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A return to our in-person student exhibitions. Features art studio students at West Loop and Stafford. Juried for awards in Drawing, Painting (Acrylic and Watercolor), 2D Design, 3D Design, Ceramics, Sculpture, Life Drawing, Art Metals, Digital Art, and Photography.  

The Factory Seconds Brass Trio (members of the Cleveland Orchestra) comes to HCC to share their musical talents with our students in a recital. They will also be reading student works earlier on the same day. Host Dr. Joel Love.

The Stafford Fine Arts Center is back in action. Randall Williams highlights artists as they take us on the journey of Black History through the Arts. Broadcast March 4th, 2022 on Stafford METV.This event is a collaboration between the Music Department and the Office of Student Life, featuring HCC music students and faculty, the HCC African Dance Ensemble, and guest artist dancer Jorrell Lawyer-Jefferson.

It’s always rewarding to see faculty perform what they teach. Randall Williams gets in tune at the annual Music Faculty Recital. Broadcast March 4th, 2022 on Stafford METV. HCC's music faculty presents music in many genres and styles online. February 22, 2022.  Opening welcome by Music Program Coordinator, Dr. Kathleen Ruhleder  “I'd like to welcome you to our spring 2020 (*2022) faculty recital. We’re really hoping this is the last one that we're doing virtually and putting online. I would love to see you all at our events ??? and later this semester we’ve got lots of great in-person events coming up as well. But we're so glad that you're here to support HCC faculty as we share some really fantastic music with you. So on tonight's program, you're going to see, what we typically have on these recitals are some shorter pieces that really highlight some of the skills of the performers. You’re going to hear some personal compositions being performed by the composer which is so exciting and then we have something a little different at the end of our program. We're going to have a much longer piece, about 17 minutes long, and really shows off the skills of one of our adjunct faculty members, Doug DeVries performing on the flute with a string quartet. It really shows how incredibly challenging and incredibly rewarding it can be to record a much longer piece. The type of focus required for that is pretty amazing so I hope you all will enjoy tonight's program. Next week is our annual Black History Month concert which will also be online and we'd love to have you join us for that on the 28th and after that check out the calendar of events for all the cool in-person concerts we have coming up later this semester. Enjoy." Viewing Link and program on EduTube  https://edutube.hccs.edu/media/Music+Faculty+Recital+Spring+2022/1_m7jxb0s4

Professor Megan Lasher dances with Motion suit to record accurate, responsive human motion data by Nick Kume, intern in the Reality ColLab who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a bachelor in animation. The MoCap suits are used to capture sessions for pre-visualization, in-game clips, cinematic cut scenes, film, and television, and now at HCC for dance and practice sequences.

An introduction to new art faculty Esther Delaquis-Baidoo through her art. She is a painter and printmaker. She features some pieces showing her native Ghana open markets and her adopted Walmart market. Art Gallery at Stafford Fine Arts Center. Reporter Randall Williams. Broadcast February 11th, 2022 on Stafford METV. 

Six programs and the Heinen Theatre and Central XR Lab came together to support the Film & Fashion Project: Fashion, Fashion Merchandising, Filmmaking, Digital Photography, Cosmetology, and Drama Interviews:  Colleen Reilly, PhD  Dean, Media, Visual & Performing Arts Center of Excellence Suzette M. Brimmer, B.S., M.B.A. Dean, Consumer Arts & Sciences Center of Excellence Cheryl Whitaker, M.F.A.   HCC Fashion Merchandising Professor, Program Coordinator Julye Newlin, MH. HCC Professor, Film Photographs by Elizabeth Díaz, MFA Art+Design Program Specialist and Matthew Gonzalez, ER Lab at Central.

During the pandemic, The Visual and Performing Arts COE used social media to stay connected. In our HCC Beat this week, Randall Williams goes behind the scenes with the Media Arts Chair Michael Cohn to learn how Filmmaking met the challenges. Broadcast May 21, 2021, on Stafford METV.

A message from Dean Colleen about Art Car 2021: I am thrilled to announce that "Terra Firma", our entry into the Houston Art Car Experience, has swept the awards for Judge's Choice, People's Choice, and Art Cartist's Choice.  Please join me in congratulating our students, Professor Hope, the West Houston Institute, and the dedicated HCC leaders, faculty, and staff who made this extraordinary achievement happen. This project is exemplary of what we can accomplish in collaboration, and I am incredibly proud to serve with everyone who worked to see us enter into Houston history with this achievement. Congratulations to Professor Hope and the Arts Academic Cooperative!   Proud to be HCC, Colleen

Becoming an artist takes hard work and a creative eye. In our HCC Beat this week, Randall Williams learns how the visual arts program is helping students to be the best artists they can be. Broadcast May 14th, 2021 on Stafford METV.

Up To The Minute spotlights HCC’s Art Car for its “Virtual Family Fun Day,” featuring the District-wide collaboration blending artistic creativity and scientific technology. Israel Garza, IdeaStudio Manager, and Jeffrey Chen, Makerspace Technician, review the role of the Makerspace in this year’s Art Car, while Jordan Carswell, Interim Director of the West Houston Institute, and Dr. Colleen Reilly, Dean of the Visual & Performing Arts COE, take a look at future interdisciplinary, project-based learning.

An evening of student ensembles features The Student Choir directed by Dr. Andrew Briggs and three Jazz Ensembles directed by Dr. Joel Love (The Groove Business), Dr. Woody Witt (The Monday Night Jazz Ensemble), and Joe LoCascio (The Thursday Night Jazz Ensemble). The concert consists of pre-recorded videos, multi-track recordings, and live recordings. April 27