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!
GDAMG Faculty Spotlight: Niall Farrel
3D Animation Faculty Spotlight: Niall Farrel Niall Farell is an adjunct professor teaching 3D Animation. He currently works in the industry at Moontower VFX as a Character Animator and Rigger. Years ago, Niall was actually a student at ACC learning animation with...
GDAMG Alumni Feature: HLC Promotional Video by Colin McNally
The Game Development, Animation, and Motion Graphics department is proud to be housed at the Highland campus as part of ACC’s creative community. This video was created by Colin McNally who graduated from Austin Community College with a degree in Motion Graphics in...
Message from the Dean
Writing is an essential form of communication and a conduit for creativity, collaboration and success, and writing ultimately helps us become better people. The impact of a story, a screenplay, a poem, or a message to a loved one can make a connection that can only be...
Creative Writing Student News: Sol Wooten
Sol Wooten began her academic journey as an undergraduate psychology student at Cornell College in Iowa, where she was drawn to the very intensive three-week class structure. She will continue her journey at Cornell University in New York as an MFA student in literary...
Quality Matters with Dr. Kristina Elizondo
The Arts and Digital Media Division continues to expand and improve distance education offerings in a variety of disciplines. In the Creative Writing department, ACC students can earn an Associates of Arts degree entirely through online classes, in traditional...
Creative Writing Student News: Elisabetta La Cava
Elisabetta La Cava is a double immigrant from Italy and Venezuela who became a Texan some years ago. She finds herself writing about all sorts of things including international community, relationships, spirituality, and family. Elisabetta’s work has or will be seen...
Austin Art League Awards Scholarships to ACC Studio Art Students
During the spring semester, the Austin Art League Group 1 selected five ACC art students who each received a one-thousand-dollar scholarship. The selection was based on the work that the students entered in the 45th Annual ACC Student Art Exhibition. The 2021...
Creative Writing Department News & Events
The Creative Writing Department won the Outstanding Collaboration Award for The Indigenous People's Day Event, where we worked with ACC’s Student Life to host a reading by Stephen Graham Jones. (see image below) We co-hosted six Literary Coffeehouses over the last few...
Creative Writing Faculty News
- Luke Garza is currently in pre-production to shoot his short film, SPECTRAL WIND, a supernatural drama, mid-May. A few of his students (Sanju Jacob, Megan Kallus, Melissa Baez) will be production assistants on the film. - Charlotte Gullick will have a featured...
Emma Moseley, ACC Music Alumni
Born in Baton Rouge, Emma Dean quickly found herself growing up in small town, Mississippi. It was here that she decided to pick up the guitar at the age of 6, and has been willing her small hands to grow and reach ever since. Emma also found her voice at a young ...
Vision + Voice Deadline Extension
Since this has been a rough year for students, teachers, and parents, we have decided to extend the deadline for submissions to the 2021 VisionVoice Poetry Contest to February 15. All K-12 students in the ACC service area are eligible to enter and poems of all...
Young Poets Make Sense of Our World at the Vision+Voice Celebration
Young poets have an incredible opportunity to publish their poems, and gain greater access to authentic audiences. Austin Community College is celebrating the winners of the 2020 Vision+Voice Poetry Contest on Saturday, September 5th at 6pm. Yes, the pandemic...