Alumni and Opportunities

Hayashi Wilder is an artist and curator from rural South Carolina, working in Portland, OR as the Art Bridges Curatorial Project Coordinator at the Portland Art Museum and the curator for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park Enhancement Project in Corvallis, OR. A 2019 Ellen Battel Stoekel Fellow at Yale University’s Norfolk School of Art and 2020 Object Lab Fellow at the Chipstone Foundation, Hayashi has also held positions in a variety of fields aligned with community outreach and social services including serving as a Multicultural Advocate and Outreach Specialist, an LGBTQAI+ and Racial Justice Organizer, and an restorative justice Art Facilitator for incarcerated youth. Hayashi has supported and curated a series of exhibitions, most notably, Milwaukee Women’s Art Library, Black Artists of Oregon, Adriene Cruz: Power Prayer for the Community, and To Gather Your Leaving: Themes of Diasporic Experiences in the Northwest. As an artist, her achievements include the McClure-Scanlin Visual Artist Residency Award at Piedmont College, an Emerging Artist Residency at Franconia Sculpture Park, and a Merit Award from Ox-bow School of Art. She is also an alumni of the Museum Professional Seminar Cohort at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Professional Alliance for Curators of Color Cohort at the Association of Art Museum Curators. She received an MA in Critical Studies and MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and BFA in New Studio Practice from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.

Eileen Isagon Skyers is an artist, writer, and curator whose work centers digital art and culture. She has nearly a decade of experience producing online exhibitions and digital programming at institutions including David Zwirner, Rhizome, the New Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has served as a feature editor for Pioneer Works and an advisor to The Kitchen's L.A.B. Research Residency, co-founded the New York art space HOUSING, and was co-founder and CCO of the cultural fund Gemma. She holds a graduate degree in Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement from NYU and is currently Head of Growth & Marketing at Fuser. Skyers's moving image work has been exhibited in the US, UK, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Mexico. Her first book, Vanishing Acts (LINK Editions, 2015), examined network-based art practices, and her writing has appeared in Frieze, Hyperallergic, Outland, and Dirt. In 2023 she delivered a TED talk, "In the age of AI art, what can originality look like?"

Sean Yeager was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Science and Nature Writing at Kenyon College. Their data-driven visualizations of narratological temporal structures received the Paul Fourtier Prize for best paper by an emerging scholar at the 2019 Digital Humanities Conference. Their research on neurodivergent reading practices received honorable mention for the Nadal Prize at the 2022 International Conference on Narrative, and their theorization of autistic temporalities received honorable mention for the Bruns Prize at the 2024 meeting of the Society for Literature, Arts, and the Sciences. Sean studies contemporary literature through the lenses of narrative theory, digital humanities, and disability studies.

Julian Adoff is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, concentrating in Central and Eastern European Studies. His research examines Habsburg-born artists and their role in shaping national identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, drawing on critical theory, Jewish studies, and the history of graphic design to unsettle Western European frameworks and center-periphery models. He maintains deeply intertwined research and studio practices. His work has appeared in the Belvedere Research Journal and The Routledge Companion to Marxisms in Art History, with a forthcoming chapter in Crossing Borders, a volume on the internationalism of Central European women artists and designers. He has held a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award and affiliations with the Mucha Foundation, Masaryk University's Centre for Modern Art & Theory, and Jagiellonian University's Institute of Art History. He was the first dual-degree student to graduate from PNCA, earning an MA in Critical Studies and an MFA in Visual Studies in 2019.