Applied Craft and Design

Recent MFA AC+D Graduate, Molly Ryan, was awarded a scholarship to go to Anderson Ranch this summer!

This summer, second year MFA AC+D student, Eli West, will be running the Meadow Arts Place second annual exhibition and residency program in Denver, Colorado!

Kara Cassidy Hall, a current AC+D second-year, is spending time this summer as an artist-in-resident at East Creek Art, a center for ceramics education!

This summer AC+D second year, Linda Heidvogel, has spent a portion of the summer in Joshua Tree, CA, as Yucca Valley Material Labs as their first intern!!

Recent AC+D Graduate, Brittany Rudolf, will soon be embarking on a month-long Wide Open Studios trip with Signal Fire to expand her studio practice into the great outdoors!

This summer the MFA AC+D program will move into PNCA's new Glass Building!

We had an amazing time last weekend at our Professional Development Retreat!!!

This May the First Year MFA Candidates are headed to Rockaway Beach, OR for a weekend retreat focused on professional development and sustaining a life-long creative practice!

Join us May 6-9, to hear the Class of 2019's Oral Defenses!

We’re so excited to announce Mel McKinley (MFA AC+D '18), as a recent Artist-in-Residence at Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, MT!

Join us May 10th for the Opening Reception of I've Gone Out To Find Myself..., the MFA AC+D Class of 2019's Practicum Exhibition!

The 2020 MFA in Applied Craft + Design cohort is excited to present the outcome of a year of hard work, trial and error, and exploration.

MFA AC+D is participating in Design Week Portland by hosting an amazing pop-up studio sale and open house!

Here's a few things we're excited about for Design Week Portland 2019!

Join the MFA AC+D program April 3, 2019 at 6:30pm to hear author, curator, and educator Ezra Shales speak about his work!

This Wednesday, March 20, at 6pm, join MFA AC+D's Textile Circle club for a film screening and discussion of Notebooks On Cities and Clothes!

MUDLAND and MFA AC+D are teaming up to create a day of art, design, and play for children ages 3-99!

Join MFA AC+D for a screening of SuperDesign, a film highlighting key members of the Italian Radical Design Movement! The film will be introduced by internationally renowned designer, Matt Olson, with a Q & A directly following the film featuring Andee Hess, Aleksandra Pollner, Matt Olson, and Evan Snyderman.

MFA AC+D's pop-up gallery, Furthermore, will present work by Ryan Burghard, Mario Gallucci, and Kelly Elizabeth Tivnan in their latest exhibition, Candid!

Join the MFA AC+D program March 6th, at 6:30pm to hear artist Matt Olson speak about his work!

MFA AC+D is excited to host world-renowned designer Tom Dixon with special guests Teenage Engineering as part of the Fat America Tour!

Second year MFA AC+D Candidate, Brittany Rudolf's wearable work is featured in this month's issue of Dismantle Magazine!

Listen to MFA AC+D Studio Fellow Michael Rutledge's keynote lecture at the Global Confederation of Forensic Musicologists!

Join the MFA AC+D program January 30th, at 6:30pm to hear artist Wendy Red Star speak about her work!

Four MFA AC+D Candidates will be headed to Joshua Tree, CA over the winter break to complete a Design Build project in collaboration with Yucca Valley Material Lab!