BCCC offers new studio arts class | Eastern NC Now

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    Are you starting your education and thinking about a career in art? Or are you retired and looking for a new creative outlet or a second career in the arts? Then this new studio arts class, Two Dimension Design, at Beaufort County Community College is for you!

    Taught by veteran artist Heea Crownfield, this course features hands-on art projects such as an accordion book, a hand-painted t-shirt and a hybrid self-portrait combining traditional and digital media.

    Students will learn the elements and principles of design as they are applied to two-dimensional art and to the theories of color mixing and interaction. They will make a color-wheel and make a painting will color acrylic.

    It will be 11 a.m. to 12:50 p.m., Monday, Wednesday and Friday beginning Wednesday, Jan. 8 and ending Wednesday, May 14.

    Tuition and student fees for the three-credit-hour course are $220.50 for in-state residents. There are no-prerequisites for the course and students need not have any previous design or art experience.

    Students may enroll in the course by first completing an online application for admission to BCCC. Those currently enrolled at BCCC who would like to add this course to their schedule should consult their advisors.

    Registration for the class will be 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 7, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 8.

    Crownfield, of Washington, has been working in mixed-media sculpture for over 20 years. She earned a bachelor's degree in art and religious studies from Guilford College in Greensboro and a master's degree in fine art with a concentration in sculpture from Clemson University in Clemson, S.C.

    She has exhibited her sculpture throughout North Carolina including the Weatherspoon Art Museum and the Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art in Greensboro, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem and the Fayetteville Museum of Art in Fayetteville.

    Additionally, Crownfield's work has been exhibited in exhibits throughout the Southeast and has been recognized by Sculpture Magazine, a publication of the International Sculpture Center.

    Her work, "Core," was recently chosen to be on display at the Caswell Building, home of the North Carolina Community College System office.

    You may apply for admission to the class online at http://goo.gl/4E1c6H. For more information about admissions or for help completing the online application, contact admissions director Daniel Wilson at 252-940-6233 or by email at danielw@beaufortccc.edu. For more information about the course, including the purchase of retired materials, contact Crownfield at 252-940-6491 or by email at heeac@beaufortccc.edu.

    Cutline: Learn to paint designs like the one pictured above in BCCC's new hands-on Two Dimension Design course. Class begins Wednesday, Jan.8.


    Beaufort County Community College is a public comprehensive community college committed to accessible and affordable quality education, effective teaching, relevant training, and lifelong learning opportunities for the people served by the College.