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  During a recent visit to Salt Lake Community College’s South City Campus, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona laid out four “buckets” for successful education: career guidance, work-based learning, dual enrollment, and industry credentials. For Cardona, those buckets represent an approach to higher ed that produces tangible, economically impactful results, connecting K-12 education to higher ed and, ultimately, careers with pathways that feel accessible, tangible, and compelling. For SLCC and the Center for Arts and New Media, which hosted the secretary’s visit, those buckets represent daily operations. The hands-on experience afforded by SLCC’s cutting-edge recording and film studios prove the point. “You learn by doing with people who have experience in a place that’s as real as out there” Cardona said, lauding the excellent work by South City Campus faculty by sweeping his arm toward the window to emphasize the connection between work-based learning and professional opportun...

  SLCC Alum Kirby Saxton's "first day" of school attending AFI Many students are returning to school this week, but for one Salt Lake Community College alumnus, Kirby Saxton, that means taking a giant leap into a renowned master’s program at the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles, CA. Kirby Saxton, Film AAS '19, was accepted to AFI's exclusive Screenwriting Master of Fine Arts program. This is the fourth SLCC Film student who has gotten into the most prestigious film school in the world, including Julia Freij, Directing Track, and Robert Hunter, Cinematography Track . We asked Kirby a few questions about his time at SLCC, and hope that he doesn’t forget us along the way.  When did you attend SLCC: I took an SLCC class during high school, but I started attending in 2017 and got my degree in 2020. What degree/s did you earn: I received an associate’s degree of applied science as a film production technician. What brought you to SLCC: I went to a filmmaking...

Local artist David LeCheminant creates meticulously constructed abstract sculptures from wood that crackle and dance with frenetic energy. Spending his day covered in sawdust, trying to figure out how to make geometrical pieces of wood fit together, literally and conceptually, is often what keeps local artist David LeCheminant up at night, more times than he wants to admit. “At the end of the day, as I lie on my couch thinking about my day, I wonder if my work succeeds at expressing my ideas.” In a new art gallery exhibition at South City campus, “What Keeps Me Up at Night,” are twenty-five wooden sculptures created by David, from 2017 to the present, showcasing a varied body of work including wall pieces and free-standing sculptures. Deep reds, purples and natural finishes of wood are put together in intricate and unique patterns. “From afar, the forms are elegant and modern, finished beautifully in vibrant colors. But look closer at the intricate, multifaceted surfaces and something ...

SLCC alum and filmmaker Dylan Lunt on Main Street in Park City. For aspiring filmmakers Sadie Lynn Ledbetter and Dylan Lunt, the recent Sundance Film Festival was less about watching movies and more about building a career. Lunt graduated this past fall from Salt Lake Community College with a film production technician degree. His final project while at SLCC’s Center for Arts and Media was making a short film called Circadian. The movie is about a pilot who wakes up to find that his wife and half of his spaceship are missing, with only artificial intelligence to keep him company. Lunt calls his piece “high quality” and plans on submitting it to film festivals. While still a student at SLCC, Lunt was offered Sundance credentials through the college that opened access to panels and events during the festival. In all, about 17 SLCC students and alums were engaged in some way during the festival with events, panels and work. At the panel discussion “All About Shorts,” Lu...

SLCC's Rob Adamson won this year's Community Award. The Salt Lake Community College President's Art Show, an annual, juried event with a total of $5,000 in prize money, recently opened to the public by announcing the program’s six award recipients. This year 71 pieces were selected by the SLCC Art Committee from more than 230 entries. The prize winners are as follows: ·       President’s Award ($1000) “Honeycomb” Kristin Baird ·       Community Award ($1000) “Light My Fire” Rob Adamson ·       Dennis Klaus Honorary Award ($500) “Emerging--Unfinished” Gordon Storrs ·       Best in Show ($1500) “Fall Monsoon Dazzler” Gilmore Scott ·       2 nd  Place ($500) “Gerti not Gertrude” Sara Anderson ·       3 rd  Place ($500) “Rumi’s Field” Julie Strong The show celebrates U...

Dylan Lunt (center) directing on the set of his short film Circadian. Sometimes, to figure out the right career path as an adult, you need to go back to what captured your imagination as a child. Growing up, Dylan Lunt loved movies. Now a husband and father, Lunt, 28, aspires to make movies while studying filmmaking at Salt Lake Community College. Throughout his adult life, Lunt sampled several jobs and college programs – game design, doing hair, art school, special effects in film – and all seemed to lead back to one thing: filmmaking. More specifically, the Bountiful resident wants to direct films. That’s how Lunt ended up in David Lehleitner’s Film Directing and Techniques class at SLCC’s Center for Arts & Media . Lehleitner is an assistant professor of film production for SLCC at its South City Campus in Salt Lake City. David Lehleitner (left) and Dylan Lunt on set. “This is jumping into the deep end,” Lehleitner says about his class. “You write, dir...