ACC’s Arts & Humanities Division Earns Recognition from the City of Austin

The City of Austin has recognized ACC’s Arts & Humanities Division for its work in bringing together a number of art education groups to further the “CreateAustin” cultural master plan.

Beginning last fall, the college’s Arts & Humanities Division hosted a series of Community Arts Summits to discuss how to promote arts education in Austin, a key portion of the master plan.

ACC's Community Arts Award

ACC's Community Arts Award

“ACC’s Arts & Humanities Division has been absolutely integral in pushing community discussion related to the ‘CreateAustin’ cultural master plan recommendation” for art education, said Vincent Kitch, Cultural Arts program manager for the City of Austin.

The city’s Cultural Arts Division recently presented ACC with the Community Arts Award.

“We are delighted to play a role in advancing arts education in Austin,” says Lyman Grant, dean of ACC’s Arts & Humanities Division. “The arts are a source of inspiration and imagination, and they often evoke new ways of looking at our world. Those are qualities that enrich a community.”

The city also recognized ACC’s community arts efforts with a proclamation presented at the Arts & Humanities Division’s Carnival ah! in April 2009. Carnival ah! is an outdoor festival with live music, dance, drama, performance art, and a nighttime

outdoor film screening. The next Carnival ah! is scheduled for April 16-24, 2010.

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