Troy Moon, Pensacola State College Alaina Plowdrey’s doctorate dissertation focuses on “phenomenological and deconstructionist philosophies of color perception and consciousness.” Yes, you guessed correctly. Plowdrey is, of course, an artist. She is also the new Pensacola State College Visual Arts Department head, replacing Krist Lien who retired in December. Plowdrey ─ approachable and engaging ─…
Published: 12-02-2020 Troy Moon, Pensacola State College Krist Lien has been teaching art for decades now. He’s taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Montevallo. And since May 2006, Lien has been department head of Pensacola State College’s Visual Arts Department. His primary focus has been art education, leaving little…
Pensacola State College student Kylie Crowell believes you can travel the country and even the globe searching for a quality visual arts college or university and not find one better than PSC. She knows. The PSC photography student has traveled across the United States, and even Europe, searching out a photography school to attend after…
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…
Please vote for your favorite sunset photo by the Pensacola State College advanced photography students. The last day for voting is February 28th! We’ll announce the winner at the beginning of March! The sunset photos will be on display in Jaco’s through the month of February and the winner will get their own show in April!…
Being in a room full of Susan N. McCollough paintings must be akin to what it’s like being in the middle of a jazz improvisation performed by the masters – graceful, yes, but imbued with a spirit of frantic kineticism and spellbinding abstractism that is both mesmerizing and provoking. Awash in bold color and frantic…
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…
