The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts has served both students and the local community with quality arts education, exhibits, and programs for more than thirty years. It has established a national reputation for its top-notch exhibitions, visiting artist workshops, permanent collection, and prize-winning faculty, providing an annual schedule of changing exhibitions, visiting artists, and events throughout the year.

The Gordon Community Art Center is a place for artists and art lovers to come together with imagination, intelligence, and compassion. The Gordon Community Art Center offers a studio for black box theatre performances and rehearsals, a music room for vocal and instrumental lessons, a library of scripts and scores, and more.

The Choral Society of Pensacola, a staple in the arts community, exemplifies the city’s history of support for the fine arts. The story of the people who created and sustained the Choral Society of Pensacola enlightens the view of how and why this expression of music, passionately supported then, continues today.

First City Art Center (FCAC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit art center engaging the Pensacola community through a broad range of workshops, classes, studio spaces, gallery exhibits, fundraising events, summer camp, youth art programs, outreach programs, and field trips. Serving approximately ten thousand adults and children each year, First City Art Center offers classes and workshops in glass blowing, glass bead making, stained glass, sculpture, pottery on the wheel, hand-built pottery, drawing, painting, and various other mediums.

This picturesque park, located behind the Pensacola Museum of History, opened in 2019 and is the largest venue space at the Historic Trust. Throughout the year, visitors can stroll through “art cubes” featuring a rotation of art produced by local artists, as well as other artful pop-ups and concerts.

Pensacola’s iconic Palafox Street is the pulse of the Historic Downtown district. Home to several museums and historic sites, the America’s First Settlement Trail, locally owned shops, restaurants and breweries, galleries, hotels, and monthly and weekly events like Gallery Night and Palafox Market, there is much for visitors to see and explore during a “walk down the street.”

The Saenger Theatre was built in 1925, originally for Vaudeville and Silent Movies. Today, visitors and patrons of the arts can experience performances by the Pensacola Symphony, Ballet Pensacola, the Pensacola Opera, the Pensacola Children’s Chorus, and high-caliber Broadway touring shows and artists. The Saenger Theatre is also listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Pensacola Little Theatre is a nonprofit community theatre that has been providing diverse theatrical experiences in Northwest Florida since 1936. Located inside of the Clark Family Cultural Center, here visitors will find musicals, comedies, dramas, and children’s shows; adult and youth classes in acting and other theatre skills; a variety of volunteer opportunities; thrilling, mission-based fundraisers; and a family atmosphere open to everyone who walks through their doors. The theatre’s ultimate mission is to use the theatrical experience to enhance the cultural agenda of the Pensacola community and to develop future generations of performers and patrons of the arts. The Cultural Center is also home to Ballet Pensacola, Liberty Church, the West Florida Literary Federation, and countless community events throughout the year.

Recently celebrating its 70th Anniversary, the Pensacola Museum of Art presents engaging cross-disciplinary exhibitions, offers educational programming, and stewards a growing collection of modern and contemporary art of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. The museum aims to promote the understanding and appreciation of art and ideas to audiences in the Northwest Florida region and beyond. They endeavor to create dialogue between university and community audiences by engendering experiences of joy, discovery, and creativity through diverse perspectives and the transdisciplinary interactions of art, culture, the humanities, science, and technology.