PNCA Faculty & Mentors

Garrick Imatani

Chair of MFA Visual Studies

Garrick Imatani is an artist who uses performance, functional objects, or implied physical interaction to think through positionality and the interconnected relations between community, state projects, and family. Working across sculpture, photography, video, drawing, and installation, many of his projects combine absurd, nuanced, and speculative approaches to encountered research, experience, and imagination.

Yaelle Amir

Dylan J Beck

Teresa Christiansen

Department Head of Photography; Director of Academic Technology; Associate Professor

Department Head of Sculpture; Associate Professor

Derek Franklin

Emily Ginsburg

Professor, Head of Intermedia & BFA Program Chair

Matthew Letzelter

MFA Chair, Print Media; Associate Professor

Jeremy Okai-Davis

Ryan Pierce

Program Chair, Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies

Jay Ponteri

Associate Professor, Director, Low Res Creative Writing;

Michelle Ross

Associate Professor & Interim Department Head of Painting

BFA Co-Chair, Foundation

Dao Strom

Taravat Talepasand

garima thakur

Sharita Towne

Patricia Vázquez Gómez

Vo Vo

Takahiro Yamamoto

Mentorship

One-on-One Mentorship

Every semester, each student is thoughtfully paired with an experienced professional artist who will regularly meet with each student and act as a mentor. This one-on-one relationship fosters a highly customized and individualized educational experience. The mentor-based experience encourages self-disciplined and boldly experimental creative practice, while supporting the individual student’s needs.

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Studio Visit

Studio Visit

Class Critique

Class Critique

Get in touch

Reach out to Garrick Imatani, Chair of Visual Studies, to schedule a time to talk.
gimatani@willamette.edu

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