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 contem- porary 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. Demian DinéYazhi´ 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