LOCATION
HCA is located on U.S. Route 1 in Kennebunk, Maine, about one mile south of the business community. The College is ideally located within 4 miles of the Atlantic Ocean. Easy access to Boston, northern Maine, and other New England states provides students with opportunities to expand personal and professional knowledge of art. Ample shopping is available close by in Biddeford, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In addition, the location of the college equidistant from Portland and Portsmouth enables students and faculty to take advantage of the many cultural and recreational activities of the area.
FACILITIES
Heartwood has 11,000 square feet of modern, well-equipped studio space, all on one floor.
- Two painting studios
- A printmaking studio that has a number of presses for etching and woodblock, including a 16” Brandt printing press, a 24” Sturgis Press and a rare historical Acorn Press.
- A photography lab, including a ten student gang darkroom with individual work stations and a fully equipped studio with Tungsten lighting and electronic flash for portrait and commercial work.
- A ceramics studio with ten electric wheels, two electric kilns, a large gas-fired car kiln and an outdoor Raku kiln.
- Jewelry and metalsmithing rooms with equipment for casting, enameling and the tools for the
making of all aspects of jewelry.
- A separate studio for the making of glass beads, which adds an exciting dimension to that area of study.
- Weaving facilities including 8 four, eight and sixteen harness looms as well as several table and tapestry looms.
- A recently-updated library, which functions as a community resource library.
- A comfortable communal kitchen which occupies the center of the building, where students can interact and cook together.
