Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center promotes innovation and creativity in media arts through access, education, and exhibition. It celebrates media as a means of artistic, personal, and socially committed expression. Squeaky Wheel is guided by core values including: Creativity & Experimentation: It embraces experimentation as essential to the creative process; Media & Digital Literacy: It engages individuals with technical and critical approaches to film and digital media technologies at every level of need and knowledge; Community Engagement & Collaboration: It connects communities, local and international, as both a leader and a partner with artists, educators, schools, and community groups; Equal Access: It actively removes barriers that can prevent access to its programs by offering programs with free and affordable tuition, free and low-cost admission to events, and work trade/volunteer/internships opportunities. It is the only nonprofit in Western NY with an inclusive roster of education, equipment access, and exhibition programming dedicated to film and digital media arts.