Rate My Professor Harley Acres

Harley Acres is an Assistant Professor and serves as the Art Department Chair at Pikes Peak State College, where he has been a member of the Art Faculty since 2007. Originally from Mississippi, he is a product of the community college system, having begun his artistic education at a community college, following in the footsteps of his parents who were community college instructors. During his undergraduate studies, Acres focused on printmaking and attained a degree in art history. He earned his M.A. in Art History from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2007. A key component of his graduate experience was participation in a study abroad program through the University of Alabama, spending a year in Osaka, Japan, at Kansai Gaidai University studying Japanese ink painting (sumi-e) and the Japanese language.