Sculpture

PNCA instructor of film photography, Lauren Masterson, helped co-found the Portland Darkroom, a public darkroom dedicated to keeping film photography alive and accessible in Portland, Oregon. Read More ⟶
 

Congratulations to Alexis Fenn BFA Illustration '19 on winning the 2017/18 Science in Studio Award. 

Alumna Sarah Farahat ('08 Intermedia) has been selected by a TriMet advisory committee to create a memorial to honor the victims and survivors of a deadly 2017 knife attack aboard a MAX train.

On the occasion of her solo exhibition, Osseous, at 77 Mulberry, alumna Carly Mandel '15 is interviewed by Kerry Doran for Bomb magazine. 

Congratulations to Intermedia alumnus Anthony Hudson who was awarded a $20,000 Fellowship through the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation.

Portland Monthly has just published as article about our new MA in Design Systems, Portland's Brand-New Design Program for Busy People. 

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

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

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

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. 

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.

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!

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!

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

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. 

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. 

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.

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

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. 

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.

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.  

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

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

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.

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. 

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." 

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