Arts & Digital Media Division
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Our Arts & Digital Media newsletter contains exciting and useful news from around our division. Be sure to subscribe below!
ACC Drama offers their first musical with The Mad Ones
Creating a heartfelt musical like The Mad Ones with students and artists from the community was such a fun and loving experience. Everyone involved made each rehearsal and performance full of laughs, smiles, and sometimes, due to the nature of the show, beautiful...
Celebrating Our First Annual Summer Music Intensive
The ACC Music department hosted the first summer camp, ACC Summer Music Intensive:New Asian Music Camp (featuring The Woven Sounds) from June 5th through 9th. Led and taught by ACC’s esteemed faculty members and guest artists, this camp was designed to celebrate the...
Drag the Ban!
How do you fight censorship? With flair, with glitter and with guts! In response to the legislative censorship of literature and drag performance, the Creative Writing department—with the support of ADM, LGBTeQuity, and KIND Clinic—put on DRAG THE BAN this June,...
Arts and Digital Media & TRHTC Welcome Austin State Hospital’s Art Rack to ACC
Austin State Hospital utilizes Art Therapy practices with their patients to bring about mental wellness through creativity. To highlight this therapy program, they have created the Art Rack. Art Rack is a traveling rack of art made by patients in the Art Therapy...
Educational Resources Available from The Art Galleries at ACC
As an educational institution, The Art Galleries (TAG) at Austin Community College prioritizes creating informative and enlightening experiences and resources for ACC faculty, students, and Austin community educators and visitors. Visit our education page to view...
Updates from Music Business, Performance and Technology, the Artists Now Known as Audio Technology & Industry!
Introducing the Audio Technology & Industry (ATI) Department! Formerly known as Music Business Performance and Technology, we have undergone an exciting transformation and are now proudly ACC’s Audio Technology and Industry Department. Our name change reflects...
Dance Department’s Catherine Solaas Received the University of Oregon’s Distinguished Alumni Award
Catherine Solaas, Dance Department Chair, was honored at the University of Oregon Class of 2023 School of Music and Dance Commencement Ceremony, where she received the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2023. Catherine was recognized by Dean Sabrina Madison-Cannon at an...
ACC Music Presented: Piano Monster Concert
Saturday evening ACC Music students and faculty performed several compositions on five grand pianos. With over 125 guests in attendance, the performance was a huge success showcasing ACC’s talented piano students and faculty and celebrating ACC’s 50th Anniversary. Be...
The.DPP Photobook ATX Conversation
ADM: Can you share a brief description of what Photobook Austin is, and background on your recent guests? Sean Perry: Photobook ATX is a collaboration between myself and photographer Bryan Schutmaat that is produced and hosted by the Photography Department at ACC. We...
An evening with the Artist: Rashaun Rucker
The Art Galleries (TAG) at Austin Community College and Print Austin hosted Rashaun Rucker for an artist talk about his creative process and experience being a juror for the current exhibition in Gallery 2000, The Contemporary Print. Close to 100 people attended the...
Congratulations to Kramer Scholarship winners, Julie Mendez & Brisacielos Orlando
The ACC Arts and Digital Media Division congratulates Art students Julie Mendez and Brisacielos Orlando for being awarded The Steve Kramer Art Scholarship at the end of 2022. Recipients received the endowed scholarship created by the Steve Kramer Memorial to support...
TAG Tuesdays Wraps for Fall 2022
TAG Tuesdays Wraps for Fall 2022 The Art Galleries at Austin Community College launched their TAG Tuesday program in Fall 2022. Based on the foundation that art acts as a vehicle for open discussion, TAG Tuesdays bring together ACC students, faculty, staff, and...