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PNCA 2020 Commencement Speeches
PNCA presents the speakers from our 2020 virtual commencement ceremony, featuring Mikai Arion, BFA Intermedia 2020; Anthony Hudson, Intermedia 2013; and Simone Fischer, MFA Visual Studies 2020.
An Open Letter to the PNCA Family
Ahmaud Arbery. George Floyd. Botham Jean. Atatiana Jefferson. Eric Reason. Breonna Taylor.
Say their names.
PNCA’s BFA Thesis Portfolios Featured in Oregon ArtsWatch
A huge thank you to Oregon ArtsWatch for featuring PNCA’s virtual BFA thesis portfolios in their roundup of how local colleges and universities pivoted and adapted in order to highlight the works of their students in a socially distanced world.
PNCA students’ Panel Project joins the Pearl District’s efforts to protect windows and inspire hope
Following weeks of organizing and painting, students at PNCA launched the first phase of the Panel Project in mid-May, with the help of our wonderful facilities team and support from Blick Art Materials Portland.
In the transition to online learning, Emily Ginsburg’s class found a silver lining
For PNCA Chair of Media Arts Emily Ginsburg, she and many students in her Intermedia Department Theory and Practice class, “Art and the Everyday,” found the shift to remote learning to be a timely complement to an unprecedented upheaval of daily life.
Remembering Arlene Schnitzer
It is with heartfelt respect and admiration that Pacific Northwest College of Art remembers Arlene Schnitzer, who died on April 4, 2020 at the age of 91. A dynamic and powerful, yet quiet and modest voice in Portland’s cultural ethos, her philanthropic legacy has influenced generations of cultural and civic leaders and transformed the artistic landscape of Portland.
CCAC's The Unknown Artist Reviewed in Oregon ArtsWatch and Art in America
A big thank you to both Oregon ArtsWatch and Art in America for their reviews of The Unknown Artist exhibition at PNCA’s Center for Contemporary Art and Culture.
Congratulations to the 2020 McGeady Fund Awardees!
Mar 02, 2020
PNCA is pleased to announce the 2020 recipients of the McGeady Faculty Development Grants. Out of a strong field of applicants, Phoenix McNamara (Adult Program Manager, CE; Assistant Professor, Illustration) and Carl Diehl (Assistant Professor in Creative Writing, Foundation and Video + Sound) have been selected as this year’s winners.
MFA Applied Craft + Design students find inspiration in Joshua Tree
Students in the MFA in Applied Craft + Design annually travel to Joshua Tree, CA for inspiration and exploration
Lucy Cotter's Reclaiming Artistic Research
Artist, curator, and academic, Cotter’s new book asks how art knows: how artistic thinking develops through artistic processes and takes shape in artworks.
Michael Lazarus on panel at Portland Art Museum
Lazarus participates in panel on Portland Art and Learning Studios where he is currently artist in residence.
Alumna Elizabeth Malaska Artist Talk
Russo Lee Gallery presents an artist talk with MFA in Visual Studies alumna Elizabeth Malaska discussing the work in her current exhibition Of Myth or of Monday.
Faculty member Adam Arnold profiled in Business Journal
Tailor and fashion designer Arnold is called "last of an era, but first among equals"
Grad students attend Design After conference in Bogotá
Students in the MFA in Collaborative Design and MA in Design Systems programs connected with fellow academics at this Cumulus-sponsored conference on key topics in 21st century design
Ryan Bubnis completes San Jose mural commission
Assistant Professor Ryan Bubnis has just completed a mural at the Great Oaks Park Skatepark in San Jose, California, commissioned as part of POW! WOW! San Jose
ArtsWatch features Textile Symposium
Great report on recent Textile Connections Symposium “Textiles & Culture: Past, Present, and Future”
V Maldonado in two major Oregon Exhibitions
V. Maldonado has a solo exhibition, Excerpts from a Book I'll Never Write, at the Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University on view through December 14. They are also included in Resistance as Power, a group exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, through February 23.
Portland Artist Museum Artist Talks Series features Alumni
The next three monthly Artist Talks at the Portland Art Museum feature MFA in Visual Studies alumni
Faculty member Kristan Kennedy appointed to Warhol Foundation Board
Kennedy is an artist and Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)
RAW! Reed Arts Week features PNCA faculty and alumni
Exhibitions by V Maldonado, Laura Camila Medina, and Samantha Wall are highlights of this annual event at our neighbor college
Studio visit with alumnus Duane Zaloudek '56
Inspiring interview capturing Zaloudek's inspirations, early path, and long career
Terry Blas '10 graphic novel picked up for new imprint Surely Books
NY Times reports that Blas' new graphic novel with Claudia Guirre will be among first published on new imprint highlighting works by LGBTQIA artists and writers.
Macarena Gómez-Barris and CA Conrad to headline Graduate Symposium on Climate Justice
Mark your calendar for the 2019 Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Symposium: Art + Environmental Justice November 22 and 23, 2019.
Demian DinéYazhi´ selected for 2020 Sydney Biennial
Big congratulations to alum DinéYazhi´ '13 who was selected along with their project R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment, which is dedicated to education, perseverance, and evolution of Indigenous art and culture.
Yunker and Moseley Works Featured in Film Festival
Kathryn Moseley and Otto Yunker have both been selected for the Gateway Film Festival
Stephen Slappe unearths vintage Museum Art School promo video
Video + Sound Department Head Stephen Slappe unearths and digitizes a vintage promotional video from the Museum Art School on his Dead Media Hour YouTube channel.
Alumnus Taka Yamamoto's New Performances and Commissions
The MFA Visual Studies alumnus debuts new performance in Seattle and gets new commission from Portland Art Museum, supported by Oregon Community Foundation Creative Heights Grant