Fine and Performing Arts at Vista
Spring 2024 Calendar of Events
January 22 - March 8, 2023
Palmetto Center for the Arts Gallery
Curated by Diana Kersey
This exhibition highlights the diverse works of art alumni from Northwest Vista College, showcasing the evolution of their talents since their time at our college. Alongside the exhibition, a scheduled Art Alumni Panel Discussion aims to inform our current students about the various career paths in the arts. The discussion serves as a celebration of alumni achievements and will provide our current students with valuable insights into the practical aspects of pursuing a career in the arts.
Art Alumni Panel Discussion
Wednesday, March 6 from 1-2PM
Join us via Zoom
Presented by NVC Fine Art
Sponsored by the Student Activity Fee
Presented by NVC Fine Art
Location: Palmetto Center for the Arts
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Free Admission
The NVC Fine & Performing Arts Department presents Cosmic Art Night! Materials and studios glow under ultraviolet lights creating a surreal, dreamy vibe while you explore the arts of ceramics, drawing, printmaking and dance. Professors and students will demonstrate the potter’s wheel and screen printing techniques on paper. Bring your own t-shirt to silkscreen.
All additional materials provided.
Everyone is welcome: students, faculty, staff, and families!
All ages! No experience necessary!
PARALLEL
Paintings & Sculptures by:
Enrique Gutierrez y Ernesto Ibanez
March 25 - May 3, 2024
Palmetto Center for the Arts Gallery
Curated by Jimena Marin
Multidisciplinary artists Ernesto Ibanez and Enrique Gutierrez share a parallelism in their personal and professional lives. Both were born in Mexico and currently live in San Antonio. They have explored different disciplines in their artistic practice, including sculpture, drawing, design, and painting. Gutierrez and Ibanez materialize thoughts and feelings using non-conventional media, problem solving skills, intuition, and vivid colors.
Artist Talk
Thursday, April 18, 2024
10am at Palmetto Gallery
Presented by NVC Fine Art
Sponsored by the Student Activity Fee
NVC Dance Guest Artist
LECTURE & DEMO:
Thursday, April 25
11AM-11:30AM in Dance Studio PCA-108
MOVEMENT WORKSHOP
Thursday, April 25
12:30PM-1:45PM in Dance Studio PCA-108
Presented by NVC Dance
Performances by the NVC Repertory Dance Ensemble & guest artist.
Date: Saturday, May 4
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Palmetto Theatre
THINK YOU CAN DANCE? YOU CAN!
Learn about Vista's student-based dance company:
NVC Repertory Dance Ensemble
Directed by Michelle Pietri
Presented by NVC Drama
Location: Palmetto Theatre
Dates: February 29, March 1, 2 and March 7, 8, 9
Time: 7:30pm
Free Admission
HONK! is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also provided by MTI.
www.MTIshows.com
Anton in Show Business
by Jane Martin
Directed by Mellissa Marlowe
Presented by NVC Drama
Location: Black Box Theatre
Dates: April 11, 12, 13 and April 18, 19, 20
Time: 7:30pm
Free Admission
This madcap comedy follows three actresses across the footlights, down the rabbit hole, and into a strangely familiar Wonderland that looks a lot like American theatre – the resemblance is uncanny! As these women pursue their dream of performing Chekhov in Texas, they’re whisked through a maelstrom of “good ideas” that offer unique solutions to the Three Sisters’ need to have life’s deeper purpose revealed. In the tradition of great backstage comedies, Anton in Show Business conveys the joys, pains, and absurdities of “putting on a play” at the turn of the century.
Jack Stone Award for New Music
Presented by NVC Music
FREE ADMISSION
The Jack Stone Award for New Music is a national competition open solely to community college students exploring music composition. While many calls for scores by student composers exist, few opportunities are available specifically for community college students. Because the musical background and training of community college student composers differs from that of composition students at four-year institutions and conservatories, there is a need for career building opportunities that will enable them to achieve creative success and gain national recognition.
Original student compositions will be performed by Adelante Winds.
NVC Instrumental Chamber Ensemble
Directed by Emmanuel Godoy
Date: Monday, November 13
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: Free
Location: Palmetto Theatre
NVC Faculty Performance
Aaron Prado Trio featuring
Guest Artist Nicole Cherry
"Run the Voodoo Down"
Date: Tuesday, April 16
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: Free
Location: Palmetto Theatre
Presented by NVC Music
NVC Concert Choir & Solo Performances
Dream Community: We Shall Walk without Fear
Presented by NVC Music
Directed by Dr. Minkyung Lee
Date: Wednesday, April 17
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Palmetto Theatre
Admission: Free
Dr. Minkyung Lee will conduct the NVC Concert Choir featuring choral masterpieces with the compelling theme of Dream Community: We shall walk without fear. Captivating lyrics will fill every heart with beautiful contemporary hymns and songs beyond the original empirical richness of the work. NVC Concert Choir will harmonize a well-crafted arrangement of A Capella, Salutation by Eriks Esenvalds and Esto Les Digo from Matthew 18 in Spanish. With impressive vocal moments and exquisite lyrics to deliver messages from both Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and prayers from "Psalm 56," NVC Concert Choir will harmonize a well-crafted arrangement of masterfully polished gems including, Father of Light, This is The Dream, and I Will Rise. Glory Day from the opera Gabriel's Daughter exemplifies a message of celebration of the dream community.
Vista Jazz Ensemble
Presented by NVC Music
Directed by Dr. Aaron Prado
Date: Thursday, April 18
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Palmetto Theatre
Admission: Free
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The Palmetto Center for the Arts opened in 2009 as a product of community leadership, vision and unwavering determination to bring fine and performing arts to the Northwest area of San Antonio. The arts complex offers the finest facility and programs to those who join us in celebrating the arts.
The fine and performing arts programs at Northwest Vista College engage students and enrich their skills needed to give life to creative impulses—on stage, in the studio, and in the concert hall. Our emerging artists interact and learn from community professionals and visiting artists from across the country and abroad.
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We believe that the arts have always been and always will be a meaningful force in human life. Northwest Vista College is dedicated to making the arts a living presence within our neighboring communities. Art lovers who support the development of artists help to enrich the human experience.
Our goal is to cultivate the imagination and technical skills of artists who will reinvigorate existing works and create new masterpieces that will grip the heart and thrill the mind. We welcome the diversity that sustains our community and empowers our voice through art and artistry.
For more information
about our events,
call us at 210-486-4527
Auditorium Manager
Daniel Mitchell
210-486-4762
Office: PCA-101