Eighteen Pensacola State College graphic design and photography students won a total of 69 ADDY Awards at the 2023 Pensacola American Advertising Federation Awards Gala held Feb. 10 at the Hilton Pensacola Beach. The students won 26 gold and 42 silver awards. Casey DeLong won one of three Judges Awards along with two gold and…
Children are often asked what they want to be when they grow up. But sadly, only some of us end up working in the profession we envisioned as kids. Well, Chris Gustin did. “In sixth grade, we were asked what we wanted to be when we grew up,” Gustin said. “I wrote ‘pottery man.”’ Today,…
Chris Gustin, a prolific and world-renowned studio art ceramicist, is a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts. Gustin is an explorer of forms, a painter with fire and glazes, and a master of his materials. He takes inspiration from historical, utilitarian pottery and the subtleties of the human form. Gustin’s work ranges from functional…
On Wednesday, November 2 at 5:30 pm, The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts at Pensacola State College is hosting an artist presentation by Lara Sophie Benjamin, the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Invited International Artist for 2022.
Location: Building 15, Pensacola State College, room 1513.
Brian Weaver considers himself fortunate that he found Pensacola State College. He wasn’t really aware of PSC – he’s from Oil City, Pennsylvania after all – until applying for the position of Visual Arts Department head. Now that he’s here in the Department head position, Weaver wants to help ensure that more people find out…
Nursing is a noble and honorable profession ─ but it’s not for everyone. Even nurses will tell you that.
Danny Nguyen started at Pensacola State College as a nursing student, but it just wasn’t a good fit. Instead, he enrolled in the College’s Visual Arts Program and has blossomed as a graphic design artist.
In fact, Nguyen won a Gold Award and two Silver Awards at the American Advertising Federation District 4 Awards competition held April 22 in Orlando. District 4 includes colleges and universities in Florida and the Caribbean.
The best pieces from Pensacola State College’s best art students are now on display at the Switzer Gallery in the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts on the Pensacola campus.
The Art Student Honors Exhibition showcases 96 artworks in a variety of media, including ceramics, drawing, painting, digital design, photography and sculpture. The exhibition opened April 4 and runs through April 22.
The reception and prize ceremony for the exhibition is set for 5-7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14. The exhibition was open to all two-year visual arts students.
Hannah Clarke’s abstract photo “At Twilight” was named the winner of the Pensacola State College Sunset Photography Contest on Monday, March 7, during a short ceremony at Jaco’s Bayfront Bar & Grille.
Clarke was one of 12 PSC photography students who competed in the annual contest which ran through February. The students’ photographs were displayed in Jaco’s through the month and people were asked to vote for their favorite. Voting also occurred online.
By Troy Moon Pensacola State College Two new art exhibitions will open at Pensacola State College on Thursday, Jan. 6, one featuring a talented art instructor and the other showcasing the work of an artist inspired by the past and present while employing a style that was first used in medieval times and which flourished…
PSC’s Bachelor of Applied Science senior art exhibition set for Dec. 6-10 ‘How Design Makes Us Think, Feel, and Do Things’ is the title of Pensacola State College’s 2021 Marjan Mazza Bachelor of Applied Science in Business and Management – Graphic Design Senior Exhibition. Set for Dec. 6-10, the exhibition is in the Switzer Gallery…