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Academics & Training
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  At Mt. Hood Community College you'll find highly skilled faculty members providing you the best in educational opportunities. Offering over 120 professional programs, as well as a variety of university transfer possibilities, MHCC prepares you for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
  
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Student Life
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  Purpose Statement
  To support and advocate for the interest of students by creating engaging opportunities which empowers and connect them to Mt. Hood Community College.
  
  Vision
  To lead the campus with diverse, equitable, and dynamic personal, cultural, educational, and professional growth opportunities and services for students pursuing their educational goals.
Community
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  Business Services helps small businesses start and grow successfully, partner with local companies to train their workforce and help community members, job seekers and professionals advance in their career or learn a new skill.
  
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  MHCC provides corporate training and continuing education to support professional development, licensure, and assist businesses with their workforce needs.
  
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Athletics
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Visual Arts

Nestled in the foothills of old growth forests with views of Mount Hood, the department of Visual Arts provides a broad foundation of study in multiple art disciplines: ceramics, drawing, jewelry, painting, printmaking and sculpture. Classes are student-centered with professional artists as teachers. Our studio complex is located on a beautifully wooded area of campus – the perfect artist’s retreat.

Visual Arts Gallery MHCC

Contact a Visual Arts Faculty Adviser:

Ceramics: John Hasegawa
Painting: Matteo Neivert
Printmaking: Edie Overturf
Sculpture, 3-D Design: Nathan Orosco

Visual Arts Program
Our vibrant curriculum is designed to give students the tools and confidence to experiment and push beyond obvious solutions.

About Our Classes
Through studio-based art curriculum, art history, 2-D and 3-D design classes, students learn new ways of seeing, thinking, and expressing themselves.

Our Facility
Our studio complex, nestled in the wooded area on the east side of campus, provides students with an exceptional and serene learning environment. The ceramics facility is touted by professional potters nation-wide as first-class.

Planning to Transfer
Graduates of the Visual Arts programs can continue their studies at public and private four-year colleges and universities throughout the country. Your faculty program adviser can sit down and talk to you about choosing a school that matches your needs, goals and budget.

Contact a Faculty Adviser
Still have questions? Contact your faculty advisers.

Ceramics
Ceramics classes allow student to investigate the exciting and extraordinary uses of clay as a medium. Learn diverse techniques from hand-building to wheel-throwing, surface decoration and firing methods.

Design & Drawing
Develop and expand your creative skills and art vocabulary through hand son work. Explore traditional, abstract and multi-media approaches to drawing and the design.

Sculpture
MHCC is uniquely positioned as the only school in the northwest with a metal foundry. Students explore a variety of mold making and metal casting techniques in a dynamic learning environment.

Painting
Students explore traditional painting medias (oils and/or acrylics), tools and techniques while learning to express personal and contemporary ideas in a visual language.

Printmaking
Students explore traditional mediums including intaglio, lithography and silkscreen as well as alternative digital processes. Gain the conceptual and practical skills necessary to make everything from large-scale prints to original t-shirt designs.

Jewelry
Create functional, wearable and sculptural jewelry by learning the craft of metalsmithing. Students explore a range of casting, enameling and forming techniques.