St. Clair County Community College will use a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to bring four award-winning artists and authors to the Port Huron campus in April.

SC4 received the grant to benefit the 53rd edition of Patterns, the college's literary and arts publication of student work. Patterns is the longest continually published community college literary and arts magazine in the state. The publication each year features the best of SC4 student work.

This is the third time SC4 has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The previous grants were awarded to benefit the 50th and 52nd editions of Patterns in 2008 and 2010, respectively.

The grants will be used to produce the publication and to bring the guest artists and authors to campus. All four will judge student work, discuss their work and provide advice to students.

The artists and authors will be part of the Patterns recognition ceremony, reception and guest author readings from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 17, in the college's Fine Arts Theatre and College Center Atrium.

Guest authors include:

• Denise Duhamel, a poet and recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her most recent poetry titles are Ka-Ching! in 2009 and Two and Two in 2005. Duhamel is an associate professor at Florida International University in Miami.
• Margaret McMullan, a novelist and recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and author of six award-winning novels, including Sources of Light, In My Mother's House and Cashay. McMullan is an English professor at the University of Evansville in Indiana and teaches at the Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference in Southampton, N.Y.

Guest artists include:

• Zack Ostrowski, an award-winning graphic designer and assistant professor of art, media and design at DePaul University in Chicago. Ostrowski is an SC4 alumnus and former SC4 adjunct communication design instructor. Ostrowski has worked professionally as a graphic designer for Rossetti Architects in Southfield and as an entrepreneur, co-establishing Superiorbelly LLC, a multimedia art and design collective, with sculptor Thomas Pyrzewski.
• Thomas Pyrzewski, a sculptor and adjunct sculpture instructor at Wayne State University in Detroit and interim director of Wayne State University's Art Galleries. Pyrzewski has presented several award-winning shows of his artwork. He co-established Superiorbelly LLC, a multimedia art and design collective, with Zack Ostrowski. He also had a solo exhibition in SC4's Fine Arts Galleries in 2007.

SC4's James Frank, professor of English and French, and Shelly Simmons, senior accountant, collaborated on this year's grant.