Jennifer Hendrix, a Photographic Technology A.S. student at Pensacola State College, was awarded the coveted Anna Award during the 2025 Annual Student Art Awards Exhibition ceremony, held April 8 in the Lamar Lecture Hall of the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts – one of the Visual Arts department’s most anticipated events of the year.
A local favorite for many, Jaco’s Bayfront Bar & Grille offers great food, a relaxing atmosphere, and premium sunset views over the water. But for Pensacola State College photography students, it also provides a unique opportunity to showcase their artistic talents.
Pensacola State College visual arts students won 56 awards at the AAF Pensacola 2025 American Advertising Awards Gala on Feb. 21 at the Court of De Luna. Pensacola State students earned 18 gold and 36 silver awards. Judges Choice Awards were given to Andrew Johnson for “Ingredients” and to Sherrie Drisdell for “PaperFolk: Teaser Trailer,” both in the Elements of Advertising category.
“Of all man’s arts, ceramics deals most directly with earth, water, air and fire…elements the ancients considered atomic essentials of our world. Fire is the key. Fire gives clay hardness and permanence. Without a knowledge of the action of fire, the potter’s craft would not exist. Nor would exist those infinitely numerous shards and sherds…
The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts at PSC is in full swing for the spring semester 2025 with two exciting exhibitions, Brooke Shaden’s SAMSARA and the PSC & Gulf Coast Kiln Walk’s Connected.
Brooke Shaden, an acclaimed fine art photographer, mixed media artist, and writer, is celebrated for her conceptual imagery and self-portraiture. Inspired by the belief that embracing ephemera leads to a fuller life, Shaden creates darkly surreal compositions that merge themes of nature and grief, offering powerful messages of hope.
In honor of the 20th Annual WoodStoke Festival of the Gulf Coast Kiln Walk, Pensacola State College’s Switzer Gallery will host Connected, a visual arts exhibition showcasing the works of regional, national and international master ceramic artists.
Featured will be a variety of artwork(s) available for purchase from students, faculty, and support staff of the Visual Arts Department.
Hosted by the Visual Arts Department, Spanish artist Buly (Aurelio Jose Diaz Trillo) discussed his work, his son Pablo translating, at the PSC Lamar Lecture Hall.
The 11th Annual Foo Foo Festival is scheduled for Oct. 31 through Nov. 11, 2024, and this year, the Pensacola State College Visual Arts Department and Performing Arts Department will be participating in Foo Foo Festival with a collaborative project “Eclectic Fidelities.” With this project, PSC will be celebrating women in the arts by bringing in female…