The Arts | Chandler Gilbert Community College

Embracing the Arts

Chandler-Gilbert values and supports the Arts as a window of self discovery. When students develop critical-thinking and creative problem-solving skills through art, they improve their class performance, and enhance their lives. We offer a diverse Arts program that creates learning opportunities for students, and a shared cultural experience that enriches our community.

Art History

In Art History classes students explore art, images, and objects and their historical and cultural impact while building skills in analysis and evaluation.

Ceramics

Working in one of the finest ceramics studios in the East Valley, students develop ceramic and critical thinking skills while exploring their imagination and developing their artistic style.

Dance

With live performance opportunities throughout the year, students learn to practice dance as an art form, with emphasis on principles of movement and choreography in a variety of dance styles.

Digital Arts

Students prepare for advanced studies in computer art and illustration by cultivating foundational drawing and drafting skills that develop artistic proficiency in design and composition.

Drawing & Painting

Art instruction for personal enrichment and employment opportunities, emphasizing creative problem-solving, design and composition, storyboarding, illustration, painting, and comics and sequential art.

Music

Voice and Instrumental Majors study theory and musicianship in class and private instruction, with audition and performance opportunities for choral groups and vocal ensembles, as well as CGCC bands, orchestras, and jazz combos.

Musical Theatre

Studies in Musical Theatre include surveys in American music, Broadway musicals and solos, diction for singers, and participation in stage productions and Musical Theatre Workshops

Photography

Focusing on digital photography, courses expose students to multiple aspects of digital imagery, including color and composition, lighting effects, and photo-imaging software.

Theatre

As the home of a vibrant and diverse theatre community invested in artistic exploration and the collaborative process, CGCC offers classes in acting, directing, makeup and stagecraft.

The Arnette Scott Ward Performing Arts Center (PAC)

Our state-of-the-art performance center on the Pecos Campus sets the stage for music, theatre and dance at CGCC. Seating 299 people, the sleek space also houses costuming and makeup areas, dressing rooms, faculty offices, classrooms and a full-scale set-building shop. Catch live performances here throughout the year.

Past Events Gallery

Our talented students and inspired instructors create and showcase their work in the Performing and Visual Arts throughout the academic year. Tour through these images of past concerts, stage productions, gallery showings and arts events to get a taste of the incredible creativity on display at Chandler-Gilbert.

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