Ruth Noack Lecture

June 15, 2021

Headshot of Ruth Noack

Ruth Noack is based in Berlin and Washington DC. Noack is an author, art critic, university lecturer and exhibition maker since the 1990s, trained as a visual artist and art historian.

Ruth Noack was curator of documenta 12 (2007) and is currently developing a new cultural center for Whitman-Walker Health in Washington DC. She was Head of the Curating Contemporary Art Program, Royal College of Art, London in 2012-13, Noack also acted as Research Leader for the EU-project MeLa - European Museums in an age of migrations. She was Å aloun professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (2013-14), lead the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course in 2014 and teaches at International Summer Academy in Salzburg (2017 and 2018). Since 2015, she is responsible for one of the Dutch Art Institute's Roaming Academy trajectories.

This event is part of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Summer Lecture Series. Join us Tuesday afternoons in June and July 2021 for conversations on art and ideas.

Summer 2021 lectures and events, Tuesdays at 1:30pm PST unless otherwise noted

June 15, Young Chung

June 22, Natalie Ball

June 29, Ruth Noack

July 2, Friday at 4:00pm Art and Economics Roundtable discussion 

With: Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Minerva Cuevas, Nicholas Brown, and Keyna Eleison 

July 6, Keyna Eleison 

July 15, Chloë Bass

July 20, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz

July 27 Minerva Cuevas

PNCA’s Low-Residency MFA is organized to be an innovative hybrid of an MFA degree and an artist residency. The low-residency program has a longer degree-completion times (3 years), flexible schedules, intensive residency periods, lower cost of attendance, and the distance-learning component, which does not require students to permanently relocate. Furthermore, the program is interdisciplinary, offering artists of all media and stages of their development the opportunity to refine their vision