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Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) Print Making Lab on our main campus with offset presses, letterpress, and other printmaking equipment and facilities.

Printmaking in the Digital Age

Jan 25, 2018

Congratulations to faculty members who have been awarded Faculty Professional Development Funds by the Personnel & Tenure Committee.

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Faculty Awarded Professional Development Funds

Congratulations to faculty members who have been awarded Faculty Professional Development Funds by the Personnel & Tenure Committee. 

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MK Guth interviewed by April Baer for State of Wonder on OPB

Two Exhibitions and an Interview: MK Guth

Associate Professor MK Guth, whose work considers the rituals and sites of social interaction, has two exhibitions currently on view.

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Designing for Mixed Reality Launches

Today marks the launch of a new course, Designing for Mixed Reality, offered online in partnership with Kadenze, an online platform for education in the fields of art and creative technology. 

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Professor in OPB story on art and community responses to racism

PNCA professor Victor Maldonado is featured alongside muralist Alex Chiu in a story on OPB about the mural Chiu has painted on 82nd Avenue, a story that is equally hard and hopeful.

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Jenna Reineking MFA ‘17 fundraises for her mobile art classroom, Tumblewheel Studios.

BRAVO ALUMNI - JANUARY 2018

What's PNCA alumni been up to? Here are a few updates on folks making moves in their art communities: from New York Times publishings, to notable exhibitions in Miami and Iceland, to educational art fundraising. PNCA alumni is always proud of its legacy!

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Thank You For Making the 2018 Portland National Portfolio Day Great!

On Sunday, January, 7 2018, PNCA hosted the Portland National Portfolio Day. With over 200 attendees, we'd like to thank everyone for making this an amazing event!

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Congratulations to the Inaugural Class of Our PNCA/PENSOLE Design Intensive!

PNCA is excited to congratulate the Fall 2017 graduating class of our new PNCA | PENSOLE Design Intensive!

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Design for a Difference: PNCA launches new MA in Design Systems

New for fall 2018, this new MA and its sister program, the MFA in Collaborative Design, are two innovative programs for hybrid designers--strategists, ecologists, systems thinkers, sociologists, neuroscientists, attorneys, and technologists who are committed to using design to make a difference in the world. 

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MFA in Collaborative Design project WORTH

MFA in Collaborative Design and MA in Design Systems Open House

The MFA Collaborative Design hosts Open Studios on Thursday, December 7, and opens PNCA's new SHARE Space, a project by MFA Collaborative Design and MA Design Systems students. Students, faculty, staff, and alumni welcome the public for drinks, snacks, and tours of the Collaborative Design studios throughout the evening. 

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An Evening in Retrospect: A Screening of The Work From Artist Rose Bond

We'd like to congratulate Rose Bond, lead of PNCA's Animated Arts program and Foundations instructor, on her upcoming retrospective screening at the NW Film Center on December 7, 2018, 7:00pm, at the Portland Art Museum's Whitsell Auditorium.

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MFA Applied Craft + Design Candidate Jason Rens Awarded the Public Art + Land Use Project

Congratulations to MFA Applied Craft + Design candidate Jason Rens on being awarded the Public Art + Land Use Project.

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Alumni, Faculty, and Students in Cincinnati Exhibition

Founding Chair of PNCA's MFA in VIsual Studies, MK Guth, has curated an exhibition titled Replacing Place at Anytime Dept in Cincinnati November 10—December 4, 2017. 

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Let Dreams Soar by Adam Brock Ciresi

Bravo Alumni - October 2017

PNCA alumni do amazing things. You launch new projects investigating the intersection between humor and contemporary art. You believe so strongly that art and design can make a difference that you set up a website to connect designers to opportunities and organizations with missions you can get behind. You're brave and bold enough to put your work in front of strangers. And you're making waves every day in your communities and across the country.

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MFA AC+D At SOFA Chicago

Heidi Schwegler, MFA in Applied Craft + Design Chair, curates an exhibition of AC+D students and mentors past and present to be exhibited at The Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design (SOFA) Fair in Chicago on November 2-5, 2017.  

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Pamela Guest with Steven Hillenburg and Rose Bond

Pamela Guest Awarded Princess Grace Foundation Steven Hillenburg Scholarship in Animation

Animated Arts major, Pamela Guest awarded Princess Grace Foundation’s Steven Hillenburg Scholarship in Animation

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Alison Saar, “Muddy Water,” monotype/Courtesy of Paul Mullowney via Oregon ArtsWatch

Laurel Reed Pavic on Alison Saar

Lead Faculty of Art History at PNCA, Laurel Reed Pavic, reviews Alison Saar's exhibition Crepuscular Blue for Oregon ArtsWatch.

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Profile image of Arvie Smith

PNCA Alumnus and Professor Emeritus Honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award

We'd like to extend our congratulations to PNCA alumnus and Professor Emeritus Arvie Smith for receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the newly relaunched 2017 Governor’s Arts Awards.

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Graduate Symposium: Visualizing Resistance: Examining the Social Function of Art and Design

The six programs of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art present the fall 2017 Graduate Symposium, "Visualizing Resistance: Examining the Social Functions of Art and Design," October 5 to 7, 2017. 

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"Indigo Blue (Sea Island Pure)" (2016), intaglio on hand-dyed indigo sugar sacks, courtesy of Jordan D. Schnitzer and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

Unnervingly Timely, Alison Saar’s Crepuscular Blue at CCA&C

The Oregonian reviews Alison Saar's new exhibition Crepuscular Blue at PNCA's Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, calling Muddy Water one of three new prints for the show, "unnervingly timely." 

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Make+Think+Code Workshops

Make+Think+Code, PNCA's center for art and technolgoy, presents a new series of workshops that are open to the public.

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Spring ‘17 Advanced Graphic Novel Class Celebrates the Release of Their Comic Anthology

PNCA's Advanced Graphic Novel class of spring 2017 and instructor, Jonathan Hill, celebrate the release of their 180 page graphic novel anthology after 4 months of production, and a successful Kickstarter campaign that fully funded its production.

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Observing Design Through Its Decay with Heidi Schwegler at Design Museum Mornings

Renowned artist and Chair of PNCA's MFA Applied Craft + Design program, offered joined with OCAC, Professor Heidi Schwegler recently spoke at Design Museum Mornings about her process professionally and how she inspires her students to do the same.

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Olivia Hardwood Wins Oconomowoc Festival John Rawlins Memorial Scholarship

Student Olivia Harwood '21 is the first recipient of the Oconomowoc Festival of the Arts John Rawlins Memorial Scholarship.

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The Poetry of Process With PNCA Alumni and Lead Creative Matthew Korbel-Bowers

Society6's recent artist feature spotlights PNCA alumni and Lead Creative, Matthew Korbel-Bowers.

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Congratulations to PNCA alumni and 3D Studio Manager, Nick Patton

Nick's illustrations were comissioned for a book that recently won second place in the Colorado Independent Publishers Association International Award competition.

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Kim-Ja Lee (Visual Studies '17), At the intersection of time and space, 2017. Photo: Mario Gallucci '14. Courtesy of PNCA.

2017-18 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) brings provocative and pivotal thinkers, designers, and artists from all over the country to Portland for the 2017–18 PNCA Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

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