EXPLORE EXPERIMENT REIMAGINE EVERYTHING Michael Ackerman, Mike Baran, Bethany Tyler Snazelle Bauman, Jen Fuller, and Craig Winslow

2018 –2019 EXPLORE EXPERIMENT REIMAGINE EVERYTHING Michael Ackerman, Mike Baran, Bethany Tyler Snazelle Bauman, Jen Fuller, and Craig Winslow

Mert Kocabagli Kaitlyn Nelson Victor Gomez

Laura Medina Charles Stobbs

Anna Marl

Forrest Grenfell Marguerite Bailey Lindsey Walker Ellen Skiff

Valentino Quijano

Egg Dahl

Megan Kuttler WE DO THINGS LETTER DIFFERENTLY HERE We ask big questions. Like what can art and design do in FROM THE the world if we push ourselves to reimagine everything. We experiment. We challenge one another to break things PRESIDENT apart and reconstitute them in new ways. We support one another. We work together. We are growing all the time, There is not a better time to go to art school. Creativity is confronting new ideas and building new skill sets with new needed in all areas of society. With a hundred years of history tools and processes. And we, each of us, drive our own along with a focus on the future, Pacific Northwest College continued learning through our making and research. of Art is a great place to learn how to be a working artist and designer. We see the value of the PNCA experience in WE EMPOWER ARTISTS AND the lives of our alumni who are successful artists, designers, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals. We see their DESIGNERS TO REIMAGINE accomplishments, we see the positive cultural change they WHAT ART AND DESIGN create, we see how they are creating the cutting edge, and CAN DO IN THE WORLD they tell us about the ways that PNCA changed their lives. There are no lecture halls. There is student art At PNCA, you’ll learn to see the world through new everywhere: on the walls in classrooms and critique perspectives, improve your communication skills through spaces and student galleries... And in the stairwells and the give and take of feedback in the critique process, and elevators. There are cutting-edge thinkers and state- above all, learn to become a creative problem solver. of-the-art tools in this 100-year-old art school.

You will be asked to do new, original, and authentic making You are encouraged to explore. Every department is and thinking every day. We know that in addition to helping interdisciplinary: painters make sculptures, designers make you become a better artist or designer, this is the best way films, illustrators make apps, video and sound artists make to prepare you to meet the challenges of your future—to performances. All departments are 100% focused on art create for yourself your best future. Our students learn to and design. Our faculty are working artists and designers, be willing to take risks, to be resilient, flexible, persistent. and class sizes are small enough that your professors know This will serve you well no matter your chosen path. you by name and take an interest in what you think and do.

We are also growing and evolving, developing new programs As a learning community, we value, respect, and appreciate all of the time in response to the ways that creativity difference—in gender, sexual orientation, religion, is moving now: into everything from app and game ethnicity, race, national origin, disability, and age. development to addressing ecological threats. We are eager to imagine new ways that creativity can impact the world. We strive to create a safe and supportive environment that welcomes variety in voices, work, and perspectives. Join us. We know that we are a better community of learners and educators when we embrace a multiplicity of world views President Don Tuski and experiences. ELEVEN UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES EXPLOREHere, you learn to see the world more thoughtfully, Whatever major you choose, you will develop thoroughly, and from different perspectives. creative, technical, and professional skills, productive studio habits, and the abilities to communicate, By studying related histories and broadly exploring collaborate, and think critically, all of which will the contemporary, you expand your ideas around empower you to build for yourself a fulfilling and the scope of possibility for your own work and sustainable creative life full of possibility. the impacts it can make in the world. BOUNDARY CROSSINGS ROSE BOND INSTITUTE OF ANIMATION STUDENT DEPARTMENT HEAD, PNCA’s biennial Boundary Crossings SPOTLIGHT ANIMATED ARTS Institute is a two-week intensive Pamela Guest was selected for a open to working professionals as 2017 Princess Grace Award. With well as to graduate and upper- this Undergraduate Film Scholarship, level undergraduate students with Guest receives substantial support an interest in time-based arts and for her thesis film, Asi Somos. a desire for an immersive studio experience on the cutting edge of animation and fine art. The Institute embraces the hybrid moving image by combining digital technology, fine art practices, and critical theory.

Animator and media artist, Rose Bond has been internationally recognized for her monumental, site-driven animated installations that have illuminated urban spaces in Zagreb, Toronto, Exeter, Utrecht, New York City, and Portland while her direct animation films have been presented at major international festivals including: Annecy, Ottawa, Hiroshima, Sundance, and New York, and are held in the MoMA Film Collection. THESIS HIGHLIGHT She was recently awarded an Oregon BERYL ALLEE ’17 Award-winning animator primarily makes hand-drawn Media Arts Fellowship and premiered a Beryl Allee ’17 animated short films featuring dark humor and complex, flawed characters. multi-channel animated projection for the Oregon Symphony’s performances of Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla. ANIMATED ARTS ANIMATED ARTS EXPANDS THE NOTION OF ANIMATION TO EMBRACE THE HYBRID MOVING IMAGE, encouraging you to explore and combine fine art practices In addition to learning principles of animation, you and digital technologies. At a time when the boundaries experiment with a variety of media, production between live action, animation, painting, photography, methods, and narrative strategies to produce work illustration, and design are dissolving, an interdisciplinary for multiple and varied platforms. We teach the fine art approach encourages you to reimagine and history of animated arts in the context of a broad create frame-based work for multiple contexts. engagement with both cinema and fine art.

Ran Sheng KRISTIN BRADSHAW THESIS HIGHLIGHT DEPARTMENT HEAD, MATTHEW LAYNG ’17 CREATIVE WRITING Poet, writer, and sculptor Matthew Layng’s thesis project, Warm Wreath, combined sculptures in wood and metal with poems inspired by W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn.

Kristin P. Bradshaw works with fragmentation, the tension between immediacy and accessibility in the experience of poetic and visual works, and the state of the word in contemporary visual culture. Her poems have appeared in the New Orleans Review, New American Poetry, Chase Park, and No: a Journal of the Arts. Burning Deck’s release of her first book, Apol- ogies, in October 2014, followed the 2005 chapbook, The Difficult Nature of Contemplation (Percival House).

COURSE HIGHLIGHT LANGUAGE-BASED POETIC PRACTICES This workshop writing course welcomes consideration of language as object, of word as symbol, and of CREATIVE WRITING image as mark-making alongside written words. Students’ final projects EMBEDDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EVOLVED PRACTICE are experimental artist books. OF CREATIVE WRITING IN A SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN, the Creative Writing program offers a unique opportunity visual medium and incorporate writing into our visual to explore writing's relationship with contemporary work. We support both experimental writing practices art through interdisciplinary and hybridized forms. and those focused on contemporary forms of fiction, poetry, and script writing. Innovation, crossing—and at The major is centered around creative writing studio times erasing—creative boundaries, experimentation classes in a variety of genres to build experience with with forms and media, and a self-determined path the art of writing. We explore the use of language as a sit at the heart of creative writing at PNCA.

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Marguerite Bailey ALUMNI ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT Tabor Robak '10, who works in new Brenda Mallory ’04 is an media, has been commissioned by accomplished, award-winning artist Microsoft to develop a work of scale with a busy exhibition and residency for the facade of their flagship store schedule. She holds a BA in Linguistics on 5th Avenue. Robak's works have and English from UCLA in addition to been acquired by a number of major her BFA. She has received grants from museums, including The Museum of the Oregon Arts Commission, Ford Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum Family Foundation, and is a recipient of Art, and Albright-Knox Art Gallery. the Eiteljorg Contemporary Native He is represented by Team Gallery. Art Fellowship and the Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellowship in Visual Art. She lives in Portland, Oregon but grew up in Oklahoma and is a member of the Cherokee Nation.

THESIS HIGHLIGHT LINDSEY CUENCA WALKER ’17 A painter who also works in printmaking, textiles, and ceramics, Lindsey Walker has had two solo exhibitions in the year after graduating in addition to doing commissions and design work.

THESIS HIGHLIGHT TYLER SNAZELLE ’18

GENERAL FINE ARTS OUR GRADUATES EMERGE AS SKILLED AND VERSATILE GENERALISTS The General Fine Arts major offers you a broad GFA program offers maximum flexibility as it permits exposure to the studio arts with a focus on materials you to select your core studio courses across studio and processes. This program supports artists art practices in departments including Painting, who would like to explore widely while developing Sculpture, and Printmaking as well as electives across competencies in multiple studio arts practices. the college. In addition, you’ll take two theory and practice classes which help you situate your work While each undergraduate program at PNCA offers in a larger contemporary and historical context. a freedom in determining one’s academic path, the

Tyler Snazelle ALUMNI THESIS HIGHLIGHT SPOTLIGHT JOURDAN SIMMONDS ’17 Justin Gorman ’09, is Creative Director Jourdan Simmonds’ thesis project was Briyani, a sports brand clothing line of at Instrument and co-founder of basketball jerseys that celebrated specific dishes of the Islamic diet in Malaysia. theindex.la, a library of contemporary photographers and filmmakers. He has published online and print serial publications that have included PaperMakeStack and Familiar.

OUR GRADUATES WORK AT: Adidas New Yorker Adobe Nike Blacktop Films Round House Cinco Second Story Form3D Umpqua Bank Google Wieden+Kennedy Instrument CENTER FOR DESIGN KRISTIN ROGERS BROWN DESIGN STUDIO DEPARTMENT HEAD, A select group of design and illustration GRAPHIC DESIGN students collaborate on projects from real world clients with professional mentorship for academic credit.

GRAPHIC DESIGN Owen Welch Xela Goldstein GRAPHIC DESIGN EXPANDS THE BOUNDARIES Kristin Rogers Brown is a creative OF TRADITIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN, director, educator, and problem rooting students in a vital understanding of the create provocative, relevant design solutions. The solver who believes that form, relationship between medium and message. This major curriculum encourages integrated design solutions function, and moments of delight prepares you for the broadest possibilities and most across media and fosters the development of research, are equally important to strong work challenging engagements in today’s creative industries. critical thinking, and creative practice skills while and great client relationships. She being grounded in communication theory. Through has spent the last decade using You learn the history, principles, and major theories independent and collaborative projects, students her background in award-winning of design while acquiring both technical skills and will meet complex conceptual challenges and offer publications to design experiences those of ideation, critical evaluation, and revision to insightful solutions with handcrafted style. and brand strategies across media, all driven by strong content. Kami Karras MARTIN FRENCH ARGYLE WINERY DEPARTMENT HEAD, Argyle Winery annually invites three ILLUSTRATION students to its vineyard as research and inspiration for the label designs the students are commissioned to design for their sparkling wines.

Martin French’s images have won awards of excellence from Ameri- can Illustration, Communication Arts, Creative Quarterly, Graphis, The Society of Illustrators, Society of Publication Designers, Spectrum, The Art Directors Club of New York, Print, and 3×3. He has received a Gold Medal from the Christin Engelberth Society of Illustrators in New York, and Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals THESIS HIGHLIGHT from the Society of Illustrators in Los SAM SAUSSER ’17 Angeles. In 2014 and 2016, Martin was For her thesis project, Sam Sausser designed a clothing line of screenprinted selected for Lüerzer’s Archive 200 loungewear inspired by the West, complete with branding and retail environment. Best Illustrators Worldwide.

ILLUSTRATION ALUMNI ILLUSTRATION FUSES PERSONAL VISION AND SPOTLIGHT RIGOROUS PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE Aidan Koch ’09 has exhibited to help students build the responsive skill set required emerging technologies with conceptual inquiry to internationally, been published in the to flourish in a variety of creative markets. As powerful empower you to create visual messages capable New York Times and Paris Review, image-makers and skilled visual storytellers, illustrators of engaging clients and changing culture. published comics, zines, and artist create work for a highly diverse marketplace including books, and has a tattoo practice. animated films, computer gaming, picture book Above all, you will use these skills to generate and comics publishing, visual journalism, surface powerful, culturally relevant ideas; create never- Samantha Mash ’13 is an award- design, apparel and fashion, and product design. before-seen worlds and characters; and craft new winning illustrator who has narratives—all communicated in your uniquely worked with clients including DC Our program combines development of technical dynamic and distinct visual language. Comics, Outside magazine, Planned skill in traditional studio media and new and Parenthood, and New Republic magazine.

Nicholas Pennell ALUMNI THESIS HIGHLIGHT SPOTLIGHT JUSTINE HIGHSMITH ’17 Darja Bajagić ’12 went on to receive her For her thesis work, Justine Highsmith choreographed and produced Liquid Space, MFA from Yale University. Her provocative a dance for five dancers. Highsmith also wrote and recorded the score with digital works have been shown widely, recently manipulations of analog sounds and a multi-voice poem for reader chorus. at Luma Foundation in Zurich. She is represented by Carlos/Ishikawa London. Demian DinéYazhi´ ’14 recently showed at CANADA in New York and received the Brink Award from the Henry Art Gallery. He founded R.I.S.E., dedicated to education and dissemination of Indigenous art. Brenna Murphy ’09 calls her installations and digital works “trans- dimensional labyrinths.” She has exhibited internationally, published a number of artist’s books, and performs in MSHR. She is represented by American Medium and UPFOR.

EMILY GINSBURG DEPARTMENT HEAD, INTERMEDIA “I can honestly say that the experience of Thesis changed my life.” —Justine Highsmith INTERMEDIA INTERMEDIA SUPPORTS THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK Emily Ginsburg’s conceptually-driven through hybrid practices and emerging media embedded Supported by faculty mentorship, your exploration work maps physical, written, and spoken in conceptual inquiry. We explore ideas, traditional Lacyextends Davis beyond studio and academic coursework to behavioral patterns in the context of the techniques, and emerging technologies. Our innovative include visiting artists and scholars, lectures, field everyday. Her sculptures, animations, courses emphasize new applications of media, theory trips, internships, off-site projects, service learning, and works on paper and in sound have and practice, broad cultural perspectives, and critical and special projects. We create, invent, reclaim, and been exhibited internationally and discourse. You design your own curriculum drawing investigate in the context of contemporary culture. commissioned for public art projects both from the major as well as from arts courses across at Seattle City Light, Portland State the college that may include studio courses, media arts University, and Cyan/PDX. Her work has courses, and courses in design and creative writing. been published in books such as, DATA FLOW, THE MAP AS ART. Joey Ravetti

Egg Dahl MORGAN WALKER THESIS HIGHLIGHT DEPARTMENT HEAD, JAMAALI ROBERTS ’17 PAINTING Painter, muralist, illustrator, and musician, Jamaali Roberts’ thesis, Ebony Driftwood, was a series of mixed-media paintings that investigated representations of “timeless blackness.”

THESIS HIGHLIGHT JULIETTE THIMMIG ’17 Juliette Thimmig’s Slices in Time was a series that captured, over time, Morgan Walker’s paintings, drawings, observations of her environment and the living things inhabiting those spaces in and woodcuts have been exhibited works that combined printmaking and paint. widely. He is a driving force behind PNCA’s F.O.F.U.S., the Friends of Frank Ukulele Society, named after longtime faculty member Frank Irby. Walker is represented by Augen Gallery. PAINTING PAINTING BEGINS WITH DEVELOPMENT OF CORE PROFICIENCY IN THE USE OF PAINTING AND DRAWING MATERIALS, And from there supports both mastery within the rigorous studio practice. Visiting artists, lectures, discipline and broad interdisciplinary study via and critical discourse broaden your perspectives numerous electives and opportunities for self-directed and stimulate your investigations into the historical, work. As a Painting major, you are encouraged to Lacycultural, Davis aesthetic, and theoretical contexts of the field. experiment widely. Student thesis work takes many Our aim is development of a disciplined practice that forms, including but not limited to painting, drawing, will both drive your creative endeavors and help you installation, comics, video, and performance. to locate yourself as an artist in the contemporary world. Professional issues are addressed throughout ALUMNI Our faculty of professional artists is dedicated to the curriculum, and include instruction in writing, SPOTLIGHT challenging and supporting you as you develop an studio management, portfolio development, galleries Luc Fuller ’13 has had his paintings included in exhibitions throughout Europe as individual vision, voice, and mastery of forms through and exhibitions, and public presentation. well as the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Fuller lives in Los Angeles and is represented by Rob Barton in London. TERESA CHRISTIANSEN THESIS HIGHLIGHT DEPARTMENT HEAD, MADDIE MASCHGER ’16 PHOTOGRAPHY Maddie Maschger’s thesis project Seeking Home was a meditation on her identity as a queer woman, her love of warm and beautiful light, and how all of this comes into play in the space and feeling of home.

Teresa Christiansen is a visual artist born and raised in New York City. She was a 2007 winner of PDN Photo Annual, a 2013 Regional Arts & Culture Council grant recipient and a summer 2014 Wassaic Artist Resident. Her work is in the collection of the Portland Art Museum.

THESIS HIGHLIGHT HANNAH LEWIS-LOPES ’17 Hannah Lewis-Lopes’ thesis project, Copycat, was an installation of 11 life- sized black and white photographs of ALUMNI various bodies performing gendered SPOTLIGHT gestures isolated from commercial Susan Seubert ’92 was invited to images. participate in Personal Structures, a collateral exhibition of the PHOTOGRAPHY Venice Biennale. Organized by the GlobalArtAffairs Foundation and PHOTOGRAPHY AS A MEDIUM IS FLUID, DYNAMIC hosted by the European Cultural AND CONSTANTLY RE-INVENTING ITSELF. Centre, the exhibition at the Palazzo Bembo ran in tandem with the 57th To be a photographer today is to place yourself in the While developing a high degree of professional Venice Biennale in 2017. center of a world where image making possibilities are proficiency, you learn to communicate powerfully and endless and where you can decide when to embrace to critically examine the challenges of photographic tradition and when to reject it. In Photography, you build expression in the contemporary art landscape. All a strong foundation in analog and digital techniques and of this provides you with the foundation you need lighting strategies, explore expansive ways of thinking to pursue your career goals, whether in galleries, FACILITIES about and making images, and develop a vocabulary to commercial photography, or graduate studies. Digital Fine Art Printing Lab discuss and critique your work and the work of others. Black and White Analog Darkroom Lighting Studio with cyc wall ABRA ANCLIFFE THESIS HIGHLIGHT DEPARTMENT HEAD, SAMMIE CETTA ’17 PRINTMAKING Sammie Cetta’s thesis drew parallels between aspects of the library and the sun Printmaker Abra Ancliffe considers the to contrast learning from others and from experience. The installation featured a fixity and frailty of language alongside letterpress printed artist’s book, bookshelf, oak sundial, “newspaper,” and 90 hand- how printed knowledge is created, formed ceramic charms. stored, and accessed. She’s had recent exhibitions in Tækniminjasafn (Seyðisfjörður, Iceland), and Kasteel Le Paige (Herentals, Belgium).

PRINTMAKING STUDIO In one of the most lively studios on campus and one of the most THESIS HIGHLIGHT generously appointed print JESSE SIEGEL ’17 studios in the country, PNCA’s printmakers explore techniques PRINTMAKING both traditional and experimental. SUPPORTED TECHNIQUES PRINTMAKING IMMERSES STUDENTS IN TRADITIONAL AND INTAGLIO CONTEMPORARY IDEAS AND PROCESSES, EMPHASIZING SCREENPRINTING PERSONAL VOICE AND VISION, HIGH STANDARDS OF MONOTYPE CRAFTSMANSHIP, AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE. LITHOGRAPHY Through a rich, interdisciplinary studio experience A diverse faculty of professional artists and master RELIEF you’ll explore intaglio, lithography, relief printing, printers support student growth technically, formally, BOOK-MAKING screenprinting, monotype, letterpress, book-making, artist materially, and conceptually. The curriculum is publications, digital and 3D printing. The printed multiple supported by a skilled, on-site print studio manager; LETTERPRESS is explored and utilized as integral to contemporary visiting artists; Watershed, our in-house publishing PHOTOGRAVURE art practice as a means of communication, as objects program; and relationships with print shops, PRINTING ON FABRIC for dispersal and dissemination, as accumulation master printers, working artists, and galleries. COMBINED PRINT MEDIA and installation, and as material documentation. EXPERIMENTAL PRINTING DAVID ECKARD THESIS HIGHLIGHT DEPARTMENT HEAD, KATIE SIFFORD ’17 SCULPTURE In Katie Sifford’s thesis installation En Route, she explored cross-country road trips as a metaphor for freedom. The installation was anchored by two life- sized plaster figures whose faces and hands Sifford cast from her own.

Every Focus Week, David Eckard does a multi-hour performance “Not only can I incorporating his sculptures. speak to my art An award-winning artist, he’s exhibited his sculptures and with greater insight, drawings internationally, recently in the Portland 2016 Biennial, but I have the tools at Atelier Dado (Montenegro), to continuously and the Centre International D’Art Contemporain (France). improve upon my practice." ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT —Hillary Hartner Carly Mandel ’15 has seen her sculptures, videos, and publications exhibited or screened in Rio de Janeiro, FACILITIES: Mexico City, and Stuttgart as well as in Metal shop Chicago and New York. Wood shop SCULPTURE Ceramics studio Portable foundry SCULPTURE ENCOURAGES YOU TO INVESTIGATE A Industrial sewing facility WIDE SPECTRUM OF SCULPTURAL METHODS, Digital fabrication lab including stand-alone objects, site-specific works, multiples, Presentations by visiting artists, critics, and curators enrich installations, sculptural interventions, performance, your experience by supporting you and challenging you THESIS HIGHLIGHT and any number of hybrid forms of three-dimensional to understand your role as a contemporary maker and REMINGTON NOVAK ’16 engagement. You will customize your own pathway as thinker. As a graduate, you will be prepared to continue Remington Novak’s thesis project, you work under the mentorship of master professionals your education in graduate programs and residencies The Liminal City: A love letter to the city within a collaborative studio atmosphere. And you or launch your career as a professional artist. of Portland written in steel and space, have full access to PNCA’s 3D Labs, which include a comprised sculptures that formally fully equipped woodshop, ceramics studio, and metal referenced the towers and bridges of shop with foundry, all staffed by on-site technicians. the city, he says, “that has changed my life so significantly."

Forrest Pass STEPHEN SLAPPE THESIS HIGHLIGHT DEPARTMENT HEAD, CHARLES STOBBS ’17 VIDEO + SOUND In a back stairwell of the college, Charles Stobbs installed sculptures, projected animations, and applied drawings to light fixtures along with two FM radio transmitters that broadcast a companion sound piece.

Stephen Slappe’s newest project, 8, is an immersive, dystopian iOS app available on iTunes. His video installations have been shown internationally at Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), The Horse Hospital (London), The Sarai Media Lab (New Delhi), Centre for Con- temporary Art (Glasgow), and Artists’ Television Access.

VIDEO + SOUND VIDEO + SOUND INVITES YOU INTO AN EXPANSIVE INVESTIGATION OF MOVING IMAGE AND AUDIO CULTURE. As a Video + Sound student, your work builds on the rich and media studies combine in classes where you will “I became enamored with any medium histories and interconnections between video art, sound develop critical, aesthetic, and technical skills vital to art, experimental film, and emerging platforms such as cultural production in an evolving digital landscape. that’s time based and with the editing virtual and augmented reality. Principles of video and Students work across disciplines, creating immersive sound are taught in hands-on learning environments audiovisual environments, sound performances, process that goes hand and hand with where you gain the experience needed to communicate interactive screen projects, live video performances, and video and sound.” ideas through structure, pace, rhythm, duration, and sculpture constructed from outmoded technologies. the interplay between image and sound. Studio practice —BENJAMIN GLAS-HOCHSTETTLER Skylar Leaf

Marin Vesely ART + ECOLOGY IN THE ART AND ECOLOGY MINOR, you develop a broad understanding of pressing ecological issues and their relationship to the social, political, cultural, and economic systems that impact the future of humanity, other species, and our shared planet. The Art and Ecology minor includes studio work, art history, literature, social sciences, and science. You’ll work across disciplines to make work that is socially and ecologically impactful.

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LIBERAL ARTS LIBERAL ARTS COURSES ROUND OUT YOUR EDUCATION, helping you become a more thoughtful, well-rounded of the world. You read, research, share what you’ve artist or designer. Explore widely or select your courses learned, and engage in impassioned discussion. You to focus on one of what we call Areas of Study. learn to synthesize strands of knowledge in a cohesive, elegant manner and to frame and articulate questions Specifically designed for artists and designers, our Liberal and complex ideas. With encouragement and support Arts courses open the world wide with introductions to from faculty members, you learn to welcome creative multiple perspectives, worldviews, and experiences. Your and intellectual challenges, to express your vision in a Liberal Arts courses inspire curiosity and open new lines clear and thorough manner, to participate in the broader Michelle Guthrie of critical inquiry. They help you fortify your intellectual culture, and to collaborate with others effectively. foundation as well broadening your understanding

Ali Ongaro HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, CRITICAL AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS CULTURAL STUDIES History, philosophy, critical and cultural studies courses introduce you to key inquiry and research practices and help you form the historical, theoretical, and philosophical context for much of your creative work and critical LITERATURE AND thinking. Courses address a variety of understood to form cultural traditions. WRITING SEMINARS concepts and themes, such as visual Our unique, thematic world art culture, identity politics, ontology, Literature and writing seminars history survey draws attention to the ethics and morality, aesthetics, address various approaches to fact that the world of contemporary phenomenology, environmentalism, textual interpretation, critical thinking, art is global and decentralized and and American politics. You grapple research, and writing. Through close- emphasizes the connections to with great philosophical questions, reading, rigorous research, critical sociopolitical, cultural, and economic learn to understand historical dialogue, and through analysis of text, changes. Our curriculum embraces a events and trends, form ethical and theory, and history, you learn to shape diversity of media and helps students moral arguments, experiment with and present informed ideas in a variety situate their own practice within the theoretical lenses, and undertake of writing formats that demonstrate contemporary, global, and diverse art critical inquiries that empower clarity, coherence, intellectual force, world. Our courses ask students to you to present your own ideas and stylistic control. PNCA's literature consider the following questions: How in more enlightened ways. and writing seminars embrace are the creation, process, appearance, experimentation and self-examination and reception of art dependent as well as a passionate questioning ART HISTORY on cultural context? How do the Art history classes help you develop of the world in which we live. subjects, impetuses and goals from skills of visual literacy, vocabulary, the past inform contemporary art? MATHEMATICS and analysis by introducing the styles, AND SCIENCE movements, artists, and techniques Mathematics and science courses inspire you to critically and imaginatively engage with a complex and evolving world increasingly AREAS OF STUDY influenced by data, technology, ART AND TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE DESIGN: and science. Our math and science ARTS EDUCATION INTERACTIVE courses emphasize research, debate, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT GENDER STUDIES and creative inquiry. The curriculum CRAFT AND MATERIAL INTERACTIVE MEDIA cultivates an appreciation of beautiful STUDIES MEDIA PRODUCTION Make+Think+Code is a research studio and lab at the Our programming emphasizes experimentation with ideas and powerful methods and CRITICAL STUDIES MEDIA STUDIES intersection of art, science, technology, and design. emerging technologies, digital fabrication and prototyping, empowers you with the analytical CURATORIAL PRACTICE NARRATIVE FORMS Make+Think+Code brings together members of creative coding, data science, systems-thinking, the tools, research skills, and knowledge DESIGN LEADERSHIP POLITICS AND ACTIVISM Portland’s vibrant creative, tech, civic, and educational internet of things, and smart technologies through base to reason logically, to argue DIGITAL FABRICATION PUBLISHING ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES SEQUENTIAL NARRATIVE communities to explore the powerful role that creativity workshops, institutes, symposia, and hackathons. persuasively, and to interpret theories EXPERIENCE DESIGN: TYPOGRAPHY and technology play in the search for imaginative and in science and mathematics through ENVIRONMENTAL VISUAL DEVELOPMENT impactful solutions to complex and urgent problems. a creative and considered lens. BOUNDARY CROSSINGS LELAND IRON WORKS INSTITUTE OF ANIMATION RESIDENCY PNCA’s biennial Boundary Crossings A partnership between PNCA and Institute is a two-week intensive venerable Portland artist and alumnus, open to working professionals as Lee Kelly, PNCA’s Leland Iron Works well as to graduate and upper- Artist-in-Residence Program awards level undergraduate students with five month-long residencies to

Safe Whale Watching, Shelby Smith and an interest in time-based arts and practicing Oregon artists and four Michelle Guthrie. a desire for an immersive studio residencies for students and emerging experience on the cutting edge of artists at Leland Iron Works, Kelly’s ART + SCIENCE INITIATIVE animation and fine art. The Institute longtime rustic home, studio, and The Art + Science Initiative partners embraces the hybrid moving image sculpture garden. by combining digital technology, fine with the scientific community to offer The program is generously supported by the lectures, workshops, exhibitions, art practices, and critical theory. Ford Family Foundation. residences, and grant awards to students to investigate and consider the relationships between ourselves and the natural world.

The Art + Science Fellowship embeds a student in a paid summer residency in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientific community. The student then coordinates related events and curriculum at GLOBAL STUDIES PNCA during the academic year. In PNCA’s study-exchange programs, WATERSHED partnership with NOAA, PNCA awards including Global Studios, broaden your FINE ART PUBLISHING AND an annual $1,000 Science-in-Studio network of opportunities and expand RESEARCH Award to support student projects your cultural awareness. Destinations Watershed is PNCA’s professional fine that raise awareness around a have included: Germany, Belgium, art publishing program, a research and particular aquatic resources issue. Senegal, Malaysia, France, China, and education extension of the printmak- Australia. You have the opportunity to ing lab. Watershed welcomes visiting The Art + Science Initiative is choose from among nine partner in- artists and professional printers to PENSOLE supported by a grant from the stitutions for overseas, semester-long collaborate with the PNCA community NOAA and other funders. on editions and projects. PENSOLE DESIGN INTENSIVE study. The new PNCA/PENSOLE Design Intensive is Other opportunities include short- a 15-credit, one semester program designed term instructor-led travel programs, to ready students for careers in the footwear summer programs abroad, service industry. PENSOLE Footwear Design Academy learning, the AICAD Mobility program, was founded in 2010 by D’Wayne Edwards, who, and the New York Studio program. at 30, was one of the youngest Design Directors in Nike’s history and is one of only a handful of designers who has designed an AIR JORDAN. Since its founding, PENSOLE has placed more than 200 young designers in industry positions. WE THINK DIFFERENTLY ABOUT ART & DESIGN HERE Your classes challenge you to experiment, to exercise your curiosity and imagination as well as your critical thinking as never before. Here you will be expected to do new, original, and authentic thinking and making every day. Here, you learn to see the world more thoughtfully, thoroughly, and from different perspectives. By studying related histories and broadly exploring the contemporary, you expand your ideas around the scope of possibility for your own work and the impacts it can make in the world.

Whatever major you choose, you will develop creative, technical, and professional skills, productive studio habits, and the abilities to communicate, collaborate, and think critically, all of which will empower you to build for yourself a fulfilling and sustainable creative life full of possibility.

Matthew Berger 1 2-3 4 EXPLORE EXPERIMENT FOCUS FOUNDATION WORK ACROSS SENIOR 1YEAR 2-3MANY DISCIPLINES 4THESIS

In your Foundation Year, you’ll be In your second and third years, you’ll In your Thesis Year, you make the immersed from day one in media take courses from within your chosen transformation from student to and making of all kinds from major. But we also encourage you to professional. You collaborate with a drawing, design, and sculpture, to take classes in departments across faculty mentor to plan and execute digital tools, video, and performance. the college to explore a range of new your final Thesis Project, spending one It’s a year of discovery, a time to ideas and possibilities for your work. semester researching and planning explore new ways of thinking and the proposal, and one semester making, meet new friends, and get Your liberal arts classes round out producing the body of work. You also to know your new community. your education. Art history, literature take professional practice courses and writing seminars, mathematics in which you prepare to hit the 4 YEAR FLOW You delve into the histories of and science, and history, philosophy, ground running after you graduate. art, culture, and ideas to develop critical and cultural studies make you a toolkit for critical thinking you a more informed and more thoughtful, IMAGINE. MAKE. CRITIQUE. REPEAT. learn to apply to your own work artist or designer. Designed especially as well as the work of others. for artists and designers, these courses open the world wide with introductions to multiple perspectives, worldviews, and experiences.

MAJORS: MINOR: ANIMATED ARTS PAINTING ART AND ECOLOGY GENERAL FINE ARTS PHOTOGRAPHY GRAPHIC DESIGN PRINTMAKING CREATIVE WRITING SCULPTURE ILLUSTRATION VIDEO AND SOUND INTERMEDIA GARRICK IMATANI CHAIR OF FOUNDATION Garrick Imatani uses embodied perception, fabrication, and performance to think through the role of landscape, collective history, and racialized bodies. Exhibiting nationally and internationally, he has received awards from The Andy Warhol Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, and The Ford Family Foundation where he was a Fellow for the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Ucross Foundation.

FOUNDATION YOU’LL DIVE RIGHT IN WITH INTRODUCTIONS TO TRADITIONAL AND EMERGING WAYS OF MAKING AND THINKING FIRST YEAR SEMINAR MENTORSHIP First Year Seminar helps you find your way in your new You'll be introduced to your First Year Mentor during community while developing skills and habits to thrive New Student Orientation. This is your go-to person for at PNCA and beyond. Through presentations, hands-on guidance and questions for your entire Foundation Year. projects, discussions, and field trips, you’ll learn the ins Then when you declare your major, usually in second and outs of the college and all of its resources and you’ll semester, you will be connected to your Program Advisor. get to know faculty, upperclassmen, and Portland too: its galleries, cheap eats, shops, getting around, and more. LINDA KLIEWER CHAIR OF THESIS Linda is an award-winning queer filmmaker and photographer who has been making film, video and still images for over 30 years. Her passions are social documentary and teaching. Her art centers on self-portraiture, social comment, and most recently swimming pools. As a queer artist, Linda has spent much of her life sharing her own truths through images.

During FOCUS WEEK, classes are suspended and the whole PNCA community—students, staff, faculty— comes together to support seniors as they present their thesis projects. In between thesis presentations, the whole school gathers in the Commons for a communal lunch followed by special programs offered by faculty members including performances and talks. SENIOR YEAR Your senior year is an exciting time of transition from support of faculty, your peers, and a mentor who works student to working artist or designer. Along the way, you with you one-on-one. This culminates with you installing gather the tools you need to hit the ground running on your thesis work and making a presentation before a the day after graduation because professional practice panel of professional artists and/or designers during development is an important part of the curriculum. Focus Week. Throughout this process you gain confidence and a deeper understanding of who you are as an artist The focus of your senior year is conceiving a thesis while creating lasting bonds with faculty and peers. project of your own design and producing it with the READY YOURSELF FOR THE REAL WORLD WITH BRIDGELAB

BRIDGELAB CAREER SERVICES EMPOWERING YOU WITH PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKS FOR LIFE AFTER PNCA The BridgeLab Career Services supports Our robust internship program helps you your development as a professional artist, to gain real world experience as well designer, and maker during your time as exposing you to some of the most at PNCA and throughout your career to influential movers and shakers in Portland help you achieve success. We empower and beyond. Our community partners also you to take risks and pursue professional open their doors to PNCA students and experiences that will enrich your working alumni for learning experiences including life and creative practice. You will leave informational interviews and behind the PNCA with practical skills and knowledge scenes tours. Many also come to campus and will have access to resources that to meet and learn about the talent PNCA include workshops, information sessions, students have to offer. one-to-one career advising, networking Our graduates are successful artists, committed educators, public intellectuals, and opportunities, and a strong alumni On our exclusive online employment community activists. They are creative small-business owners and entrepreneurs, designers and animators working for top network to support your professional jobs board, PNCA|JOBWORKS, you’ll firms, freelance illustrators with high-profile commissions, directors of artist-run spaces, and commercial photographers. development. find continually updated postings for full- and part-time work, contract gigs, We are committed to empowering you for the creative life you want to lead after PNCA. We teach you the skills and habits We offer workshops on topics such as collaborations, and work-study jobs you need to thrive as a creative professional in classes throughout your four years at PNCA. crafting a résumé or CV, interview skills, on the PNCA campus. We’ve helped grant-writing, developing a portfolio, students arrange internships with artists, ANIMATOR CURATOR ILLUSTRATOR and building your own network of advertising firms, animation studios, professionals and peers. Additionally, museums, galleries, and other creative APPAREL DEVELOPER DESIGNER PAINTER we encourage and help you to perfect institutions such as: Adidas, Adobe, Bent ART DIRECTOR EDITOR PRODUCTION ARTIST your entrepreneurial skills and offer Image Lab, Bitch Magazine, Blue Sky ARTIST ENTREPRENEUR PHOTOGRAPHER intensives on topics such as taxes for Gallery, Brezinski Motion Design, Ethan CERAMIST FINE ART PRINTER PROFESSOR artists, contracts and copyright, marketing Rose Studios, LAIKA, Leland Iron Works, yourself and your work, and accounting Nike, OMSI, Tin House, Uncorked Studios, COMIC ARTIST FURNITURE DESIGNER SCULPTOR for artists. Wieden+Kennedy, XPLANE, Ziba CREATIVE DIRECTOR GALLERIST UX DESIGNER LIFE AT PNCA IS MUCH MORE THAN WHAT HAPPENS IN THE CLASSROOM REIMAGINE PLAY GATHER ADVENTURE EXHIBIT

At Pacific Northwest College of Art, you’ll spend your days surrounded by artists and designers devoted to empowering students like you to reimagine what art and design can do in the world.

You’ll study in our main campus building, the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design, an historic building that has been completely renovated by an award-winning architect to bring light and new energy inside. We come from many different places and cultures, but we’re all here because we live and breathe art and design.

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Students organize exhibitions of their own and others’ work in galleries ACTIVITIES throughout the building.

We play as hard as we work with Flapjack Friday all-school breakfasts, beach field trips, spontaneous ping pong games, daily afternoon tea in the Printmaking Studio, monthly Students exhibiting in our central Student Gallery can show their First Thursday art receptions, and the annual End of Year party. work next door to exhibitions from major international artists.

On First Thursdays, students set up pop-up displays to sell their works to visitors.

STUDENT EXHIBITIONS, POP-UP SHOPS, Student Life offers accessible Students organize clubs for every interest funded by Student Council. Clubs include trips to the Oregon Coast and Outdoor Adventure, Tabletop Games, Cosplay, Yoga, F.O.F.U.S (the ukulele club), Anime, an art-filled trip to Seattle. Poetry Society and more. There are clubs for Veterans, POC, and LGBTQ communities. AND PERFORMANCES PICA’S TBA FESTIVAL

SEE RECENT VISITING ARTISTS Anna Craycroft Sarah Crowner CONTEMPORARY Harry Dodge Michele Fiedler Juni Figueroa Claire Fontaine ART AND Michelle Grabner Jibade Khalil Huffman Amanda Hunt Josh Kline ARTISTS Wayne Koestenbaum Adriana Lara Ieve Miseviciute MPA Wangechi Mutu Maggie Nelson Bob Nickas Sondra Perry PNCA is one of the hosts for the Portland A.l. Steiner Institute for Contemporary Art Time-Based Art Martine Syms Festival, an annual extravaganza of exhibitions, Storm Tharp performances, talks, and workshops with Anicka Yi nationally and internationally recognized artists.

DESIGN WEEK PORTLAND

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE CAULEEN SMITH

PNCA’s Center for Our students, alumni, Portland Art Museum, Contemporary Art staff, and faculty Portland Institute for WANGECHI MUTU & Culture presents are connected to the Contemporary Art, exhibitions by important many art museums, Lumber Room, Disjecta, contemporary artists institutions, and galleries Yale Union, and Portland in galleries in our main as well as to design Museum of Modern campus building. firms and associations Art offer mentorships, PNCA hosts a Design Week Portland Open House in Portland’s dynamic visit classes, and featuring a display of recent works by design students. creative community. conduct special tours Curators at Portland of exhibitions for JAMES ROSENQUIST Design Week Portland is a week of gatherings, lectures, workshops and more throughout the city. arts institutions such as PNCA students. PRINTMAKING STUDIO

FACILITIES AUDIO STUDIO

WOOD AND PHOTOGRAPHY PLASTER SOFT SCULPTURE RESOURCES ANIMATION DIGITAL DRAWING 3D PRINTING METAL SHOP LASER CUTTER AND MORE

ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE WHAT PNCA's Labs and Facilities provide all of the tools needed to produce nearly any work. From an YOU DREAM OF MAKING expansive Print Studio to Make+Think+Code's array of high tech tools, we've got you covered. CERAMICS LAB PAINTING STUDIOS ALBERT SOLHEIM LIBRARY

The Albert Solheim Library supports the curricular, creative, and research needs of the PNCA community. We provide students with the tools needed to become life-long scholars, to use information with integrity, and to practice curiosity and determination in all areas of knowledge seeking.

MEDIA RESOURCE CENTER

The Media Resource Center has all the tools you need for photography, video, and sound production and performance including cameras, tripods, lighting kits, recording devices projectors, speakers, and more.

PLUS FACILITIES AND RESOURCES INCLUDING: WACOM LAB The Wacom Lab is full of Wacom’s newest generation creative tools that allow SHIPLEY/ COLLINS The Mediatheque has hosted dance parties, you to draw directly onto the screen of the computer with a stylus or even your MEDIATHEQUE FOR PROJECTION artist panels, presentations, keynote speakers, fingers. The Wacom devices range in size from 27” to a small portable 13”. AND PERFOMANCE theater & dance performances, multimedia We also have two of Wacom’s newest Mobile Studios, which are stand-alone installations, and film screenings. computers and screens in one. SEATTLE

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& MAKERS It’s easy to escape the city with hikes in the Gorge, biking, river trips, and camping nearby. And Forest Park offers miles of forested hiking trails within the city limits.

WE’RE LOCATED IN THE PEARL DISTRICT, THE CREATIVE HEART OF PORTLAND, OREGON Portland has long been a magnet for designers, Getting around is easy with ample public transit, musicians, artists, and writers. Major creative including bus, light rail, and streetcar. The city agencies as well as design and artisan entrepreneurs also has bike-friendly streets and one of the most make their headquarters here because it’s a great active cycling communities in the country. place to live with stellar food, culture, incredible urban parks, and and the Columbia Gorge, Pacific Ocean, and Mt. Hood all within daytrip distance. RESIDENCE LIFE

CONTEMPORARY STUDENT HOUSING LIVE IN OUR MODERN, DOWNTOWN HOUSING FACILITY, ARTHOUSE, JUST A FIVE-MINUTE WALK FROM PNCA’S MAIN CAMPUS BUILDING, THE ARLENE AND HAROLD SCHNITZER CENTER FOR ART AND DESIGN. ArtHouse’s light-filled, Silver LEED-certified student • PRIVATE + SHARED STUDIOS Additional new student housing will be completed for Fall 2019 at 1111 apartments are outfitted with custom furniture and • PRIVATE + SHARED ROOMS NW 16th Ave. feature modern kitchen appliances and a washer/dryer. IN 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS

Nearby are plenty of food options including restaurants, • HIGH-SPEED INTERNET diners, food carts, the weekend farmers market, and • ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED two organic groceries. Portland streetcar lines, rail • CONTEMPORARY LOUNGE lines, and bus routes are within blocks of ArtHouse. WITH PRIVATE DECK AND RAIN GARDEN • COVERED BIKE STORAGE FINANCIAL AID ADMISSIONS WE ARE COMMITTED TO MAKING COLLEGE AFFORDABLE PNCA IS A COMMUNITY THAT WILL CHALLENGE YOU AND ACCESSIBLE FOR MORE STUDENTS. TO DO MORE AND RADICALLY REIMAGINE EVERYTHING. OUR PROCESS FOR ADMISSIONS IS STRUCTURED TO HELP US IDENTIFY PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS WHO We award more than $4.8 million in scholarships SCHOLARSHIPS POSSESS THE SKILLS, MOTIVATION, AND POTENTIAL each year, and every student who submits the Apply for Financial Aid before the priority deadline of Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) January 31 to be automatically considered for PNCA TO BE INNOVATIVE ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS. receives some form of scholarship. Scholarships, awarded for outstanding creative abilities and academic achievement as well as for demonstrated need. Beginning October 1, just complete the FAFSA online DATES, DEADLINES & SCHOLARSHIPS, FAFSA at fafsa.ed.gov to be eligible for a financial GRANTS HOW TO APPLY & FINANCIAL AID aid package made up of: Everyone who completes a FAFSA is eligible for pnca.edu/apply pnca.edu/financialaid Scholarships grants awarded based on demonstrated financial ADMISSIONS OFFICE: FINANCIAL AID OFFICE: Grants need, including Federal Pell Grants, Federal 503-821-8972 OR 1-888-390-7499 503-821-8971 Work-study Employment Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, [email protected] [email protected] Loans Oregon Opportunity Grants, and PNCA Grants. (all applications are done digitally through our website) PRIORITY DEADLINE JANUARY 31 Only those who have not previously attended PNCA as undergraduate students are eligible for PNCA scholarships. TUITION & FEES GENERAL QUESTIONS & pnca.edu/bfatuition VISITING PNCA ADMISSIONS OFFICE: pnca.edu/visit Learn more: 503-821-8972 OR 1-888-390-7499 ADMISSIONS OFFICE: pnca.edu/finaid [email protected] 503-821-8972 OR 1-888-390-7499 [email protected]

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ACCREDITATION

MISSION Department of Education recognize both NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY We prepare students for a life of creative practice. institutional accrediting bodies. PNCA is a PNCA does not discriminate on the basis of member of the Association of Independent race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, ACCREDITATION Colleges of Art and Design (aicad.org). physical disability, sexual orientation, or Pacific Northwest College of Art is a co- national or ethnic origin in the administration educational, nondenominational, independent NONPROFIT STATEMENT of its educational policies, admission policies, college providing professional education in the PNCA is a nonprofit corporation authorized scholarship and loan programs, and other visual arts and granting the Bachelor of Fine Arts by the State of Oregon to offer and confer the school-administered programs. The College degree, the Master of Fine Arts degree, and the academic degrees described herein, following a admits qualified individuals without regard to Master of Arts degree. It is the oldest independent determination that states academic standards race, color, age, religion, sex, physical disability, college of art in the Pacific Northwest. will be satisfied under OAR 583-030. Inquiries sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin, to concerning the standards of school compliance all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities Joey Ravetti Taylor Bearden Christin Engelberth Rachel Tosdevin PNCA is an accredited institutional member may be directed to the Oregon Office of Degree generally accorded or made available to students of both the National Association of Schools of Authorization, 1500 Valley River Drive, Suite 100, at the school. 2018. Creative Direction: PNCA Office of Communication and Design. Art and Design and the Northwest Commission Eugene, Oregon, 97401. Student Designers: Steven Xue and Parker Bowen. on Colleges and Universities. The Council Motorik-mix: David Roos ’10 on Postsecondary Education and the U.S.