Hank Shuler, Director Swain Center and Business and Industry





Keith Corbeil, Coordinator Business and Industry Training

Russ Seagle, Director Small Business Center

Hank Shuler, Swain Center director and Business and Industry director, will create a continuing education program in heritage arts to be taught out of this facility.

The Heritage Arts Program, which will begin in March, 2006, will teach a variety of arts and crafts and the business skills necessary to make them profitable. Preliminary plans include teaching clay, fabric, instrument construction, and wood. As the need for professional training in other arts and crafts is identified, they will be added to the program.

“SCC has always had a strong continuing education program in arts and crafts,” said Shuler. “The Heritage Arts Program will be distinguished from our current program by the structure, number of hours, intensity, and student interest.”

By offering classes that provide instructor demonstration time, student practice time and the associated theory in the art form, students will leave the classroom with a level of skills necessary to sell their works, Shuler said. Even though the staff has changed location, service to all counties will remain the same, she said.

In addition, Shuler and her staff plan to use the Swain facility as a regional conference center.

Russ Seagle, SCC’s Small Business Center director, and Keith Corbeil, SCC’s Business & Industry Training coordinator, are working with Shuler to develop workshops and conferences of a regional appeal to be offered at the new Swain Center.