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A message from Dean Colleen about Art Car 2021:
I am thrilled to announce that "Terra Firma", our entry into the Houston Art Car Experience, has swept the awards for Judge's Choice, People's Choice, and Art Cartist's Choice.  Please join me in congratulating our students, Professor Hope, the West Houston Institute, and the dedicated HCC leaders, faculty, and staff who made this extraordinary achievement happen.
This project is exemplary of what we can accomplish in collaboration, and I am incredibly proud to serve with everyone who worked to see us enter into Houston history with this achievement.
Congratulations to Professor Hope and the Arts Academic Cooperative!  
Proud to be HCC,Colleen

Becoming an artist takes hard work and a creative eye. In our HCC Beat this week, Randall Williams learns how the visual arts program is helping students to be the best artists they can be.
Broadcast May 14th, 2021 on Stafford METV.

Up To The Minute spotlights HCC’s Art Car for its “Virtual Family Fun Day,” featuring the District-wide collaboration blending artistic creativity and scientific technology. Israel Garza, IdeaStudio Manager, and Jeffrey Chen, Makerspace Technician, review the role of the Makerspace in this year’s Art Car, while Jordan Carswell, Interim Director of the West Houston Institute, and Dr. Colleen Reilly, Dean of the Visual & Performing Arts COE, take a look at future interdisciplinary, project-based learning.

The six HCC campus art galleries are closed until further notice but that doesn’t stop our student artists from showing what they've created this semester. Instagram will be our gallery walls for the non-juried exhibition that features all studio classes from all colleges in the HCC system.

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Gi60 HoustonPresented by ScreamingMediaProductions in association with Houston Community College's Center of Excellence for the Visual and Performing Arts, Gi60 Houston will be a fully online performance featuring selected plays from around the world brought to the stage by the HCC Drama Program's Spring 2021 Practicum students.

Gi60 Houston premiered on April 23, 2021 on the official Gi60 International One-Minute Theatre Festival YouTube channel

HCCTV Up To The Minute_ April 1, 2021
On today’s Up To The Minute, HCC Studio Art Instructor Ashley Hope reports that Houston’s beloved Art Car Parade — now called an Experience — is returning and HCC will be represented. As HCC’s Art Car Advisor, she is joined by student Mickayla Smith, who gives a first-hand account of artistically re-envisioning and transforming an old ambulance to represent rebirth from Hurricane Harvey to COVID.

To learn more about Art Car Experience: https://www.artcarexperience.com/

From this year’s Art Car Experience application, submitted by Professor Hope, “The Art Car Cooperative at Houston Community College is a STEAM project that brings together students from across many disciplines in order to design, engineer, and construct art cars exemplary of HCC's innovative and collaborative spirit. For the 2021 Art Car Event, HCC has transformed an ambulance into a narrative of "rebirth after destruction". The idea was conceived by the students after their realization that they were all at HCC after some sort of struggle. Perhaps it is the character of a community college:  The students are grabbing at chances their parents never had, or at second chances they weren’t sure would ever come to them.  But always, the idea was about grabbing the opportunity to be more. 
I think the students at Houston Community College don’t just feel this way about their college, but also their city.  After Harvey, and now Covid, they are communicating their will to overcome, to be reborn after hardship.  So they made a design that was meant to offer all Houstonians an opportunity to get to higher ground—hence the title of the project: Terra Firma.
We have a mighty resilient city, and our Art Car entry tells that story: the story of rising from the ashes to bloom. It is a very timely work of art, and hope it gets the chance to be seen this year.”

Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes of editing movies? This week, The HCCTV Student Lounge gang talks with HCC Professor and Division Chair of Media Arts, Michael Cohn, about this and how Texas is growing as America's third coast for making films.

The HCCTV Student Lounge is a newscast produced by HCC students, for HCC students. This week, the gang talks with Dr. Colleen Reilly about choosing the right electives for college.