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.

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Student Filmmaking Showcase | Spring 2021 | HCC Beat

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

Art Car Featured on Virtual Coffee Break

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.

Division Chair Fields Discusses Student Art Show Digital Future

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.

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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

Ensembles Concert | Spring 2021 | HCC Beat

The six HCC campus art galleries are closed until further notice but that doesn’t stop our student artists from showing what they've created this semester. Instagram will be our gallery walls for the non-juried exhibition that features all studio classes from all colleges in the HCC system.https://www.instagram.com/hcc_visual_arts/http:// 

Instagram Student Art Show | Spring 2021 | HCC Beat

Gi60 HoustonPresented by ScreamingMediaProductions in association with Houston Community College's Center of Excellence for the Visual and Performing Arts, Gi60 Houston will be a fully online performance featuring selected plays from around the world brought to the stage by the HCC Drama Program's Spring 2021 Practicum students.Gi60 Houston premiered on April 23, 2021 on the official Gi60 International One-Minute Theatre Festival YouTube channel

Gi60 Houston | Drama Practicum Spring 2021 | HCC Beat

Our music faculty recital features an eclectic program of Romantic, Impressionist, and contemporary classical music. Back in the day, music was performed not only in large public venues but also in small private salons. You will get a taste of that as the artists invite you to the cozy confines of their homes, and to recital spaces and concert halls.April 08  |  To view the Spring 2021 Music Faculty Recital https://edutube.hccs.edu/media/Music+Faculty+Recital+Spring+2021/1_nwcaba9a

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HCCTV Up To The Minute_ April 1, 2021On today’s Up To The Minute, HCC Studio Art Instructor Ashley Hope reports that Houston’s beloved Art Car Parade — now called an Experience — is returning and HCC will be represented. As HCC’s Art Car Advisor, she is joined by student Mickayla Smith, who gives a first-hand account of artistically re-envisioning and transforming an old ambulance to represent rebirth from Hurricane Harvey to COVID. To learn more about Art Car Experience: https://www.artcarexperience.com/From this year’s Art Car Experience application, submitted by Professor Hope, “The Art Car Cooperative at Houston Community College is a STEAM project that brings together students from across many disciplines in order to design, engineer, and construct art cars exemplary of HCC's innovative and collaborative spirit. For the 2021 Art Car Event, HCC has transformed an ambulance into a narrative of "rebirth after destruction". The idea was conceived by the students after their realization that they were all at HCC after some sort of struggle. Perhaps it is the character of a community college:  The students are grabbing at chances their parents never had, or at second chances they weren’t sure would ever come to them.  But always, the idea was about grabbing the opportunity to be more. I think the students at Houston Community College don’t just feel this way about their college, but also their city.  After Harvey, and now Covid, they are communicating their will to overcome, to be reborn after hardship.  So they made a design that was meant to offer all Houstonians an opportunity to get to higher ground—hence the title of the project: Terra Firma.We have a mighty resilient city, and our Art Car entry tells that story: the story of rising from the ashes to bloom. It is a very timely work of art, and hope it gets the chance to be seen this year.”

Art Car Update | Up To The Minute April 01 | HCCTV

Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes of editing movies? This week, The HCCTV Student Lounge gang talks with HCC Professor and Division Chair of Media Arts, Michael Cohn, about this and how Texas is growing as America's third coast for making films.

The HCCTV Student Lounge |Media Arts Chair Michael Cohn

The HCCTV Student Lounge is a newscast produced by HCC students, for HCC students. This week, the gang talks with Dr. Colleen Reilly about choosing the right electives for college.

The HCCTV Student Lounge | Dean Colleen and the Creative Arts Electives

Guests on The Topic December 01, 2020Colleen Reilly, Ph.D. Dean, HCC Visual & Performing Arts Center of Excellence Michael Flanagan, MFA Instructor, Drama David Sharma Adjunct Professor, Audio Recording Technology Host: Todd Duplantis

The Topic December 01, 2020 | The Arts at HCC

Students from the studios of Professors Yoojin Lee and Joel Love will submit videos and give a virtual recital.

Virtual Student Piano Recital | HCC Beat

Virtual Student Exhibition | Fall 2020 | Instagram ON INSTAGRAM | HCC Virtual Arts Center | @hcc_visual_artsNovember 16—January 16, 2021Registration is not required for this event.The six HCC campus art galleries are closed until further notice but that doesn’t stop our student artists from showing what they've created this semester. Instagram will be our gallery walls for the non-juried exhibition that features all studio classes from all colleges in the HCC system.

Virtual Student Art Exhibition_Fall2020_HCC Beat

The purpose of the Music & Entertainment Student Alliance (MESA) is to bring together students for both educational and social activities and to undertake fundraising activities that will benefit students in the music business curriculum. Co-Advisors: Scott.Gehman@hccs.edu | Christopher.William3@hccs.edu

MESA Recruitment Video FALL2020

HCC's Visual and Performing Arts Center of Excellence offers academic Associate Degree programs in Dance, Drama, Music, and Studio Arts for students planning to complete their study at four-year institutions. Our faculty members are internationally recognized and critically acclaimed choreographers, dancers, directors, musicians, scholars, and visual artists. Serving both the student planning to transfer to a university and the student exploring new avenues of imagination, our purpose is the same: To place technique and discipline at the service of creative vision. Our performances and exhibitions are presented throughout the year and offered free or at low cost to HCC and the greater Houston community. We are proud to celebrate the Visual and Performing Arts at Houston's Community College.

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