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Riesling Row at Bishop Estate Vineyard oil on canvas painting

Bucks to Host 2024 Bucks County Wine and Art Trail Exhibition

 The Arts and Communication Department of Bucks County Community College is pleased to announce that the 2024 Bucks County Wine and Art Trail Exhibition organized by the Arts and Cultural Council of Bucks County in partnership with Visit Bucks County will be presented at Hicks Art Center Gallery from September 25 to October 27, 2024. The public is invited to the opening reception on Friday, October 4 from 4 to 7 p.m. to meet the participating artists and sample wines from the vineyards featured in the artworks. Must be at least 21 years old to sample wines. For the 2024 Bucks County Wine & Art Trail Exhibition, the Arts and Cultural Council is thrilled to share some exciting changes. The incredible Hicks Art Center Gallery at Bucks County Community College will host this year's exhibition, as the Arts and Cultural Council sets its sights on promoting their members outside of Freeman Hall, their home gallery space. “We have always believed in finding new opportunities for our creative members and this partnership with Hicks Art Center Gallery is just the opportunity,” said board member Ashara Shapiro. This collaboration with Hicks Art Center Gallery and Visit Bucks County will bring the vibrant works of our talented artists to a larger community, ensuring even more visitors can enjoy the exhibition. The Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County has partnered with Visit Bucks County for this special exhibition, showcasing 39 regional artists who have created paintings, drawings, and photographs inspired by Bucks County wineries. Visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy and purchase over 50 framed works of art on view at the Hicks Art Center on the Newtown campus. Portions of the proceeds benefit Bucks County Community College student scholarships. The following list of artists made artworks in 2023 on vineyard grounds “en plein air” or made preparatory drawings or photographs to complete the finished pieces in their studios after they visited Bucks County wineries of their choice: Sandy Askey-Adams, Sally Bishop, April Ann Bohmler, Jean Broden, Meg Constable, Susan Daily, Matt DeProspero, Daniel DuBravec, Sandra Eliot, Monica Etz, Christina Franklin, Seana Gallagher, Jennifer Gorman-Strawbridge, Linnie Greenberg, Lynn Holl, Sharlene Holliday, Amy Iversen, Kathie Jankauskas, Erick Kinsel, Hayley Kinsel, Michael Kuyper, Charlene Lavinia, Thomas Mallon, Helene Mazur, Helen Lee Myers, Nancy Miller, Pearl Mintzer, Anita Nolan, Lori Parsells, Amanda Penecale, Sara Pinkus, Sue Ann Rainey, Sonia Rinker, Nancy Saladik, William Shoop, Carolyn Shoop, Susan Thistle, Lisa Thorsten and Helena van Emmerik-Finn. Participating vineyards include: Bishop Estate, Buckingham Valley, Crossing, Rose Bank, Rushland Ridge, Sand Castle and Wycombe. Exhibition Dates: September 25 - October 27, 2024Opening Reception: October 4, Friday evening, 4 - 7 p.m. Hicks Art Center Gallery275 Swamp RoadNewtown, PA 18940 For more information please contact exhibitions@bucksarts.org or gallery@bucks.edu. Image credit: Lisa Thorsten, Riesling Row at Bishop Estate Vineyard, oil on canvas, 2023
Bucks County Community College and Thomas Jefferson University

BCCC and Thomas Jefferson University Sign Articulation Agreement

Bucks students who earn an associate degree in Business Administration can seamlessly transfer into one of five different business majors at Jefferson University. Officials from Bucks County Community College and Thomas Jefferson University are pleased to announce a new enrollment partnership agreement providing students at the public, two-year college several pathways for guaranteed admission to the baccalaureate degree-granting institution. The agreement allows Bucks’ Business Administration associate degree graduates to transfer seamlessly into the Jefferson School of Business with junior status in one of the following five majors: Accounting, Fashion Merchandising & Management, Finance, Management, and Marketing. Jody Seutter, Vice President for Enrollment Management & Vice Provost said that this agreement is Bucks’ first articulation agreement with Jefferson University’s business school at the East Falls Campus. “The addition of the business school pathways is a welcome development as Jefferson has been a valued educational partner for quite some time and we look forward to further opportunities to strengthen our partnership and provide such valuable benefits to our graduates.” Thanks to this enrollment partnership agreement, eligible students will have access to the following benefits to help them navigate the transfer experience and support their success: Guaranteed admission with junior status Academic advising and course planning with Jefferson Transfer Admission Counselors Consideration for merit scholarship awards ranging from $16,000 to $22,000 per academic year, subject to eligibility requirements Financial aid Waived application fee Philip Russel, Jefferson’s School of Business Dean, notes “We are thrilled to begin a formal partnership with Bucks County Community College [BCCC], and to welcome the school’s students to our East Falls campus. I am sure that this opportunity will create exciting pathways for BCCC students to continue their education and succeed in their future professional careers. It will also encourage collaboration among the students at the institutions through shared co-curricular programming.” Bucks County Community College has more than 125 transfer agreements with 56 colleges and universities, making Bucks a high quality and affordable choice for students to complete their first two years of a bachelor’s degree and keep student debt to a minimum. For more information, please contact transfer@bucks.edu or call 215-968—8183.
Nathan Spoon portrait

Bucks County Community College Kicks Off Fall 2024 Wordsmiths Reading Series

 The Wordsmiths Reading Series, one of the longest-running cultural events at Newtown-based Bucks County Community College, continues its proud tradition of live readings with three exciting gatherings for the fall 2024 season. Thursday, September 12, 12:15 p.m., Hicks Art Center Gallery | Nathan Spoon The Language and Literature and the Arts and Communication Departments at Bucks County Community College are pleased to announce that renowned poet Nathan Spoon will present a reading of new work and favorites in the Hicks Art Center Gallery on September 12 at 12:15 p.m. Nathan Spoon is a self-described “autistic poet with savant abilities” and author of The Importance of Being Feeble-Minded, forthcoming in the Propel Disability Poetry Series published by Nine Mile Books. His poems and essays have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry, Poetry Daily, The Southern Review, and swamp pink, as well as the anthologies The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays, How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, Mid/South Sonnets: A Belle Point Press Anthology, and The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal. He is editor of Queerly and has read his poems at Penn, Vanderbilt, Yale, and elsewhere. The reading is organized in conjunction with the exhibition “Dreams of Flora & Fauna.” Practicing from the Center for Creative Works and Studio Route 29 that support artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the participating exhibition artists’ works range from ceramics, drawings, monoprints, paintings, puppetry, performance, and weaving. Artworks in which animals appear are grouped into areas they are found together in real life or classified; sea, safari, farm, birds, dinosaurs, cats and dogs, bears and spiders. The flowers and plant works separate the animal groups, visually registering their taxonomies. Visitors to Nathan Spoon’s reading and the public are invited to attend the closing reception for both exhibitions in Hicks Art Center Gallery “Dreams of Flora and Fauna” and “Endless Summer” later in the afternoon on September 12 from 4 – 7 pm. The reading and reception with light refreshments are free and open to the public. For more information about the art exhibitions, please contact Clifford Eberly, Exhibitions Associate, at gallery@bucks.edu or 215-968-8432. Friday, October 25, 7:30 p.m., Tyler Hall 142 | Kasey Jueds and Bernadette McBride The next reading in the fall series features poets Kasey Jueds and Bernadette McBridge who will read selected works in room 142 of the historic Tyler Hall on the Newtown Campus on October 25 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 16, 1 p.m., Tyler Hall 142 | Thomas Devaney and 2024 Poet Laureate The final reading in the fall series features Thomas Devaney and the still-to-be-selected 2024 Poet Laureate. About the Wordsmiths Reading Series The first Wordsmiths reading was in the 1960s, and featured Allen Ginsburg strumming on his guitar, and chanting verses to the audience as they swayed sitting on top of cushions on the floor. Since then, the series has featured dozens of outstanding and respected poets over the years. In recent years, the series has also featured renowned fiction writers. Poets featured in the series have won a host of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book award, and the PEN Literary Award. As the founder and leader of the renowned Wordsmiths series, Bucks County Community College has distinguished itself among Philadelphia-area colleges and universities, and has become the home of a vibrant community of writers, poetry lovers, and supporters of the arts. Ethel Rackin, Ph.D., a Language and Literature professor at the College, is the director of the Wordsmiths Reading Series and Poet Laureate Program. Dr. Rackin has been organizing these public collaborations since 2010, shortly after she began her teaching career at Bucks. For more information on the Wordsmiths Reading Series, visit our website or contact Dr. Rackin at ethel.rackin@bucks.edu. [Photo of Nathan Spoon by Daniel Meigs.]