"Drawing has provided me with an escape. It helps me express myself, relieve stress. When I’m finished with a piece of art I feel very accomplished. I feel like I achieved a small goal." -Nikkida, PVCC Visual Arts student
Fired Up! - RAKU Nights - PVCC Ceramics Program Benefit
Join us for a very creative and unique date night or outing with friends!
Fired Up! - Raku Nights is a fundraising event AND a hands-on ceramics workshop rolled into one!
$25 per ticket includes:
*Your selected piece of hand-thrown pottery to design, glaze and take home.
• Dramatic Raku Kiln firing of each piece
• Pottery throwing demonstration
• Appetizers and dessert
• Live music performed by the PVCC Faculty Jazz Ensemble
Purchase tickets in advance as seating is limited.
Call 602-787-6684 for additional information or email:
development@paradisevalley.edu
Proceeds benefit the PVCC Ceramics Program Support Fund.
Hands-On Music Series - Free Events & Workshops at PVCC
The music department at Paradise Valley Community College is pleased to present a new series of hands-on and interactive musical opportunities for students, staff and members of the community. All events in this series are FREE and only require an interest to learn something new and have fun. No Experience Necessary!
Tuesday Evenings: Afro-Latin Drum and Dance Workshops
6:30p-8:30p, KSC 1000A • June 16, 23, 30 • July 7, 14, 21
Learn to play and dance to the exciting rhythms and music from Cuba and Brazil.
All Drums will be provided. Featuring Guest artists Joe Goglia and Jesse Joaquin Parker.
Thursday Afternoons: Concerts with Faculty and Guests
11:00a-12:00p, Studio Theater/M-East Bldg
June 18: The Rattler Hot Jazz Orchestra
June 25: Paradise Winds (Location TBD)
July 2: PVCC Faculty Jazz Ensemble
July 9: Dr. Ashley Oakley, piano
July 16: Tribute to West Coast Jazz
July 23: GCC Guitar Ensmbles, under the direction of Chuck Hulihan
Concerts are family-friendly. Bring your lunch and enjoy the music!
June Events at PVCC - Two Theater Productions, Drum Workshops and Free Concerts
UNDER THE BED (a play for children and families). DIRECTED BY CRAIG KOSNIK
June 11th and 12th at 11:00am, June 12th and 13th at 7:00pm, June 14th at 2:00pm.
Performances held in the Studio Theater/M-East Building, Seating is limited. $5 adults/seniors/staff/students/military; $2 children
Click HERE to purchase tickets
Mo and Jo are staying with their Aunt Flo as their mom is on her honeymoon with the new man she has married. Mo and Jo cannot fall asleep because they think that there is something (or someone) under the bed. They hear strange sounds from under the bed. They smell strange odors from under the bed. That means that there must be something under the bed, right? Suddenly, a Hot Water Bottle comes to life and tries to help the siblings go to sleep. He suggests that they travel somewhere else so that they can escape whatever is under the bed. In their travels, the trio visit Antarctica and meet a Spanish Penguin that recites poetry, and a Monkey in the South Seas. Will they ever be able to fall asleep? For all ages!
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY: AFRO-CUBAN DRUM AND DANCE WORKSHOP
June 16th, 6:30pm-8:30pm, KSC 1000A, Free Admission
Learn to play and dance to the exciting rhythms and music from Cuba and Brazil.
All Drums will be provided. Featuring Guest artists Joe Goglia and Jesse Joaquin Parker
LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES: THE RATTLER HOT JAZZ ORCHESTRA
June 18th, 11:00am-12:00pm, Studio Theater/M-East Bldg, Free Admission
Local Phoenix Musicians Jordan Tompkins, Greg Lloyd, Kevin Bock, Eric Wells, and Josh Bennett invite you to enjoy the sounds of Traditional New Orleans Jazz with The Rattler Hot Jazz Orchestra! From classic Hot Jazz standards, to the music of Louis Armstrong, and even new popular songs RHJO brings the spirit of New Orleans to the Phoenix valley. So bring your friends and family and join us at Paradise Valley Community College on June 18th in the Black Box Theater as we celebrate the music that launched a new musical movement in America!
SPAMALOT (musical). DIRECTED BY ANDREA ROBERTSON
June 19th, 20th, 26th, 27th @ 7:30pm. June 21st and 28th @ 2:00pm.
$15 adults; $12 seniors/staff; $10 students/military; $8 children
Click HERE to purchase tickets *4 additional ticket fee at the door 1hour prior to performance.
Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL, SPAMALOT retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Did we mention the bevy of beautiful show girls? The 2005 Broadway production won three Tony Awards, including "Best Musical," and received 14 Tony Award nominations.
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY: AFRO-CUBAN DRUM AND DANCE WORKSHOP
June 23rd, 6:30pm-8:30pm, KSC 1000A, Free Admission
Learn to play and dance to the exciting rhythms and music from Cuba and Brazil.
All Drums will be provided. Featuring Guest artists Joe Goglia and Jesse Joaquin Parker
LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES: PARADISE WINDS
June 25th, 11:00am-12:00pm, Location is TBD, Free Admission
The Paradise Winds are a collection of artists presenting chamber music concerts, educational programs, benefits, fundraisers and community events in Greater Phoenix, AZ. The variety of artistry provides a diverse background of other specialties, but each artist appearing with the ensemble has accomplished great feats in music performance, research and education. The Paradise Winds represent the past, present and future of wind chamber music.
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY: AFRO-CUBAN DRUM AND DANCE WORKSHOP
June 30th, 6:30pm-8:30pm, KSC 1000A, Free Admission
Learn to play and dance to the exciting rhythms and music from Cuba and Brazil.
All Drums will be provided. Featuring Guest artists Joe Goglia and Jesse Joaquin Parker
For additional information about any of the listed events, please contact the Center for the Performing Arts Box Office at 602-787-7738 or email boxoffice@paradisevalley.edu.
Animal Tails: A Play Created by THP151 - Theater for Youth
Written by Craig Kosnik, PhD, instructor of Theater for Youth
This past spring twelve brave students and one instructor set out on a journey to create and adapt a brand new play for k-2 audiences - and all in one semester! Animal Tails was adapted from the folk tales of four different Native American cultures: Rainbow Crow (Lenni Lenape), How Rabbit Lost His Tail (Wabanaki), Coyote Stories (Cheyenne), and Rabbit Calls a Truce (Wabanaki). The instructor wrote the prologue, transitional scenes, and an epilogue to tie the four tales together. In these scenes, the PVCC students took on roles as second grade students who were preparing to act out the folk tales. After creating the script, the class had a few weeks to rehearse and then presented the production to over 1,000 people during school day performances and during the PVCC Festival of Tales.
W R I T I N G T H E S H O W
Theatre is all about telling stories—to record our history, to teach life lessons, and to entertain us. We started our developmental process by reading other theatre for youth plays to see how they were structured and to identify what aspects of them we might want to incorporate into our own work. Then the creative writing process began. From the start, this has been a collaborative effort. First, we read a group of stories from several Native American tribes and decided on four that we wanted to adapt. This was based on a number of factors, including: the theme of each story, their potential for drama and theatricality, the inclusion of a variety of tribes/nations, animal characters that would be familiar to Arizona children, ease of portrayal, and, of course, the fun factor.
The Paradise Valley students were divided into four groups, and each group produced a script adapted from one of the Native American stories. The group members worked together, contributed ideas, and formatted and proofread the scripts, which were then incorporated into a final script that included a prologue, an epilogue, and transitional sections written by the instructor. We decided that having the play take place in a second-grade classroom would make the audience feel at home.
In adapting these tales, we took into consideration the language level appropriate to the target audience (K-2) and simplified some of the language in the original tales. The characters in each tale remained the same in our script with an occasional addition of other characters to make the transitions smoother. The tales were woven together by moving the action in and out of the classroom setting and through several characters who reappear throughout the play. Finally, we added some contemporary references, just for fun and to allow the audience members to relate easier to the material at hand.
P L A Y S Y N O P S I S
Miss Watuchi’s 2nd grade class is a group of rambunctious children. They are easily distracted and easily entertained. However, today is a special day for Miss Watuchi’s class. Principal Garfield has come to tell Native American folktales to the class, and the students are going to act them out. Follow the kids on a wonderful journey as they learn folktales through trickery, transformation, and friendship.
A N I M A L T A I L S S T U D Y G U I D E
In addition to the Animal Tails script, students created a Study Guide for use by teachers and students. It contained information on the show itself, the tribes highlighted, audience etiquette tips, a list of resources, and pre and post show activities to use in the classroom to investigate what the children will see in the show. This study guide was wholly created by the students of Theatre For Youth after they examined study guides from professional children’s theatres from around the country. They weighed the pros and cons of each one, and as a class, decided what would be best and most useful to include in our own study guide. You can view the study guide here!
Art + Gender | Collective Art Project & Exhibition
PVCC students Katlynn McNab and Heidi Klotz pose in front of Kande Mickelsen's HERstory blog.
When the chance to organize a collective art project and exhibit on campus to celebrate Women’s History Month presented itself, budding curators Heidi Klotz and Katlynn McNab seized the opportunity.
Psychology faculty Caron Sada discusses the psychology of gender with the group.
Klotz and McNab became acquainted with one another this term as classmates in Dr. Caron Sada’s "Psychology and Culture" and Adria Pecora’s "Drawing" courses. Dr. Sada and Ms. Pecora entered into the spring semester eager to have their students collaborate on a creative project exploring gender for an activity of Women’s History Month, an idea that was also ignited by the enthusiasm of library faculty, Kandice Mickelsen who volunteered Buxton Library as the location and exhibition venue for the art project.
Sada’s students from “Psychology of Gender” and Pecora’s students from “Drawing” volunteered to participate in this extra-curricular project rooted in performance, specifically in conversation. Pecora has previously taught a course in “Gallery Operations” in which students have curated exhibitions on campus. She introduced the curatorial team to a type of art called “social practice” and to curatorial projects incorporating “relational aesthetics” that revolve around conversation. Klotz and McNab learned about the curators Nicolas Bourriaud and Hans-Ulrich Obrist and artists such as Rirkrit Tiravanija and the late Allan Kaprow (the creator of “happenings”).
Katlynn McNab and Heidi Klotz discuss social practice and relational aesthetics with Art faculty, Adria Pecora.
Pecora commented, “The idea of disrupting the regulated quietude of a library with a passionate discourse seemed suited to an artwork exploring gender.”
Moreover, the library’s new media lounge (a circular sofa with built in media station) suggested a more social role for the library, one in which exhibits might be rendered interactive by incorporating viewer feedback via messaging.
Library faculty Kande Mickelsen at blogging stations.
Mickelsen had been orchestrating a library guide entitled “HERstory” to function as an informational hub for Women’s History Month events. After meeting with Klotz and McNab, Mickelsen helped arrange for the guide to also serve as a blog site for the artwork featuring audio and video excerpts of the conversation. Sada’s students brainstormed thought-provoking questions to guide discussion. Pecora’s students brought or created images that resonated of gender and posted them on an idea board in the space.
Artistic inspiration came in the form of a lecture exploring “How gender roles affect relationships”, presented earlier in the week by Counseling faculty, Donna Mosher. The art students also drew enthusiasm from a visit by PVCC alumni curators, Collin Pressler (Exhibitions Manager, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and Eric Heimbecker (Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility Group) from whom they learned more about curatorial practice and socially engaged work beyond the studio.
Counseling faculty Donna Mosher
PVCC alumni Collin Pressler and Eric Heimbecker visit Katlynn McNab, Heidi Klotz and PVCC art students in the painting and drawing studio to discuss their work with curating and social engaged projects.
The conversation lives online and awaits your thoughts. Please tag #pvccfinearts.
HERstory library blog: paradisevalley.libguides.com/HERstory
Twitter and Instagram: #artandgenderchatroom
Student Spotlight: Jo Van Loo, Fabric Artist
Jo VanLoo is a fabric artist, specifically working in the medium of quilting for eighteen years. Her quilts have been exhibited in national shows, and are currently showing in the Center for Performing Arts Gallery.
From Jo's blog:
Some of my quilts emphasize aesthetics and craft; others meaning and relationships, and others make socio-political statements. Some speak to all three.
Tomb of the Unknown Quilter
I love the inter-mingling passion, storytelling and, tactile nature of fabric arts. Using commercial and hand dyed fabrics I am able to express my feelings using a variety of manipulations and methods.
Ceiling View. Inspired by Jo's trip to Hagai Sophia in Instabul, 2011.
Because I was a teacher for more than thirty years, I love to share my passion for quilting with others through quilting classes. I have taught quilt making in Canada, the United States, Uganda, Haiti, and Nicaragua. Through teaching the art and craft of quilting, I have become a learner of culture, of values, of life.
Las Cocinaras
View Jo's complete gallery, blog and shop at her website: www.jomamavl.com
Grass Roots Effort: ART 113 Color Installation
As artists, we must engage with our world. For this project students were asked to select a public issue that is important to them; it may be women’s issues, the environment, global warming, health care, a particular disease or disability, the homeless, politics, war. Within their theme, they were asked to make a series of mini "lawn" flags that were then displayed near classroom J141. Their set of 4 flags revolved around the central theme of their choosing.
Installation created by students in Ann Morton's ART 113 Color class.
