HCC's Media, Visual, and Performing Arts Center of Excellence offers Associate Degrees and certificates.
• Our programs include Audio Recording, Dance, Drama, Filmmaking, Music, Music Business, and Visual Arts
• Our faculty are internationally recognized and critically acclaimed
• Our screenings, performances, and exhibitions are presented throughout the year
• Our classes are available online and in studios, performance halls, and innovative learning spaces at campus locations throughout Houston
Whether you are in class, on stage, screening your work, or exhibiting, our purpose is the same: To place technique and discipline at the service of a creative vision.
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Exhibition of work from the art studio students at West Loop and Stafford locations. Juried for awards in 11 categories: Drawing, Painting (Acrylic and Watercolor), 2D design, 3D design, Ceramics, Sculpture, Life Drawing, Art Metals, Digital Art and Photography.
Rona Lesser's works emphasize the color, light, and the beauty of nature, as well as a deep connection to Jewish spirituality. Rona has been an active Houston area artist since the mid-1980s, and she continues to show and teach citywide.
The HCC Performing Arts music faculty in performance includes Frances Fenton Lytton, Daniel Alexander, and Olive Chen among others. Dr. Joel Love’s compositions were also presented.
Led by Ashley Hope, Studio Arts Instructor and Resident Artist of the West Houston Institute, the Art Car Cooperative entry -- Titled: “Skybound Enterprises" Themed: "Soaring Possibilities" -- was awarded the Grand Trophy of the Cycle Division (Bike brigades, scooters, motorless entries) for 2019. The $500 award goes to Student Activities. HCC teamed up with Houston-based bicycle charity FreeWheels Houston in order to bring you fantasy frankenbikes—Carnival Bike and Airplane Bike—designed by stu...
ClayHouston 2019 Regional Biennial Show is contemporary ceramic art, juried by Jennifer Ling Datchuck. The theme is "Ceramic pieces of today are the artifacts of the future.
Darcy Rosenberger shows her kinetic artworks before giving an artist talk.“Home" by Darcy Rosenberger is funded in part by the city of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
A concert of vocal duets, trios and quartets for treble voices featuring opera, oratorio and cantata selections from throughout music history. Featured performers include Abby Powell, Kathleen Ruhleder, Mike Miller, Kaci Timmons and Seong-Shin Ra and Pianists Megan Glikes and Andrew Schneider.
In celebration of Black History Month local Houston talent, the exhibit highlights a group of recent dynamic works from Kenneth Pierson, Lesley-Marie Diaz, Tim Walker, and Craig C Thearist. These visual artists concern themselves with the representation of black culture and its varied interpretations.
Visual Arts has a very special project underway! Over the past few weeks HCC Visual Arts Professor Michelle Marlar has been conferencing her Art Appreciation lectures through Canvas from Abydos, Egypt where she is collaborating with New York University Fine Arts and Princeton University on an active excavation of the Osiris Temple. Dr. Marlar, an expert on the Osiris Temple — one of the most important, but least understood temples in all of Egypt — will be returning to Houston after spring break...
Think Art Car, Frankenbike, Moving Artwork… Think Fabrication Techniques in Multiple Disciplines… Think Creative Cooperative for College Credit… The Art Car Cooperative, Where all the disciplines are welcome Contact Professor Lorena.Hope@hccs.edu for more information Houston Art Car Parade April 13, 2019 2pm