The Marketing and Communications Department at Kellogg Community College has been awarded three Davey Awards from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts for select work promoting the College during the 2024-25 academic year.
The Davey Awards, presented annually, are “premier international creative awards focused exclusively on honoring outstanding work from small agencies, independent creators and in-house teams,” according to the AIVA. KCC’s awards include a coveted Gold Davey Award and two Silver Davey Awards.
Davey Award winners were announced Oct. 21 by the AIVA, which announced KCC won awards in the following categories.
- Gold in the Consumer-Magazine category for the College’s June 2025 issue of its quarterly BruIN magazine
- Silver in the Corporate Identity-Logos category for a “Make More Art” logo promoting KCC’s new Associate in Fine Arts degrees in Music and Visual Arts
- Silver in the Consumer-Editorial Magazine Cover category for the cover art from KCC’s December 2024 annual report edition of BruIN magazine, featuring original embroidery art titled “Stitched in Community,” commissioned from area artist Annie Hall
KCC’s Marketing and Communications Department provides a variety of in-house strategy development, marketing management, graphic design and print services within the College’s Communications and Advancement Division headed by Vice President for Communications and Advancement Eric Greene.
Department employees include Mackenzie Griffith, graphic design process specialist; June Lewis, Print and Document Services senior process specialist; Mike Loader, print and document services process specialist (recently retired); Cab Rininger, media design manager; Kristen Schau, Print and Document Services process specialist; Krissy Stolz, Marketing and Communications specialist; and Simon Thalmann, marketing director. The department also employs part-time student workers as an opportunity for KCC students to learn valuable, on-the-job marketing, communication and design skills.
Earlier in October, the department won 13 Medallion Awards from the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations, and in March the department was voted “Best Marketing Agency” in Battle Creek and Calhoun County in the Battle Creek Area Chamber of Commerce’s 2025 Love Battle Creek & Calhoun County Awards.
For more information about KCC’s Marketing and Communications Department, visit kellogg.edu/marketing. For more information about the Davey Awards, visit daveyawards.com.
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