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Utah Higher Education’s First Virtual Production Stage Allows for Real-Time Filmmaking Cameras rolled across a vast stretch of barren desert. The next day, the scene had shifted to a dew-dripping rain forest, and just hours later, a scene played out in the far reaches of outer space. This was all filmed without the filmmakers and actors ever having to leave the new Taylor Virtual Production Stage at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)—the first one in Utah’s higher education landscape. Students studying film at SLCC’s School of Arts, Communication & Media (SACM) now have access to the same state-of-the-art technology used in movies and television series, such as the new Marvel releases and The Mandalorian. This same technology is also used in creating video games, allowing for photorealistic, real-time renderings of fully fictional characters and environments.     “We are incredibly proud to offer this state-of-the-art technology to our film students—and to be the only fil...

Brenna Utley grew up making clothes for herself. “My dad taught me how to sew when I was little. I remember I wanted to make a pair of pants, so he helped me figure it out. Then I just kept going creating my own way of making clothes, until school taught me the right way.” Brenna will be one of the first students to take advantage of a new pathway program from the Fashion Institute at Salt Lake Community College to the Outdoor Product Design and Development (OPDD) at Utah State University (USU) . Recently USU and SLCC have joined together in providing this new opportunity for fashion students wanting to explore careers in the growing outdoor product design industry. This collaboration introduces an articulation transfer agreement designed to seamlessly transfer SLCC Technical Apparel fashion and design graduates into USU's OPDD program. “I always wanted to do more outdoorsy types of design, and I think this [USU] degree will give me an edge connecting with industry that has an out...

Join Salt Lake Community College's Fashion Institute at South City Campus on Thursday, Oct. 12 from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. for an open house. This past summer, Salt Lake Community College's Fashion Institute moved from its former location at Library Square to join the School of Arts, Communication and Media (SACM) at South City Campus. To celebrate this transition, the Institute is hosting an open house event on Thursday, October 12 from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event will feature instructor presentations, alumni highlights, refreshments and a prize raffle. President Deneece G. Huftalin will speak at 3:30 p.m.. The event will be held in the Fashion Institute's new location at end of the hallway, just west of the Grand Theatre. Cases lining the hallway display pictures and biographies of many alumni who have “made it big in the industry,” along with a number of alumni creations, including costumes, hats and shoes. One cabinet will showcase a timeline: “75 Years of Fashion.”  “...

  Models taking the runway at SLCC's Annual Fashion Show In a display of whimsy and color, students from Salt Lake Community College’s Fashion Institute showcased their creativity on the runway at South City Campus on April 22.  With styles inspired by clowns, Ugly Betty and Alice in Wonderland, the annual fashion show was a culmination of months of hard work by SLCC's fashion design students. Each senior design student in the Collection Production class is required to create 10 pieces of clothing as their final project. The class begins in the fall with students finding their inspiration and drawing sketches, to creating and sewing their designs in the spring, and ending with presenting their designs at the fashion show. “It's just really cool to see students and see what they've come up with because they've been working all year since the fall on this,” says Breeann Ross, one of the three Fashion Production students who put on this event. The Fashion Production cl...

Growing up, Hope Ainsworth delved into the world of anime and Japanese art and culture, including Japan’s enthrallment with Lolita fashion. This attraction materialized during a bridal design class, in which Ainsworth made an Alice in Wonderland dress. “After that, I was hooked. I said to myself: I just wanted to make puffy dresses for the world,” said Ainsworth, with a big smile. At SLCC’s annual Fashion Institute senior show held on May 2 at South Town Mall, Ainsworth’s signature line of flouncing teacup skirts were modeled along with a wide variety of other original designs curated from collections developed by students in their final year of the program. A full house viewed collections ranging from clubwear, streetwear, office/business wear, ready-to-wear clothes, cosplay and costumes. The half-dozen students involved designed seven to ten pieces each. Alicia Scott designed every-day and office-wear clothing with a focus on simple lines, st...

Salt Lake Community College Assistant Professor Marcie Young Cancio presented at the 2022 Spring College Media Association (CMA) Conference on March 9-12. The conference was presented by CMA, an organization that supports student media programs and professionals, and held in New York City. Young Cancio is an assistant professor in the Communications department , faculty advisor for the student-run newspaper The Globe and founder and executive director of Amplify Utah. 2022 marks Young Cancio’s first year presenting Amplify Utah as a representative of SLCC. Her presentation outlined how other colleges and news media organizations can implement a collaborative program like Amplify Utah, which works with The Salt Lake Tribune and The Globe to publish students’ work. The collaboration between college and local news media organizations intends to spotlight the diverse perspective of SLCC’s students. The project was incorporated in July 2020 and launched during SLCC’s Fall Se...

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...