Students and community members alike experience art at Kellogg Community College. Creativity is unleashed through academic and community offerings across the artistic spectrum, from fine arts, graphic design and photography through music, theatre and more.
Visual Arts
Academic visual arts programming at KCC covers a wide variety of disciplines organized within Art, Graphic Design, and Photography and Multimedia program areas.
Visual arts subjects include:
- 2D and 3D design
- Animation and videography
- Art appreciation and history
- Ceramics
- Drawing
- Painting and illustration
- Photographic processing, including digital and film processing
- Photography, including landscape and studio photography
- Studio art
Hands-on instruction is offered primarily in the College’s Davidson Visual and Performing Arts Center, which houses 2D art (drawing and painting) and ceramics studios, multiple photo-developing darkrooms and lighting studios, robust Mac labs with scanners and wide-format printers, printing and presentation facilities and more.
The center also includes the College’s Eleanor R. and Robert A. DeVries Gallery, which displays several student and community art exhibits each year.
Visual Arts Credentials
In addition to several dozen visual-arts-related courses offered for academic credit or personal enrichment, KCC offers the following degrees and certificates in the visual arts.
Visual Arts Degrees
- Associate in Arts
- Associate of Applied Science in Graphic Design
- Associate of Applied Science in Photography and Multimedia
Coming soon: A new Associate of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts is launching in Fall 2025!
Visual Arts Certificates
- Graphic Design Certificate
- Photography and Multimedia Certificate
- Web Design and Development Certificate
Learn More
- Learn more about Fine Arts studies at KCC at kellogg.edu/art.
- Learn more about Graphic Design studies at KCC at kellogg.edu/graphicdesign.
- Learn more about Photography and Multimedia studies at KCC at kellogg.edu/photography.
Performing Arts
Academic performing arts programming at KCC covers a wide variety of disciplines organized within Music and Theatre program areas.
Performing arts subjects include:
- Acting
- Children’s theatre
- Conducting
- Music appreciation, theory and fundamentals
- Music in early childhood
- Sacred choral literature
- Stagecraft
- Theatre appreciation
- Voice and instrumental lessons
Performance opportunities abound for students and community members alike, including::
- KCC Concert Band and KCC Jazz Band
- Choir, including the Branch County Community Chorus, Concentus Vocal Ensemble and Kellogg Singers
- KCC’s two mainstage theatre productions offered each year (a fall musical and spring comedy or drama)
- Additional student recitals, concerts and theatre performances offered each semester
Performing arts instruction is offered primarily in the College’s Davidson Center, which includes the College’s choir and band rooms, piano lab, private lesson studios and the Davidson Auditorium. Instruction is also offered in the Binda Performing Arts Center, centrally located on campus.
Performing Arts Credentials
Academic Music and Theatre programming at KCC prepare students for careers in the arts or transfer to arts programs at four-year schools. Students can also consider earning KCC’s Associate in Arts degree with a concentration the performing arts area of their choice.
Coming soon: A new Associate of Fine Arts degree in Music is launching in Fall 2025!
International Travel
In addition to the opportunity to perform for local and regional audiences, performing arts students at KCC are regularly offered the opportunity for international travel.
The KCC choirs will embark on a European Concert Tour this summer. In August, KCC Theatre students will perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland.
Learn More
- Learn more about Music studies at KCC at kellogg.edu/music.
- Learn more about Theatre studies at KCC at kellogg.edu/theatre.
An earlier version of this article first appeared in the March 2024 edition of BruIN magazine. To read the issue online, please visit kellogg.edu/bruinmagazine.