Kellogg Community College beginning this week will exhibit nearly two dozen stunning large-scale black and white landscape photographs created by Photography and Multimedia Program professor Ryan Flathau.

The exhibit, “Gorges, Glens & Waterfalls,” opened Wednesday, Sept. 14, and will run through Thursday, Oct. 20, in the Eleanor R. and Robert A. DeVries Gallery of the Davidson Visual and Performing Arts Center, on campus at 450 North Ave. in Battle Creek. The exhibit is free and open to the public during regular gallery business hours, which are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.

An opening reception for the exhibit, also free and open to the public, will be held with the artist from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, in the gallery.

Flathau, who’s been teaching at the College since 2006, created the photos during his Fall 2021 sabbatical to Letchworth and Watkins Glen state parks in New York and Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania. The images are a selection of photographs from his long-term photography project, “Unseen Light,” created using infrared digital cameras with long exposure settings.

“These photographs are meditations on perception and landscape,” Flathau said. “They reflect my own experiences, thoughts and emotions. Each landscape holds a sublime interest, be it the passing clouds, pervasive winds or redemptive light.”

Flathau is a Battle Creek native and KCC alumnus who also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Western Michigan University and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

In addition to giving him time to focus on his art and create the work that makes up his current exhibit, Flathau’s recent sabbatical also supported his teaching, as he followed almost the exact route with his ART 220: Landscape Photography students on their field trip this past summer. That class culminated in an exhibition of work created by the students and Flathau during their trip that ran in the DeVries Gallery through Sept. 8.

For more information about the “Gorges, Glens & Waterfalls” exhibit or other KCC arts events, contact KCC’s Arts and Communication Office at 269-965-4126. Flathau can be reached directly at [email protected].

Kellogg Community College’s annual observance of National Hispanic Heritage Month continues this fall! 

National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated in the U.S. from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 each year to celebrate Latino culture and the past and present contributions of individuals with Latino heritage. The month-long observance began as Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968 and was expanded to a full 30 days in 1988; the Sept. 15 start date is relevant as the anniversary of the independence of several Latin American countries.

For more information about National Hispanic Heritage Month, visit hispanicheritagemonth.gov.

Kellogg Community College will be hosting a one-stop-shop event on the College’s Industrial Trades campus in Battle Creek in October, where current and future students can complete the steps to enrollment for Industrial Trades training.

KCC’s Express Enrollment Event will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, at the College’s Regional Manufacturing Technology Center campus, located at 405 Hill Brady Road. The event will offer students everything they need to start training this fall, including financial aid assistance, advising, a tour of the campus and onsite registration.

The RMTC is KCC’s campus for Industrial Trades and workforce training students. Located in the Fort Custer Industrial Park in Battle Creek, the facility is built like a true industrial facility, with hundreds of working machines, technical tools and equipment in dozens of training labs to offer students and trainees hands-on, real-world experience in their chosen career field.

The facility also includes many of the amenities available on other KCC campuses, including classrooms, computer labs, a student resource center and a break room. RMTC students can also register for training modules onsite.

KCC Director of Admissions Jenni Kotowski said the upcoming Express Enrollment event is the perfect way for students interested in trades to complete the admissions process in one place. By attending the event, students can receive hands-on guidance through each step of the enrollment process with the goal of leaving Express Enrollment as a registered student.

Individuals who are new to the College and interested in attending the event should bring the following information with them:

> A photo ID
> Transcripts from high school and all colleges attended
> ACT, PSAT or SAT scores (scores from tests taken within five years can be used in place of KCC’s placement test)
> Individuals interested in financial aid assistance should bring their 2021 federal tax information

For more information about the Express Enrollment Event at the RMTC, contact KCC’s Admissions office at [email protected] or 269-965-4153.

Industrial Trades students at KCC can enroll at any time during the semester and start training in as little as a day from first applying to the College. General student registration information, including links to registration instructions, policies, tuition and fees and other information, is available online at kellogg.edu/registration.