Print Media
2023 National Portfolio Day Hosted at PNCA
Launch your future in art and design! Visit with counselors, admissions team members, and faculty from art and design schools for a portfolio review before applying to colleges or universities.
PNCA Graduate Symposium: Art + Social Consciousness
PNCA welcomes the Portland community to participate in this year’s Graduate Symposium with keynote speakers featuring: Nina Elder + vanessa german!
Amanda Ross-Ho and Catherine Taft, in conversation, hosted by PNCA & ILY2
In conjunction with Amanda Ross-Ho's solo exhibition, ICE TIME, currently on view at ILY2, the conversation will take place Monday, October 16, 2023 at 6:30pm in PNCA's Shipley Collins Mediatheque. The gallery will be open for special viewing hours just prior to the conversation, from 5:00-6:00pm on October 16 at 925 NW Flanders St, Portland.
The exhibition draws upon Ross-Ho's formative years as a competitive and theatrical figure skater in the 80s and 90s. Using this as a formal departure point and a tracking device, ICE TIME outlines parallels between the variable logics of arenas that present, record, accumulate, and erase gestures (rink, table top, studio, gallery). Skins, surfaces, and corporeal forms are explored for their response to pressurized and formulaic systems of training and inscription. The body is invoked as a tool, a material, a witness, and a unit of collateral damage.
Few have a better perspective on Ross-Ho’s thinking about her practice than Taft, her longtime friend and colleague. In 2024, the Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, Netherlands will publish a ten-year career monograph on Ross-Ho’s practice, featuring a key essay by Taft.
Taft and Ross-Ho will address the forms and figures embedded in ICE TIME within the larger context of her practice, the entangled mediums of photography and sculpture, experimental archives, and the idiosyncratic disciplines of organized artistic sports–of which both have personal experience.
Amanda Ross-Ho’s method synthesizes autobiography and anthropology, sentimentality and clinical forensics. She considers memory and its reproduction through a highly specific material archive. The formal results are evocative sculptures, abstract translations of these physical artifacts. Ross-Ho has written about producing “alternative archives of anomalous memory.” Her work has been exhibited widely, in the Whitney Biennial, at the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, The Walker Art Center, the Bonner Kunstverein, and the Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art.
Catherine Taft is deputy director and curator at LAXART. Previously, she was associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she co-organized the inaugural show of its new building, “America is Hard to See” (2015) and curatorial associate in the department of architecture and contemporary art at the Getty Research Institute where she worked on the exhibitions and publications, “Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1970” (2011) and "California Video" (2008). Her writing appears regularly in publications like Artforum, Cura, and Mousse, and she has contributed to monographs on artists including Matthew Barney, Carroll Dunham, Elliot Hundley, Yayoi Kusama, and Sterling Ruby. Taft is currently working on a survey of ecofeminist art (Fall 2024) for which she was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Research Fellowship. She is a 2021 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow and serves as visiting faculty at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
ICE TIME, Amanda Ross-Ho's solo exhibition, is on view at ILY2 through October 28th.
View the full PNCA Lecture Series and learn more about PNCA's MFA in Visual Studies on PNCA's website.
This event will be in-person in PNCA's Shipley-Collins Mediatheque and livestreamed on PNCA Live Video
Free + Open to the Public
Pacific Northwest College of Art, 511 NW Broadway, Portland OR
MFA Open Studios: November 2nd + 18th
The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies welcomes the Portland community to see what our MFA students have been making!
October First Thursday at PNCA + North Park Blocks - 10/05/23
The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art is excited to invite the public to the October First Thursday Art Walk in the North Park Blocks for a series of exhibition openings, performances, live music, drop-in activities and refreshments!
Graduate Lecture Series: Allison Glenn
Join us for the latest lecture series event! Hear from writer and curator, Allison Glenn!
Talk available via Zoom, Wednesday - August 2nd at 6pm
Presented by PNCA's Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies
Graduate Lecture Series: Zarouhie Abdalian
Artist talk
Wednesday, July 12th, 6:00 pm Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)
511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR
Free and Open to the Public
Art Walk Re-Cap with Artist Derek Franklin
Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies MFA students visited Elizabeth Leach Gallery for Derek Franklin's solo exhibition "Grief is on my Calendar Everyday at 2:00PM" to chat about Franklin's thoughts on theatre, grief, and bread people.
Graduate Lecture Series: Elana Mann
Artist Talk
Wednesday, July 5th, 6:00 pm Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)
511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR
Free and Open to the Public
Graduate Lecture Series: Julie Perini
Wednesday, June 28, 6:00 pm Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)
511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR
Free and Open to the Public
Critical Conversations Lecture: Rashida Bumbray
Critical Conversations Lecture: Rashida Bumbray
Thursday, June 22, 6:00 pm Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR
Free and Open to the Public
Graduate Lecture Series: Ana Teresa Fernández
Presented by Low-Residency Visual Studies Program:
Artist talk Wednesday, June 14th, 6pm, Shipley Collins Mediatheque
Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Lecture Series: Ronny Quevedo
Presented by PNCA’s MFA in Print Media, as part of PNCA’s Edelman Lecture Series
Apr 26th, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition Announcement
We are thrilled to announce Pacific Northwest College of Art's 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition!
On view across three locations in downtown Portland, Oregon May 4 ~ May 21, 2023
Please join us for a First Thursday Opening Reception on May 4 from 5pm - 8pm!
Artist Talk Photo Recap with Print-Maker Dennis McNett
Artist talk with Dennis McNett and BTS of his latest prints!
Dennis McNett Print Media Lunchtime Talk 3/3 @ 12:30PM
Print Media is hosting Dennis McNett who will be joining us this week for a Lunchtime talk in the Lemelson Space on Friday, March 3rd from 12:30-1:30
Elevate Your Career: Willamette University Graduate Recruitment Fair
Thinking of going back to school in 2023? Get a jump on your resolutions by learning about Willamette University’s graduate school opportunities.
Graduate Lecture Series: Oliver Jackson
On Oct. 6, from 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies is thrilled to welcome artist and printmaker, Oliver Jackson. Oliver will discuss his work and practice in conversation with Paul Mullowney, founder of Mullowney Printing and Matthew Letzelter, Chair of the MFA in Print Media at PNCA.
Join the MFA in Print Media Class of 2020 for Online Artist Talks!
Join this exceptional group of artists and printmakers as they present their thesis projects and research, as well as ongoing and future projects.
Graduate Lecture Series: Ronny Quevedo
MFA in Print Media is excited to welcome Ronny Quevedo for a lecture on his work and practice as part of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Spring 2020 Lecture Series.
April 29, 2020
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Chair of MFA Print Media Matthew Letzelter at Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Matthew Letzelter, chair of the MFA in Print Media program, was invited to teach at Anderson Ranch Arts Center this summer. Matthew will lead a workshop, New Approaches to Lithography, focusing on the intersections of analog and digital processes.
MFA in Print Media traveling to annual SGC International Printmaking Conference
The MFA in Print Media is looking forward to sending a group of students and faculty to SGCI, the largest national printmaking conference, held this year in Dallas, Texas. This year, the focus will be on the capacity of printmaking to act as an agent of transformation in its practices within the field, contributions to other art media, and larger cultural roles.
Endless Letterpress: Film Screening and Letterpress Demo
The MFA in Print Media is thrilled to host a film screening of Endless Letterpress, a film by Pablo Pivetta and Nicolas Rodriguez Fuchs. March 18 at 5:30pm in PNCA's Mediatheque. The film will be accompanied by a Q&A with the directors as well as a hands-on letterpress demo with PNCA faculty member Rory Sparks.
MFA Print Media Welcomes Fall Artist-in-Residence Pat Boas
The MFA in Print Media program is thrilled to announce the Fall 2018 Watershed Artist-in-Residence Pat Boas
Bill Fick + Carlos Hernandez: Demo and Discussion with Speedball
Join MFA Print Media for a live screen print and linocut demo with printmakers Carlos Hernandez and Bill Fick. Carlos and Bill will do a demo and discussion while creating a combo print together. In MFA Print Media's Watershed Center for Fine Art Publishing and Research. Thursday January 24 at 6pm.
Watershed Visiting Artist Joe Feddersen
Visiting artist Joe Feddersen spent a week working alongside our students and program Chair Matthew Letzelter in the Watershed Center for Fine Art Publishing & Research to produce a beautiful series of prints.
Print Media Visiting Artist Lecture with Peter Chamberlain
Print Media Visiting Artist Lecture with Peter Chamberlain//November 1 from 12:30-1:30pm//PNCA Mediatheque