My name is Tayler Duprel and I am the Lab Technician for Open Painting Studio Hours in Room 4.2220!    I am originally from San Jose, California and have a Bachelor's of Science in Journalism. After I graduated college, I worked in the nonprofit sector for seven...

Kristin Calhoun joined the Art Department faculty in 2015 and has served as Instructional Associate since 2020, but her professional affiliation with the college began in 2008 as a Lab Assistant in the Printmaking and Sculpture areas after coming to ACC in 2007 to...

Yousif De Valle holds a BFA from Texas Christian University (2008) and an MFA from the University of Minnesota (2012). Prior to joining ACC in 2020, Yousif served for three years as full-time sculpture faculty and lab coordinator at Mesalands Community College. In...

Shailee Thakkar is originally from Gujarat, India, but emigrated to the United States in 2004 with her family. She grew up watching her father make yearly holiday cards and rangolis. She thought about pursuing the arts as a career, but eventually studied Biochemistry...

The Art Galleries (TAG) at Austin Community College invite ACC students, staff, faculty, and the Austin community to come and view the 46th Annual Student Art Exhibition (April 5-May 12).    The 61 artworks selected for this exhibition were produced in ACC studio...

Submissions for the 2022 Vision+Voice Poetry Contest are Open! Vision+Voice is an annual poetry contest for K-12 students in the Austin Community College service area. Launched in 2013, Vision+Voice was established by ACC to provide multiple venues for young people to...

Greg Romero is originally from Louisiana, Cajun blood on both sides. His plays, site-specific projects, and sound-art collaborations have been presented in performance spaces, found spaces, and through the airwaves of the United States as well as Switzerland, Canada,...

Deborah began as a self-taught jeweler at the age of only 15, when she took her passion and skill for creating medieval chainmaille armor, and applied it as best she could at the time to creating jewelry. Deborah began taking core curriculum courses at Austin...

Artist Statement A piece of jewelry is a collection of materials, of mass and volume and color. In the traditional materials I most frequently use, these properties get further defined and categorized into grams of precious metal, into the purity of karat and the...

Artist’s Statement  Silver is the predominant choice of precious metal used due to the wide range of textures and finishes that can be brought out of the metal. Rings, brooches, pendants, cuffs and chainwork are the primary jewelry pieces made. The use of gold as a...

I dove into the deep end of Jewelry with a focus in Metal after a career of Culinary in San Antonio - moving to Austin to pursue a new journey that still represents love for detail orientation. The ACC Jewelry Department has really encouraged my wide-eyed fascination...