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Residential Faculty David
Bradley - Ceramics/Visual
Art/Partners in Art
Faculty Advisor
Email: david.bradley@pvmail.maricopa.edu | Office: M-East, Room 184 | Phone: 602-787-6615
At an
early
David Bradley realized that he was destined to become an artist. He
began
his college studies as a painting major, but quickly switched to
ceramics
after his first experience on a potter’s wheel. After receiving a BFA
and
an MFA in ceramics, Bradley apprenticed in a 100 year old pottery
factory
in East Texas making old fashioned stoneware crockery on the potter’s
wheel.
The pottery making methods he learned during this apprenticeship, which
were handed down from generation to generation of folk potters, has
been
incorporated into his teaching methodology at Paradise Valley Community
College. Since the completion of his master’s degree from North Texas
State
University in 1982, Bradley has continually worked as a professional
clay
artist and ceramic instructor. In addition to his teaching duties at
PVCC,
Bradley travels the world and participates in ceramics workshops and
programs
in Mexico and China.
Adria Pecora - Visual
Art/CPA Art Gallery Coordinator
Email: adria.pecora@pvmail.maricopa.edu | Office: M-East, Room 276 | Phone: 602-787-7195 Adria
Pecora is an interdisciplinary visual artist living and working in
North Scottsdale. Her work focuses on abstraction, exploring ways that
form can convey meaning. Rooted in the aesthetics of Minimal Art,
Fluxus, and Process Art , Pecora’s works are reductive in style and
produced in series driven by concepts and formulas. Pecora’s work has
been exhibited nationally at venues including The Scottsdale Museum of
Contemporary Art in Scottsdale; Artemisia Gallery, Chicago; and the
Islip Art Museum, New York. She is among a few abstract artists
to embrace working in the public sphere. In 2007, Pecora installed two
temporary sculpture projects in the metro area at The Phoenix
Experimental Arts Festival, and in a public park under the commission
of The City of Phoenix. Pecora’s work is represented in the collections
of The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and the Franklin
Furnace Artist Book Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New
York. Pecora has taught art at New York University, School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, and Skidmore College. She held an administrative
post at The Cooper Union, where she helped establish the School of
Art’s international Summer Residency Program. Pecora ran a national
arts mentoring program and administered college scholarships for
inner-city teens interested in the visual arts. She edited a 2003
publication of the writings of Vito Acconci. Pecora has taught art at
Paradise Valley Community College since 2005.
Dr. Lois
Roma-Deeley - Creative
Writing/English Humanities/Women's Studies
Lois
Roma-Deeley's
first full-length collection of poems, Rules of Hunger, earned her a
National
Book Award nomination as well as an Arizona Library Association Author
Award nomination. She is an Emily Dickinson in Poetry Competition
winner
(Universities West Press), third place. Roma-Deeley has published in
more
than six anthologies including the American Book Award winner Looking
for
Home (Milkweed Editions). She has published in numerous national
literary
journals, including Water~Stone, Iris, Faultline, and Controlled Burn.
Her work has earned her several awards for outstanding writing,
including
a nomination for the Arizona Governor's Arts Awards and a
residency
fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation. She has studied under the
direction
of many prominent poets such as Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove and
Norman
Dubie, Alberto Rios, Jane Hirshfield, C.D. Wright, Marilyn Nelson.
Roma-Deeley
holds an MFA (poetry) from Arizona State University and a Ph.D.
(poetry)
from the Union Institute and University . She is Poet-in-Residence at
Paradise
Valley Community College, Phoenix, Arizona. Andrea Robertson - Theatre Humanities/Theatre Performance/Directing Dr. Christopher Scinto - Fine & Performing Arts, Division Chair Commercial Music/Music
Humanities/Music
Theory & Composition
Email: christopher.scinto@pvmail.maricopa.edu
| Office:
M-East, Room 169 | Phone: 602-787-6686
Christopher
Scinto's compositions have been featured on music festivals in Germany,
Italy, Spain, and throughout the United States. His works, performed by
the ASU Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the NYU New
Music and Dance Ensemble, and the Phoenix Chorale, have received
awards
and grants from the Long Island Composer's Alliance, Meet the Composer,
the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, and the National
Association
of Composers, USA. He holds degrees from Arizona State University (BM
& DMA) and
Bowling
Green State University (MM), where his studies included composition,
saxophone
performance, and conducting. Currently, he is completing a work for
saxophone and percussion, titled Octet,
and is
collaborating
with nationally acclaimed poet and PVCC faculty member Lois
Roma-Deeley
on an opera.
In
addition to his artistic pursuits, Scinto is the Division Chair of Fine
& Performing Arts at Paradise Valley Community College and is the
founder
and artistic director of the contemporary music ensemble Crossing
32nd
Street. Dr. Brett Reed -
Commercial Music/Music
Performance/Music Technology
Brett
Reed (composer, percussion) is a performer
and composer
specializing in contemporary and improvised music. He regularly
performs as a solo percussionist, as a member of several ensembles,
including Crossing 32nd Street, Skin
& Bones, a
percussion duo he co-founded with Terry Longshore, and as a jazz
vibraphonist in solo and ensemble settings. He has performed at
numerous festivals, including the Bang On A Can Marathon in New York
City and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series.
Reed
has also produced and performed on numerous recordings including Skin
& Bones critically acclaimed first release Boom and their upcoming
release Mixmaster. Other recording credits include the music of
composers Anthony Davis, Peter Garland, and Iannis Xenakis. In
addition, Reed has had performances of his own compositions "that's
what it is, grape!" for septet, "Five Loops", for marimba and
electronics, and “Translucent Divide” for solo vibraphone. Brett
holds
a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of California, San
Diego where he studied with renowned percussionist Steven Schick. Dr.
Reed is currently the director of the commercial music program and the
percussion program at Paradise Valley Community College.
Sonia Valle - Dance
Humanities/Dance
Performance
Email: sonia.valle@pvmail.maricopa.edu | Office: F-Building | Phone: 602-787-6808 Sonia
Valle
was born and raised in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. She began her
studies in dance in 1987 at San Diego State University from where she
received
a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences in International
Business,
and a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences in Dance. She
has been a member with numerous modern dance companies in the San Diego
and the Phoenix metropolitan area. As a choreographer Sonia has
received
great reviews for her work in the San Diego Union Tribune and has been
invited as guest choreographer both nationally and
internationally.
She has been a presenter and teacher at the American College Dance
Festival
teaching Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art form incorporating dance,
music,
and song. Sonia graduated with an MFA degree in dance from
Arizona
State University, where she received numerous awards, including the
outstanding
choreographer award by Friends of Dance and the ASU Dance
Department.
She is currently teaching and developing the dance program at Paradise
Valley Community College and hopes to continue performing and producing
her work as an artist.
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