HCC's Visual and Performing Arts Center of Excellence offers academic Associate Degree programs in Dance, Drama, Music, and Studio Arts for students planning to complete their study at four-year institutions. Our faculty members are internationally recognized and critically acclaimed choreographers, dancers, directors, musicians, scholars, and visual artists. Serving both the student planning to transfer to a university and the student exploring new avenues of imagination, our purpose is the same: To place technique and discipline at the service of creative vision.
Our performances and exhibitions are presented throughout the year and offered free or at low cost to HCC and the greater Houston community. We are proud to celebrate the Visual and Performing Arts at Houston's Community College.
Further podcasts by HCC Edutube
Podcast on the topic Darstellende Kunst
Northline students’ studio artworks from
drawing, painting and design. First place and honorable mention awards will be
presented at reception.
Alex Roman Jr. (“Donkeeboy”), a visual artist based in Houston, is a remixer of pop culture. He puts his own unique spin on famous icons, creating works of art that consist of double entendre an...
ListenDr. Christopher McKim, baritone and Dr Kathleen Ruhleder, mezzo-soprano, present a musical theatre cabaret on the theme of what it takes to be an adult. Features songs by Stephen Sondheim, Kander &...
ListenThe Houston-based Kazoku Quartet is a classical saxophone ensemble devoted to high-quality chamber music that can be enjoyed by all. The diverse backgrounds of the four members (Daniel Gelok, Elean...
ListenAn exhibition of artworks from Visual Arts students enrolled in advanced sections of studio art courses from the Spring Branch, Alief-Hayes Road, and Katy campuses.
Juror Michelle O'Michael...
Wyrd Sisters by Sir Terry Pratchett | Adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs
Directed by Kathy Snider. “Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think i...
ListenFrom playing in hospitals, schools, and community centers to performing in Carnegie Hall, Taiwanese-American pianist Yvonne Chen enjoys programming site-specific performances, as well as creating a...
ListenThe Art and Design unit Portfolio Review Day is an opportunity for students from across the art and design programs at HCC to present their work for review by art and design faculty and area art...
ListenCelan Bouillet is a mixed media artist currently based in Houston, Texas. Inspired by travel, textiles and our relationship to place, Bouillet creates paintings with complex narratives and dense pa...
ListenHCC
Music Faculty celebrate and dedicate the new Boston Grand Piano at the Central
Campus Mers Stage in Theatre One. They are featuring orchestra reductions for
piano duos (four hand...
An exhibition of paintings, prints, drawings, and assemblage artworks by HCC Southwest (West Loop and Stafford) art faculty.
Drawing
from both his diesel mechanic father and classical singer mother, Jason Valdez
grew up with a skill and an attitude which led to his recent thesis “The
Vocatio...
An exhibition featuring a
variety of art media including paintings, drawings, printmaking, fibers, and
sculpture representing a variety of themes, subjects and artistic roles b...
Introduction of Shemekia Dickerson to the Board of Trustees by President Siddiqi: "Sometimes we have dreams that we don’t think we can achieve or think they are impractical. ...
ListenMonday Night Big Band with guest artist Larry Ham
The award-winning HCC Monday Night Big Band, under the direction of Dr. Woody Witt, performs with guest pianist, composer and ...
ListenJuried art exhibition of visual arts students enrolled in Level One sections of studio art courses from Spring Branch, Katy and Alief.
ListenRona 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 s...
ListenThe 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.
ListenLed by Ashley Hope, Studio Arts Instructor and Resident Artist of the West Houston Institute, the Art Car Cooperative entry -- Titled: “Skybound ...
ListenClayHouston 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.
ListenDarcy 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.
ListenWall to
Wall: Exploration of portraiture in space | Darla Barolini Lawrence
Exhibition
Features
large oversize canvas paintings.
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 throug...
ListenThink Art Car, Frankenbike, Moving Artwork…
Think Fabrication Techniques in Multiple Disciplines…
Think Creative Cooperative for College Credit…
The Art Car Coop...
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