Anna Society
The Anna Society is a group of individuals who are passionate about arts education and visual enrichment along the Gulf Coast. This group advocates for and provides foundational dollars to the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, enriching our surrounding community. Anna Society members understand the educational, financial, and historical importance of the arts. This group ensures the growth and success of the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for the Visual Arts.
Anna Society members make a difference to Pensacola State College by annually contributing their time, talent, and resources towards the heritage and artistic future of Northwest Florida. Anna Society members advocate the importance of arts education as well as attending the enrichment events held at the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for the Arts.
Since its inception in 2000, the enrollment in the PSC Visual Arts courses has increased by nearly 150%, and more than 65K people visit the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts annually!
The Anna Lamar Switzer Center is named in honor of Anna Lamar Switzer. Mrs. Switzer was the grandmother and mother of the Switzer and Reilly families, who provided the transformational dollars to renovate and expand the Visual Arts Center in 2002.
The Anna Society was formed by a core group of arts supporters and an additional matching gift by the Switzer Family to help continue arts advocacy and support for PSC’s Visual Arts students and programs.
In 2014, the Switzer, Reilly, and Lamar families committed funding to build the Charles W. Lamar Studio at PSC’s Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts.
In February 2018, a dedication was held announcing the completion of the new addition housing the Charles W. Lamar Studio.
Since then, the Visual Arts Department in the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts maintains no less than (3) curated exhibition spaces at all times, including the Switzer Gallery, Charles W. Lamar Studio, and the Permanent Collection exhibition sites.
