This year, Queen City Fashion Week will take place September 17-September 22, and Villa Maria College has signed on as an event sponsor. As part of the sponsorship, Villa’s fashion design and merchandising students will be involved as volunteers. Five students will be working as designers during Wednesday night’s boutique show and industry mixer, which…
read moreIf you’ve ever had the desire to create your own pair of sneakers, now is your chance! Villa Maria College is hosting SneakerKit USA, a workshop that teaches participants exactly how to make sneakers that show off their own, unique designs. At this year’s event, participants will create two pairs of sneakers. The three-day workshop…
read moreEach year, Villa’s Fashion Design and Merchandising students collaborate to produce a fashion show that showcases the work students created during the fall and spring semesters. This year’s installment, Affinity: Together We Grow, took place on April 29, 2017. According to Shaniqua Hammond, a senior in Villa’s Fashion Design and Merchandising program and an organizer…
read moreEach year, students, families, faculty and staff gather in our recital hall to celebrate the academic achievements of our students throughout the school year. This year’s event took place yesterday, April 27, 2017. Twenty-three students were recognized as outstanding in their major, for presenting at this year’s Symposium and as a Who’s Who, and 21 students were inducted into…
read moreOn Saturday, March 25, 2017, Villa Maria College is hosting its Spring Open House for students interested in learning more about the college. Prospective students and their families can learn about our 18 academic programs, including emerging majors in psychology, digital media and communication, digital filmmaking, and our recently-accredited occupational therapy assistant program. Open house…
read moreCommunity for Accredited Online Schools, a leading resource for online learning and college accreditation information, has released its annual rankings for the 2016-2017 Best Four Year Art Degree Programs in the Nation. Villa Maria College was ranked #5 on the list. According to Angela Hanners, Community for Accredited Online Schools’s director of communications, colleges must…
read moreFashion week has returned to the Queen City, and Villa Maria College is helping to make it a success. Rick Warne, an organizer of this year’s event, as well as the former Buffalo Fashion Week director of photography, believes that Villa’s sponsorship has helped spread the word the affair, which has been aptly named Queen City Fashion Week.…
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