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🎉 Big news for Washington State! 🌟 Our next State Poet Laureate is celebrated poet and professor, Derek Sheffield. Derek will be taking over the role from current Laureate Arianne True. Hailing from the Wenatchee Valley, Derek has spent years inspiring students as a Professor of English at Wenatchee Valley College and has published several poetry collections. His work has earned him fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Artist Trust, and the Bernheim Arboretum.

When he's not crafting poems, Derek is teaching his beloved Northwest Nature Writing class, where he has shared his passion for the outdoors with students for the past 20 years. Congrats, Derek! We can't wait to see what’s next in your journey as Washington's eighth State Poet Laureate.

Come join us at the Music and Art Center (MAC)'s Grove Recital Hall to celebrate Derek Sheffield's term as the next Washington State Poet Laureate. You’ll hear from past Laureates and Derek himself as he kicks off his two-year term.

📅 Wednesday, April 30, 2025
⏰ 7:00 p.m.
🌎 Grove Recital Hall at Wenatchee Valley College
👉🏽 RSVP: https://bit.ly/passinglaurel25

👉🏽 More about Derek: dereksheffield.com

Photo by Heidi Swoboda.

ID: Derek Sheffield stands outdoors against a tree with his arms folded, looking at the camera. A river and large rocks are visible behind him.

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Thank you, Ruth, for your years of teaching Ceramics at WVC!

'This is my life': Ceramics instructor retires from Wenatchee Valley College after 40 years WENATCHEE — Endless days spent hunched over, hands dirty, forming clay into art on a pottery wheel, is how Ruth Allen has spent most of her life.

Check out this fantastic mural by WVC Art students! The Mural class is offered every spring quarter, listed as ART 141.

Kyung Hee Im: TAEMONG: MOTHER’S DREAM
WVC MAC Gallery

First Friday Artist's Talk: Friday, April 5, 5:00—6:00
First Friday Reception: Friday, April 5, 5:00—7:00

WVC MAC Grove Recital Hall

Please join us in the Grove during the First Friday reception as Kyung Hee "Kate" Im discusses her work in conversation with a CWU Art History Professor Dr. Erika Paizan. Im will present images of her past and present art, providing additional context to her Taemong: Mother's Dream exhibition.

'It’s a connection': MAC Gallery features 'red thread of fate' in sculpture installation WENATCHEE — Thread woven between sculptures of hands create an installation by Kyung Hee “Kate” Im, with ideas about human connectedness and networking systems.

Thank you to everyone who came down to Pybus last week to celebrate the opening reception of the WVC Student Art Show at Pybus Art Alley! The show is up through February 27, 2024.
More photos coming soon!