Area: Visual Art
Category: Faculty
Title: Professor
Office: M–165
Phone 602–787–6615
Specialty: Ceramics, Figurative Sculpture, Drawing
Email: david.bradley@pvmail.maricopa.edu
WebPage: http://www.davidbradleyart.com

David Bradley joined the faculty fall 2004. He possesses an M.F.A. in Ceramics from the University of
North Texas and a B.F.A in Painting from Louisiana Tech University. Supplemental studies include a
two-year apprenticeship at Marshall Pottery Co., Marshall, Texas, Faculty Development Programs in Hawaii, and Mexico.

Courses taught: Drawing, Life Drawing, 2d & 3d Design, Ceramics, Art Beyond the Classroom, and Figure Sculpture. Bradley is Evening Supervisor of Visual Arts Department. He is a recipient of numerous artists grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts for Artists in the Schools. Recent exhibitions include “Musiciphilia” a solo show in the PVCC Center for the Arts gallery, September, 2009, and an improvisational collaboration with music faculty Brett Reed in March 2010.

Bradley has been full-time faculty in the Maricopa Community College District for six years. He was adjunct faculty for 14 years prior. Bradley has been gold medal winner at the Marjon’s Ceramics Clay Olympics for the past seven years in the professional category.

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.