The CoStar Center for Arts and Innovation will optimize VCU’s arts innovation programs by bringing them together under one roof -- consolidating several programs within VCU’s nationally recognized School of the Arts, ranked fourth in the country among graduate programs. It will feature flexible classroom spaces, interdisciplinary performance venues and makerspaces for rapidly growing partnerships across arts, business, humanities and sciences, medicine and engineering. Here our students will learn to harness and prepare for a world of new and emerging industries.