Campus & Facilities

157 Gallery

First floor

PNCA's main student gallery is on the first floor across from the central gathering space of the Atrium. Students can apply to produce exhibitions in this space throughout the year. The space also includes a side gallery that can be blacked out for projections.

Commons and Corner Gallery 1 and Corner Gallery 2

Second floor

PNCA’s central New Commons is the site of PNCA’s annual thesis exhibitions and the First Thursday Pop-Up student exhibitions of student-installed undergraduate works. It has also been the site of the regional Scholastic Student art exhibitions featuring works by exceptional high school students. The New Commons also features two student galleries for undergraduate students’ works.

Atrium

First floor

The central Atrium is an expansive daylit space surrounded by balconies that regularly is installed with student work.

Shipley Collins Mediatheque

First floor

This 170-seat theater, with its flexible seating and capacity for high-end lighting, sound, and technology, is perfect for performance, projection, installation works, and screenings. The space includes a green room and sound booth.

Mezzanine East

This space hosts departmental exhibitions of exceptional student works.

M31

Mezzanine

This small, contained project space is for student solo exhibitions.

Holt Gallery

Room 207 off the Commons

Situated off the Commons the Dave Holt Project Space hosts exhibitions by undergraduate and graduate students.

Design Corridor

Second floor, West

This skylit gallery hosts exhibitions and events for the MFA in Collaborative Design program, the MFA in Print Media, and the Communication Design and Illustration undergraduate programs.

B10

Room B10, Basement, East

B10 hosts student-curated exhibitions of works by undergraduate students as well as thesis exhibitions.

Elevator Galleries 1 & 2

Students have transformed the historic elevators of PNCA’s Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design into moving galleries for student work.

Tiny Thumb

Library, First floor

A student-initiated project, now curated by Library Staff, the Tiny Thumb Student Gallery presents exhibitions of work by current students and rotates monthly. Tiny Thumb is located just inside the front doors of PNCA's Albert Solheim Library.

Focus Week

During Focus Week our students install their thesis works throughout the campus, including the galleries of PNCA's Center for Contemporary Art & Culture.

511 Gallery PNCA's main gallery, the 511 Gallery has featured exhibitions by Cauleen Smith, Wangechi Mutu, David Horvitz, and James Rosenquist, as well as the group exhibition Alien She.

Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Lab This expansive space has hosted exhibitions of work by Bruce Nauman, faculty emeritus Christy Wyckoff, student thesis exhibitions, the Faculty/Alumni Exhibition, an exhibition of works by residents of PNCA’s Leland Iron Works Residency, and the Annual Student Holiday Art Sale.