OROVILLE — The creative juices flow nonstop at the Makerspace Lab at Butte College.
The lab is located on the first floor of the Arts building and is dedicated to sophisticated, mostly digital art projects. Students and community members must sign up for a zero-unit class to use the lab, but there aren’t any fees. Those who use the lab can use as much of the equipment as they wish, and they can work on projects all day if they want to or use the lab for a certain portion of the day. Students can make embroidery, stickers, T-shirts, wood pieces, ceramics, metal and much more.
“Five years ago, our department received a $500,000 allocation through a $17 million California State CCCMaker Initiative grant to build a Makerspace in our Arts building on campus,” said Daniel Donnelly, Manager of Butte College Makerspace, Chair of Butte College Digital Art & Design/ARTS and Instructor…
