Building the arts at PCC
The above swinging jazz combo, featuring Aleks Peck on guitar and Patrick O'Connor singing fine old standards -- I'll get the solid drummer and the bass player's names sometime soon -- set the stage for a Thursday-night get-together in Brenda and Bill Galloway's back yard to raise friends for the new Pasadena City College Center for the Arts.
Excellent as the studio art and music programs are at PCC, they've never had a proper home on the campus.
Even so, the great cellist Nicky Rosen and the extraordinary visual artist Betye Saar, among other alums, have managed to get by. They'd get by better with a locus on campus. So ground is breaking late this summer for a new building with an art gallery, a recital hall and a black-box theater.
Construction funding will be through the Measure P bond. Still plenty o' naming opportunities for you big donors out there, though -- the bond won't pay for musical instruments, building signage and new technology.
Interested? Contact division dean Alex Kritselis at ajkritselis@pasadena.edu for more info.