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2017 Saturn Award winner “Best Special Effects” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2017 Visual Effects Society nomination “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2020 Academy Award nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2020 BAFTA nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2020 Visual Effects Society winner “Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2020 Art Directors Guild nomination “Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film”

2021 Saturn Award winner “Best Special Effects” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2022 Visual Effects Society nomination “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Visual Effects Society nomination “Outstanding Special (Practical) Effects in a Photoreal or Animated Project” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Critics Choice Movie Awards nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Set Decorators Society of America nomination “Best Achievement in Decor/Design of a Science Fiction or Fantasy Feature Film” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award nomination “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “Choir Boy”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award winner “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “In the Upper Room”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award nomination “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award nomination “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “Rattlesnake Kate”

Affiliations

IATSE

MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY STUDIES

Tory Fink

Tory Fink

Production Design Coordinator/Lead

Email Address:tory.fink@ucdenver.edu

Tory Fink is an Educator, Art Director and Fabricator for museums, theater, television and film. He started his professional art career as Studio Manager, Welding Instructor and ultimately Department Head at The Crucible, a premiere Fine and Industrial Art Center in Oakland, California. He was Lead Builder on “The Raygun Gothic Rocketship,” a 40-foot-tall and 13,000-pound retro-futurist art sculpture, which is now permanently installed in front of Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver. He was Lead Artist for work commissioned by California Academy of Sciences and was part of an art collective featured at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 

 

In 2010 Tory was hired and ultimately promoted to Lead Builder and Art Director for Discovery channel’s “MythBusters” spanning seasons 10 through 19.  He is mentioned in Adam Savage’s book, “Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It.” Tory continued with the “MythBusters” franchise as Art Director, Builder and Build Manager for “The White Rabbit Project,” “MythBusters: The Search” and “Mythbusters Jr.” His television set construction work was also featured on Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why.”

 

Tory was highlighted in Cinefex magazine’s 40th anniversary issue for his work on “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” as part of the special effects team. He also worked in the Art Department for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “The Matrix Resurrections.”

 

In 2021 Tory worked at Denver Center for the Performing Arts in the Props Department as Properties Artisan for a season, working on “The Other Josh Cohen,” “A Christmas Carol,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf,” “In the Upper Room,” “Rattlesnake Kate,” “Choir Boy,” “Quixote Nuevo” and David Byrne’s “Theater of the Mind,” before becoming FiTV’s Production Design Lead at CU Denver.

Areas of Expertise

Metal Art
Fine Arts
Art Direction
Production Design
Prop Fabrication
Set Design & Fabrication
Practical Effects

Education, Licensure & Certifications

San Francisco State University
BA; Criminal Justice

EMT-B License
Completed 2004, Renewed 2006

Welding Certification, GMAW 3G AWS D1.1
Completed 2007

Forklift / Grade-All / Scissor-Lift Operation Certification
Completed 2007

Awards

2010 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2011 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2012 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2013 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2014 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Structured Reality Program” for MythBusters

2015 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Structured Reality Program” for MythBusters

2016 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Structured Reality Program” for MythBusters

2017 Academy Award nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2017 BAFTA nomination “Best Special Visual Effects” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2017 Saturn Award winner “Best Special Effects” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2017 Visual Effects Society nomination “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2020 Academy Award nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2020 BAFTA nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2020 Visual Effects Society winner “Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2020 Art Directors Guild nomination “Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film”

2021 Saturn Award winner “Best Special Effects” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2022 Visual Effects Society nomination “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Visual Effects Society nomination “Outstanding Special (Practical) Effects in a Photoreal or Animated Project” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Critics Choice Movie Awards nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Set Decorators Society of America nomination “Best Achievement in Decor/Design of a Science Fiction or Fantasy Feature Film” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award nomination “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “Choir Boy”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award winner “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “In the Upper Room”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award nomination “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award nomination “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “Rattlesnake Kate”

Affiliations

IATSE

NATIONAL CENTER FOR MEDIA FORENSICS

Tory Fink

Tory Fink

Production Design Coordinator/Lead

Email Address:tory.fink@ucdenver.edu

Tory Fink is an Educator, Art Director and Fabricator for museums, theater, television and film. He started his professional art career as Studio Manager, Welding Instructor and ultimately Department Head at The Crucible, a premiere Fine and Industrial Art Center in Oakland, California. He was Lead Builder on “The Raygun Gothic Rocketship,” a 40-foot-tall and 13,000-pound retro-futurist art sculpture, which is now permanently installed in front of Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver. He was Lead Artist for work commissioned by California Academy of Sciences and was part of an art collective featured at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 

 

In 2010 Tory was hired and ultimately promoted to Lead Builder and Art Director for Discovery channel’s “MythBusters” spanning seasons 10 through 19.  He is mentioned in Adam Savage’s book, “Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It.” Tory continued with the “MythBusters” franchise as Art Director, Builder and Build Manager for “The White Rabbit Project,” “MythBusters: The Search” and “Mythbusters Jr.” His television set construction work was also featured on Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why.”

 

Tory was highlighted in Cinefex magazine’s 40th anniversary issue for his work on “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” as part of the special effects team. He also worked in the Art Department for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “The Matrix Resurrections.”

 

In 2021 Tory worked at Denver Center for the Performing Arts in the Props Department as Properties Artisan for a season, working on “The Other Josh Cohen,” “A Christmas Carol,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf,” “In the Upper Room,” “Rattlesnake Kate,” “Choir Boy,” “Quixote Nuevo” and David Byrne’s “Theater of the Mind,” before becoming FiTV’s Production Design Lead at CU Denver.

Areas of Expertise

Metal Art
Fine Arts
Art Direction
Production Design
Prop Fabrication
Set Design & Fabrication
Practical Effects

Education, Licensure & Certifications

San Francisco State University
BA; Criminal Justice

EMT-B License
Completed 2004, Renewed 2006

Welding Certification, GMAW 3G AWS D1.1
Completed 2007

Forklift / Grade-All / Scissor-Lift Operation Certification
Completed 2007

Awards

2010 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2011 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2012 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2013 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2014 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Structured Reality Program” for MythBusters

2015 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Structured Reality Program” for MythBusters

2016 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Structured Reality Program” for MythBusters

2017 Academy Award nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2017 BAFTA nomination “Best Special Visual Effects” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2017 Saturn Award winner “Best Special Effects” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2017 Visual Effects Society nomination “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2020 Academy Award nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2020 BAFTA nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2020 Visual Effects Society winner “Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2020 Art Directors Guild nomination “Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film”

2021 Saturn Award winner “Best Special Effects” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2022 Visual Effects Society nomination “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Visual Effects Society nomination “Outstanding Special (Practical) Effects in a Photoreal or Animated Project” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Critics Choice Movie Awards nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Set Decorators Society of America nomination “Best Achievement in Decor/Design of a Science Fiction or Fantasy Feature Film” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award nomination “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “Choir Boy”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award winner “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “In the Upper Room”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award nomination “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award nomination “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “Rattlesnake Kate”

Affiliations

IATSE

VISUAL ARTS

Tory Fink

Tory Fink

Production Design Coordinator/Lead

Email Address:tory.fink@ucdenver.edu

Tory Fink is an Educator, Art Director and Fabricator for museums, theater, television and film. He started his professional art career as Studio Manager, Welding Instructor and ultimately Department Head at The Crucible, a premiere Fine and Industrial Art Center in Oakland, California. He was Lead Builder on “The Raygun Gothic Rocketship,” a 40-foot-tall and 13,000-pound retro-futurist art sculpture, which is now permanently installed in front of Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver. He was Lead Artist for work commissioned by California Academy of Sciences and was part of an art collective featured at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 

 

In 2010 Tory was hired and ultimately promoted to Lead Builder and Art Director for Discovery channel’s “MythBusters” spanning seasons 10 through 19.  He is mentioned in Adam Savage’s book, “Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It.” Tory continued with the “MythBusters” franchise as Art Director, Builder and Build Manager for “The White Rabbit Project,” “MythBusters: The Search” and “Mythbusters Jr.” His television set construction work was also featured on Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why.”

 

Tory was highlighted in Cinefex magazine’s 40th anniversary issue for his work on “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” as part of the special effects team. He also worked in the Art Department for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “The Matrix Resurrections.”

 

In 2021 Tory worked at Denver Center for the Performing Arts in the Props Department as Properties Artisan for a season, working on “The Other Josh Cohen,” “A Christmas Carol,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf,” “In the Upper Room,” “Rattlesnake Kate,” “Choir Boy,” “Quixote Nuevo” and David Byrne’s “Theater of the Mind,” before becoming FiTV’s Production Design Lead at CU Denver.

Areas of Expertise

Metal Art
Fine Arts
Art Direction
Production Design
Prop Fabrication
Set Design & Fabrication
Practical Effects

Education, Licensure & Certifications

San Francisco State University
BA; Criminal Justice

EMT-B License
Completed 2004, Renewed 2006

Welding Certification, GMAW 3G AWS D1.1
Completed 2007

Forklift / Grade-All / Scissor-Lift Operation Certification
Completed 2007

Awards

2010 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2011 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2012 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2013 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Reality Program”, MythBusters

2014 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Structured Reality Program” for MythBusters

2015 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Structured Reality Program” for MythBusters

2016 Emmy nomination “Outstanding Structured Reality Program” for MythBusters

2017 Academy Award nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2017 BAFTA nomination “Best Special Visual Effects” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2017 Saturn Award winner “Best Special Effects” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2017 Visual Effects Society nomination “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

2020 Academy Award nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2020 BAFTA nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2020 Visual Effects Society winner “Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2020 Art Directors Guild nomination “Excellence in Production Design for a Fantasy Film”

2021 Saturn Award winner “Best Special Effects” for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

2022 Visual Effects Society nomination “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Visual Effects Society nomination “Outstanding Special (Practical) Effects in a Photoreal or Animated Project” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Critics Choice Movie Awards nomination “Best Visual Effects” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Set Decorators Society of America nomination “Best Achievement in Decor/Design of a Science Fiction or Fantasy Feature Film” for “The Matrix Resurrections”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award nomination “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “Choir Boy”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award winner “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “In the Upper Room”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award nomination “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

2022 Colorado Theater Guild Henry Award nomination “Outstanding Scenic Design” for DCPA Theater Company’s “Rattlesnake Kate”

Affiliations

IATSE

CONTACT US

 

Telephone: 303-315-7400
Email: 
CAM@ucdenver.edu​

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Physical Address

College of Arts & Media
University of Colorado Denver
1150 10th Street Denver, CO 80204

 

General Mail Delivery (USPS)

(Name or Title of Program)
College of Arts & Media
University of Colorado Denver
Campus Box 162
PO Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364

 

Central Receiving (UPS/FedEx/Parcel or Package Shipment)

(Name or Title of Program)
College of Arts & Media
University of Colorado Denver
1201 5th Street, AR 177
Denver, CO 80204-2005

 

Admissions & Enrollment

Email: CAMinfo@ucdenver.edu
Phone: 303-315-7487

 

Emmanuel Art Gallery

1205 10th Street Plaza
Denver, CO 80204
Email: emmanuelgallery@ucdenver.edu
Telephone: 303-315-7431

Comcast Media & Technology Center
Tivoli Annex 139B, Tivoli Student Union,
Comcast Media & Technology Center Staff


Film & Television Department

Email: FilmTV@ucdenver.edu

 

IT Help Desk

Office: Arts Building, 177 C
Email: CAMit@ucdenver.edu
Telephone: 303-315-7428

 

LYNX National Arts & Media Camp

Email: LYNXcamp@ucdenver.edu​​
Telephone: 303-315-7468

 

Music & Entertainment Industry Studies Department

Office: Arts Building, 288
Email: meis.dept@ucdenver.edu
Telephone: 303-315-7450

 

National Center of Media Forensics

Office: King Center, Fifth Floor
Email: NCMF@ucdenver.edu
Telephone: 303-315-7496

 

Next Stage Gallery

1025 13th St
Denver, CO 80202
(Located in the Denver Performing Arts Complex)

 

Visual Arts Department

Office: CU Building, 800 A
Email: VisualArts@ucdenver.edu
Telephone: 303-315-1501

 

College of Arts & Media

CU Denver

Arts Building

1150 10th Street

Suite 177

Denver, CO 80204


303-315-7400

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