Category Archives: Alumni News

Sessions Alumni Uses Mixed Media to Explore Identity

Our featured International Student for May is Shymiin Chor from Malaysia. A Fine Arts certificate course graduate, Shymiin is best known at Sessions for her beautiful representational work. With her latest collection of works, Shymiin steps out from comfort zone, … Continue reading

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Sessions Alumni Paints Musical Mural

Our featured International Student for April is Helen Roowalla from Switzerland. A Fine Arts certificate graduate, Helen was recently commissioned to paint a mural representing the magic of performing music for the GMA Groove Music Academy in Lugano, Switzerland. For … Continue reading

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Alumni Profile: Orchun Koroglu, Game Art Certificate

Sessions College game art alumni Orchun Koroglu was getting game development work in long before he graduated his program. Since 2006, he’s worked for three different studios developing games for mobile applications. In this interview we asked Orchun to describe … Continue reading

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Alumni Profile: Annetta Killian, Outstanding Graduate

Once a year, the staff at Distance Education and Training Council (DETC), the primary accreditor for Sessions College, asks us to nominate an outstanding graduate. Our outstanding graduate this year was Annetta Killian, who earned her Graphic Design Certificate with … Continue reading

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Alumni Profile: Candice Dunlap, Graphic Design Graduate

Recent graduate Candice Dunlap has the kind of story that any creative career changer might envy. A photographer and a writer with IT experience, Candice decided she needed to something (more) creative for a living and enrolled in graphic design … Continue reading

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Alumni Profile: Trevor Embury, Graphic Design Graduate

Alumni Profile: Trevor Embury, Graphic Design Graduate. Interview originally posted on Notes on Design. After spending 7 years living, studying and working in Tokyo, Japan, Graphic Designer Trevor Embury set up his design company aftermodern.lab in Toronto, Canada in 2009. … Continue reading

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Alumni Profile: Joseph Akers, Graphic Design Graduate

Alumni Profile: Joseph Akers, Graphic Design Graduate Where are you from and what brought you to Sessions College? I was born in Roanoke, Virginia and I now live in Richmond. I spent the majority of my high school years in … Continue reading

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Alumni Profile: Jeremy Willmott, Web Design Graduate

This article is the first of a series of profiles on Sessions College program graduates. Alumni Profile: Jeremy Willmott, Web Design Graduate Where are you from and what brought you to Sessions College? I’m a Londoner born and bred — … Continue reading

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Alumni Survey Results

The results of the Sessions College alumni survey were published at the end of March.  Sent to 434 program graduates, the survey is part of an important initiative to measure the educational outcomes of students who graduate certificate programs. Questions … Continue reading

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