OCTC's Early College Student Earns UK Visual Arts Portfolio Scholarship
Chloe "Link" Hall Transferring to UK
Owensboro, KY (05/30/2018) — Chloe "Link" Hall has completed her final semester at Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC). Hall has been a Discover College-Early College student at OCTC for the past two years while finishing her diploma at Daviess County High School (DCHS).
She has been accepted and is transferring to the University of Kentucky's (UK) Visual Arts Program. Hall was awarded a Provost Scholarship and a Visual Arts Portfolio Scholarship from UK. Her portfolio consisted of artwork that Hall completed while studying at OCTC. Hall is just two studio courses shy in earning an Associate in Fine Art-Visual Arts degree from OCTC, she plans to transfer those classes back to OCTC from the University of Kentucky.
Hall plans are to complete the bachelor in fine arts degree at UK and later pursue a master in fine arts credential. For graduate study, Hall is particularly interested in the Art Institute of Chicago where she visited this past year. Her ambition is to teach on the college level and continue her artistic endeavors after the completion of her academic studies.
Hall has received two purchase awards that are part of the permanent art collection at OCTC, and one merit award from OCTC Student Exhibitions. She is a member of the National Honors Society at DCHS, and is the president of the DCHS Art Club. She has travelled within the United States as well as abroad to London and Paris.
Her favorite artists are the British illustrator, Jamie Hewlett and the German Expressionist painter, Franz Marc. Her main disciplines are painting and printmaking. Hall stated, "OCTC has offered me many opportunities. The professors care about their students and I have learned a lot. I have made good connections in this welcoming environment. I am grateful because, in coming here as a high school student, I receive the same treatment as the other college students, both from the faculty and peers."
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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.
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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.
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