The Watkins Pre-College program is a 3-week college-like experience is for highly-motivated high school students to experience the life and culture of art college and broaden their artistic potential as they take classes, work in the studio, develop a college portfolio and exhibit their work. The program will be held July 13-31, Monday through Friday from 9am – 4pm. Students may choose between two different tracks of study – film or fine arts. Space is still available. Learn more at www.watkins.edu/precollege or contact the Community Education office at 383-4848 for more details.

The National Gold and Silver ADDY Award winners were announced last week at the 2009 AAF National Conference in Washington, DC. Teela Shandess won a Gold ADDY, Lydia Light won a Silver ADDY and Chad Sawyer won a Silver ADDY. Watkins received more national student ADDYs than any other college in the region.

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Watkins Alum Derek Gibson has been selected to participate in Minds Eye, an exhibition at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO. Derek was among 40 photographers from the USA, UK, Austria, France and Sweden whose work was selected for this exhibition. Learn more by clicking here.