The mission of The Galleries at PCC is to present high-caliber exhibitions of local contemporary visual artists and to provide an opportunity for students to view and discuss challenging works, interact with artists and arts professionals, and have their art exhibited to professional standards.

PCC will receive a grant to present two Artist-in-Residence exhibitions at the PCC Boone Family Art Gallery featuring artists April Bey in Spring 2024 and Rodrigo Valenzuela in Fall 2024, along with a Guest Lecture Series. April Bey’s upcoming exhibition is a continuation of the conceptual exploration of Atlantica, her speculative AfroFuturist nation that extrapolates cultural ideas of a liberated space-faring culture rooted in Caribbean culture.

For Valenzuela’s exhibition entitled Garabatos, he proposes to make a new series of photographs of his signature sculptural environments, as well as abstracted sculptural forms based on hand gestures and words that are used by working people to express unfairness, anger, and justice. Atlantica will run March 4-May 4, 2024 and Garbatos will run October 7-November 22, 2024.