27 North Division Street Peekskill, New York 10566 SPRING 2018 FIRST DAY OF CLASSES SATURDAY, JANUARY 20 Registration Nights 5:30 – 7:30 pm ACADEMIC AND FINANCIAL AID SERVICES Registration Night Schedule: www.sunywcc.edu/extensionopenhouses Tours and Art Placement Testing 5:30 pm Advising On-site Placement Testing Schedule: www.sunywcc.edu/student-services/testingcenter Office Hours Monday – Thursday, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Please call 914-606-7300 for additional information. To become a part of our subscription list, please email your mailing address and email address to [email protected] or call 914-606-7300. www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill Peekskill Extension Center and Putnam Counties Since1994 Serving Northern Westchester • 27 North Division Street Peekskill NY Spring 2018 10566 • 914-606-7300 (UX) User Experience See page 7! Certificate! Peekskill Extension Center Community Exhibits IN THE GALLERY About the Westchester Community College TRICIA MCLAUGHLIN Center for the Digital Arts at the Peekskill Extension Fun and War Games January 20 – May 4, 2018 Opening Reception: TBA, 5:30 – 7:00 pm he Westchester Community College Peekskill wish to work on independent projects. Extension Center, established in 1994, is located in The Center also offers a dynamic summer Youth Arts ricia McLaughlin works in the realm of fantasy T the downtown artist district of the city of Peekskill, Technology Program offering young people an opportunity architecture and social structures in the form of 3D close to other cultural centers, galleries, and restaurants to develop a digital arts portfolio within a college T design, animation, painting, and sculpture. She and serves approximately 2,500 students per year. environment; and fine arts courses with local artists plays with the ideas of restructuring human behavior. The The college offers a variety of technology workforce that will enhance drawing and painting skills for both structures are based on her own logic, which often leads training programs and a diverse selection of credit courses professional and personal use. to geometry that is anthropomorphized. It becomes each semester (fall, spring, and summer). The college’s Through a variety of initiatives, the college’s five emotional and thinking structures that consider the social English Language Institute offers extension centers serve as a interactions they effect. In her work, function follows ESL programs serving students liaison between the college and arbitrary form. From these new forms the rules change. from various backgrounds and the community. They host McLaughlin received an MFA from Hunter College and countries. A variety of support community events and are a BFA from Syracuse University. She has been awarded services engage students and involved with community based a Guggenheim Fellowship, Travel and Media Arts Grants foster their success, retention, organizations and the local from the Jerome Foundation, and an Artist’s Fellowship and credential attainment, business community. They offer from New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has including (but not limited to) programs specific to residents’ been exhibited in the U.S., Canada, England, Germany, admissions, academic and needs, serve as a community Spain, Russia, Chile, South Korea, and Japan. She lives financial aid advising, placement resource, and help to maintain and works in New York City. testing, bursar, registrar, the college’s presence triciamclaughlin.net academic support, workshops, throughout the county. The and student activities. The Center Peekskill Extension Center offers public lectures and exhibits of Westchester Community KEITH BURGUN year round. College has something to offer Game Design for Indie Game Developers The 20,000-square-foot facility features 11 classrooms for everyone. This Center is part of the lifeblood of the Sunday, March 25, 2018 equipped with multimedia/smart technology, and five post- community in Peekskill and a vibrant component of Talk: 11:45 am – 1:00 pm production studios. In fall 2015 the Center opened its own northern Westchester and Putnam counties. n this talk, designer and author Keith Burgun talks Maker Space equipped with seven 3D printers. This state- • Credit courses about the discipline of building better interactive of-the-art facility holds 100 Apple workstations dedicated • Digital Arts credit courses I rulesets for video and board games. He also talks to digital arts education including: digital imaging, digital • Digital Filmmaking credit courses about life as an indie game developer and how game filmmaking, animation, and interactive design. • Studio Fine Arts 3-credit courses designers can make their ideas into reality. The college also offers popular short-term Quick Start • Non-credit UX Design Certificate Media Valley Rising: AIM ’18 Festival Keith Burgun is the co-founder of Dinofarm Games, classes for students and professionals needing to upgrade • Non-credit Quick Start software training, Community March 24 – 25, 2018 and the author of two books on game design: their knowledge of a software package; and a 48-hour Arts classes, Summer Youth Arts Technology Sunday, March 25 Game Design Theory: certificate in User Experience (UX) Design, which enables Program, and Open Studio Access A day of multimedia events, food, hands-on demonstration, A New Philosophy for students to gain exposure into what it takes to create • ESL culture, and student portfolios at the Peekskill Extension. Understanding Games, and a compelling interactive experience. The Open Studio For more information email us at [email protected] Featured speaker will be game designer Keith Burgun. Clockwork Game Design. Access Package offers facility access with technical or see us online at www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill or call 11:00 am Brunch support to community artists and entrepreneurs who 914-606-7300. dinofarmgames.com 11:45 am – 1:00 pm Keith Burgun: Game Design Talk 1:00 – 2:00 pm Workshop sponsored by WCC Center gamasutra.com/blogs/ In this Issue for the Digital Arts and the Field Library author/KeithBurgun/852396 2:00 – 4:00 pm Painting Poets, Peekskill Arts Alliance class search & payment plan 3 non-credit user experience design (UX) 7 On View Tricia McLaughlin: Fun and War Games community arts classes & open studio access 8 quick start classes 6 GALLERY EXHIBITIONS in the gallery 11 registration & student services 10 Mon.-Thurs., 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Fri., 10:00 am – 4:00 pm; Sat., 10:00 am – 3:00 pm non-credit digital arts classes 4, 5 staff focus&community conversations 9 Hours subject to change. Please call 914-606-7300. westchestergallery.wordpress.com Peekskill Extension Center • 27 North Division Street Peekskill NY 10566 • 914-606-7300 Peekskill Extension Center • 27 North Division Street Peekskill NY 10566 • 914-606-7300 11 Registration Information Credit Classes at the Peekskill Extension Registration Nights 5:30-7:30 pm Registration for all college classes and locations. Tips for Using Class Search The Peekskill Extension Center • NYS non-Westchester county residents must submit a 27 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY 10566 Certificate of Residence from their county annually in order It’s easy Registration Night schedule: to receive the lowest tuition rate. The application form is to find classes at available at www.sunywcc.edu/admissions or at the Center. www.sunywcc.edu/extensionopenhouses the Peekskill Academic counseling in Digital Arts/General Education Registration Hours and Financial Aid advising is available at Registration Nights Monday – Thursday, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Extension! in Peekskill. Please call 914-606-7300 for additional registration hours. For additional information on financial aid and workshops, contact the Financial Aid office at 914-606-6773, email STUDENT FEES – Credit Classes [email protected], or visit www.sunywcc.edu/finaid Tuition $179 per credit Enter the Subject of the class you want (e.g. ENG). Or click the Select Subject button to search for Registration Fee – Full Time Student $30/semester Registration Information a subject alphabetically. 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