The Gallery at SPSCC concludes its 2018-2019 season with the annual Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition on July 8, 2019. The exhibition showcases the region’s creative identity, inviting artists to submit across media from Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, Skamania, Thurston and Wahkiakum counties.

The exhibition runs through August 22 at The Gallery at the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts. An opening reception will occur Thursday, July 11, 6 – 9 p.m., where guest juror Dawna Holloway will select top artists to receive honors and awards.

South Puget Sound Community College (SPSCC) will celebrate more than 1,400 graduates at the 2019 commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 15, at 10 a.m. at The Evergreen State College’s Red Square. The event marks the first commencement collaboration between SPSCC and Evergreen, highlighting the spirit of cooperation in Thurston County’s higher education community.

SPSCC film students recently unveiled “A Tale of Two Cities”, a product of an ongoing cross-cultural film and media partnership between the college and Japan’s Hagoromo International University. The film – a travelogue produced by students, faculty, and staff from both institutions – provided students with real-world work opportunities in the field of video production as they explored the local sights of the schools’ home cities, Olympia and Osaka.

Nomy Lamm, a local multi-media artist, activist, and vocalist will visit SPSCC on Thursday, June 6 to hold an artist talk and creative process workshop for students and the Olympia community. All are invited to attend – the events will take place in the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts Black Box Theater with free admission.

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Coach Aaron Landon, one of the most successful Coaches in Clippers men’s basketball history, announced that he has accepted the job as head men’s basketball coach at Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, Wash.

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By Molly Gilmore

Local theater-goers are abuzz about South Puget Sound Community College’s production of “Fun Home,” the 2015 Tony-winning musical about a graphic novelist who revisits her childhood to make sense of its mysteries.

South Puget Sound Community College (SPSCC) invites students and the public to attend a cedar gathering ceremony on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 beginning at 10 a.m. SPSCC student and Native American Master Weaver Yeeham Janice Hicks-Bullchild, an enrolled Nisqually tribal member, will lead the ceremony, demonstrating the traditional method of stripping bark from cedar trees on the Olympia campus.

The gathering will take place outside in a grove to the west of parking lot D, behind building 22.

Life as a college student is a lot of hard work – especially if you’re a student-athlete. For most Clippers, it’s a full course load while balancing practices, games and scrimmages, and – for many – employment on top of that. But SPSCC students are constantly rising to the challenge, finding success and living a life that speaks to their high aspirations for the future.

On May 2nd, Experience Olympia & Beyond, the region's visitor and convention bureau, recognized South Puget Sound Community College and the Brewing & Distilling program in its Thurston County Tourism Awards.