What’s Ahead for You at PVCC: Fall 2020
Fine Arts Students,
We look forward to the Fall 2020 semester and creating a safe and supportive environment to help you achieve your educational goals. With this in mind, most of PVCC’s classes will be primarily online or live online for the upcoming semester. Many of you have expressed disappointment in not being able to have a fully in-person class schedule for Fall 2020 semester, and we are just as disheartened, yet we must make these adjustments to ensure minimal disruption to your academic journey.
Your Fall Learning Options
You deserve the best educational experience you can get this Fall. As such, PVCC is offering a variety of ways to learn in this new online environment. This will allow you to accomplish your educational goals while balancing your life, reducing stress and giving you more time to pursue other interests.
On Campus Safety
Although Face-to-Face instruction on campus is limited, any in-person activities will take place with appropriate safety precautions such as physical distance and sanitation measures, and will be held in small, stable groups. All students, faculty and staff are required to wear face coverings. Having most classes online will allow the physical space for these few classes to meet for limited times in-person.
Succeeding Online
Many of our students have asked if Live Online, Online or Hybrid classes are harder than Face-to-face classes. Online classes are no more or less difficult than campus classes – you’re just spending more time on your computer. From the support of your academic advisors and instructors, to tutoring services, and even our Technology Help Desk, we’re here to help when you need it.
Paying for College
Many of our students have told us that while PVCC costs much less than a four-year university, some are struggling to pay for tuition. No need to stress...we will be offering new tuition plans for the Fall 2020 semester, allowing you to take more classes at a lower tuition cost. These details are being finalized, so we will provide more information later this Summer. In the meantime, you can find out more details about paying for college here.
Limited On Campus Services
Starting on Monday, July 6, 2020, we will have limited in-person registration support at the Student Welcome Center (Union Hills) and at Orion Hall (Black Mountain) for those who want to enroll for Fall 2020. PVCC’s campuses (Union Hills and Black Mountain) and campus services will have limited access to the public with the exception of students who are on-campus for specific classes or labs.
Online and On Call to Assist You
Call: (602) 787-7000
Email: pvccinfo@paradisevalley.edu
Our summer hours are:
Monday – Wednesday,
8:00 am – 6:00 pm,
Thursday: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm.
One thing is certain, we are committed to helping you further your education. This dedication is what makes our college a proud community of Pumas. Together, we can make the Fall 2020 semester a time of opportunity, learning and academic success!
Enroll for Fall 2020
Learning Options for Fall 2020
The Division of Fine & Performing Arts offers a variety of learning options for Fall 2020. Click the infographic below to learn more about your choices at PVCC this year:
New Degree for Fall 2020: Associates in Popular Music
Raku-Fired Hands Inspired by Rodin
Spring 2020 3D Design final
Rodin is known for his virtuoso abilities and directing his focus on capturing expressions of the human condition through the figure. In a similar spirit, Spring 2020 3D Design students paired up to choose a posture for their hand to photograph from all sides to use as a model.
Rodin inspiration
Instead of making replicas of Rodin sculptures, we focused on the formal qualities exhibited in this series and how the artist focused on the expressive nature of the subject’s posture, combined with the expressive nature of modeling a form out of clay.
Students focused on the elements of line, shape, color, texture and space in the creation of their hands. Final products were evaluated according to principles of balance, dominance, proportion, scale and contrast.
The resulting sculptures were fired using the Raku method, which removes pieces from the kiln while they are still glowing red hot and places them with combustible materials, yielding an unpredictable visual result.
Abbey Road Live! Spring 2020 Fine & Performing Arts Fundraiser
2020 FINE & PERFORMING ARTS FUNDRAISER:
ABBEY ROAD LIVE! + THE BEATLES AFTER THE BEATLES
Join us at Paradise Valley Community College as we celebrate Abbey Road Live!
These events support the Fine & Performing Arts Scholarship fund that benefits students in our award-winning Dance, Music, Performance, Creative Writing, Art, and Theatre Arts programs.
March 6th, 7th @ 7:30p and 8th @ 2:00pm
$25 adults; $20 seniors; $15 Staff/Alumni/Mim/Military; $10 students; $8 children.
*$4 additional ticket fee at the door 1-hour prior to performance.
Auditions, Free Performances and Call for Logo Design: Spring 2020 Theatre News
Auditions
Auditions for the comedy The Curious Savage will be on February 27th and 28th with callbacks on February 29th. The show will perform in April. No experience necessary! For more information check out www.paradisevalley.edu/theatre.
Auditions for our Theatre for Youth/ Storybook Theatre -The Tall Tales Competition 2020 will be on March 2nd with callbacks on March 4th. The show will perform Tuesday/Thursday mornings in April at local elementary schools and at the Festival of Tales here at PVCC. Lots of fun! No experience necessary! For more information check out auditions at www.paradisevalley.edu/theatre.
Calling all Artists — Call For PVCC Theatre Sticker and T-Shirt Design
The Theatre Department is holding a competition for designing a sticker and t-shirt. For the sticker, design an eye-catching picture that represents theatre and include either PVCC Theatre and/or website paradisevalley.edu/theatre in some way. The T-shirt will be used to catch interest at recruitment events. Deadline for submissions is 2/16/20. Winning submissions get two complimentary tickets to either The Curious Savage or A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder at PVCC.
American College Theatre Festival Rehearsal Performances, Free Admission
In February PVCC Theatre has eight actors and one stage manager competing in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival at California State - Fullerton. Several thousand actors, designers, and other theatre students and professionals attend this regional festival. Come support our students as they prepare to attend and compete by joining us of ra final performance of the scenes they will perform.
February 10th | 4pm
M East Studio Theatre (M151)
Free Admission
PVCC Student-Run Record Label Signs All Female Indie Rock Band
Made up of sisters Kayli, Kari and Kassi, indie rock band SunKissed is the first act to be signed to UNION32 Entertainment, PVCC’s student-run record label. Ranging from 17-22 years old, the three sisters sing in rich, alluring harmonies over guitar, electric violin and drums.
SunKissed has performed in the greater Phoenix area including at the historic Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix. They were the only all-female band finalist in Alice Cooper’s Proof Is In The Pudding 2019 competition and placed overall as the third band.
During the Spring 2020 semester SunKissed will record an original song with Union32 Entertainment. Follow SunKissed on Instagram here and mark your calendars for a special release event on April 21st, 2020 at CB Live at Desert Ridge.
Student Feature: Visual Artist Maureen Rooney
Joy, acrylic on paper, 11”x14”, 2018
Maureen Rooney is a visual artist living and working in Phoenix, Arizona. She has been participating in studio courses at the Maricopa Community College District for the past several years. Rooney discovered painting and drawing in her 60s after decades of work with photography. These two-dimensional mediums allow for pictorial composition, an interest foregrounding Rooney’s work as forged through the lens of photography.
Rooney’s interest in movement — such as dance and music — informs the fluidity of her painting and drawing process.
Fascinated by the body language of human beings and animals alike, Rooney finds special interest in the figurative genre, seeking to express an intimacy with her subjects and to convey a similar empathy to viewers. Rooney’s interest in movement — such as dance and music — informs the fluidity of her painting and drawing process.
Rooney’s work often employs diverse surface materials, including repurposed objects and scrap materials such as cabinet doors and slate shingles. The range of painting surfaces contributes to a flexibility of style contingent upon their intrinsic qualities and formal constraints.
20 Minute Eternity, acrylic on cardboard, 11”x12”, 2019
How did you begin painting?
After a few semesters of Life Drawing, my instructor encouraged me to try my hand at painting. (It seemed to me that my mother-bird was pushing fledging-bird me out of the nest to stretch my wings!) I’m glad she did.
How do you decide what you will paint?
Often, the surface I have available to work with suggests what the painting should be. Other times, I hear something on the news or see something out in my daily life that grabs me emotionally and evokes a painting.
The Raven, acrylic on plywood, 12”x16”, 2018
What are your influences?
A lifetime of art appreciation. Instructors and fellow art students.
What is the most rewarding aspect of your creative process?
The making itself is the reward, hands down. But it is also quite rewarding to share a finished work — with instructors, fellow students, friends, the general public — and hearing their view, whether critical or appreciative. That’s the whole point of art, I think: the conversation and interaction it provokes.
Youth Orchestra, acrylic on paper, 14”x22”, 2018
Tell us about your experience at PVCC.
I sing PVCC’s praises. Seriously. Great instructors. Great studio space for making art. Great library collection. Adria Pecora was definitely a mentor to me. She made me aware of submission opportunities, scholarship opportunities, and even art-related job opportunities. The Portfolio class has proved invaluable. She exposed me to artists that were new to me, widening my horizons. She was just so much more than a painting instructor (although she was excellent at that as well).
The studio at PV is a beautiful space for making art. The instructors and my fellow students were a supportive community—sharing techniques, materials and tools, ideas. I’ve made connections with talented people as a result of my classes that have broadened my personal community.
What do you hope viewers think or feel when they interact with your work?
I hope that viewers can sense the emotion and personal expression of the subjects in my paintings. I hope that I am capturing the “life” of my subjects even as I turn them into a “still life” in the moment.
About the Artist
Rooney holds a degree in Urban Geography from Arizona State University. She has exhibited her artwork in MCCD’s 2017 “Artist of Promise” exhibit held at the Herberger Theater in Phoenix; in the 2017 and 2018 juried Student Art Shows at the Eric Fischl Gallery, Phoenix College; at the Arizona State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition in 2018 and 2019; and at Art Intersection’s 2019 “All Art Arizona” and “Little by Little” exhibitions in Gilbert. Two of her works have been published as cover art; one for The Phoenix Youth Symphony 2018-2019 season playbills and another for the ON Stage Phoenix 2019-2020 Arts Season Preview Guide.
Follow her on Instagram at @rooney7251
Electronic Pioneer and 2 Time Grammy Nominee, Steve Roach Live in Concert at PVCC
Steve Roach is a leading American pioneer in the evolution of ambient/electronic music, helping shape it into what it is today. Grammy nominated in 2018 and 2019 consecutively, his career spans four decades and nearly 200 releases.
His massive catalog of landmark recordings includes Structures from Silence, Dreamtime Return and Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces (part 1-4). Drawing from a vast, unique and deeply personal authenticity, his albums are fueled by the momentum of a lifetime dedicated to the soundcurrent.
Roach is an artist operating at the pinnacle of his artform, driven by a passion and unbroken focus enhancing the emotive, soul-stirring depth of his music. Many of his titles over the course of 40 years have been established as essential in the healing arts and Transpersonal and shamanic disciplines.
From the expansive, time-suspending deep drifts and atmospheric spaces reflecting his spiritual home in Arizona to the fire breathing, sequencer-driven rhythmic-tribal expressions woven from all things electric and organic, this innovative world of sound has been nourished by years of transcendent concerts worldwide.
Always reaching towards what’s next on the horizon, Roach refuses to be tied down to any one stylistic direction. Capturing peak moments as they occur in his Timeroom studio or in the live setting, he creates a sonic experience that breathes emotion and vital life energy that connects to an ever-growing worldwide audience.
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This event is part of the 3-day Phoenix Synthesizer Festival held at PVCC on February 6, 7 and 8
