Low Residency Visual Studies

Biquini Wax EPS Lecture, Wednesday, July 1 at 6pm.

This event is part of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Summer 2020 Lecture Series. Join us Wednesday nights in July 2020 for conversations on art and ideas.

Participate via Zoom or watch live streaming on our PNCA Live YouTube channel

Ruth Noack lecture, Wednesday, June 24 at 6pm.

This event is part of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Summer 2020 Lecture Series. Join us Wednesday nights in June and July 2020 for conversations on art and ideas. Participate via Zoom or watch live streaming on our PNCA Live YouTube channel

Miguel A López Lecture, Wednesday, June 17 at 6pm.

Kalaija Mallery: Student profile

Kalaija Mallery will be graduating Summer 2020 and she is well on her way to being an important voice in the national arts community.

Mallery is Manager of The Luminary, a non-profit contemporary art center in St. Louis. Mallery connected with The Luminary while the center's co-founder James McAnally was a Visiting Artist for the Low-Res winter intensive. Mallery is continuing the practice of managing an arts institution with a holistic approach

Summer Lecture Series

The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies is pleased to announce our Summer Lecture series will run as scheduled either in person or online!

Join us for conversations on art and ideas. Visiting Faculty give a public talk Wednesdays, at 6pm from June 17 to July 29, 2020 as part of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Summer Lecture Series. These events are free and open to the public.

Mentor Highlight: YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (yhchang.com) is Young- hae Chang (Korea) and Marc Voge (USA). Based in Seoul, they have written their signature animated texts set to their own music in 26 languages and shown many of them at some of the major art institutions in the world.

Alumni Highlight: Marie Conner

While at PNCA, Low-Residency MFA Alumni ’19 Marie Conner’s artwork and research focused on disability theory, feminism, and how art can help us see, understand and connect with each other. That investigation continues to fuel her work

Mentor Highlight: Michael Jones McKean

McKean is currently an Associate Professor in the Sculpture + Extended Media Department at Virginia Commonwealth University where he has taught since 2006 and is Co-Director of ASMBLY based in New York City

Mentor Highlight: Jessica Jackson Hutchins

Jessica Jackson Hutchins lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Hutchins’ expressive and intuitive studio practice produces dynamic sculptural installations, collages, paintings, and large-scale ceramics, all hybrid juxtapositions of the handmade.

Shadows are to Shade, Installation detail of a trench, art by Hewitt

Mentor Highlight: Corin Hewitt

Corin Hewitt’s installations, performances, sculptures, photographs, and videos investigate relationships within architecture and domestic life. Hewitt received his BA from Oberlin College and his MFA from Bard College. He is an Associate Professor and Graduate Director of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Angled photoshot of three books: The Art of Loving, Keywords, Art as Experience

The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies is pleased to announce our Summer 2020 Visiting Faculty!

This summer we will be hosting: Kyung Me, Biquini Wax EPS, Miguel A. López, Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour, Maricel Alvarez, and Ruth Noack.

Entre (Between), 2020, Borrowed chairs and doors stacked into an arch

Mentor Highlight: Alberto Aguilar

"Through understanding we will gain more questions. Through new questions we will create new actions " - Alberto Aguilar on mentoring

Alumni Highlight: Vanessa Briones

In less than a year after completing her graduate degree, Vanessa Briones (MFA 19’) has established herself as an up-and-coming creative voice in the Portland art community.