This exhibition showcases a curated selection of artworks generously donated to the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts. Location: Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Bldg. 15 (Switzer Gallery) Exhibition Viewing: August 21 – May 10, 2024
This annual exhibition showcases the finest examples of work created by current Pensacola State College visual arts students and embodies a variety of media, including ceramics, drawing, digital design, jewelry, painting, photography, and sculpture. Reception and awards ceremony, Friday, April 24, 2020, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Free and open to the public.
When Carl Duke retired as the head of Pensacola State’s visual arts department in 1987, a part of his heart remained at the College. An award-winning artist, Duke continued to show his work in exhibits and even loaned pieces from his personal collection to the College. Before he passed away on Aug. 1, the 87-year-old…
Pensacola State College’s Visual Arts Department awarded ribbons, plaques and $23,590 in scholarships and prizes to students at the 51st Annual Art Student Honors Ceremony recently. For the first time, the event also included Judges Choice Awards based on judging from outside the Visual Arts Department. Dreyden Wells, an artist and ceramics instructor at the…
Construction of the $3 million Charles W. Lamar Studio Gallery at Pensacola State College is on schedule to open this coming spring. David Barton, project manager with the Morette Company, said the 10,000-square-foot addition to the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts should be completed by March or April. The Morette Company is the…
John Olsen received his Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the Kansas City Art Institute with a major in Sculpture and minors in Industrial Design and Painting. He was awarded a tuition waiver and a student assistantship at Tulane University of Louisiana where he received his Master of Fine Art degree with a major in…
After a miserable first semester as a business major, I began taking art classes. Never looking back, art degrees followed earning an AA from Santa Monica College in 1962, a BA from California State University, Long Beach in 1964, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1966. My teaching…
