Mott Community College: MCC Earns Top Honors At 2022 LAND Awards 

Press release from Mott Community College:

Dawn Hibbard

Jan 19th, 2022

Nine Mott Community College (MCC) Media Arts & Entertainment and Fine Arts students are winners in the 2022 LAND Student competition and the College’s International Institute won the LAND Institutional Excellence Award. They will be recognized at the 37th Annual LAND Conference awards ceremony February 18, to be hosted live on Zoom at 12:30 p.m.

LAND (Liberal Arts Network for Development) is an organization that seeks to develop and to promote a network for strengthening the liberal arts in Michigan community colleges.

“Winning the Institutional Excellence Award is testament to the hard work and creativity our faculty have put into providing our students with enriching international experiences despite the restrictions imposed by the pandemic,” said Debra Gibes, Faculty Director for Experiential Learning and Coordinator of the International Institute.

The International Institute at MCC initiates, coordinates, promotes, and supports campus and community-wide efforts for international and intercultural programming that increase global awareness and understanding for intercultural competence in a global society.

MCC students receiving honors for video productions are: 

Non-Fiction/Documentary

·       First Place: Weaving Through COVID - Owen Summerland, of Swartz Creek

·       Third Place: Personal Goals - Spencer Burkhart, of Lapeer

·       Honorable Mention: Pandemic: Lives Affected -  Todd Hopkins, of Linden

Fiction Category

·       First Place: Black out - Suleng Patrick, of Burton

·       Second Place: You & I - Max Doerr, of Haslett

·       Third Place: When We Meet Again - Myles Williams, of Flint

MCC students receiving honors for two and three dimensional artwork are:

2D Category

·       2D Honorable Mention #1: Trashing Sea Life - Kelsea Wright, of Davison

3D Category

·       3D Honorable Mention #1: Pop Shoes -  Sonya Zack, of Attica

“Both Kelsea and Sonia are passionate artists who always put their best into each class project, and pay attention to the smallest details,” said Dr. Jjenna Hupp Andrews, Associate Professor of Studio Art. “With "Trashing Sea Life," Kelsea developed a love for collage as an art medium and really experimented with materials. Sonia's ‘Pop Shoes’ employ recycled found materials in such a way that each part comes together as a unified whole. Sonia is near the end of her degree at Mott and is planning to enter a product design program, and these shoes really demonstrate her passion for that design field,” she added.

MCC offers Associate’s degrees in Studio Art, Music, Graphic Design, Media Arts and Entertainment Technology, Music Technology and Photography.

The Art & Design program develops a strong foundation in studio arts in preparation to pursue a bachelor’s of Fine Arts or work professionally. The curriculum emphasizes a combination of traditional fine arts processes and skills such as drawing, painting, and sculpture, with new technologies and media such as 3D printing, casting, and installation. Students gain experience exhibiting their work in the Annual MCC Student Art Show, statewide student art competitions, and an Annual Student Art Fair.

The Media Arts & Entertainment Technology (MAET) program focuses on preparing students for a wide range of professional employment, both in Michigan and nationally, including positions in the movie industry, at radio and television stations, advertising agencies, concert venues, media production and post-production facilities, school systems, nonprofits and corporations.

This press release was produced by Mott Community College. The views expressed here are the author’s own.