Area: Art and Art History
Category: Faculty
Title: Professor
Office: M–276
Phone 602–787–7195
Specialty: Painting, Drawing, Professional Practices, Modern–Contemporary Art.
Email: adria.pecora@pvmail.maricopa.edu
WebPage: http://adriapecora.com
Adria Pecora joined the faculty fall 2005. She possesses an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.S. from Skidmore College. Supplemental studies include New York University (Film), University of Paris (Art History), School of Fine Arts, Paris (Painting).
Courses taught: Drawing, Life Drawing, Painting, Art Beyond the Classroom, Gallery Operations, the Portfolio, History of Modern Art. From 2005–10 Pecora served as the exhibitions coordinator of the gallery at the Center for Performing Arts in which capacity she curated two exhibits featuring new work in intermedia: “Super Fluid” (2007) and “Game Show” (2010). Pecora has been a member of the College Art Association since 1992 and the Artist Advisory Council at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art since its inception in 2007.
Pecora is a 2010 recipient of a Contemporary Forum Artist Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum. Recent projects include “Exchanges” (The Icehouse, 2010); “Feedback” (Experimental Arts Festival, 2009); and “Nets” (City of Phoenix public art commission, 2007). Pecora has taught at New York University, Skidmore College, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is formerly Exhibitions Coordinator at the Cooper Union and the founding Associate Director then Director of the Cooper Union School of Art International Summer Residency Program. She worked with Worldstudio Foundation to develop an arts mentoring program for at–risk youth directed towards the realization of public art projects advocating tolerance.
Pecora is the editor of a Worldstudio Foundation journal, Dispel The Prejudice! and a Cooper Union publication, Vito Acconci: language/bodies/sound/cities, excerpts from the artist’s writings, 1967–2000. Her work is represented in the collections of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art;
The Santa Fe Art Institute; and the Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection at the Museum of Modern Art. |