Current News from HACC, Feb. 15, 2017 HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, shares recent news and events with the community, including:

• Artist Reflects West Virginia Ties in New HACC Exhibit
• HACC Announces Fall 2016 Full-Time Dean’s List

 
Artist Reflects West Virginia Ties in New HACC Exhibit
View Ceramic Sculptures Feb. 24-March 31, 2017
 
HARRISBURG, Pa. – “PLACE,” an exhibit of ceramic sculptures by Robert “Boomer” Moore, will be on display Feb. 24-March 31, 2017, in the Rose Lehrman Art Gallery on the Harrisburg Campus of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College.
 
The artist will discuss his work on March 16 at 5:30 p.m. in Whitaker Hall, Room 214, with a reception immediately following in the gallery. The reception and the exhibit are free and open to the public.
 
Moore’s collection features work created from his concepts of family, environment and the idea of “home” during the eight years he and his family have lived in West Virginia.
 
Moore received his bachelor’s degree from Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, in 1995 and his MFA from Utah State University in Logan, Utah, in 1999.  Moore was previously the studio coordinator/instructor at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He is currently an associate professor of art at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.
 
Moore was a fellow of the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine. He has presented numerous workshops at schools and institutions across the nation. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in such venues as The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Clay National, American Shino and The Fletcher Challenge. Examples of his work can be viewed in publications such as “The Ceramic Design Book,” “The Ceramic Glaze Handbook” and “Claytimes Magazine.” In 2004, he was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant.
 
For more information about the exhibit at HACC, please contact Shawn Williams at 717-780-2478 or smwillia@hacc.edu.
 
Gallery hours are Monday-Friday from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays 5-7 p.m. or by appointment. 
 
The gallery received state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
 
Caption: “Water Problems,”clay and glaze materials by Robert “Boomer” Moore, will be displayed as part of the "PLACE" ceramic sculpture exhibit at HACC.
 
HACC Announces Fall 2016 Full-Time Dean’s List
 
HARRISBURG, Pa. – HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, has named 1,333 students to the fall 2016 full-time dean’s list.
 
The full-time dean’s list recognizes students who achieved a 3.25 grade point average or higher in college-level classes and completed a minimum of 12 credits during the fall 2016 term.
 
The students are listed by county and according to hometown mailing address in HACC’s online newsroom.
 
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