Pensacola State College Student Kameron Horak is playing his swan song, the fond farewell. And he’s playing it on saxophone. (Or maybe it’s his grandmother’s clarinet.) Horak, a 20-year-old music student, graduates this spring with enough honors and accolades for an encore. He received three 2020 Student Excellence Awards and is one of more than…
A photography exhibit by Pensacola State College student Lisa Carver is on display at one of Pensacola’s favorite restaurants. Carver, a PSC photography student, won the PSC Sunset Photography competition in February, earning the chance to hold her own monthlong exhibit at Jaco’s Bayfront Bar & Grille in downtown Pensacola. Each February, Jaco’s hosts a…
The Visual Arts Department at Pensacola State College has announced the 2020 Art Student Honors scholarship and award recipients. The College annually awards more than $20,000 in scholarship funds to outstanding visual arts students practicing a variety of media, including photography, graphic design, painting, drawing, printmaking, metal work and ceramics. “Over 51 of Pensacola State…
There’s probably a nice pottery-related analogy to be made about ceramics instructor Micah Cain, who recently begun only his second semester at Pensacola State College. Something about being newly formed on the wheel, and then thrown into the fearsome heat of the kiln, otherwise known as the classroom. Two things get in the way of…
Bayfront eatery exhibits works of photography students, awards $8,000 in scholarships and support By Troy Moon, Pensacola State College Few downtown locales offer a more perfect picture of a Pensacola sunset than Jaco’s Bayfront Bar & Grille. Tucked into the southern tip of Palafox Pier overlooking Pensacola Bay, it’s where locals gather nightly to watch…
“Contemporary Expressionism,” an exhibit featuring the works of Alabama-based artist Susan N. McCollough, will be on display Jan. 27-May 1 in the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts at Pensacola State College. A prolific painter, McCollough lives and works in Gulf Shores, Alabama. An artist reception is set for 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30,…
New gallery director hopes community will discover the wonders within Michelle Schulte taps at the security keypad next to two large doors at the end of the corridor and swings one of the doors open, propping it with a door stop. The room inside is dark ─ Schulte has some problems with the digital light…
The works of nine Pensacola State College graphic design students will be on display starting Wednesday, Nov. 20, at the National Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola. The exhibition, “50th Anniversary of the First Step,” is the final body of work for the graduating students and pays homage to the Apollo 11 mission, the crew…
Esmeraldo Abalde International Artist Talk October 30, 6 p.m. Switzer Gallery, Rm. 1513 FREE Esmeraldo Abalde, invited international artist for the 2019 Great Gulfcoast Art Festival.
Pensacola State College Alum, Steve Olesky, Senior director of the digital creative department at Ralph Lauren Corp., inspired graphic design students at the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts.