The PCA Studio Gallery & Artist Lounge is great opportunity to see, purchase, and participate in visual arts displays. It is the place to go to find great gifts for your friends and yourself hand made by local Prescott artists.
Prescott is an up and coming art destination in Northern Arizona, and the PCA Gallery with its juried rotating exhibits is a great place to start your art tour of the area. Come peruse the Artist Lounge and 4th Friday Art Walks enjoying appetizers, wine and drinks, live music and, of course, the amazing art that graces the gallery walls and pedestals. See you there!
Are you an artist? We celebrate local artists and their creativity.
Our new Studio Gallery is now open! And our Artist Lounge is actively accepting art submissions from any artist in the community.
Tuesday thru Saturday
11am - 3pm
208 North Marina Street
Prescott, Arizona 86301
The Artist Lounge entrance is on Willis. The Gallery entrance is on Marina.
Iris' Home. It consists, in total, of a white wooden table with three white chairs. On the table is a simple vase. Nothing else. IRIS arrives home. Just before entering the scene, she stops and watches as her MOM puts an iris in the vase on the table. She sets a steaming cup of cocoa on the table. She pulls IRIS' chair away from the table. She goes to the middle chair and touches it, looks down at it. Then, she moves to her own chair, pulls it away from the table, and sits. She looks at the iris in the vase, admiring it. IRIS enjoys this image for a moment, then enters.
A still life is defined as a collection of inanimate objects arranged together in a specific way. The magic of a still life is that it can show the viewer a new way of looking at ordinary, everyday objects or scenes. Once objects are placed into a specific arrangement and then captured in paint, ink, pastel, or any other medium, the objects take on a whole new meaning. They are imbued with a life beyond the ordinary. Their existence becomes recorded in time.
Objects chosen for a still life painting often have a special meaning, either on a personal, cultural, societal, religious, or philosophical level. The themes surrounding a still life often provoke introspection and reflection in the viewer. The way objects are depicted can evoke a wide variety of emotions, depending on their arrangement, as well as the lighting, color choice, types of materials, and their handling. These are all things to consider when viewing a still life. They are especially important to consider when you are creating one.
In this exhibit, “Moments in Time: The Magic of Still Life,” artists Neil Orlowski and Anne Legge capture simple, gentle moments on canvas and in mixed media. An arrangement of handmade glass objects by artist, Banhu Dunham present a still life in action. These 2-D and 3-D explorations remind the viewer that while time is fleeting, pausing time and capturing moments for eternity can be magical.
I am a mixed media artist that lets creativity dictate both the materials and subject of my art. For this series of artwork I am displaying, I have used old cigar boxes, oil pastels and paint to create one of a kind studies of vegetables and fruits. I have always been attracted to the natural beauty held in produce. As an artist, the rich variety of colors and textures captivate my attention and inspires me to create art. My other works displayed are done using wood, wood stains and repurposed materials. I like to create intimate scenes that draw a viewer into the artwork. I feel that creating Still Life pieces allows the observer to take a quiet moment to look at the stillness shown in the artwork.
My art education was done at Pacific University in Forest Grove, OR. I then moved back to New Orleans, LA to continue pursuing my unique style of painting. Deciding to enter the field of Animation, I moved to Los Angeles, CA where I worked on many television cartoon productions as a background painter. I have lived in Prescott, AZ for the past 18 years splitting my artistic endeavors between freelance animation and my own fine arts. I am represented locally at Arts Prescott Gallery and in Carefree at the Adelante Gallery.
Lampwork Glass Artist
Born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1959, Bandhu Dunham began to teach himself lampwork/flamework technique in 1975, while still in high school. Now an internationally respected glass artist, author and teacher, his work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums in the US and abroad, including the Corning Museum of Glass, The Museum of Arts and Design, The Museum of Glass, The Sandwich Glass Museum, Museum für Glaskunst (Germany), Niijima Glass Art Center (Japan),and Osaka University of Arts. He is known for his whimsical, groundbreaking kinetic sculptures in glass as well as goblets and abstract Spheres and Baskets.
Bandhu’s Contemporary Lampworking books are the authoritative, standard instructional texts in his field. He regularly teaches workshops at craft schools and private studios around the United States and internationally. In 2010 he was Visiting Foreign Instructor at Osaka University of Arts in Osaka, Japan. Since then he has taught and lectured on his work for the International Festival of Glass in Stourbridge, England, the Ausglass Conference in Australia, the Glass Art Society and the International Society of Glass Beadmakers.
Born in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1961, Neil was drawing and painting from an early age, winning awards even as a young child. Inspired by the print media and illustration of the early 1970's, Neil earned a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. He spent much of his career as a designer/illustrator with Hallmark Cards, exploring a wide range of styles and media, along with free-lancing and painting. After Hallmark Neil eventually returned to painting, and commercial animation and music. As a teacher for the past13 years, Neil has continued to hone his skills and distill his painting method, always with a vision and willingness to try new things.
Overtime, one truth that has become apparent is that the process of drawing and painting is really about learning how to see; to see deeply, taking nothing for granted, though our brains want to quickly name and label things. What I initially think I know and see is so limited. The process of observation through painting and drawing strips away this "baggage" and allows me to get to the truth of what I'm really experiencing. That experience is humbling, but ever inspiring.
March 24th & 25th will be Suze's Prescott Center for the Arts New Studio Theater Grand opening!
We are curating a two day event that will also double as a fundraiser, all proceeds going toward future classes, productions, scholarship programs, camps, and general operations.
The event starts with the 4th Friday ArtWalk as the first day, with live music, food and pop up artists along with our two art exhibits, which will run 4pm-7pm. Then, Saturday will run 11am-5pm and will include multiple live performances, even more pop up tents, more food and family activities such as arts and crafts, costume exhibits and an open house of the entire campus for everyone to walk through the Arts Center to get a true understanding of what we've been building here.
What I am looking for is a handful of Visual Artists who would like to partner with us for this event and have their own pop up tent. There would be a fee of $100 for one day or $150 for both days. All proceeds raised during this Grand Opening go to benefit the growth of Suze's PCA which is the largest Non-Profit Arts Center in Northern Arizona.
If this is something you would like to be a part of please contact the Gallery Manager, Dandelion Venture, at gallery@pca-az.net or by cell (928)458-1638..
We hope to have you a part of the event!
Do you want to meet new and interesting friends, and be a part of one of the best art galleries in the Prescott area? We’ve got great art, a great building, and great volunteers! The Prescott Center for the Arts Gallery’s Visual Arts Committee volunteers possess a love and appreciation of art, a flexible attitude, and a winning personality, all of which increases the success of our exhibit space.
At the PCA Gallery, we highly value our dynamic volunteers and rely on them to perform a wide variety of engaging duties. The PCA Gallery is organized and operated by the Visual Art Committee members. Our dedicated and talented committee members and exhibit curators are all volunteers, responsible for selecting and installing these incredible exhibits. Each year, volunteers contribute multiple hours of time, energy, and expertise to help the PCA Gallery succeed in its role as a place of cultural enrichment and learning, and as an invaluable resource to the local community.
The purpose of the Visual Arts Committee is to promote appreciation of the visual arts by exposing the community to a variety of artistic exhibits and educational curriculum. This is accomplished through various forms of programming including exhibits, art classes, and workshops intended to illuminate new perspectives. Providing the community audience with pertinent visual art interests is a main goal of the VAC. Committee members curate exhibits, assist with hanging and taking down exhibits, greet guests on opening nights and Art Walks, serve refreshments, and other endeavors undertaken by the Visual Arts Committee.
The Visual Arts Committee is open to anyone interested in promoting the arts by their active participation. Committee members meet monthly, typically the first Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. in the gallery, to deliberate and vote on items relating to the operation and use of the gallery space, increase exposure as a strong element within the community, and provide a well-balanced visual arts program for the community.
If you're interested in volunteering your time, expertise and energy in moving the Studio Gallery or Artist Lounge forward, please fill out a Volunteer Application. Click the button below.
The Gallery and Artist Lounge is completely supported by the work of its active volunteers. Curators are an integral component of each exhibit. Tasks include hosting, hanging the exhibit, participating in the openings and art walks, and organizing submissions. If you would like to volunteer,
contact gallery manager Dandelion Venture at gallery@pca-az.net
From the time that Prescott Fine Arts Association was chartered in 1968, art has been a major part of its history. From the first art exhibit, which covered all the available wall space on the theatre's main floor, to the present, visual arts have been an integral part of PCA. Each season includes juried exhibits featuring the works of many local artists as well as some of the members of the Visual Arts Committee. The Scholarship Competition show, held each spring, encourages local area students to pursue their passion for the visual arts through creative endeavors.
The adaptability of the gallery, now hosted in the Studio Building, and the Artist Lounge beneath the PCA Cabaret has provided a location for the great variety of exhibits that cover everything from sculpture to watercolor, oils, pottery, photography, jewelry and the annual Holiday Gift Show and Sale. Each major exhibit is launched with a festive opening reception.
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Calling all artists! Calling all artists! Click on Calls for Art to find entry information for upcoming shows. We welcome any local artists interested in applying to exhibit in the gallery.