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Art History a Tactile Topic for SMC Students
Southwestern Michigan College’s Art History I (Art 203) class is more tactile than you might imagine. When Sherrie Styx’s students learn about marble sculpture, they carve soapstone and alabaster stones using small files.
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Michigan Reconnect Helps Veteran Find Her Welding Passion
Katie Brownlow earned her one-year Southwestern Michigan College welding certificate in April and parlayed her internship into a job with Cotton Gin Smokers, premium, hand-crafted barbecue smokers made on Terminal Road, Niles. Brownlow, a single mom and veteran who turns 38 in July, plans to continue to her welding associate degree. “I’ve got that fire in me again,” Brownlow said, “and it’s not burning out. I’m not going backwards anymore.”
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Collage Concert Cements Surround-Sound with Fourth Focal Point
Southwestern Michigan College’s April 25 Spring Collage Concert famously unspools musical selections seamlessy from center stage to wings on each side sans applause until the finale, when swirling spotlights bathe the audience belting out SMC’s fight song in green.