The Holle Center for Communication Arts is an incubator and a creative collaboratory designed to shape the future of 21st-century nonfiction storytelling. The center convenes researchers, practitioners, community partners and student interns to foster innovative, arts-informed research and narrative projects that are crucial to advancing the notion that everyone has a story to tell and a story worth telling. The center’s work is to tell meaningful stories that reflect the world as it is, and as it can be.
Communication arts enhance the impact of storytelling through mediums that evoke emotion, create connections, and further a nuanced understanding of lived experiences.
OUR TEAM
Dr. Robin Boylorn
Distinguished Research Professor,Holle Endowed Chair and Executive Director,
Holle Center for Communication Arts
Michelle Bordner
Program Manager,Holle Center for Communication Arts
THE HOLLE AWARDS
The Holle Center for Communication Arts oversees the national Holle Awards for Excellence in Creativity and Communication, which highlight and celebrate creative expression in seven categories including book arts, filmmaking, forensics, media writing, public speaking, screenwriting and sports media.
The awards, which were established by Everett Hughes Holle and funded by the Holle Family Foundation, include a $10,000 prize for the winner of each category.